Change of Plans

My heart began pounding like mad, and my breathing grew ragged.

I desperately tried to keep a calm expression, but the corners of my mouth were trembling faintly.

‘Calm down! Think of an excuse!’

If I failed to answer, Daniel’s suspicion might turn into certainty.

In the split second available to him, Alisteair ran countless simulations through his head before finally managing to speak.

“……Ah. So that happened? When I went, they were still selling it without any problem, so I didn’t even know such an incident had occurred.”

This was the answer Alisteair had arrived at after countless calculations.

Given that Daniel had started working at General Staff Headquarters immediately after graduating from the military academy, he concluded that Daniel probably had not gone to Jack’s Restaurant the previous year.

In other words, it was a deception technique that exploited a gap in information.

“Hmm. You didn’t even know such an incident had occurred…….”...