"If my mother already knew these people existed, why didn't she simply leave the academy?"
"Because leaving might not have helped."
Victor deliberately avoided presenting his speculation as certainty.
"A force capable of mobilizing imperial research grants and causing abnormalities in the academy's high level authorization records probably wasn't something an ordinary researcher could escape simply by moving somewhere else."
"And you were still young at the time. She might have believed that staying inside the academy would actually make it easier to monitor the project's progress."
"I see."
Although that answer could not resolve every question, it was at least closer to reality than simply telling her that her mother had been plotted against.
At that moment, Cecilia finally put down the report in her hands.
"I found another problem."
Both of them looked at her.
