"Did you know about what happened tonight, princess?" Uchiha Madara asked, looking at her.
"What happened tonight?" The princess was somewhat puzzled by Uchiha Madara's words.
"Did something happen tonight?" After thinking for a moment, the princess said, "After dinner, I spoke with my father for a while, then came back to my room."
"Did anything unusual happen tonight?" the princess asked Uchiha Madara. "Other than you two masters sneaking into my room tonight, I don't think there was anything else strange."
"That thing happened again," Uchiha Madara told her.
"What thing?" the princess asked.
"That murderer resurfaced after all this time and killed again. His method was the same as before—after killing the victim, he hollowed out all of their internal organs," Uchiha Madara said.
"Are you very interested in this?" the princess said with a smile. "Do you think it was the work of an evil spirit?"
"No wonder you're so interested in this—it turns out that's why. It seems our assumptions about a murderer weren't true after all," the princess said.
"That isn't it," Uchiha Madara said.
"We just went to inspect the scene. This had nothing to do with an evil spirit. On the contrary, we can be certain it was absolutely done by a person," Uchiha Madara said.
"I see." The princess looked at Uchiha Madara and asked, "So, have you reached any conclusions?"
"No." Uchiha Madara shook his head. "I'm just an ordinary exorcist. I'm not good at catching criminals at all."
"Then that makes things rather difficult." The princess took a sip of water from her cup. "If even you two masters have no solution, then our little country has no capable people to offer."
"I thought you, princess, would know a great deal about this," Uchiha Madara said as he looked at