He could have answered that. He could picture arriving, finding more of them, making certain they never touched another person.
Finding them was the part he would have to leave to someone else.
Vespera watched the answer fail to reach his lips.
"Until we have a lead worth your attention, I will not have you wasting your time pretending to be an investigator. You have a dungeon to invest your resources into. You have an entire, powerful nation to build an alliance with. You have a new tunnel from Japan opening behind your dungeon's defenses, and you have level one hundred to reach."
"I'm aware of all that."
"Then please act as though you are."
The rebuke hurt more than he wanted to admit. He had come downstairs because he couldn't bear the thought of leaving these people to his mother again. Now she was looking at him as though he had volunteered to spend his morning getting underfoot.
Yunohana's hand touched his wrist.
