Aleister... was a spy from the Stibium Kingdom? Hearing Captain Camus say this, Iver found it utterly absurd. It was practically like something out of a dream.
Did Miss Aleister herself know that she was a spy?
She didn't know! I didn't know either!
The key point was that "Aleister" was an identity Iver had completely made up!
And he hadn't put much thought into it at the time—not even enough to come up with a surname.
As a result, Iver himself didn't even know whether the "Aleister" in "Miss Aleister" was supposed to be a first name or a surname. It could work as either, and it could even be a middle name. That was precisely why Iver had chosen it as a false name.
"Wait."
After sorting out his thoughts, Iver immediately keenly grasped the complicated information hidden in Captain Camus's words. "Are you saying this intelligence was uncovered by an Iris People agent investigating in Stibium, then intercepted by our agent in Iris while it was being sent back to their homeland?
"...Can this secondhand intelligence really be trusted?"
Strictly speaking, this could even be called thirdhand.
It was entirely possible that the Stibium People had fabricated false intelligence for the Iris People. It was even possible that the Iris People had deliberately leaked the information to Avalon.
After all, Avalon's spies all came from the Inspectorate. They were basically either Inspectors or Law Mages, and most of them had no affinity with the Path of Adaptation. Avalon did not even have a single assassin organization, while Stibium and Iris were highly proficient in this field.
It was not entirely impossible that Avalon's spies had been operating right under their noses the entire time.
There was also a plausible motive.
From the Stibium People's perspective, Aleister was