#47 Krish the Mienfoo has been murdered by the Stalkers.

While Yanza didn’t know the victim personally, it never made this easier. Especially when it involved a young child. And it didn’t look like the Mienfoo died peacefully either. He had been choked and suffocated until he died from lack of oxygen. And even after death, his face had been smothered by black pain… as if erased.

“…Fallow…” Yanza muttered.

They had seen this before. The Stalker that takes the lives of children, leaving dead bodies of those that didn’t even get a real chance in life.

“You still think this is the work of that Pelliper? Drestan?” Dantus asked her, remembering she had been pursuing this Stalker specifically. “I read that report you had written up. It’s a lead, but I don’t think it solidifies the claim. We need more evidence.”

But Yanza had given up on due process. She had already met the Savants and knew they were taking a different path. Something she didn’t quite understand, but they were fighting the beast with the only things that could kill it. This was beyond her level of understanding, and it irked her that she wasn’t in a position to do more.

They were dealing with the Demoni here, and there wasn’t going to be any kind of due process that would make sense given the situation. But in the meantime, Yanza took a closer look at the body and something caught her eye besides the Mienfoo’s corpose. It appeared to be a key with a heart at one end, and it looked like it had to belong to some kind of rudimentary lock. Like something a child would use.

[Heart Key] has been added to Yanza’s possession.

“They might know what this is about…” Yanza thought to herself.

“I already know it’s Drestan…” Yanza growled. “If it were up to me, he’d be behind bars, rotting there for the rest of his god-forsaken life.”

Dantus was about to interject with trying to make a point about keeping law and order intact, but then even now it got him wondering… just what would it take to get to the point where they had to forsake the rules for basic survival? Did it have to be now, or would he risk waiting until it was too late? When was the right time?

He was going to have to be responsible for that answer with the way things were going…

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