"Yes, I was hired as a technician five years ago. Before that, I was an employee of the European Police Organization..."
Facing the police officers' questioning, Grace smoothed the hair by his temples and remained remarkably calm.
There had been no falsification in the part about his professional background. He had lived under this identity for more than five solid years, so he was not worried at all that any police officer would dig into his résumé and question his true background.
So he was not merely cooperating with the investigation; he even had the spare capacity to polish his own image.
"To be honest, I discussed system security with Miss Naomi during the early stages of the project. I believed the current level of protection was still insufficient, not to mention that we needed to connect to a global network system. That meant we would have an extremely large and complicated number of external access points... Still, I never expected something like this to happen so early in its operation, when it had only connected to the second center."
He frowned slightly, while his posture remained relaxed and gentle. He looked like an intellectual with no aggressiveness whatsoever.
"So you think the root of this incident was that Miss Naomi's security measures were inadequate?" Juzo Megure asked bluntly.
"You can't blame her. She's only the developer of the algorithm. This isn't something she should have to worry about." While subtly directing the blame toward Makino Yosuke, he put on the air of someone close to the victim and said indignantly, "Something happened so soon after it went online. I truly think it is necessary to suspend the system's operation. At the very least, we need to screen for vulnerabilities, remove any backdoor programs, conduct a new security assessment, and