Danmachi SI-The Silence's Heir

Part 22

Chapter 22

GOJOUNO KAGUYA

"Are you certain?" Alise asked as she mentioned to her the suspicion of foul play and how their enemies may have just tried to kill Inumaki-sama's patron goddess.

"Yes, it was why I stopped Bell Cranel's training. I felt a presence on the roof and decided to check it out, but I had to stop because of Hestia-sama," otherwise, she would have caught them, and given that they had managed to run away, it meant that they were not an inexperienced adventurer.

They would have to be at least level 2, if not even higher, to move as fast and quietly as they had.

"He did fear this," Alise sighed, surprising her.

"Inumaki-sama did," she asked, and her ed-captain nodded.

"Yes, he believes that the Soma familia is connected with the underground black market, more specifically with the Ikelos familia," and that was a surprise to her. He had not shared these fears with her.

"Is that why he made such a wager, to draw them out?" she asked, for she knew just how much that spear meant to him. And to wager it on simple issue like that, there had to be something greater to it.

"Yes," and it seems as if his fears are being proven right.

"What was she even doing here?" Alise asked.

"She was looking to buy this place, as a new home for her familia," Kaguya answered, and saw Alise's expression drop. It was no wonder, the lease on the place must have run out a year ago, and it must have been put back on the market.

But still this place had once been their home, and seeing it in its current state, in its lifeless state did affect them.

"That is interesting," Alise sighed as she looked at the decrepit walls around her rather nostalgically.

"Perhaps it is a good thing in the end. It would be good to have some laughter in these Halls again," and perhaps it would be.

"You had something to say as well," she asked and Alise nodded as she handed her a poster, and she opened it and read through it.

"An expedition?" she questioned, interested in the floor that the Loki familia was aiming for.

"And I believe that Inumaki is preparing for this. That is why he asked for our help in all of this, and then there is also the fact that he suspects that Valette still lives," and Kaguya perked up at that name.

"That Veletta?" she confirmed, and Alise nodded.

"Yes, during the attack on Riveria, he suspected that they were hit by her magic. And so, he had Ryuu look into it, and his guess was correct. The effects of the magic, and the whisper of its spell key they were the same. So it means one of two things, either someone is pretending to be her or..."

"Vaeletta Gerde is still alive," she finished as her fists balled. Valetta Gerde was an Evilus executive, a high ranker who had killed hundreds of, not thousands of, innocents seven years ago. They had all thought her dead, but it seemed now that much like Olivia's Act, she had managed to cheat death as well and had lived so long.

"If that is true then this expedition must be connected to Evilus as well," she reasoned out and Alise shrugged.

"It very well could be," Alise answered.

"Do you think we should join in," she asked, and Alise's lips thinned.

"I don't think at this point we can. We have neither the valis needed to join in, nor have our falna been updates in years," and at that her lips thinned as well.