[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/Q2Lwo25.png[/img][/center][color=83EEA7]"Hmm?"[/color] Grain let out after being obviously surprised by a voice, that didn't even make much effort to disguise their contempt for those present, speaking right to her ears. She had to look around the room to realize that its source was none other than the boy who—not to her surprise—seemed to lack everything in the subject of manners.

[color=83EEA7]"Excuse me, could you please not use your magic on others without permission? That's a very rude thing to do,"[/color] Grain said. She didn't try to sound confrontational, but the very fact that she spoke against it, should be enough for anyone to realize that she didn't like the unwarranted invasion of her personal space. Especially when it was done in a way loaded with such animosity.

[color=83EEA7]"Satanists? That seems very out of character for the police to jump right to a hypothesis that this must be the work of a cult. However, I do agree with the idea that, whoever is behind this, isn't a mere organ trafficker,"[/color] she said after pondering about the answers given by the two that followed the hateful boy's reply.

[color=83EEA7]"If I may say so, the original Jack the Ripper is said to have consumed the organs of some of his victims. I believe that, for mages, parts of the human body can have many different meanings depending on the current of occultism you follow. Most of the internal organs are really important in alchemy, are they not?"[/color] Grain paused for a moment, looking at the mages—especially Arinne—to confirm if she had been right so far. [color=83EEA7]"It's very probable that whoever is behind this might be harvesting these organs for use in some manner of spell. Also, as for why the victims are only young women, the reason is likely related to what kind of magic our culprit is trying to weave. If we could confirm whether or not the victims had something else in common other than being young women and girls, we might be able to get a far more conclusive clue."[/color]

[color=83EEA7]"Like, I... hmm, for example, if... hmm..."[/color] Grain seemed to grow consistently more flustered as she approached the conclusion of her train of thought, almost as if she were getting self-conscious of something, until she finally said in a low voice while turning their gaze away from the others, [color=83EEA7]"Knowing whether or not they were all virgins, it would be a great clue. Checking for sexual violation is a standard procedure for the police in these kinds of cases so... maybe we could get this information from them?"[/color]

And, after she finally spoke everything she had to, Grain couldn't help but think that the sight of her hands clasped over her lap was a very entertaining one indeed. So much that she didn't even lift her gaze to look at anything else other than her twiddling thumbs.