After witnessing Arthur walk through the air, Dill Buck hurried away from the crowd, leaving those amateur colleagues behind and returning to his newspaper office.
Yes, a newspaper office.
Dill Buck's public identity was that of a reporter and editor-in-chief.
And his newspaper was quite famous in South Los.
It was called the Moon Newspaper!
The very same Moon Newspaper that published salacious stories and cooked up gossip.
Through that identity, Dill Buck had acquired a considerable amount of intelligence, but he had never sent any of it back to the Inner Bay.
That was because Dill Buck belonged to the most unusual category of the Old Lion of the Inner Bay's "Hidden Pawns."
The kind that would never be activated unless their activation could turn everything around.
For that reason, Dill Buck operated entirely outside the ordinary "Hidden Pawn" network. Not only did he communicate exclusively with the Old Lion, he was also "one of the seven Gold-Mane Advisors"!
This time, this "one of the seven Golden-Bearded Consultants" had unexpectedly received an order from the Old Lion: investigate Arthur Credos as thoroughly as possible!
Dill Buck had been deeply surprised.
Not merely by the possibility that Arthur Credos was a lost member of the Golden Lion Family, but also by the fact that His Highness had activated him for Arthur Credos's sake.
In this observer's view, even if determining whether Arthur Credos truly was a lost member of the Golden Lion Family was important, his original mission was even more important.
Assassinate the Count of South Los!
That was Dill Buck's original-and only-mission.
Dill Buck understood that mission perfectly.
And so this observer with his unusual status had been preparing all along.
Now, abandoning a mission he had spent twenty-six years preparing for in favor of another was something