Rain needles the service yard as the clerk lunges for the fallen scrap. Arimari keeps the naginata across his path, forcing him back into the mud.
Genkai
Do not let them take it. That mark is proof, not waste.
Reina
He knows what it means. Arimari, turn it over carefully.
Kaito crouches by the stone, shielding the paper with one sleeve while the clerk stares toward the corridor, trapped between fear and duty.
Genkai
If that seal is read aloud, the chain reaches the Kurogane storehouse and the names behind it.
Reina bares her teeth at the shadows beyond the eaves. The corridor stays empty, but the yard feels watched.
Kaito
This scrap matches the hidden seal. It points to the household hand that copied the orders, and to the route leading back to Tukeyo.
The clerk goes pale. Arimari has the next lead now, and it is written in plain sight.
✓ Quest Accepted
Identify the household hand who copied the orders
✓ Quest Accepted
Trace the route leading back to Tukeyo
“I put my pagination to the clerks neck and tell the clerk he will have a slow death by crucifixion unless he gives me the names of who is involved”
SUCCESS (Legendary Willpower, rolled -1)
Arimari drops the naginata point to the clerk’s throat, close enough to still the man’s breath.
Arimari Tiarasan
Names. Tell me who is involved, or you die slowly.
Genkai flinches hard, then blurts out the first name, followed by another, each one like a stone thrown into the yard.
Genkai
Lady Shizue. The storehouse clerk. And the man who carried the orders to the Kurogane side gate.
Kaito looks up sharply at the last name, while Reina’s ears angle toward the corridor as if to catch footsteps that are not there.
Reina
Good. Keep talking. Which gate, and who received it?
Genkai swallows, then twists to look at the wet stones where the scrap fell. He spits out one final detail, and the yard suddenly feels mapped.
Genkai
The north storehouse road. From there it goes to Tukeyo’s keeper, by the river bend.
The clerk’s shoulders sag as if something has broken loose inside him. Arimari now has names, a gate, and a route, and the corridor beyond the eaves stays silent.
Quest Complete
Trace the route leading back to Tukeyo