Sherlock was stunned for a moment as he carefully finished reading the entire front-page headline.
He immediately understood. "You're copying me?"
"The trick doesn't have to be new. It just has to work."
Iver said with a beaming smile, "I think your fake-death plan worked pretty well."
"But I faked my death too, and so did you... What about Uncle York?"
Sherlock frowned deeply. "How about I try writing an anonymous letter and have Edward arrest him directly?"
"No need to go to all that trouble. York has disappeared too."
Iver immediately replied.
"...Huh?"
Sherlock froze for a moment.
Iver narrowed his eyes and slowly added, "He really disappeared—for good. No one will ever find him again."
"Did you kill him outright?"
Sherlock's brows furrowed slightly. "If we can't search his memories, what do we do about the leads?"
Iver explained, "Everything that required a memory search to confirm has already been confirmed. York's superior was Bran Boca. They were both members of the Noble Red Society. Lloyd's and the Noble Red Society did have an inseparable connection, but there were also serious conflicts and disagreements within their ranks."
"Bran Boca?"
Sherlock thought for a moment before recalling his identity. "The judge of the First Intermediate Court in the White Queen District?"
"That's him. He's a Fourth Level Law Mage, as well as a Fourth Level Demon Scholar. His contracted demon is an Ice Demon."
Iver repeated the information he had just obtained through interrogation for Sherlock.
Sherlock drew in a sharp breath. "He's one of them too...? And he's Fourth Level?"
At that level, it was basically impossible to arrest him even if they wanted to.
Avalon couldn't possibly have a Fifth Level Court Ritualist. In other words, they could never determine for certain whether the other party was