"I don't know…"
"But I think there's something rather suspicious about it," the boy said suddenly.
Alice was surprised. "Go on."
"Why do you think Professor Romanka so easily allowed us to take Natalia away after all the hard work he'd put in, cultivating her as an experimental specimen? Don't you find that suspicious?"
Alice looked stunned.
Youyou studied her expression and continued, "I think it's Professor Romanka who's really suspicious. Do you think it's possible the personality could be manipulated by someone else?"
"Well… I can't say right now."
"Maybe it sounds like a fantasy, but I do find it suspicious. Maybe I'm imagining things."
