A moment later, Paul Smith entered the room where Liam Graves worked and placed the report on the desk.
"Looks like it was quite a winding process..." Seeing the report on the desk, Liam Graves's eyelid twitched. "Paul, you've all worked hard!"
When Paul Smith recalled what had happened tonight, he still felt waves of lingering fear, mixed with a dreamlike unreality.
He let out a long sigh and shook his head. "It wasn't really hard work, actually. After all..."
Liam Graves pushed over a bottle of Coolick, cutting off what Paul Smith was about to say. "I heard our colleagues talking about this earlier. You caught Joseph Bonanno?"
"Yes! It was anything but easy!" Paul Smith nodded. "That Muggle was extremely cunning. He even colluded with goblins..."
"Colluded with goblins?" Liam Graves straightened. "What did this Muggle and the goblins do?"
Paul Smith took a sip of Coolick. "First, Joseph Bonanno used the Goblin Potion meant for the Thief-Proof Waterfall to make rockets."
"Second, the Safe House where Joseph Bonanno later hid was also protected by devices similar to the Thief-Proof Waterfall, which blocked magical detection to the greatest extent possible."
"Finally, the opportunity for Joseph Bonanno to join forces with the other Muggle Mafia was also a Magic Contract provided by the goblins. It was precisely because of this goblin Magic Contract that our tracking nearly came to a standstill."
"It really was those damned bastards!" Liam Graves's expression grew serious. "Those dark Muggles were already cunning enough, and they colluded with goblins just as cunning as they were."
"Paul, where's the analysis of the goblin Magic Contract?" He picked up the report on the desk. "This part is critical. I want to read it first."
Paul Smith had only just finished the report and still remembered the