57, I'll Take the Job

"I think, Ms. Carl, you may have already seen the relevant news."

The moment the call connected, Mr. Blue Eyes got straight to the point. Though he did not specify which news report he meant, the implication was clear enough to Carl.

"I did see it. But I imagine you knew before I did. Did you call me specifically after deciding, once the news aired, that I must have received word?"

Carl's tone was steady, betraying little emotion, though there was a faint note of probing in it. After a brief pause, she continued:

"It seems you care about this matter even more than I expected."

"I was simply certain that with the capabilities of Ms. Carl's team, once the news had reached the public, it could not possibly escape your notice." Mr. Blue Eyes replied with a smile in his voice, calm and unhurried. "It was precisely because I was certain of that that I made this call."

"I assume this attack was an accident, wasn't it?"

Carl's words received an affirmative response from Mr. Blue Eyes.

"This is something neither of us wanted to see."

In other words, the attack had not been planned by the people behind Mr. Blue Eyes.

Carl's implication was already quite obvious—she was asking whether the attack had been anticipated by the other side, or more directly, whether it had been carried out by the force Mr. Blue Eyes belonged to.

The other party had answered with "an accident" and stressed that they "did not want to see it." Whether that was true or not, they had at least distanced themselves from the incident on the surface, making it clear that this was neither their intention nor something they had expected.

Whether Mr. Blue Eyes was telling the truth or not, the fact