Even if Firo brought it up, Maiza would probably stop him because that sort of thing is Czeslaw's story to tell. Maiza has absolutely no idea what actually happened, but even he suspects that something must be up that Czes, who stuck to Lebreau like glue, hasn't brought him up a single time despite dropping topics about Elmer C. Albatross here and there or nonchalantly commenting on Huey Laforet's mysteriousness occasionally.

He moves on.

"... Lebreau and Begg were acquainted with the owner of one of the libraries in Lotto Valentino. That one library didn't have a name, but we called it the Third Library in the days we used it. Anyway, the two of them invited Jean and me along, so I followed. That was when I first met Dalton Strauss, the one-handed owner of the library -- and the immortal head of the hidden school of alchemists."