The three continued sitting at the table. As Miss Winslet called over a waiter to order, she lightly pressed the frame of her gold-rimmed glasses, activating the hypnosis effect of the relic:
"What is your boss here to do today?"
The waiter, pencil in hand as he took notes, answered without hesitation:
"Boss Bennett came here to reconcile account documents with Baron Kaming. He has an office on the Fourth Floor of the hotel."
"Your boss and the baron are business partners?"
"Yes. The baron is an important business partner of Boss Bennett, and Boss Bennett's eldest daughter, Miss Jane Bennett, is already engaged to the baron's Firstborn. Mrs. Bennett is very pleased about it and often tells us that her daughter is going to marry the future baron."
Miss Winslet nodded, and Shade asked again:
"Is the pineapple sweet wine on the menu very strong? I'm not good with alcohol, and I don't want to embarrass myself in front of two ladies."
The red-haired girl promptly smacked him.
"I like seeing you embarrass yourself."
The waiter, having returned to normal from the hypnosis, silently noted down "pineapple sweet wine" on the menu, unaware of what he had just said.
Because of what they had encountered at the Bennett Old House yesterday, Miss Danist worried that Old Bennett might now have spies from the Tree Hole Association around him. Therefore, after lunch, Shade switched the cabinet Galina had commissioned with the one in the broom closet. After temporarily containing the time-traveling cabinet in the witch's room, the three of them began their investigation.
But Old Bennett was only an ordinary man. After spending some time confirming that there were no detection rituals or relic powers around him, the high-ranking Great Witch Miss Winslet used her glasses relic to directly hypnotize