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Chapter 11: On the Surface

The next day, Kiyotaka had decided to stay back at home while the Forgers went out. On the surface the reason why he declined to accompany them was to recharge his social battery, they were only going out to play tennis for a while after all. However, this time alone would provide a good opportunity to search the house for more clues and information. Although the chances that Loid was hiding something within his sight were low, it still wouldn't hurt to do a little looking around.

Initially, all he did was walk around and observe to see if there were any inaccuracies on the walls or floors in the main room that would lead to possible spaces where things could be hidden. There were one or two indents in the walls from his observations, but it looked more like Anya had just ran into the wall instead of this being something to investigate. Kiyotaka had already thoroughly searched his room the night before for anything, but nothing significant was found. On one part of the wall there was a small stain of blood that was barely noticeable if you weren't actively looking, but that could be easily chalked up to an injury one of them sustained.

Eventually, the only room he had left to search was Loid and Yor's room, or what he had judged to be only Loid's room. The ways they acted towards each other were suspicious and did not fit that of a married couple. Add that onto the painfully obvious bed set that almost made him gag from how tacky it looked. The Forgers had most likely decided beforehand that they would give up Yor's room to him, seeing as the decor fit that of something that Yor would be interested in rather than a guest room. He didn't really care that they were trying to cover up the truth of their relationship, even if they had already slightly let him in on a bit of information. The only thing he still had concerns about was Loid's true intentions. He had narrowed down his actual profession as being a spy since the secret police usually didn't have very removed fake jobs and often stayed with the title of working for the government in some way. Since he was a spy, it was now important to determine whether he was working privately or for a larger organization. In the case of a larger organization, that would certainly put himself and the White Room at risk. Although he didn't particularly care about that man's achievements, he still cared enough to not let classified information about it leak.

The door of the room hadn't been locked using the keyhole, presumably due to the fact that Yor was staying in it as well and that would just create unnecessary problems. He opened the door, but before entering it he checked for anything that had been left that could reveal whether the door had been opened while Loid was away. The position of the handle couldn't be used as a point of inspection since it was a circular one that rotated instead of one that could be pushed down to open. There was nothing that would have revealed if someone had entered the room, and so he proceeded with caution.

His guard was much less than it would have been if only Loid had been staying in the room, but he had already eliminated Yor as a threat in his mind after comparing countless of her actions against one another. She didn't seem to harbor any ill will towards him, being one of the few adults in his life who seemed to genuinely care about him as a person. There was still the chance that she could be hiding something, but he could say for certain that she was not working with Loid.

Kiyotaka took a first look within the room and decided to avoid looking through the suitcase that contained some of Yor's clothes. She had come into the room multiple times to retrieve her clothes from the dresser in the other room, but most likely kept them within this suitcase for easier convenience. If his assumptions were correct, it wouldn't matter regardless. He started with the easier task of looking through drawers and searching for inaccuracies in the walls, but Loid was most likely being particularly careful with where he puts things if Yor was not aware of his secondary profession.

Inside of a drawer in Loid's nightstand was an opened letter. It appeared to be for personal use since it didn't fit the usual style of those that were used for business messages or billing. The letter had Loid's name and address on the front, but had already been opened which made it easier to take out the contents of the letter and read it after inspecting it. At first glance it seemed to be a normal letter, a message from an estranged friend that was asking about meeting to catch up. On a closer read of it, the grammar of the letter had oddly specific word choices and just felt slightly off in general. Adding that onto how it was printed instead of hand written and had no return address shows that the identity of whoever wrote it did not want it to be traced back to themselves. It was better for him to go with his intuition, so he snapped a picture of the letter and put it back inside the drawer.