"D-did this person really manage to overpower him? What about poison?" Lefiya asked.
Riveria, who had read his status, answered her, "Hashana possessed the 'Immunity' Development Ability. At 'G', even the most potent toxins would not have had much effect.
"The robed woman couldn't find what she's after, then she lost her temper and took it out on the corpse? That's disgusting but makes sense to me." Tione muttered.
Finn went through Hashana's bag and found something that was covered in blood, "There was nothing useful in his pack, unfortunately. This is all I could find."
"Is that a quest request form?" Bors asked, "It's all bloody. I can't read any of it."
"A few places are still legible. 'Floor thirty.' 'Alone.' 'Retrieve.' 'Secret.'... With all this, we can deduce that Hashana accepted a quest and went to the 30th Floor to pick up the 'thing' the culprit was after." Finn explained to everyone, "He probably disguised himself and didn't tell his Familia."
Willy then recalled something, "Uh... Ahh... It's true that Hashana always wore a helmet. It hid his face a lot, like Ganesha-sama's. But I know for a fact he never wore full plate armor." He's already convinced that what Finn had described is what really happened here.
However, one of Bors's men, the Human who came with the Boar Person couldn't easily accept his words, "Y-you're telling quite a convincing story, but..." He then pointed out the Loki Familia girls, "You guys could be pretending you just got here when one of you is actually the killer!"
" "Huh?" " Tione and Tiona didn't expect that, along with others, they'll be suspected.
Scratching his head, Bors saw his subordinate's point, "I get it now... There ain't many women strong enough to strangle a Second-Tier Adventurer. But if we're talking about the scary folks of Loki Familia... Leaving Finn off the list..." Bors and his men then inspected everyone and the first one to get their attention is Tiona.
"Not that one." Bors immediately struck her out of the list, "Ahahaha. Nope. Not a chance." And the three other men agreed with him.
"HEY!!! Where were you looking when you said that!!!?" Ais had to grab Tiona from behind so that she wouldn't beat them up.
Bors and his men then transferred their sights toward Tiona's sister, Tione, and carefully inspected one part of her for a few seconds before muttering, "...A body like that could lure any man she wanted into a trap, don't you think?"
A vein immediately appeared on Tione's forehead after hearing that and stomped her foot on the ground, creating a small earthquake, "WHAT!? AS I'VE SAID, I BELONG TO THE CAPTAIN!!! THE HELL WOULD ANY OF YOU KNOW ABOUT IT!!? ANY FUNNY BUSINESS AND I'LL TEAR YOUR BALLS INTO SHREDS!!!"
" " " "EEKKK!!!!" " " " Bors and the rest covered their crotch as a defense mechanism.
Sighing, Finn also said, "Haa... Bors... These women aren't cut out to manipulate men."
"I... I see. Sorry for suspecting you." Bors apologized then faced the three girls he isn't familiar with, "And who're they? They're not from Loki Familia, right?"
"They're from the Hestia Familia and came with us as a supporter to gather some experience," Finn answered.
However, with Bors's rude behavior and dirty thinking, he immediately said without thinking much about his words, "Heeh... So they sold themselves to you." Since they're from an unknown Familia, such possibility instantly entered his mind as it is not a rare story either but no one would actually point it out as Bors did.
Of course, he would soon regret those words ever leaving his mouth.
The moment he closed his mouth, the atmosphere suddenly changed as the Mana in the surrounding became turbulent and Riveria and Lefiya hurriedly looked towards Sona in shock.
Extremely cold air suddenly manifested around her, so cold that the surroundings were starting to get covered in frost and her violet eyes were shining in eerie light which scared the four men. As the heir of the Prince-rank clan of the Underworld, the Sitri Household, and the little sister of the Devil King, Leviathan, Sona actually has the same potential as Serafall. It just hasn't developed yet since she's still too young, "Wh--?!"
But before they could make sense of what's happening, a heavy feeling, almost suffocatingly, descended onto them as the surrounding Ki also became turbulent and everyone looked towards Koneko as they could tell that the heavy feeling was coming from her. Her eyes became wine red as white flames started crawling up her arms. Contrary to its attribute, the sight of those white flames were giving them chills down their spines, including everyone from Loki Familia.
The four dirty men already couldn't speak, but they haven't felt the worst as the third, nightmare-inducing feeling descended up everyone as their souls became pressured by Aika's Reiatsu-Ki. What makes it more terrifying is the minuscule aura of the two beings that are stronger than any other God and shouldn't exist in this world.
As they aren't their real target, everyone from the Loki Familia is only feeling a fraction of their auras, however, despite that, they couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat and become speechless.
But the moment when Finn saw Aika touching her nodachi, he immediately stood up and went beside Bors. He then put up his spear beside Bors's neck. A split second later, a loud, resonant metallic sound rang out as Aika suddenly reappeared in front of Bors with her nodachi drawn and stopped a few inches away from his neck with Finn's spear, "Stop!"
Aika didn't look at Finn and only eyed the shaking and nervous Bors and said, "If you wish to die, please let me know. I would happily separate your head from your body." Aika then stepped back and took back her blade before going back to her comrades and calming their auras down.
Realizing that he almost died because he ran his mouth against these three mysterious Adventurers with the Loki Familia, Bors dropped down to his knees and immediately apologized, "I'm very sorry!!!"
Seeing their boss dropping down, the other three did the same, "We're very sorry!!!" Different from the girls of the Loki Familia, these three unknown girls seem to be more willing to kill which scared them to their cores.
After their apologies, Sona, Koneko, and Aika completely calmed down.
Finn, on the other hand, frowned at their willingness to kill. He can't exactly reprimand them, but he can at least give them some instructions while they're within his group, "Please remember that I won't allow you to kill another person as long as you're with us."
In her usual demeanor, Sona also apologized, "I also apologize for our rash actions. But please, don't let anything like this happen again." While saying these words, she gave Bors a cold stare. Bors, in response, kept nodding as if wanting to break his neck.
With the intention to brush the incident under the rug and resume what they needed to do, Finn went back to the topic of the murder, "Now that you believe we aren't involved in this incident, Bors, please seal off the town. Don't let any Adventurers still in Rivira leave. Someone of Hashana's caliber was asked to take on a secret quest. Whatever the culprit was after, it must be extremely valuable. I highly doubt she would leave empty-handed." While biting his thumb, Finn continued, "I'm pretty sure she's still here. Just a hunch though."
"G-got it! You lot-" "Wait." Bors was about to instruct his underlings but Sona's calm voice immediately froze her from his spot and unconsciously saluted to her, "Yes, ma'am!"
"I would like to state my opinion. Is that fine?" Sona asked Finn.
"Sure, go ahead."
"Please also do a search with the male Adventurers."
Finn frowned yet again and asked, "Why?" If they were to do that, then it would take too much time and the culprit might find a way out of the encirclement. Besides, they already concluded that the culprit is a woman with a voluptuous body, so there's almost no point in searching the male Adventurers too.
Instead of answering his question, Sona asked a question, "What else is missing from him? If you can answer that, you'll know what I mean."
"Missing?" Finn looked back to the corpse and started inspecting it again. The girls of the Loki Familia also did the same as they temporarily pushed the incident to the corner of their minds and focused on the current issue.
Everyone searched the corpse's body again but they couldn't find what's missing, "What's missing?" Finn asked as he couldn't figure it out.
Instead of Sona, Aika gave him and everyone a clue, "Focus on the head. Something big is missing."
Everyone looked at it again and only Finn and Riveria finally noticed it, "Some parts of the smashed head are missing... More specifically, the hair and the skin for his upper face..." Finn muttered as he guessed what Sona and Aika are trying to tell, "You mean the culprit might have used Hashana's skin as a mask?"
"Wh-!?" The girls of the Loki Familia reeled back at such a possibility and looked towards the trio and asked in their heads why they could think of such a possibility.
Sona nodded at Finn and explained, "Yes. She could just hide her figure by wearing full plate armor and that should be available here in Rivira. And if she wanted to use half of his face skin as a mask, then she could just cover the lower half with a scarf or bandage."
"Bors... Immediately seal off the exits. We'll do a search on everyone! Watch out for every female Adventurer and those with partially covered faces."
"Understood!"
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