After going around a few times and crossing out the first few lines of text recorded on his portable notepad, Klein pretended to be calm and touched the next spot with the tip of his pen, looking up at his colleague Leonard.

"The next thing we should go to is Henry Private Detective Agency on Beswick Street. The girl who lives in the North District, her parents went to this agency on the third day after she disappeared and commissioned a private detective to find their daughter.

Traces of… I hope we can get some clues from the detectives.”

"Private detective..." Leonard pressed down a few tufts of wind-tossed hair with his hands and chuckled inexplicably, "Don't expect a private detective to have a high moral quality, as long as you pay enough

, they can uncover all the bad habits and scandals of a person from the inside out for you, even if the target may be their last employer..."

His unkempt black hair looks much longer than before, but paired with his pretty face, it doesn't look slovenly at all, and instead makes him look a little more messy.

After silently complaining about this man's appearance in his mind, Klein pressed the police hat on his head and said without comment:

"It sounds like you have some opinions about the profession of private detective. Then it will be up to you to ask Detective Henry later?"

Seeing the silent question "What are you doing, are you lazy" coming from those green eyes, Klein explained righteously:

"I'm responsible for questioning other employees at the firm."

——Because he was worried that his identity would be exposed by close contact with Detective Henry, Klein decided to play it safe and only inquire about the situation from the employees of the firm who had also worked with Alice for a period of time.

Leonard nodded without any doubt, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly: "That's pretty much it."

The two people who reached a consensus got on the carriage dispatched from the police station. As the carriage swayed straight and turned, they arrived at the stairs with the office sign.

With the police system logo of "crossed swords and surrounded by crowns", their investigation process of going upstairs to find people for questioning was progressing very smoothly. The only thing that frustrated Klein was that almost all the employees of the firm said they had never heard of "

With the name "Alice", I have never seen a young girl with light blond hair and green eyes.

Even if they were confirmed by divination, the conclusion would be the same - these people were not lying. They firmly believed in their memories and claimed that they had never seen the girl described by the young police officer.

It's as if there is an eraser with magical power that erases Alice from everyone's memory...

No, this guess should probably be prefixed with a restricted area - only people in Tingen have forgotten "Alice" and everything related to this name.

Klein did not forget the internal wanted order for "Mirror Witch" issued by the Church of the Night when Miss Witch arrived, nor did he forget Miss Justice who was suspected of having met Alice at the Tarot meeting.

He mentioned last month's wanted order to several colleagues, including Leonard, and found that the Nighthawks' impression of the "Mirror Witch" was still that of a member of the Witch Sect who was sealed and captured by the church's top brass.

, no relevant memory is missing.

As for Miss Justice, as the "Fool", he casually mentioned the examination status of new members in the Tarot meeting, and the noble lady who was suspected to have a good background was so excited that she almost left the "audience"

State, the emotional color of the astral body changed drastically, becoming an obvious orange color...

Well, let's assume that the "strong audience channel" Miss "Justice" met is Alice, then her performance is undoubtedly one of the evidences to prove the above guess.

Unfortunately--

Thinking like this, Klein couldn't help but cast his gaze at Leonard, who was walking downstairs in front, with a hint of unspeakable pity in his eyes.

Fortunately, this guy would occasionally share his "love experiences" before, describing to me how gentle and considerate she was to show off from time to time. Being issued a good person card, he thought this was proof that the relationship between the two was getting closer...

As a result, now, he has forgotten about Alice, completely, completely, and seems to have never been suspicious of incongruous things like I was before.

If it's because Alice never gave Leonard anything...then he's really pitiful.

Klein followed Leonard into the carriage, then took out the portable record book that recorded the location of the visit again, crossed out the line that said Henry's Private Detective Agency, and looked at the next paragraph:

"De Vere's Café, Halls Street."

"Hmm? Deville Cafe?" Leonard, who was leaning against the carriage with his eyes closed to relax, opened a pair of green eyes and said with a slightly raised corner of his mouth, "I often went there to buy coffee last month... but I had to

He said that the waiters there were really average at making coffee, and the prices were extremely expensive, which was very uneconomical.”

...Isn't that what you said last month? You had clearly praised the coffee Alice made before, as if it was some top-grade drink with special flavoring magic.

Klein looked at him with a complicated expression:

"If it's not a good deal, why don't you buy it?"

After giving instructions to the trainee policeman outside the car about his destination, Leonard sat back in his seat, barely suppressed the urge to cross his legs and said:

"So haven't you noticed that I haven't been to that cafe for a long time?"

Yes, I know you stopped hanging out in maid cafes after Alice resigned, but you don’t know it...

Klein was worried that the other party would see something, so he simply brushed off the topic and stopped talking. He turned his head and silently looked at the passing street scene outside the carriage, speechless for a moment.

Not long after, the carriage stopped by the street, and the two of them got out of the car one after another, and walked into the door of the cafe amidst the somewhat awe-filled looks of passers-by.

Counting today, this was the second time that Klein had walked into this maid-themed cafe. Before, he had mostly just been under the streetlight across the street, waiting for Alice to finish her work for the day.

With some weird emotions that he couldn't explain clearly, Klein looked around, but suddenly heard Leonard making a slight gasping sound.

"Why is that annoying cafe owner here today..." The young inspector with a romantic temperament like a poet stopped and turned around to discuss with his colleagues, "Klein, why don't you ask the female boss... Right

, the one sitting in the third row of seats, wearing men’s formal attire, and having a maid waiting beside him.”

Klein looked around and saw the beauty in men's clothing he described. He also saw clearly her dark blond hair tied into a low ponytail, her blue eyes, and her facial features that were slightly similar to Sir De Vere's.

contour.

He recalled the topics that Benson and Melissa had argued about, and recalled that the center of their argument was Sir De Vere's only daughter, the investor and owner of De Vere's Café, Danitaly De Vere.

Ms. Weir.

It turns out that this is the first time I've seen a real person look like this... Well, no wonder Melissa thinks there's something wrong with this lady's style, after all, that face... is quite deceptive.

He silently glanced at the blushing young maid next to her, then looked away, turned to Leonard and smiled:

"What, you had a problem with that lady?"

"Holiday..." Leonard seemed confused for a moment, and he paused for a few seconds before replying vaguely, "Anyway, her attitude is quite bad, she is arrogant and complacent, and she doesn't look at people seriously. I don't want to be with this kind of person.

Deal."

"Then I will be responsible for questioning her." Klein pretended to be helpless and accepted the task he pushed, and walked towards the seat where Danitaly was sitting.

The beauty in men's clothing who was smiling and talking to the maid next to her seemed to be aware of it. She raised her eyes and paid attention to the young inspector-level police officer who was walking towards her. She whispered to comfort the shy and panicked maid and asked her to go to the lounge to take a rest.

a while.

"Officer, do you have anything to do with me?" Danitaly acted politely and invited him to sit down without any restraint.

In order to show the credibility and authority of his police uniform, Klein did not accept her kind gesture, deliberately kept a straight face, and said politely but forcefully:

"We are investigating a case and need your cooperation in answering a few simple questions... Can we go over there to talk?" As he said that, he turned his head and gestured in the direction away from the front desk.

The female boss who Leonard described as "arrogant, complacent, and indifferent to others" put down her half-drunk cup of fragrant coffee and stood up with a smile.

"Of course, cooperating with the police officer's investigation is the obligation of every Tingen citizen. Of course I won't mind if you disturb my leisure time enjoying coffee, nor will I mind if you scare the girls who work here..."

...This Danitaly is really a seasoned old yin-yang weirdo.

As a strong keyboard player, Klein has read a lot of comments made by netizens in the era of big data, and has long been immune to such indifferent complaints. He calmly walked to a corner where no one was around and started asking questions of his own.

.

According to the planned content, Klein tried to keep his tone as unhurried as possible, asking for clues related to the case of the missing girl one by one, and "inadvertently" mentioned the name of another missing person.

To his surprise, the beauty in men's clothing in front of him, who was much taller than him, gave a reaction that almost made his heart stop.

"Alice? This name seems familiar..." Danitaly tapped her temple twice, and then said, "But unfortunately, I don't know the lady you are talking about."

This was the first time that Klein encountered a witness who said he felt familiar!

Suppressing his anxiety and impatience, Klein asked in a deep voice:

"Are you sure? Are you sure you really feel familiar? Why don't you think about it again and find out where the familiarity you mentioned comes from."

"Who knows when I heard this name? But I really don't know anyone named 'Alice', so I can't provide you with any more information."

Danitaly's statement didn't seem to be hypocritical, so Klein had no choice but to give up for the time being. After asking a few more questions, he returned to the front desk to find Leonard. He used his body to hide the sight of the waiters around him and performed a quick and covert divination.

The divination results showed that the cafe owner named Danitaly was not lying.

Putting away the copper pennies slightly discouraged, Klein gave Leonard a wink, and the two of them walked out of the door of the maid cafe in tacit agreement, and returned to the carriage compartment with the symbol of a crown and a pair of intertwined swords.

"Still nothing gained?" Seeing his colleagues nodding silently, Leonard chuckled and shook his head, raising his hand to point to the carriage, "It's almost noon, let's go back to have lunch first, take a rest and then continue the investigation. Anyway, there is another one

Afternoon time.”

Since those disappearance cases have been in the past for too long, even if clues related to extraordinary crimes are uncovered, the visiting time given to Klein by the Nighthawks is limited to today. If no evidence is found, then

The case will be filed and closed, and no manpower will be assigned to focus on the investigation.

Of course, Klein himself knows the results of today's visit best - this was originally something he asked Teacher Azik to do, so it is naturally impossible to find out any baseless clues and evidence.

So he shook his head and emphasized:

"There is only one afternoon left."

After hearing the meaning behind Klein's words, Leonard looked at him up and down with his green eyes as if he were meeting him for the first time:

"...You didn't even have lunch?"

"After I finish running to the next location, I will go get something to eat." Klein took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, making a rough estimate for a while, "At 1:30 p.m., we met in front of the Tingen branch of Backlund Bank.

"

If he and Leonard were to act together, Klein would not be able to explain why he went to the Mikhail Clinic on Flood Street, because this new clinic, which had only been opened for half a month, obviously could not be related to any case of missing girls.

connection……
To be continued...