The Disowned Queen’s Consulting Detective Agency: Volume 1 [Complete] by Sarasa Nagase

Author:Sarasa Nagase
Language: eng
Format: epub

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The man was pacing restlessly around the room. When he saw the shadow come through his window, he stopped.

The shadow belonged to a man wearing a top hat, a black cape, and a mask. At first glance, the man who had been pacing was wary of the visitor; then he breathed a sigh of relief and approached him.

“O-Oh, how did it go? Did you manage to get the doll back—”

“Good evening.”

At the sound of the visitor’s voice, the man froze. Now, it was hardly as if he could precisely remember the appearance of the one he’d hired. But this voice was clearly different. The young man who had played the part of the Phantom Thief for him had not had such a clear, debonair voice as this.

“I took the liberty of delivering the young impostor to the police.”

Impostor. In other words— The man stared at the large table in the center of the room. He was just beginning to work through the thought.

“Though I think your grudge was unreasonable,” the visitor went on, “you did quite a good job. You put a cursed doll, animated by magic, in the hands of Mrs. Smile’s darling daughter. But if the doll were switched, well—then, no one would suspect you of sending her the cursed doll. You had only to wait for people to say that Miss Colette had been possessed by a demon, and for the scandal to spread. That was your aim, wasn’t it?”

“Who are you?! Are you Crow, the Phantom Thief?” cried the man, but his masked visitor did not answer. He only sat down in the chair across the table and smiled.

“‘It’s only a little prank,’” the masked man mocked. “‘It’s ridiculous to imagine that someone could die from a curse.’ Perhaps that’s what you were thinking? But the doll really did become cursed. It absorbed the power of a Demonic Heirloom that happened to be nearby, and then it was no longer anything to be joked about. That was your miscalculation.”

“W-What are you talking about? I’m going to call for help!”

“So you got frightened, and you tried to recover the doll before the inquisitors came. They would be able to track the magic that had been placed on the doll. So in order to dispose of it, you tried to make everyone think that Crow, the Phantom Thief, had made off with it. Isn’t that right? You, too, must have known that it wasn’t a Demonic Heirloom. Even this doll worked hard for you, without any recompense. I feel sorry for it.” After saying all this, the man in the mask took out the doll.

It was the very doll that the other man had procured. Even though there was a hole in its abdomen and it was burned in many places, he somehow recognized it.

“I’ll return this to you. Oh, don’t worry. This doll is no longer a Demonic Heirloom. What power it had as a counterfeit was all removed by the detective.”

“Detective,” the man pronounced slowly.

“This is nothing but a plain old cursed doll now.

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