"Why are you asking me this?"
Maki just shrugged.
"You seem weirdly informed on matters like this."
I resisted the urge to scratch my neck.
"I do a lot of research."
"Yes… let's call it that. Research. I also do that too. Yet it seems I'm still lacking compared to you in matters like this."
"You're probably just not researching hard enough."
She just nodded her head noncommittally.
'She doesn't believe me, does she?'
Sometimes the easiest way of handling suspicions was a bald-faced lie. She could keep her suspicions. It wasn't as if she could do anything with just that.
Trying to dissuade her at this point might even have the opposite result.
I just had to play my cards carefully to keep that suspicion of hers vague. At the moment, she probably just found it weird that an orphan like me could know so much about matters relating to hunters.
I cleared my throat.
"Moving on."
"There's a blizzard out there. What we do next depends on when that calms down."
