Asmodis took less than an hour to give the *Silence of the Lambs* script a rough read-through.
It wasn't long, only around 200,000 characters, so it was an easy read.
After getting a feel for the story, the Lord of Hell fell silent, then went back to carefully study a few specific scenes.
The more he read, the stranger the expression on his face grew.
Finally, filled with confusion, he asked, "I'm not exactly well-read, so I might be misunderstanding this, but if I'm not mistaken, this is a story about a brilliant psychopath helping a young detective catch another psychopath, right?"
The profession of "detective" had emerged in several countries on the Feilin Continent. This distinguished them from the Guard Corps system implemented in the Sutton Kingdom; detectives served the nation rather than a City Lord, and their responsibilities included protecting the populace, not just the city's safety like the Guard Corps.
The distinction was significant.
