After the meeting, everyone went their separate ways, leaving Doctor Schneider to rest in bed—though he was very unwilling to do so.
Shade gave the female diviner a look, indicating that he wanted to talk. Although he had failed to understand the doctor's complicated gestures at Lake View Manor, Miss Annette easily understood what Shade meant this time.
So, Shade took a turn around the area near Röntgen Avenue. After waiting at the street corner for a while, he finally saw a carriage stop beside him, with Miss Annette waving from the window for him to get in.
"Detective, is something the matter?"
Since they were both headed for the city center, the carriage set off again as soon as Shade climbed aboard.
This probably doesn't count as taking advantage, does it? Should I give Miss Annette half the fare later?
He thought this as he took his seat.
"I wanted to ask you to help with a divination. A divination concerning Detective Sparrow. Oh, I mean the previous Detective Hamilton."
Shade explained his suspicions about Detective Sparrow in detail and emphasized that they were only suspicions for now:
"That is roughly the situation. I suspect that Mr. Sparrow Hamilton was actually a veteran spy for the Kassenric United Kingdom. Although he is already dead, and his identity probably will not affect me, I still cannot quite put my mind at ease. So I wanted you to divine exactly who Mr. Sparrow was."
The purple-eyed girl listened patiently. At the word "spy," she frowned slightly as well.
"Although ordinary people cannot come into contact with Ring Arcanists, the intelligence agencies of kingdoms, such as Delarion's Military Intelligence Section Six or Kassenric's Gray Gloves, employ Ring Arcanists for anti-divination measures. Usually, though, they are not very powerful. After all, diviners are