—You must nearly be ready by now right, El-Melloi?” She said, abruptly directing all the
attention at me.
“What are you talking about?”
Touko failed to hold back a laugh at my response.
“Don’t play dumb! Since you’re here, and you still have a refreshing look of
determination in your eyes, you must have reached one of the truths.”
(—Hey, brother!)
(—Yes, I know.) My brother replied agitatedly. (—Back at Slur Street, she told me that she
was looking forward to the denouement.)
What an arrogant thing to say. She had essentially told us that her own enjoyment
should come before the fate of the entire Clock Tower.
I had no doubt that she thought this way. Touko Aozaki was not the kind of person who
would be interested in political drama. The trends of the World of Magecraft over
millennia failed to pique her curiosity. She wasn’t here to represent the Neutral Faction,
but to find out the truth about the case that she had become involved in.
(—You probably also noticed that she was addressing both of us.)
(Of course she knows we’re communicating using magecraft.)
I wasn’t trying particularly hard to conceal it, but it still made me a little unhappy that
she saw through it in a single glance. What could I say? This was Touko Aozaki, after all.

The Case Files of Lord El-Melloi II, Volume 10, Chapter 2