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After leaving the small building that housed the City-State Array, Wei'en looked around but couldn't find the motor carriage he had arrived in. It seemed Minister Yegor had commandeered it.
"Tina, did you find anything back there?"
"Tina found nothing."
Tina's expression remained unchanged, but since leaving the Secret Investigation Department, she had been swinging her clown doll much more often.
Both of the clown doll's button eyes were coming loose from their threads...
Wei'en nodded. 'Even my panel only detected the Desire Origin,' he thought. 'It seems there are no other anomalies here.'
"Let's go."
Just then, a carriage stopped in front of them.
A coachman in a cheap suit looked at the two, doffing his hat in a bow. "We meet again, Investigator."
"Oh, it's you."
Wei'en recognized the familiar figure on the carriage. It was the same coachman who had taken him to Ceres Manor before. Oh, right, and he was a Vasquez man.
