"Oh, you want to work with the library to hold an event..."
"Yes, Director." Shimabukuro Kimiye tucked back the hair by her temple, looking exceptionally gentle and refined. "I simply hope the children at the daycare can have more opportunities to interact with books. After discussing it, our parents' committee chose Beika Library. Your children's section has a very large collection... We could invite some media outlets to cover the event, or perhaps you have other suggestions..."
Shimabukuro Kimiye already had a mild-looking appearance. To make herself seem even more harmless, after locating the director's office, she promptly fabricated an identity as a kindergarten parents' committee representative and began discussing the collaborative event with the director.
What could she say? Since joining the Phantom Thief Troupe, they had not learned much else, but with their leader as an example, everyone's ability to lie through their teeth had visibly improved.
While Shimabukuro Kimiye sat before the desk, endlessly piling honorifics on top of meaningless pleasantries, Asai Narumi—equally reserved and demure as she sat with her knees together beside the coffee table—began observing the surroundings.
There had recently been a personnel change at Beika Library. Tamada Kazuo, the person who had posted for help on the message board, claimed that while organizing books in the children's section, he had discovered that the new director seemed to be smuggling prohibited drugs through the book import channel.
So the goal of their operation was to proactively approach the director and ask him to take the two of them on a visit to the children's section.
As long as their reason was appropriate enough, coupled with publicity tactics involving media coverage, education, and public welfare, there was no reason for a public library director to refuse such an event. And if there truly was something