At the old man’s order, everyone looked through all of the files again. After a long time, everyone hung their heads while facing the old man. None of them were able to find anything.
The old man wanted to urge everyone to search again, but that was when the man who broke the door open earlier discovered something in a corner of the archive.
He bent over and picked it up, then with a sigh, he brought it to the old man.
“I don’t think we should keep looking. I’m afraid Alyshah has already taken the file with her.”
As he said that, he handed over to the old man the keys that Alyshah had tossed into the corner. Accepting it, the old man knew that his hopes had been dashed. He shook his head helplessly and dismissed everyone.
“I wouldn’t have thought twice about their suggestion, but they
