Miss Maron's story ended there. Shade blinked, feeling as though he had been listening to some erotic novel. Miss Maron's face had already reddened as though it might drip blood, while Miss Teresa, nestled against Shade, seemed quite interested:
"You said you didn't steal anything. Then did that beautiful girl who was with you steal something?"
"Of course not. She was with me the entire time!"
"I believe Miss Teresa means, was that Blue Eyes girl really the owner of that room?"
Professor Evans asked from the side, and the maid, Miss Maxim, nodded as well:
"The jewelry box, clothes, notebooks, drawing board, Dressing Table—according to reports, all of these had been touched in the room of the lady whose belongings went missing. Wasn't that you two? The lady who lost her things was Traveling alone, so she would not have had a companion in her room. It cannot be such a coincidence that the same things were disturbed in two first-class cabins."
Miss Maron pursed her lips. Though she alone was an ordinary person, she remained stubborn:
"She can't possibly be a thief!"
Shade then asked:
"Come to think of it, what was the name of that golden-haired, Blue Eyes girl?"
Miss Maron froze, then lowered her head:
"I don't know."
"What?"
Miss Teresa, who was holding Shade's arm, was puzzled. Then she blushed:
"Then... what did you call her when you were dating?"
"Sweetheart."
After saying that, she looked at Shade again:
"What happened between me and her has nothing to do with the sinking of the Radiance Messenger. I'm certain of that. We were together the entire night the ship sank. Why are you pressing me so hard?"
Shade truly had no hobby of forcing others to reveal their private affairs:
"Based on the current circumstances, we