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  1. “I didn’t think that we’d be able to see this kind of hard work so easily.”
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  3. Hearing the knight’s words, my mentor shook his head.
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  5. “I don’t think the person who created this tried to hide it at all. First, according to the rules of the village, nobody would reach the other side of the swamp anyway. They’ve probably also put up a bounded field accordingly, but nobody could have guessed that someone like us would get swept around in a flood and came up from under the ground.”
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  7. “That makes sense,” the knight said, nodding.
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  9. Beside him, my mentor continued.
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  11. “There’s another possibility. Perhaps… there wasn’t enough time to conceal this place properly.”
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  13. “There wasn’t enough time?”
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  15. “Look at the kitchen.”
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  17. He didn’t turn around, he just pointed in that direction.
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  19. “There are still some freshly-ground coffee beans there. Whoever was here probably planned on drinking it when they came back later. Maybe they were the more practical sort of person, who cared less about the taste and more about how easy it was to prepare the drink. Either way, I think they planned on returning immediately after they left, but never got the chance.”
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  21. “The way you say that makes you sound more like a detective than a mage.”
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  23. “If I relied on my skills as a mage alone, I wouldn’t be able to get anywhere,” my mentor said somewhat self-deprecatingly.
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  25. Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files: The Atlas Contract (Upper); Chapter 3, Part 3
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