This could hardly be a coincidence.
Fate is like the ruts of a chariot in heaven.
At least by the time Annan had made up his mind to get involved—or rather, far before that, from the very first time he had been drawn into it—the situation had already been changed by his presence.
Rather than saying...
Annan pondered.
What if these "coincidences" had already occurred before he stepped into the picture?
After all, no one is omniscient, nor can anyone narrate everything objectively.
Perhaps what Yufimia had said was indeed everything she knew, but that did not necessarily represent the most thorough truth.
What she knew might not be the deepest truth.
For instance, Yufimia did not know about the existence of the Eternal Principality... and even less that the Eternal Duke had, for a very long time, always been portrayed by the same person.
And the Melvin family's most adept technique was the "Law of Similarity" from the doctrine of idolatry.
