An idea naturally emerged in Aiden's mind, instantly reconnecting the broken threads in his thoughts and dispelling the newly formed doubts.
It was as though a long string of code, hindered in its execution, suddenly ran smoothly again after the missing line was added.
Why would Professor Dodge make the refugees disappear en masse without any hesitation, just like the military...
The missing link was that he was in cahoots with the Kingdom's military!
Aiden realized he had been influenced by inertia thinking because Professor Dodge had once defected from the Empire and clandestinely worked to destroy the Empire's demon project. Aiden assumed that the professor's stance stemmed from his son's failed case, which led him to persistently oppose the research on artificial demons. Therefore, in regard to Gistas's "infection" plan, he ought to have been opposed as well.
