"I'll go with you, Lupin."

"Me? Sure, let's go for it." Lupin says. "Septima's location. Plans for a large-scale terrorist attack... There are so many things we want to find out about. It would be fantastic if all the clues conveniently appeared at our feet..."

We leave the others behind and enter one of the rooms along the main hallway.

The room is filled with books, documents, and piles of paper, all stacked up and crammed anywhere they can fit.

"There's so much here... Did Frankenstein really leave all this behind?" I ask.

"I'm sure there are other researchers here, so I'm sure he didn't leave all of it here by himself..." Lupin says. "If every room has this much information, it's going to take a while to get through everything. Let's not waste any time complaining. We can start looking through things one at a time."

For a while after that, we look through the mountains of documents, sheet by sheet. We're absent-mindedly going through the motions when I catch sight if Lupin's face and a question tumbles out of my mouth. "Hey, Lupin...? May I ask you something? Why... Why do you do so much for me? Nemo said that you were a hero, and I've come to believe that. But... Stopping the terrorist attack, and saving me... I can't begin to understand what motivates you. Because of that... Even though your kindness towards me makes me very happy, at the same time it troubles me."

"Hmm, I see... So you don't understand why I would risk myself in a fight for the sake of someone besides myself?"

"...Yes. That's more, you were a thief in France, weren't you? How did you learn about a terrorist plan in Britain...being carried out by a secret organisation like Progenitor, no less." I've always wondered about this.

Why does she help me? How does she know about a secretly organised plan to attack Britain? "Ah...I suppose I've never really explained it properly." She deftly skims through the document in her hands, then narrows her eyes, as if remembering something. "Helping you, and stopping the terrorist, were both triggered by the same thing."

"'Triggered'?"

Lupin nods. "There's someone who sort of...saved me. And--"

Suddenly, we hear Nemo calling for us from afar. "Heeeey, you two! It's about time we got back together!"

It seems we'd spent more time here than we'd realised.

Lupin finishes looking over the documents she'd holding, then shrugs and tosses them back into a nearby pile. "They're calling for us. Shall we take a break?"

I nod in response, and we leave the room behind.