Becoming Professor Moriarty's Probability

Chapter 65: The Blooming Detective (3)

– Beep...!

"... Huh?"

Lestrade, who had been sitting by the window catching her breath, suddenly widened her eyes in surprise at the unexpected sound of machinery.

– Beep-beep...!

"Meow."

"Wha, what was that?"

The tiny mana receiver that had fallen from her ear due to her abrupt descent from the outer edge of the window became a toy for a passing cat in the yard, rolling around and ringing while the cat played with it.

"... Hello?"

– What took you so long to answer?

Worried that the two inside the mansion might hear the sudden noise, she quickly grabbed the device, and not long after, Rachel Watson's concerned voice began to resonate from the receiver.

"It, it wasn't working before..."

– You didn't put in aura instead of mana now, did you?

"... Ah."

Lestrade who had been mumbling and hesitating, made a flustered face upon hearing those words.

"I, it was out of habit..."

– It's fine. I'm just glad that we were finally able to establish a connection.

"But how did it activate suddenly?"

Then she scratched her head, puzzled by the sudden phenomenon.

"The cat couldn't have activated it..."

"... Meow~"

Watching her with a somewhat disdainful look, a familiar red cat with a collar around its neck bared its fangs and then jumped over the fence, disappearing from sight.

– Anyway, show me the current situation.

"... What?"

Lestrade tilted her head for a moment and looked puzzled as she heard the re-emerging voice.

– When you activate that device, we are able to share our vision. The operational time is very short, though.

"Is... is that really possible?"

– It seems the experiments Holmes did with the mana stones weren't just to induce drug-like hallucinatory symptoms in her body.

To her incredulous tone, Watson replied with a voice filled with a hint of pride.

– It's a revolutionary invention developed by my little friend. Once commercialized, it could cut London's crime rate by more than half.

"Indeed, if that's true... just by having the police carry them, it would be a huge help in gathering evidence and preventing most crimes..."

– Of course, the downside is that the wearer might lose consciousness within 5 minutes due to the strain the device will put on the user.

"... What in the bloody hell did you say?"

Lestrade, who was nodding quietly at her words till now, made a bewildered face and couldn't help but curse at the casually added comment from Watson that was totally out of pocket.

"So it's basically useless then...?"

– No, you, you're the strongest girl in all of London, so you can handle it.

"Ah..."

– That's why we contacted you and no one else.

Only then did she realize just why they had employed her help, and even went so far as to flatter her so much, and her expression began to stiffen in real time.