"BOSS?"
"Yeah."
"You're not going to agree to Hannibal's request, are you?"
After seeing Casillas off and leaving the underworld with his assistant Tiffany, Lake got into the car and prepared to return to New York. Upon hearing this, he glanced at Tiffany. "Why?"
Tiffany looked at Lake curiously. "Did Clarice really just find out Hannibal's true identity? Why do I feel like..."
Lake smiled. "Like she's known for a long time?"
Tiffany hummed in response.
If it were me—
No.
Tiffany knew exactly what her own mental state had been like after discovering Lake's true identity.
So, putting herself in Clarice's shoes, even if Clarice was a psychologist, no matter how well she tried to hide it, she couldn't hide everything.
But what was the result?
Tiffany hadn't found the slightest trace in Clarice's expression suggesting that she had truly just discovered Hannibal's true identity and Casillas's real identity for the first time.
That simply didn't make sense.
Lake laughed when he heard this. "Have you carefully read Hannibal's files?"
Tiffany nodded.
Lake said, "Then you should know that Hannibal and Clarice were once kidnapped by Mason together, right?"
"I know."
"Mason was a lunatic who could transplant a pig's uterus into his own younger sister's body."
"..."
Tiffany searched through the files. "There's no record of Mason doing anything like that."
Lake smiled. "Of course there isn't. Mason was from Wall Street. His family may have fallen apart, but he was still once a member of Wall Street."
Tiffany looked at Lake in surprise.
Lake parked the car outside the Hawaii Supervision Bureau's branch building. He and Tiffany got out, then said, "Anyway, Mason was a lunatic. Guess what would happen to Hannibal if Mason captured him after Hannibal had been forced to eat away most of his