The Abandoned Baroness is one of the Black Knight’s favorites

─ ─ Good work.

Gilbert assembled a second platoon to conduct the joint investigation. Three, including Gilbert. One is Kevin and the other is Tobias. The two are especially close among the second platoons. Tobias, who used a warrior sword with a calculus and attackable type of Kevin, was compatible and often worked in pairs.

"Good work, Lieutenant. It's just us today."

Kevin nodded to Tobias, who opened his mouth. Even the same joint investigators didn't call for a task force. To check the necklace that Sofia gave me earlier. I put a small box on my desk and opened the lid. There's a diamond necklace I saw under the stars one day. It certainly looked like a special treasure at that time, but it was only clear stone in an inorganic room. Gilbert was slightly saddened by the fact.

"I kept this yesterday. It's the only piece of evidence at the moment. I want to check first."

It's not like you don't trust the task force. I even respect it in the sense of enthusiasm for resolving the case. But this is a different matter. It's the only evidence, and it's the only thing that matters to Sofia.

"Is this... a necklace?

It's got a kind of expensive stone on it.

They are stepping forward and observing seriously. It looks like a jewelry with no freaks.

"─ ─ It's the victim's artifact. She wore it when the incident happened."

"This is Miss Sofia?

Kevin looks up at Gilbert. Gilbert nodded and looked at it again. I was hesitant to open it inadvertently and left it in the box.

Simple but elegant design. It certainly weighs a lot when I take it in my hand. Turning over carefully, the pedestal was also engraved with a fine pattern - something Gilbert was familiar with.

"This is..."

Keep your eyes open and stare at it. You wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't looked carefully in a bright place.

After a while, I realized Kevin and Tobias were acting strangely. Gilbert looks up at the pedestal.

"Eh, wow! Isn't this a magic trick!?

"Miss Sofia had it, didn't she? Normally, you'll notice."

Gilbert thinks that if Sofia had it, she wouldn't have been able to activate magic tools. Not to mention the product for which I don't know the purpose. Even if they knew it was magic, they wouldn't have thought of activating it.

"But how do I use this? Can the lieutenant read the magic circuit?

Magic equipment circuits are assembled differently depending on their application, and usually look like unique patterns. If you read it, you'll know what it is. This necklace has an exterior that allows you to read the circuit, so you won't need to disassemble it.

"If it's not complicated, you'll see. ─ ─ Do you want to solve it like this?"

There is a separate department that is researching magic tools, but it is faster to solve it here than to ask and wait for the order. Gilbert took a bunch of paper and a pen out of the bucket and wrote out the pattern as he looked at the necklace.

"Phew, you know very well. I can't."

Kevin looked at Gilbert and said.

"It's not that hard to decipher."

It would have been compulsory in a public school if it was just a foundation. When you pull out the copies of each part, rewrite them and combine them. Several formulae were arranged based on the length of the circuit. Kevin and Tobias had been observing the work for some time, but eventually realized that it was pointless and began to spread the map of Baron Lannish territory.

"I made you wait. Launch"

Gilbert raised his face and said, the two men who were spreading the map and marking it burst out.

"Really!?

So, what kind of magic equipment was it?

For the first time, Gilbert thought that Sofia had no magic. If I had known that this was magic equipment and activated it inadvertently, I would have wounded it.

"─ ─ Looks like this can be recorded with a necklace lens."

"A recording device!

The activation condition is to wrap it in your hand. It was too easy to applaud. When Gilbert wraps it in his hand, the light will eventually shine from behind the diamond and tie the statue. When I opened my hand a little, the footage appeared in a empty space.

Looks like it's some kind of nightclub venue. As the skinny man's chest rises, the background moves like a glamorous dance.

"... beard. This is drunk, me."

Kevin shouted pitifully. Tobias beats him on the back.

"It'll settle down soon."

If you're dancing, it should be over soon. After a few minutes, the movement subsided and the entire venue was projected as if the man had moved sideways. It doesn't seem like a very large night club.

"Seems like a few years ago. The shape of the dress was fashionable a little while ago."

I see.

Eventually, they move into the hallway and enter a private room somewhere. There was the current Baroness and his wife, who looked a little younger than they are now. He seemed to be talking about something for a while, but eventually he got upset and began to get angry. He shook his fist towards the necklace ─ ─ and the man who had been dancing earlier received it instead. A strong wax, the man just staggered a little and didn't try to move there.

This necklace belongs to the former Baroness Lannish, Sofia's mother. Then this man will be the former baron who is Sofia's father. The projected man certainly resembled Sofia slightly.

He returned to the evening club and seemed to be socializing at the venue for a while. But within a short time, they left the venue and headed for the carriage. There is no one in the carriage, the man goes looking for it. The necklace captured footage of the area around the carriage, but returned to its original position to see if anything had been found. Soon the man will bring you. The weak-minded man lowered his head many times as if he were sorry.

You got in the carriage, and now you see the man sitting across the street. The man was talking with a serious face, but closed his mouth halfway through and turned his face outside the window. The necklace also reflected the window to follow the line of sight. In spite of the gentle mountains, it was a cliff cut off. The video of the necklace appears as if in a hurry. Is the shake getting stronger or is the speed increasing? The hand that tried to grab the door cut the sky.

"Oh, wow, isn't this the day of the incident!

Gilbert couldn't say anything. Eventually, the carriage swayed so much that the video couldn't be discerned ─ ─ it stopped moving as it was in the deep forest.

The video disappears after a while. Magic tools don't work without magic. Probably the user has run out. The user of this necklace is Sofia's mother. I couldn't stand it thinking about it.

There was no sound.

I see. ─ ─ He said that this necklace... had earrings and earrings. "

Gilbert recalls Sofia's words. This necklace will undoubtedly be physical evidence.

"According to that law, the earrings are probably audio. I am also concerned about the content of the arguments and disputes along the way, and about your testimony."

"Lieutenant, where's the rest?

Gilbert remembers the starry sky that night. Sofia, whose eyes were moistened with tears that were unreliable, confessed a sin that could not be said to be a small sin.

"On the day of the funeral, she hid from the lined up objects and took them out. When I noticed it afterwards, I heard that there was nothing with a value. I thought you sold it out."

"You can't sell evidence like this. It must be hidden somewhere."

Gilbert and Kevin nodded to Tobias. It seemed that one path to a solution had been opened.