Alden finally understood what Aira had meant earlier. He walked up to the girl, let out a small laugh, and gently pinched her nose.
"She's not a woman. He's a man, a colleague from my past. And he offered me a chance to return to my old job."
"Really? Then why did you look so sad just now?"
"You could say... maybe because I miss that job."
"What kind of job did you have in the past? I thought you were just a student trying to start a career as a Private Detective."
Alden sat on the bed right next to the girl and looked at her gently.
"My old job wasn't that different from what I'm doing now. And as for your second question—wasn't it clearly written in the script of your novel?"
"What do you mean?"
"You already know I'm a new student. I'm just continuing—no, more precisely, I'm tryi
