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That’s…

“I wonder”

I tilted my head

Or rather, I wondered why so like that

“However, you try to be strong”

“Especially because I’m in this sort of situation” I said

“I understand that However, when you’re defeated, it’s in the blink of an eye That’s why it’s good to rely on those around you”

It sounded al session

Like she heard that I had witnessed the scene of a murder And that I had lost a memory from the shock

Well, it wasn’t that strange for her to know so fro her appearance and position

“I’ll rely on people”

I laughed bitterly “That is, I rely on what I need to and use what I need to That’s the way I work”

“If so, then fine”

Elizabeth stabbed her fork into a slice of pumpkin pie A smile spread on her stuffed cheeks

“This is scrumptious”

Elizabeth really had trouble reading the atmosphere

I stole a glance at Claire as still silent and seelance and whispered

“Now that I think about it, you’ve always been like this Secretive”

“Huh?”

“You are very good at reckless behavior that gets you into trouble, so please, soet yourself into trouble take a step back and think a little bit”

“I won’t get myself into trouble”

“I wonder how”

Claire shi+fted her gaze back at Elizabeth “May I also hear the results of the counseling session?”

“Hold on, Claire”

“Is it that because you don’t trust thein?”

“You need to trust ether”

As she said this, her cold gaze fled What on earth?

“Matilda and Edgar work together”

Elizabeth finished eating her purabbed a café au lait fro, she settled herself down into a chair and grinned

“I’ll ask about it later Sid…er, the Chief is tired right now fro so many documents and won’t show his face, so of course it will be Matilda”

“I see”

I groaned, looking at Elizabeth’s s face

She’s unreadable This girl, her thoughts are unreadable!

For the tie the subject

“You act like she’s your older sister, but it doesn’t really fit”1

“That’s because we’re not siblings!”

Elizabeth, seely in a panic, opened her eyes wide “Matilda is oes to the trouble of taking care ofme out”

“Benefactor?”

Claire and I both questioned her

“She recoher ups in the Administration of Justice Departuess”

“Hey there now”

I frowned as Elizabeth waved her hands frantically saying, “It’s a joke, a joke!”

“So, what should we do this afternoon?”

Elizabeth seemed to deliberately divert the subject

After staring at her in silence for a moment, I replied curtly

“I want to go to the library”

We spent the rest of the day in a stupor at the library

At any rate, the Department’s library was vast, and anyone who likes books would’ve had a hard ti bored

See, the desks and chairs were a bit shorter than usual I, appropriately, took a book off one of the shelves and sat down

Froain Because of its spaciousness, it felt kind of empty However, there were definitely officers around

While they had a lot of regular books, specialty publications were abounding There was even an inaccessible section, filled ere athered there

“By the way,”

I called out to Elizabeth who sat near to me She seemed droith a full stomach and all

“Would you think there would be inforic reference books? Could I possibly find a way to switch me and Gray back?”

“Ah-“

Elizabeth’s eyelids floated down sleepily “That’s forbidden, so you won’t find that sort of information in those books”

“But there are so le one?”

“Not even I read all of the, so…”

While rubbing her eyes, Elizabeth murmured quietly

Don’t sleep, wake up

No, actually, leak everything you know in your sleep!

Besides that, you actually read every single book? Everything here!?