With the investigation clues from the sewer pipes, the leads provided by Mr. Feringa, and the hints given by Miss Brown, Shade and Ridgewich Field worked together. Relying on the "small" convenience Galina provided from faraway Saladir County—namely, mobilizing the Tobesk Garrison at the critical moment—Shade finally led people to intercept the train preparing to leave Tobesk before the criminals could escape. Following the clues, they uncovered a human trafficking organization that had operated in the royal capital of Tobesk for decades.
According to witnesses at the scene, Detective Shade Hamilton shattered a train carriage window with one shot, then leaped inside and, armed with only a cane and a pistol, defeated five armed criminals by himself.
This human trafficking organization had nothing to do with the woman Shade had tried to catch in the summer of Year 1853, when he had sprinted half a street before being shot in the chest. The criminals captured this time specialized in trafficking people from the Old Continent to the New Continent as slave laborers.
Only after discovering this enormous underground organization did Shade suddenly understand why he had kept encountering people who shot at him during the investigation, only to be killed by him in return.
The victims of such a massive trafficking organization involved nearly more than half of Delarion, and its ability to remain hidden in Tobesk for so long was naturally connected to certain powerful figures who could not be spoken of openly.
It was precisely because Shade, who had nothing else to do that winter, dug deeper and deeper into the matter that more and more events from the past decade came to light. Once the lid could no longer be kept on, even Galina had no choice but to return from Saladir County to Tobesk City ahead