The smell during the examination of the stomach contents made both Shade and Mr. Bernhardt feel miserable. Fortunately, Mr. Albert quickly finished that procedure, then reopened the abdominal wound and showed them traces of the thing that had once existed in the abdominal cavity alongside the internal organs, beneath the flesh and tissue.
The traces were not obvious. Only after the professional coroner pointed them out to Shade and Mr. Bernhardt could the two of them make them out.
"The shape of the thing that drained her blood is uncertain, but it should have been about two-thirds the size of my fist. Armand, look carefully with blood vision. If you distinguish the subtle traces of blood distribution, you'll also see that all the blood in her body once flowed here within a short period of time."
Mr. Bernhardt blinked, and Shade activated Blood Echo as well. Narrowing his eyes to focus, the tangled bright-red traces gradually revealed the "echoes" left behind at different points in time according to their varying shades:
"The blood seems to have surrounded something shaped like an eggshell."
He spoke softly.
"Oh? Mr. Watson, you can see it too?"
The coroner was somewhat surprised, but Mr. Bernhardt, who was still observing carefully, answered for Shade:
"I told you, Mr. Watson is quite remarkable. Yes, I see it too. There was once an egg in her abdomen? It was much larger than a chicken egg."
"There's no way to prove whether it was an egg or merely something of a similar shape."
The coroner continued explaining as he used tweezers to move the corpse's internal organs for further analysis.
Shade frowned slightly.
"Eye of Edwardz."
The Thaumaturgy he had learned on Green Island, used to determine whether someone had undergone bodily modification, made the red vision of