On the carriage ride back, Hobart remained tense. Only after getting out of the embassy's carriage and returning to his office did he finally let out a long breath.
Once he calmed down, Hobart reasoned through the matter and gradually sorted out the sequence of events: while that "Dawn Knight" had been negotiating with Kelly, Tim or the Judgment Group must have sent someone to follow Jessica.
But they had not followed them to the negotiation site in the suburbs. Perhaps following someone through the suburbs at night was too easily noticed, or perhaps there were other reasons. They did not know Hobart and the others' exact movements, nor could they confirm whether they were the killers...
No, no. Hobart realized that if that were the case, they would surely rather believe it than not. They should have launched their retaliation long ago.
Hobart recalled that he had been wearing the Wax Seal made from the Order Crystal at the time. There was no way to find the killer through Extraordinary means.
The information they had should have been very limited. Tim had no way to identify the murderer.
Perhaps the only clue they had was that Hobart had also been involved in the matter. Even that was likely a lead confirmed only through subsequent investigation and intelligence obtained from the Judgment Group.
Following that lead, they could naturally discover that on Tuesday night last week, Hobart had left in a carriage with Jessica.
Although after the four Judgment Group members vanished, Hobart and the other two were the biggest suspects, an Artisan who was not good at fighting, a Sequence 7, and a Sequence 9 could not possibly have silently taken down Boton and the others.
A few of Tim's questions made it clear that they did not believe