Chapter 25 - Right Track, Wrong Track

The small chime of bell connected to the door rang as it was opened, the sound so casual and well-known that it barely drew the eyes of anyone but the clerk at the counter as to see who had just entered his or her shop.
As they entered, however, Takanosuke's eyes were briefly drawn to the gentle alarm, even though they normally wouldn't be. However, with his slightly delirious state (from all the little blackouts he'd been having) it could probably be considered as fairly reasonable.

Sakyo entered the shop behind the blonde, holding the door once the Griffin Blader let go of it to allow himself to get fully inside before looking around with his crimson eyes.
As the sign above the door - which had clearly read Ruri's Teacups - indicated, it was a teacup shop.
Small, but definitely capable of fitting all of its contents, which mainly consisted of teacups (of course), small teapots, and other fine china that one would more than likely use when serving tea to anyone - whether themselves or others. Many cups and teacups and small plates were grouped together in different sets, all matching with modest and delicate designs painted onto them with the gentlest of care. Looking sideways to one of the shelves on his left, red eyes scanned the few teacups and plates that were situated there and figured that they were hand-painted.
If so, then they were definitely well made with what looked to be professional craftsmanship. He wasn't an expert on any of it, really, but he knew enough to know good china when he saw it.

Once closing the door behind him (and the hearing the bell once more ring in response), the Dragoon Blader glanced down at the blonde head of Takanosuke, watching as the younger blader looked around a bit, taking in his surroundings (which consisted mainly of tea sets and the like) and waving a hello to the clerk at the front desk when she said hello, before turning to his left and walking around the small space of the shop, looking around at the many intricate cups and teapots placed on the various shelves.
They were the only two in there but for a lovely looking elderly couple who went over to the front desk to pay for a teapot with a cherry blossom design on it.
There must have been some reason why his visions had brought them here, so Takanosuke figured. He seemed to be having them for a reason, just as his grandmother had always had them, and so he knew that they wouldn't just drive him to a place as subtle and nice as this for no particular reason.

Still... The china was very nice.
So at least that was something to admire.

While he maneuvered around the shelves a bit, looking at the seemingly hand-made china, Sakyo stood mainly near the front, only taking a few steps forward to gaze almost motionlessly at a shelf near the door.
Neither of them were sure of what exactly this shop could offer in terms of getting them anywhere, but it might as well be worth it to simply try if nothing else.
If the idea hadn't come from Takanosuke, Sakyo might not have even considered it a possibility. But he trusted the young blonde, which was more than enough.
Surely, if Takanosuke's supposed 'visions' had lead them there, then there may indeed be something... Of course, getting any information on how to find a half-god psychopath in a teacup shop was very unlikely.
But whatever the reason they were brought here, there should be something, shouldn't there?

"Are you two finding everything okay?" The clerk from the counter asked once the elderly couple left with their teapot wrapped in paper and placed in a bag, her dull green eyes looking back and forth between the two of them almost casually.
"Oh, uh..." Takanosuke started awkwardly at the unexpected question from the young woman, before simply smiling a little sheepishly and nodding, "Y-yeah, we're fine." The salesclerk raised an eyebrow slightly at the blonde, noting his slightly awkward response, before glancing over towards Sakyo, who she appeared to assume would be the one in charge out of the two of them.
Said redhead caught her eyes with his red ones, and, somehow in a bit of a more relaxed position of standing (perhaps just for show, but either way...), simply nodded, assuring that they were indeed finding everything they needed. Of course, that was a lie, but she had no need to know that.
She was just a salesclerk making an honest living, and clearly didn't need any trouble. Taking his word for it, the young woman simply smiled with a small shrug before walking briskly over to the backroom behind the counter.
Takanosuke's eyes remained on her for a few more moments before exhaling through his mouth and looking towards Sakyo.
Said Blader briefly caught his gaze, but didn't keep it for long as he went back to looking at a few at the teacups on the shelf in front of him. Takanosuke furrowed his eyebrows slightly, unsure of what they were going to do.
There didn't seem to be too much here save for china, a small bit of silverware, and a kind woman who made an honest living off of it.

Maybe she knew something?

If so, then that could possibly be a logical explanation as to why his visions had brought them here... However, she didn't look like a person who could likely know to much on anything revolving around the God of Destruction and wherever his offspring could be.
Then again, who knew?
His grandmother had always told him to never judge a book by its cover, when she had still been around. Even if she did - and that was a big if - how would they even get anything out of her? It wasn't like you could just start a conversation about the God of Destruction (i.e. the one that had been destroyed years ago) and have it run along smoothly.
Well, maybe somewhere you could, but Takanosuke didn't really know where on earth that could be.
If they were going to be able to find out anything from here, then they would need a plan on how to do that.

Cerulean eyes almost immediately glanced back to Sakyo when he heard something from over in his direction, and saw that the older blader was now gently one of the many teacups on the shelves in his hands. It was a nice ivory color, with blue and green designs painted on it from the base up, but not touching the rim.
The Dragoon Blader almost seemed to be eyeing weirdly, his gaze (although almost stoic) making it look like he was thinking briefly of something while his eyes lingered.

"Did you make these yourself?" Sakyo questioned, his eyes looking over to the woman behind the counter who was setting a small box onto the wooden surface.
Her eyes looked over to the red-and-white-haired blader to perhaps assure that he was talking to her, before she smiled and nodded. "Yeah, I did." She said with a little pride, taking a few things wrapped in tissue paper out from the cardboard box in front of her, "I learned how to make them at an art school I went to a few years back. People seemed to like them a lot, so I decided to make a business out of it."

"They're nice." Takanosuke complimented with a smile, which earned one back in return.
"Thank you." The woman - who they could only guess was Ruri, as the shop name implied - said in gratitude with a small blush dusting her cheeks.
She unwrapped some more of the china she had made from the tissue paper that it had been wrapped in - they seemed to all be teacups with relatively the same design on each other them, probably a part of a set - before looking back to the two of them.
"I don't remember seeing you two around here before." She said in an almost curious manner, opening up the shelf below her to put the teacups on a display behind the glass, "Are you new in town?"

"Visiting." Sakyo said almost immediately before Takanosuke could. Well, that wasn't entirely a lie. They kind of were visiting Ishioka, 'sight-seeing' in a sense, considering that they were looking for anything that could give them possible leads on the guy they were looking for.
"Really?" Ruri asked with a raised eyebrow, crouching down behind the counter to neatly place the teacups on display in there, "I didn't think anybody would want to visit a town like this... We're hardly on maps at all, there's not to see... Not to mention with those... Weird stories that my grandpa always told me.."
Sakyo eyed her for a moment at that, walking over to the counter with the teacup that he was still holding in hand. Takanosuke glanced at him questionably, wondering why the elder was carrying the teacup with him to the counter.

Did he plan on buying it?

Did Sakyo have a thing for teacups?

Maybe that was a bit of a stretch, but...

"What kind of stories?" Sakyo asked, gingerly placing the cup in his hands on the counter by the cash register.
"Well, I don't really know what he was talking about half of the time..." Ruri said with a small sigh, finishing putting the cups in the cabinet before standing up and locking it with her keys again, "He was an old coot, either way, but... He was interesting to say the least. Some of the things he told me about this town were too. He was always talking about something to do with that mountain to the West of town... Mount Tsukuba... There's this old rumor that's surrounded it for god knows how long."
The shop-owner walked over to the counter to face the two of them, her full, light brown hair bouncing slightly along with her movements, and gently the teacup that Sakyo was holding in her own hands, eyeing with observant green orbs.

"Nice choice." She complimented, "Do you want the cup by itself, or the full set with it? If you buy the full set, there's about a 20% discount with it until the 23rd."

"Just the cup." Sakyo said simply, and Ruri nodded in response.
"Okay." She said, observing the cup for a few more moments before turning towards the register.
"What were saying about that mountain?" Sakyo asked, acting at least somewhat casual despite his cold aura and hard features.
"Oh yeah, where was I on that?..." Ruri questioned almost no one, before nodding, "Oh, right, that story... Well, my grandpa always said that there was a rumor about it containing some sort of temple or something... It was built a long time ago for the worship of some god of another. Not exactly sure which god, but the way he described it, sounded a lot like a cult."

"Really?..." Takanosuke asked almost absently, watching the way she wrapped the teacup in tissue paper and got out a small decorative box for it to go in, "Where was it, exactly?..." Ruri simply shrugged her shoulders with a small half-smile, making sure that their teacup was safely wrapped as she placed it in the box.
"Not sure, but, as far as I know, the entrance to it is somewhere in the mountains... You can ask almost anyone in town; pretty well everyone knows about it, but no one knows exactly where it is.." The brunette shrugged softly, waiting for Sakyo to scan his credit card. "Might as well stay that way, as far as I'm concerned. Never did sound like anything good to me... Especially with the sounds that people say they hear coming from there every now and then." While Sakyo made the transaction, Takansouke raised his eyebrows slightly.
"What sounds?" He asked, curiosity evident on his face. Ruri quirked her eyebrow for a moment, as if thinking, before she simply shrugged softly once more.
"Like, laughing, I think..." She said, sounding a bit unsure, "Some say that they sometimes see something white wandering around the mountain, or that a bunch of are always coming and going from there. It's just some talk to get some attention, I don't really know..."

"So, it's, like, haunted or something?..." Takanosuke asked, tilting his head slightly. He knew that probably wasn't the case, but he wanted to know what she thought regardless.
"I don't know..." The saleswoman replied almost wistfully, "But I'll be honest... Considering all the weird stuff that supposedly surrounds this town, ghosts would not surprise me. Might give me a reason to buy more salt though." The debit machine beeped at the completed transaction, and Ruri smiled at the two of them as Sakyo put away his card and handed them the box. "Thank you." She said gratefully, "You two have a nice day. And keep an eye out for those ghosts." She added at the end with a small wink, earning a small smile from Takanosuke as he took the box with their teacup and followed Sakyo to the door.

"Thank you!" He called back to her before leaving, the door bell chiming in their wake. Ruri simply smiled to herself.
What nice brothers they seemed to be...

Both Takanosuke and Sakyo left the small teacup shop with their box in hand, rounding the corner until they were a good few meters from it before stopping and stepping out of the way of anybody who would be passing down the side of the street.
"She seemed nice." Takanosuke commented with a small smile on his face.
"Yes." Sakyo agreed almost absently, as though he wasn't fully concentrated on her kindness - Takanosuke knew he wasn't really, and that he himself shouldn't necessarily be either, but he felt it was nice to acknowledge.
The blonde saw Sakyo's crimson eyes move out and gaze somewhere into the distance, and followed his gaze to look out towards a mountain towards the west of town that they were able to see fairly clearly from where they were.
Vaguely, Takanosuke remembered seeing the mountains in one of his visions... They definitely looked quite similar now as they had then.
"Is that Mount Tsukuba?" He questioned, taking a guess that he knew was probably pretty close to fact.
"Yes." Sakyo said firmly, "I don't doubt that it's haunted... Just not by ghosts." Takanosuke would have to admit that the possibility of ghosts was pretty unlikely, despite the whole god-worshiping cult-thing that Ruri had mentioned...

Neither of them were sure what exactly they would be able to get out of the information they now had, or even if it would really lead them anywhere, but Takanosuke had an aching feeling in the back of his head that they were getting close to something.
And truthfully, it did not feel like anything good...

Kakeru had made his way out of the elevator and onto the 11th floor of the TC building, the floor that his brother's office was on.
He carried his notepad with him in his pocket, having the notes that Kyoya had given him so that he could know what it was he was looking for.
His brother had seemed to be on to something, if Alcorin had indeed come after him, so it was worth a shot, even if it meant putting himself at risk as well... However, he had promised Tsubasa (even though indirectly) that he would try and figure out anything that could help them in their search for the psychopath.
After all that he had done to Kyoya, and seemingly to everyone else over in Metal Bey City, the younger Tategami sibling was more than happy to help out in taking him down.
Despite being the place where Kyoya had recently (too recently...) been almost choked to death and seemingly almost thrown out of the window, he had decided to look for the information they all needed in his brother's office over one of the regular computers in the other work areas for the advantage of using the few upgraded systems that Kyoya had in his computer system and what not.
Of course, being in there alone rather than being in a populated area where no psychopath in their right mind would try to kill anyone wasn't the most pleasant of thoughts either, nor the brightest, but Kakeru was willing to take his chances on it.
It would only take a few minutes at most, or so he hoped, and then he could send what he had to Tsubasa or call him to give him whatever he found - if he managed to find anything. It was a shot in the dark for sure, but it was as good as any of them seemed to have at this point.

Exhaling somewhat shakily, the youngest Tategami pulled a Key card from out of his other pocket as he approached the sliding doors to his brother's office, sliding it through the card reader that allowed him entry. Most of the time, the doors to the office weren't locked unless Kyoya was gone for an extended period of time, and allowed entry to anyone.
However, considering that he was currently in the hospital, the doors were bound to be locked - someone always managed to remember to seal them when Kyoya didn't (which was on very few occasions).
Only a select few of the personnel in the building - people that Kyoya trusted the most with the responsibility - had a Key card to get into the office if need be.

Upon entering, the lights almost immediately turned on by themselves, allowing whoever had entered to see where they were going to find what they were looking for. Kakeru walked briskly over to his brother's desk, pulling the chair out and sitting down in front of the computer that had been left open, but had already turned itself off from being left for so long.
Sitting down, the right-hand assistant pulled the laptop closer to him and pressed the power button, giving it time to start itself up again while he dug his notepad out of his pocket and flipped to the page that he had his notes on.

Look deeper into the lore on Nemesis.

Pay attention to history, and religious backstory.

Look for anything that could give a liable location to find Alcorin.

Look for specifics, if any.

Send to Tsubasa if find anything.

He had mostly written them down in point form, since he really wasn't skilled enough to write down an entire conversation as it went on, but it was still reliable enough for him to count on.
He just hoped that Kyoya did indeed know what it was he was talking about when it came to this. He didn't often doubt his brother, let alone at all, really, but he knew that even Kyoya might not entirely be sure if this plan of action would work... But he had faith enough to trust that his older brother had had the right idea, or somewhere close to it.

Once the laptop in front of him fully started up, Kakeru turned to it and placed his notes on his lap, skimming over what Kyoya had already had up on the screen before he had been attacked by Alcorin.
It was a page that had a picture from a newspaper article on it, reporting all the way back to the Nemesis Crisis after Gingka Hagane (who he now knew was deceased) had destroyed the God of Destruction in a battle that, to this day, nobody truly knew the full events of, despite most of it being recorded on camera for the world to see. Perhaps Kyoya had been trying to see if he could work out anything from this and piece it to something else, but he seemingly hadn't.
Kakeru minimized the page that Kyoya had previously had up on the screen, saving it for possible future reference if needed, and opened a new window on the default search engine.
Lowering his eyebrows slightly in thought, Kakeru typed in 'god of destruction history and lore' and was given several different results.
The first being from Wikipedia, to which he ignored, while the rest of them either had titles similar to what he had typed in, or just a variation of the words that were in the search bar in their descriptions.
There had to be something that he could get off of here, he had just had to know where to look... Going in order, the greenette clicked on the ones that sounded the most promising, skimming through the pages with his eyes, scanning each paragraph of text and pictures for something that could prove useful.

...God of Destruction, otherwise known as Nemesis, is a God of Death and War...

That didn't really say too much...

...commonly a symbol of the occult and dark magic...

Now that one was at least reasonable.

...is believed to be to one of the original gods...

Definitely not a popular one though...

..was worshiped commonly by cultists in the early middle ages...

Which, of course, meant that there was at least some sort of religion directed towards Nemesis. Kyoya had bluntly said to look into the God of Destruction's religious history, probably since where there was a god, there would be a religion eventually, even if only a handful of people made it up. Wandering into the search bar again, Kakeru typed in 'Nemesis god of destruction religion' and once more went looking through the results.
The greenette licked his lips softly as he searched through everything as quickly as he could while trying not to miss anything, feeling the hairs on the back of his neck just barely standing up with the impending feeling of something watching him creeping into the back of his head.
Why would he be surprised if Alcorin was watching him somehow?...
He obviously wasn't a fan of anyone who got in his way.
Light blue eyes narrowed on the words that he had in front of him on the screen, reading through the small paragraph carefully.

...The religion was frowned upon by many of Catholic and Christian faith, claiming that the worship of the God of Destruction would bring upon the apocalypse...

Seriously, what was even with religion?
With Nemesis, it could probably be reasonable, but even so...

...temples and shrines were built in honor of the religion decades before the religion was claimed as evil; eventually, most of these sites of worship were torn down, but only a few remain standing to this day.

Kakeru raised his eyebrows slightly at the mention of this.
"Still standing, huh?" He thought to himself, "And where would those be?.." Highlighting several words on the paragraph, Kakeru right clicked on the mouse pad and clicked on the bar that said 'Specialized Search', which opened up a new, smaller window on the screen.
Their company had developed some different types of technology functions over the years, and this was one of many of them, which often made searching for certain information over the internet a lot easier.
Of course, their technology was nowhere near as advanced as it was over to the Tokyo WBBA - which they had conversed with only few very few times in all their years of affiliation (though that was a common thing with the rest of the WBBA organizations when it came to Tokyo as well) - but it was definitely a great advancement compared to years ago.
Kakeru enlarged the window slightly before setting to work on it, skimming over the results that had been brought up specifically for anything revolving around Nemesis's religion and the sites of worship that had been dedicated to him.
Clicking through several pages, most of them not being the most helpful in telling him anything about the locations of where those sites could be located in present day. Of course, with something as ancient as that, almost nothing could be spot on with it, especially since most locations of the temples and shrines were lost to history since they had been supposedly destroyed a long time ago.
Still, there had be something that a few people knew about where some of them had been, or where one had been known to be that was still there...

...usually located in isolated areas, such as mountains and the wilderness around Japan...

Yes, but where, was the question.
Mountains was a good start, but there was a lot of mountains across the country...

...most of these sites of worship were reportedly located in the modern day Shiga, Fukui, Gunma, Nagano, and Ibaraki/Tochigi regions around Japan, though most specific areas were lost to history...

The Ibaraki region... Wasn't that where Metal Bey City was located?
And Kyoya had mentioned that his friends had gone out to look for Alcorin about a week ago, so wouldn't they still be relatively in the same region?
Pulling his eyebrows together slightly, Kakeru read down the page a bit more to see if he could find any more specifics on that particular bit of information.

There was nothing except for the small bit near the bottom that said: ...out of the sites that still exist, the majority of them are known to be temples that are physically unable to be knocked down because of the areas they are located in. The remaining existence of these temples are sometimes referred to as myths or urban legends by modern townspeople, since the areas that they are located in are mostly mountainous regions. This is especially believed with the temples that were or are supposedly in Mount Hotaka in Nagano, and Mount Tsukuba in Ibaraki, where the temples were built into the mountains themselves...
Kakeru's eyebrows lifted slightly at this, a fleeting feeling of hope fluttering in his chest.
Mount Tsukuba was in Ibaraki, where Metal Bey City was...

It was a long shot, since there was seemingly more than one of these temples located in various locations... But might as well take the chance.

Kakeru went down to the task bar and clicked on a icon that looked like a cartoon version of the earth, yet another one of Kyoya's more minor inserts.
Another new, and smaller, window opened up beside the one he had previously been using, opening up to a quite detailed map that was currently locked on to his current location. Kakeru licked his lips as he went up something similar to a search bar, glancing around the room for a moment as a small chill went up his spine, making him feel slightly more uneasy than he already was.

"Knock it off..." He cursed at himself silently, typing in the area that he wanted the map to observe, generally being Japan. The map moved and focused it's sight on Japan, being zoomed out enough so that it could cover all of Japan, including the islands at the top that descended out of it.

You're scared... A voice in the back of his head spoke, though he pushed it back as he specified the Ibaraki region of Japan, and pulling it up to the specific location that had been mentioned in the other search window.
Mount Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan the search bar now read, the map below it having now been zoomed in on the area that Kakeru was looking for.
It was in the general area of where Mount Tsukuba was, a red arrow pointing at the mountain in question while the screen still remained large enough to show the towns and small cities that were nearby. Nodding to himself, Kakeru went down to the task bar once more and clicked on Kyoya's E-Mail, willing it to open up as quickly as it could while tapping his fingers on the keyboard.

Of course he was scared... Why wouldn't he be when was he sitting there like a duck just waiting to be shot at by a hunter?

Finally, Kyoya's E-Mail opened, and Kakeru immediately went over to the Send Mail section and specified who he was sending it to, typing in a few quick words that Tsubasa would - hopefully - know to be from him.
Pressing several more buttons, copying and duplicating the map he had open before putting into the E-mail as a link. The youngest Tategami breathed out shakily, the room feeling slightly colder than it probably should and his heart beating wildly in his chest.
Without any hesitation but for the slight shaking of his hands, Kakeru pressed the button that sealed the deal.

Send.

The youngest Tategami sibling let out a breath that he hadn't realized he'd been holding, staring at the screen for a moment before the window read Message Sent in blue lettering, and let him slump his shoulders slightly in what he believed to be relief.
He had managed to get what he needed and send it over to Tsubasa without any interruptions, and with no interventions from Alcorin, which had been what he was fearing the most. After what happened to Kyoya, he didn't want to end up the same way or worse, and with nothing to show for it either.
At least this way, one way or another, at least one party got something out of it.
Kakeru bowed his head for a moment to collect himself again, evening out his breathing before looked back up again to the wall across from Kyoya's desk... He was okay.

It was all okay.

And if he really wanted to stay that way, it likely wouldn't be a good idea to sit there like a duck for any longer.
Glancing around the room again out of the slight paranoia that plagued him, before closing out all of the windows on Kyoya's laptop and closing it, putting his notepad back in his pocket, and getting up and making his way to the door with a straight posture.
Now all that was left was for Tsubasa take care of the rest. Exiting through the automatic doors of the office, Kakeru got out his Key card once again and held it at the card slot, looking into the office once more with eyes that were as fierce as his elder brother's - on his better days of course.

"Choke on it, bastard..." The green-haired blader muttered hotly before sliding the card through the reader and locking the office once again.
Of course, he hadn't really realized that he had been speaking indirectly to the raven perched just outside on the windowsill. It sat there with blank eyes, looking into the room while blending in with the area around it that consisted mostly of shadows.
Squawking out its hollow croak, it flapped its wings and took off into the sky once more, having no further purpose in its current location...

Frightening child-like giggles echoed off the walls of stone of which Alcorin stood in, harmonizing with the slow footsteps that sounded as he made his way through the halls, his robes dragging slowly behind him as he walked at a near snail's pace.
His inhuman eyes glowed their deep red color, somewhat illuminating the dark ahead of him as he gazed through the eyes of one of his many pets - specifically the one that he used to watch Kyoya and his brother as they danced along his chessboard. Normally, he would more than likely be very displeased with the fact that Kakeru had indeed been able to find something with his older brother's help, and send the results over to Tsubasa no less, but he was able to see the brighter side of the situation that would work everything out - for him, of course.
If he had wanted to, if could have indeed stopped Kakeru in what he was doing, but after trying and failing to deal with Kyoya, he didn't see the point in it.

Eventually, someone was going to figure it out, so it really wouldn't make a difference - he was just sparing another person of going through the trouble.

He wasn't really worried about what would happen, when Tsubasa got the message from Kakeru and told Zyro and his friends all about it, which would eventually lead them all here; when they were here, in his domain, he could deal with them then.
Or sooner, if he wished, but it would be a lot more fun to watch them squirm about.
Especially little Zyro... He did have a little issue with tight spaces, now didn't he?

Another little giggle escaped his throat at the thought before he brought his eyes back to the world in front of him, no longer staring through the dead orbs of a bird.
He picked up his pace, his sickeningly sweet smile plastered onto his lips as he made his way through the dark that he was well-adjusted to by now. He still had one of his ravens watching Zyro and the others, as well as one keeping eyes on Sakyo and Takanosuke, who he knew would be arriving shortly, if they were able to find the entrance to this place somewhere on the mountain. But of course they would, it was only natural of all these good-doers wandering about.
He could deal with them, and then he could manage Zyro and his little friends once he got the chance, and then all of them would finally be out of his way...
Smile widening slightly, the albino looked up to the right with his eyes for a moment as he whistled in a pattern that sounded like 'come here', his unholy voice whispering down the halls to ears that had more than exceptional hearing.
The white-haired man's pace slowed once more as he heard the lightly echoing sound of several feet padding towards him down the dark tunnels.
Giving a small chuckle from his throat, Alcorin's eyes glowed menacingly as he gazed at the grey wolf that came trotting up to him in the darkness of the hall, moving at an almost mechanical pace with eyes that were just as dead as all of his ravens. Obediently did the wolf stop before it's master that had taken it against it's will, awaiting the orders that no ordinary wolf would likely be able to comprehend.
Alcorin knelt down on one knee with one arm draped over the other, his robes partially pooling around him as he ducked low on the slightly dusty floor of his domain.
Grasping it gently by the muzzle with his left hand, the psychopath leaned in close and spoke in a voice that could never be described as human.

"You know what to do." He said simply, his mouth twisted in a sweet smile that was more terrifying than anything to those who looked upon it.
Without needing to hear anything further, the wolf stood back off and turned the other way, trotting back down the hallway to carry out the orders that it had been given one way or another.
Alcorin stood back up, watching wolf walk back into the darkness that it had come from before turning around himself and going the other way, knowing that once Sakyo and Takanosuke got there, he would have business to attend to...

Feeling quite more rejuvenated after receiving information that they were indeed onto something - even if it wasn't necessarily them, but another party that was wiling to help them, nonetheless - Tsubasa was working as hard as he could manage with several of the people closest to him, Ayano and Sichiro included, to try and see if they could uncover anything themselves.
Not to mention that the actual full 8 hours of sleep he had gotten the night before was definitely helping him along as well.
While he was sure Kakeru would try his best to pull through on his word to get something for him, he knew the world well enough to not hope too strongly for it, and so had been sure to conduct a renewed search on his part as well. It had been a couple of hours since he had spoken with Kakeru, and so far he had heard no further word on progress, which did make him worry a small bit.
He had no doubt that Kyoya would pull out of the situation okay - he was too stubborn of a person not too - but even if he was indeed okay after being attacked by Alcorin, it didn't mean any other damage hadn't been done either. Not to mention that Alcorin could indeed decide to go after Kakeru as he had his older brother, which was a thought that the silverette tried to dwell on too much, even if it was a definite possibility.
However, his worry slightly dissipated when he was notified of an E-Mail that had been sent to him long distance from Africa arriving in his office.
Leaving his underlings to their work, he quickly went up the floor that his office was on to inspect what had been sent to him, and was given no doubts of who it was from.
Other than the African WBBA, there wasn't too many people he knew in Africa.

Tsubasa made his way through the automatic doors that lead into his office, a tablet under his right arm that he had been using downstairs to keep track of things, and made his way over to his desk. Setting the device he already had with him on the corner of his work space, the silverette sat down in his swivel chair and turned towards the large screen that was built into the wall behind him, turning it on and seeing clearly the notification of an E-Mail.

No subject To: Tsubasa Otori From: Kyoya Otori

Of course, he knew it wasn't really from Kyoya, who was recovering in the hospital after being attacked, but that didn't really matter. He knew who had sent it.
Opening the E-Mail, a link that had been attached to opened up automatically as well, specifying an area that he was quite familiar with in the Ibaraki region. Looking over to the actual text as written, Tsubasa smiled with a determined look in his eyes, knowing that, for once, there was indeed hope.
It isn't for sure, but it's the best guess we have. Hope it helps.

"Thanks Kakeru."