Perhaps having encountered all sorts of misfortunes along the way, the journey towards The Capital was peaceful the entire way. Every day, Malin would use the telegraph in the carriage to keep in touch with Jiaxi and Zem Meyer from the Benevolent Church, who followed behind. The former was responsible for confirming Malin's location to ensure that the painting didn't get close to Malin again. According to him, this time the painting depicted some wolf-shaped Spirits, which were obviously the Greyplain Wolves from the Western Administrative Province—the Benevolent Church's apprentices killed the most of these creatures each year.
Meanwhile, the latter would occasionally discuss novel plots with Malin—Zem was a faithful reader of Holmes's detective stories, and when he confirmed from Jiaxi that Malin was the Author, his face was skewed with rage—because he couldn't believe such a young kid could write such works and was convinced that Malin was plagiarizing someone else's glory.
