Thirty minutes later
The envoy of the Violet Royal Family predictably appeared in the Mercury Court, accompanied by members of the Joint Investigation Team from the Fire Claw clan, all with grim expressions on their faces.
"Stay here and find out what's going on."
Double Leaf gave a brief instruction to Leven and Kasi, who were behind her, then left the Mercury Court with the silent envoy without uttering a word. In this process, she didn't ask any questions from the investigators that undoubtedly knew something.
In fact, she didn't need to ask, because all previous signs had already revealed a lot. So, instead of scrambling to collect more intelligence before returning to the Violet Throne Hall, she simply decided not to ask anything and face the storm according to her own pace...
A storm that was unexpected, unforeseen, beyond common sense, yet seemed destined to come.
