...?
Alice looked at the headline, her eyes full of confusion.
She decided to take a look at the contents.
At a lavish ball hosted by a well-known local wealthy man, two attendees suddenly met with misfortune. One young woman fell unconscious and was rushed to the hospital, while another young girl suffered the horrifying symptom of bleeding from both eyes. The two incidents swiftly became the talk of the entire city. According to witnesses at the scene, the common point of contact between the two victims led to the host of this extravagant ball—a wealthy merchant in his forties—casting an even stranger shadow over the incident.
The police and medical authorities had now stepped in to investigate, attempting to uncover the secrets hidden beneath this seemingly glamorous affair. Preliminary investigations showed that the wealthy man held a prominent social position, yet there were very few reports regarding his personal life. This incident had undoubtedly lifted one corner of the veil surrounding this "invisible tycoon."
Alice closed the newspaper with mixed feelings and pinched her brow.
The latter half was about the circumstances of several wealthy men, an introduction to the ball, and some empty formalities. She searched through a pile of messy information for a long time but failed to decode the true identity of the forty-year-old wealthy man, eventually closing the newspaper in disappointment.
Which newly arrived wealthy men in Backlund were around forty and had held a ball yesterday... Hmm, I wonder if Klein knows... Wait, Klein?
Alice's movements came to an odd stop. She suddenly realized that Klein's current false identity, Dwayne Dantès, was precisely that of a wealthy man who fit the conditions.
...?
Alice decided to ask Klein.
Klein had also seen the news. He was currently thinking about who had leaked what