135 Stone Left Unturned (2/2)

That – sounds plausible.

Yeah, that's actually doable.

”Come on! We have to take this chance!” Roswaisa urges me to agree.

”Let's make sure of something first!” I say.

”What!?”

”We are going to tell her that this way the only way to find Cartel, right? Let's make sure of that being the truth!”

Hearing that, Roswaisa smirks.

If Dues later finds out that we just ignored some lead we had and agreed to this deal, our excuse will fall apart, wouldn't it? So, let's make sure that there is no lead like that.

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After going through all the records we have of the denizens of this realm, no 'Cartel Hopkins' wound found anywhere. We checked the list of people who have ever gone out of the realm for whatever reason and tried to match Cartel's face to them. Since I am the king, I was able to mobilize many people on this whole thing and so the process didn't take as long as it otherwise would have. Still, we came up with nothing. No one living here could tell us anything about him either.

From what Raka told us, Temple of Temur guys are planning their chaos for tomorrow. Before that, we need to make sure no stone is left unturned, or at least enough of them are turned that the ones left unturned are pretty damn hard to notice.

And so, we make sure to go through the secret files that Trevor and Kaylith had that weren't revealed to others as well.

Still, we found nothing much. The only possible connection to Cartel we found was a top secret mission by Trevor to send a few Glice denizens to Earth as spies in Remedy Corporation. Apparently, this happened right after Kaylith took this realm from Lucifer (which happened 6 years ago apparently).

If, let's say, Cartel was one of the people who was sent as a spy in Remedy, does that lead us to him? It doesn't. Trevor shut down this program a year ago and all the spies were called back. In fact, it has been mentioned that all of them came back and are living here now. And none of these people match the description we have of Cartel.

So, that's it, isn't it?

We should have enough of a reason to accept the Temple of Temur's deal.

I wonder though, what is Irium doing right now? And if he were to find out about all this, will he accept this as a smart decision or will he protest against?

One of the easiest things for me to do is to predict him when he is trying to be funny. And one of the hardest things for me to do is to predict him when he is not being funny.

I hope this decision doesn't put us at odds against each other.

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