Chapter 23: The sword in the painting
Ivy waited until the authorities and the onlookers left the old woman's mansion and went in to investigate.
The crime scene had been processed, so she wouldn't find any clue about the murder, but she was only interested in finding information about Soul Edge.
She was almost the whole day inspecting the mansion. There was nothing concerning Soul Edge among that woman's files. Ivy wondered what her father could have been looking for in there.
She was about to leave when a painting called her attention.
It depicted a man about 40 years old, wearing a pirate suit and holding a huge sword. A black sword with a wide blade and an eye in the middle of it.
She had seen that sword in her father's drawing. Now she realised it should be Soul Edge.
Ivy looked carefully at its nameplate, but this one didn't have the name of the painting written on it, but an inscription.
It said: "To Joanne Stuart, from Cervantes de León".
That name was familiar to Ivy.
She thought she had seen in her father's files, but she didn't place importance to it because she hadn't connected it to Soul Edge.
Ivy hurried to go back to her own mansion, but when she got out of that place she came across something she hadn't expected. The authorities were surrounding her.
- What are you doing here, miss? – asked the agent who seemed to be in charge.
- I...
- There is a witness who claims to have seen this woman yesterday talking with the deceased woman, chief. – said another man.
- And they say criminals always return to the scene of the crime. – confirmed someone else.
- Come with us, please. – asked the chief to Ivy. – We have to ask you some questions.
The agents took a powerless Ivy with them, while they were watched by a man from a distance.
A hooded man.