"In Tingen City proper, including the East, North, West, and South Districts, Golden Wutong District, Docklands, and the University District, there are 1,203 houses with dark red chimneys. Adding the 550 in Tingen's outskirts, that makes 1,753 in total."
"Looks like dark red chimneys really are popular..."
Looking at the documents spread across the table, Angel sighed helplessly. She set down the paper in her hand, picked up her coffee cup, took a sip, then frowned and put it back down.
The coffee at this café was not even as good as what Miss Rozanne made. If not for avoiding the other Nighthawks, she would not have wanted to come here at all.
Klein sat across from her, holding documents of his own with an equally troubled expression.
A map of Tingen City lay atop the piled-up files. It was densely marked with red dots, and in residential areas, they had merged into alarming swathes of red that covered nearly every part of the map, rendering the location information useless.
"I didn't expect the detective agency you hired to be so efficient. They gathered everything in less than a week. The detective I hired is probably still running all over the city."
Setting down his papers, Klein jokingly mocked his private detective to find some humor in the situation.
"After all, I paid several times as much." Angel folded up the useless map and set it aside. "Don't cancel your commission either. Once we get the information, we can compare it. We might find some houses that were overlooked."
Klein nodded.
"That was what I was thinking too. In the meantime, I'll start by investigating places that recently had tenant changes, especially houses where someone moved out or which were sold after the time I performed my divination. Those are