I had pinned the Hologram Badge Samra gave me inside my clothing.
It was not in a visible position, and naturally, I had never shown it in front of Dominic.
“…The badge.”
“What about it?”
“It was a gift. From a friend.”
“Ah, a friend in London?”
“…Yes. But how did you know I was wearing a badge? I concealed it inside my clothes.”
I laughed as though making a joke while I asked.
Dominic answered with apparent fascination.
“At some point, I simply began to sense it.”
He seemed only now to realize that the badge had been hidden.
Judging from the way he spoke, he had not known about it from the moment I put it on.
For some reason, I had a feeling he began sensing it after seeing the Shining Irregular Polyhedron.
And the reason he had noticed the badge was probably….
‘Because it isn’t an item from CoV.’
The most plausible hypothesis was that he sensed something foreign because it was an item from outside.
“Let’s get out of here first.”
I began walking ahead.
“We still need to gather the remaining evidence and rescue the people abducted as sacrifices. It seems more efficient to split up.”
Walking quickly, I spoke to Dominic as he followed.
“I’m short…