Chapter: 641

“Did you bring the note?”

“Here it is.”

Hana held out a small piece of paper.

In the meantime, Hannah had the maids spy on Naen.

Astelle also knew that Naen secretly exchanged notes with Florin.

It was a simple way that Naen would come if the maid that Florin had sent hid a piece of paper in a designated place in the palace backyard.

It would be too risky for Naen, who works at the empress’ palace, to meet the maid in person.

That was the way to communicate.

Hannah said she stole it beforehand.

The note Hannah brought was full of unknown numbers.

“It’s a code.”

There were no idiots who would just write ordinary notes and hide them in the palace backyard. Astelle looked at the number on the note carefully.

The seemingly unrelated numbers were written one after the other in order.

“No number exceeds 300.”

“Is it a book?”

“I think so.”

It was too obvious to write down the pages and word numbers of a particular book and send them in code.

But if it was for Naen, Florin might have had no choice but to use such a simple code.

Naen was brought here unexpectedly.

She wouldn’t have time to practice cryptography with Florin beforehand.

So she would have had no choice but to use the simplest code possible.

Astelle looked back at Hannah and asked, “Does Naen have any books?”

“I’m sure she has brought two or three books from her mansion,” she replied.

Astelle nodded and said, “Call Naen here now. She has work to do.”

Before Astelle could even explain, Hannah noticed her point and answered, “In the meantime, I will go to Miss Naen’s room and look for her books.”