I couldn't make sense of it.
I didn't think Ptolemy was lying to me. If the leaked content had come from the Zodiacal data center, then given Zodiacal's position, infiltrating Sirius's Witch Ball would have been easy as well.
But I couldn't think of any reason SpiCa would go to such lengths to take pictures of my...
Uh, legs?
Maybe it had just been the personal act of the suspect and had nothing to do with SpiCa or Zodiacal?
But could some random nobody even get access to Zodiacal's data center?
"Can you find out who did it?"
Ptolemy spread her hands helplessly.
"That'll be difficult. We'll probably need Zodiacal's cooperation."
"We can't count on them. If SpiCa really is pulling the strings behind this, do you think I'll get a single honest word out of her? What we need to do is catch the culprit in the act next time, then drag the suspect straight to SpiCa for a confrontation... Come to think of it, where is that data center's server room?"
Ptolemy still shook her head.
"I don't know. Do you think it's possible to deduce a specific geographic location from security at that level? The storage medium used by the data center is completely different from what we normally use..."
But she was interrupted halfway through.
"Um, it's the Superbrain."
It was Betelgeuse. Apparently awakened by our conversation, she rubbed her eyes and sat up in bed. The strap of her camisole had slipped to one side, exposing most of her pale breast.
She didn't notice at all. Yawning, she explained,
"The medium used by that data center is the Blue Crystal Cube you brought me back then, the one that recorded the history of the Other Side. That's also a child of the Great Will, isn't