Not long after Iver left Lloyd's Building, Lily quietly reminded him that someone was following them.
Although the Silken Grimoire enhanced perception, Lily was only First Level. If the other party was determined to follow them secretly, Lily in her current state would have had a hard time noticing them.
In other words, this was a "follow-up in plain sight." Vice President Boca was conveying an attitude to Iver:
We at Lloyd's are powerful and well-connected, yet we only sent a tracker you could detect to follow you. That shows how friendly our current attitude is.
At the same time, it hinted that they did not completely trust Iver. There could be scouts he would never discover tailing him at any time—telling him that since there were always eyes watching him from the shadows... he had better behave and not cause trouble.
But Iver had gleaned another piece of information from this behavior: Lloyd's was currently under political pressure.
If this had happened in the past, how could Lloyd's—controlling two-thirds of the seats in Round Table Hall, controlling businesses of every size through loans, and controlling all the major newspapers—possibly fear a young upstart like Iver?
They had revealed many secrets just now, but they had not let Iver see any evidence or grasp any details.
If Iver dared to spread nonsense after returning, he would not only be unable to threaten Lloyd's, but would also expose his own intentions. That confidence—the assurance that they did not fear a traitor appearing within their ranks—was proof of Lloyd's power.
But now, their behavior had clearly become more cautious. From their standpoint, Old Moriarty was already dead... Faced with a Moriarty Family whose head had died and which had neither relatives nor in-laws, they were still being so conservative. This showed that