Well, yeah. ♡ It's only fair if I say it where you can hear it, so you get a chance to defend yourself.

[Alice looks supremely unbothered, which kind of proves Ciel's point, huh.]

Shijima only agrees with me because I made a trade with her, and that's never been a secret. I mean, you can believe whatever you want, but I'm not a staff member and neither is she. If we were, we'd know better than to be so obvious about it, you know?

But you... you've been trying really hard not to be too conspicuous or too inconspicuous.