Moriarty? Why was he here too?
Angel looked behind the detective and saw no one else. Then her gaze returned to him as she sized him up, an unbelievable thought surfacing in her mind:
He wasn't here to report someone too, was he?
The next moment, Angel's guess was confirmed.
"I was just looking for someone to help me put my report letter into a mailbox when I saw a vagrant who had just mailed a letter heading your way, so I followed him..."
Sure enough, Moriarty was also a deeply hidden Report Master.
Taking the report letter he had not yet had the chance to send, Angel read it and found that its contents were largely similar to hers. It even included hand-drawn pencil portraits that bore a seventy to eighty percent resemblance to Harras and Berris.
"Why not mail yours too? My report letter doesn't include any portraits."
She waved the sheet of paper in her hand as she spoke to Moriarty.
"There's no need. One letter is enough to alert them. Maybe those 'Mandated Punishers' have already interrogated the surviving servants and guards of Capim's household and started hunting them down. Hmm, perhaps us as well."
When it came to this matter, both of them fell silent.
After a long while, Moriarty spoke again.
"I used divination to determine Emily's whereabouts, as well as those of the other rescued girls. The police and Mandated Punishers didn't make things difficult for them. Most of the abducted girls had already returned home, but Emily..."
The poor girl's parents had died in this incident. Although Angel's Magic Mirror Divination had shown Emily and the O'Neill couple jumping into the Tussock River to "commit suicide," she had ultimately appeared in Capim's basement. This indicated that someone had interfered with the divination