"She's a shameless person," Alice answered without hesitation. "She has a very special quill pen. What that quill pen does best is spread rumors. She often peeks into certain matters, then uses that quill pen to distort them beyond recognition and publish them as articles..."
"Are you very familiar with her?" Leonard continued asking.
"No." Alice shook her head. "I don't know her. I've only heard her name."
Leonard nodded thoughtfully and continued:
"The old man said He wanted to find this Rita Skeeter. Do you have any clues?"
After a moment of silence, Alice said, "She's a Witch, and before that, she was already a woman."
—She could guarantee that every word she had said was true. As for how Pallez understood it, that had nothing to do with her. Note 1
For example, Leonard curiously asked, "She was already a woman before that? In other words, she wasn't transformed from a man... That isn't common."
Alice smiled but did not answer. She merely said:
"I think Amon knew your identity with the help of this comic.
"After reading this comic, Amon kept calling the one on you...
"An old flame."
"Huh?" Leonard's mouth fell open. "Wait, what does that mean? Why did Amon start calling... calling... Old man, did you two really have something?"
"...You should be glad Pallez doesn't have a physical body." Alice rolled her eyes. "Otherwise, after hearing that, He would definitely knock you on the head the way Klein knocks me on the head."
"So there really wasn't anything..." Leonard suddenly understood.
Pallez finally could not bear listening any longer. He spoke up to stop Leonard:
"Get to the point."
Hearing that, Leonard hurriedly said, "Right, you said Amon wrote you a letter. Where is it?"
Alice handed over Amon's letter and began rambling: