If she remembered correctly, the name list that Paul Duncan possessed...was the name list of all the children who had been under his care at the orphanage!
Previously, while trying to piece together Roanne and Charlotte's true identities, Bonnie had sought out a former worker of the orphanage for help.
However, the worker told her that since everything had happened such a long time ago, no one knew the names of the children at the orphanage, nor where each of them had ended up.
Nonetheless, the owner of the orphanage, Mr. Duncan, had a name list that recorded the names of all the children and their whereabouts after leaving the orphanage. Because of this, Bonnie had intended to track down Mr. Duncan to retrieve the name list from him, but...
He had left Merchant City a long time ago, and no one knew where he had gone nor when he would return.
Bonnie had no choice but to give up on her plan.
However, she did not expect that Mr.
Duncan would return to Merchant City all of a sudden and that Jim would be able to track him down and retrieve the name list from him just in time.
If her guesses were correct, Jim was trying to get his hands on the name list to learn the whereabouts of all the children at the orphanage.
As soon as she thought of this, Bonnie suddenly remembered the call Jim had received moments before he left her alone in the car.
The first thing he had inquired after picking up the call was Number-9's whereabouts.
This meant that...he had left her in the car because he had been preoccupied with finding Number-9.
A wave of emotions surged through Bonnie's mind at the thought of this.
Jim was probably trying to track Number-9 so that he could fulfill his promise to her, right?
He did not know that Number-9 had been sitting next to him all along and even almost died in his car!
Besides...
If he had successfully retrieved the name list from Mr. Duncan just in time, would he not have learned her true identity at this point?
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