Chapter 28: Chance discovery

Ivy spent an hour convincing the authorities that her was innocent. Anyway, they told her to stay in the city, just in case they needed to talk to her again. She also had to pay a fine for breaking into the woman's house.

Ivy went back to her mansion in a bad mood. She needed to find out where she had read the name "Cervantes de León" before.

However, when she arrived there she saw her home on fire.

She hurried in and looked for the origin of the smoke. It was the library, where the fire was already quite spread.

It was impossible to extinguish it.

She closed the door in an attempt to smother the fire and she hurried to pick up everything in that house that she wanted to save.

She saved some food, her sword and her alchemy notes. She also could save some books she had taken from the library the day before.

Ivy put it all into a bag and left the mansion. Once she was outside, she couldn't do anything but look as her lifelong house was burnt to ashes.

Obviously, there was somebody who didn't want her to investigate Soul Edge.

That person had murdered the old woman and had set her library on fire. He probably was the witness who had reported her to the police.

She hated to admit it, but that person had been much more intelligent than herself. Now she didn't have any clue to follow.

At least, that's what she thought until he emptied her bag. Then, she noticed that it wasn't a bag. It was a baby sling. The baby sling her mother used when she was a baby.

However, that wasn't the amazing discovery . She had remembered where she had read Cervantes' name. It wasn't in her father's files. It was on the baby sling.

Its cloth had a golden embroidery on it. It said: "Property of Cervantes de León."