After this unpleasant transaction ended, Alice abandoned Arsene without the slightest trace of reluctance, taking the money chest he had brought and turning to leave.
Although she looked down on the money herself—the money earned from selling her "secondhand original-scent clothes" would, in reality, become funding for the organization. The Hawkeye Organization had promised that it would be used to improve the orphans' living conditions, and that was why Alice had been willing to sell her clothes.
She was still a girl, after all. Even though she had admired the phantom thief Arsene since childhood and once regarded him as her idol, so she did not mind him wearing her clothes... those had still been the clothes she liked most.
If she had not liked them, why would she have worn those dresses to attend the grandest and most formal banquets?
But now that she had truly calmed down, she suddenly realized where the money "used to improve the orphans' living conditions" had gone.
Obviously... the Cray Party.
Alice was indeed somewhat naive, but her social identity was ultimately that of a reporter. It was impossible for her not to know of the Cray Party's existence and rules.
Anyone working in the media could not be too pure or ignorant. It was a vat filled with every kind of malice and crime.
Weren't those people "orphans" too? Bought by the Hawkeye Organization's subordinate groups to carry out all kinds of illegal activities. And these Children had to receive money from their superiors... Wasn't that also the purpose of "improving the orphans' living conditions"? She had not originally been unaware of this. She had simply stubbornly believed that the Children of the Moon were the culprit behind all the chaos, evil, poverty, and depravity in Iris. To solve those problems, one