"Everyone, please don't blame me for being harsh, but at this level of slackness, do you know what kind of repeat customers the restaurant will get? The kind who might accidentally leave a gun on the seat—and come back for it with bullets."
When the group arrived in front of Ecophe's restaurant, they happened to see her sternly reprimanding the restaurant staff. Ecophe was usually very gentle, but the moment something involved her professional field, her attitude took a complete one-eighty. She herself had never noticed anything wrong with that. She had even criticized Savannah over the same issue, without considering that Savannah had learned it entirely from her.
"Are there really repeat customers that intense?" Paimon immediately grew curious.
"Ahaha." Leppin Polin, off to the side, turned her head away somewhat awkwardly.
"What's wrong? Did someone really do something like that?" Paimon immediately asked.
"No, it's just that mentioning guns reminded me of something. Someone really did leave a gun around here. Back when we were building the facilities here, someone clearing debris from the site found a strange combination case. From its appearance, it didn't look like it was from Fontaine. It looked more like it came from Natlan," Leppin Polin immediately said.
"Could a foreign tourist have accidentally left it behind?" Paimon asked.
"That was what I thought at first too, but the case was buried in a pile of debris like planks and stones. It always felt like someone had deliberately put it there. Of course, that's just my personal guess. The best way to handle lost property like that was naturally to hand it over to the authorities, so I made a special trip to the Court of Fontaine for it. It wore me out."
"Afterward, to confirm what was inside the case, in case