Hannah, Samuel, and Cherry were in the living room watching the news. At the butler''s words, all three of them whipped their heads around.


    Hannah took the letter from the butler.


    Samuel and Cherry stared intently at the envelope in her hand, their breathing growing tense.


    The atmosphere in the living room instantly became charged.


    The envelope was torn open, and the letter was ced on the coffee table. The three of them gathered around to read it.


    After reading the contents, they were all stunned into silence for several seconds, looking at each other, unsure of what to say.


    After a long moment, Samuel finally spoke. “Hannah, the handwriting is identical to thest two letters. It must be from the same person."


    Cherry nodded. "Definitely."


    Hannah took out the previous two letters and ced them next to the new one.


    The handwriting on all three was a perfect match.


    "So, this letter is also from them?" Cherry asked, a hint of doubt in her voice.


    Samuel nodded. "Looks like it. It''s handwritten. Unless someone forged the handwriting, but to do that, they would have had to see the original letters."


    And besides the three of them, no one else had seen the letters. Unless one of them was a traitor, but that was highly unlikely.


    "Could it be that after Quennel dealt with them, they started to hate him and sent this to frame him?"


    Cherry sat back down, stroking her chin as she analyzed the situation. If that were the case, it was certainly a strong possibility.


    "I don''t think it''s that simple." Hannah, who had been silent until now, suddenly said.


    Samuel and Cherry looked at her, not quite understanding what she meant.


    Hannah picked up the envelope and handed it to them to inspect.


    "The seal on this envelope... I felt


    something was off when I was openingut Looking at it closely now at it closely now? it''s clear that it''s been opened and resèaled.”


    Hannah passed the envelope to them.


    She''d noticed something odd at first but hadn''t thought much of it and just opened it. It was onlyter that the feeling of timease prompted her to take a closer look, and sure enough, she found a problem.


    "Whoa, you''re right. It''s definitely been opened. You can see the tear marks here!" Samuel pointed to,


    spot where the paper had been torn and then re-adhered, leaving a faint trace.


    "Maybe they put it in, realized something was wrong, and then opened it again to fix


    it before sealing it back up?" Cherry suggested.


    Samuel shook his head, dismissing her idea. "It''s just an envelope, not something valuable. If they opened it, they''d just use a new one."


    “What if they didn''t have another one on hand? Or maybe they suddenly had a doubt, opened it to double-check, decided it was fine, and sealed it again!"


    Cherry retorted, reconsidering the possibilities.


    “That''s possible, I guess, but it didn''t happen the first two times. For it to happen now just feels... off."


    Samuel was still leaning toward the theory that someone had intercepted it, opened it, and then had it sent on its way.


    The two of them argued over the point for a while.


    Hannah pressed her lips together in thought, a glimmer shing in her eyes as an idea struck her.