"What is she doing here?"
Elliot frowned in front of the Difference Engine.
He had controlled Vanessa all the way here to see what Holly was planning, only for her to go to Sidney's palace?
Sidney's palace had been secured at the earliest opportunity, and the Sacred Blood Nobles had searched it countless times. There should have been nothing left inside.
Then what was she doing here?
Elliot quickly thought of the room at the end of the corridor in the palace.
On the Stage-Play Difference Engine, that room had been pitch-black. It had been the first time Elliot had encountered something even the Difference Engine could not display.
Unfortunately, Elliot no longer had a Stage-Play Difference Engine. The one at the dock had been left in the Sea of the Moon forever.
And now he was being watched so closely that ordering another from the Troy Society was almost impossible. Besides, the Troy Society was an enterprise controlled by the Sacred Blood Nobles. How could it be that easy to approach them?
"But there should be a Stage-Play Difference Engine in Sidney's palace. It's just..."
Elliot shook his head.
Large Difference Engines like these were practically embedded in the buildings, and many were even integral parts of the structures themselves.
Under those circumstances, moving one away was almost impossible.
He could send believers to try to retrieve the core of [The Thinker] because they could simply take the Difference Engine Core and leave.
But taking the entire Difference Engine?
That would require many engineers and Machine Priests working together. Elliot had once considered dismantling one at Sidney's place and taking it away, but in the end, he had realized he might as well order a new one directly from the Troy Society.
"If I'd known, I would've tossed a