96 Lily Zikel

Somewhere in the east buildings, Dean managed to book the room he was currently in for a fairly cheap deal.

The food seemed like an outright scam while the furniture inside the room was clean and quite modern.

It was not necessarily luxurious but the bed was very comfortable compared to the rock cold ground Dean had once slept on for a year.

Normal humans would naturally die due to being cold but Dean treated it as using his Battle Intent to constantly force his blood to circulate energy to make his body warm.

Another effort added was that he would have to reduce his capabilities to something akin to a mortal.

But Dean first wanted to take the matter into hand and first accomplish this.

Taking out the letter, Dean made sure to re-read the note.

{Dear Dean

If you happen to hear about the incident of what has happened to us, please do not take revenge. It seems we have offended a large power that in the end wouldn't tell us their identity.

A few of your relatives have escaped into the world and ran away from this incident in the hopes our bloodline still continues.

Your father has most likely died but you have the rights to know that his destination was the Zikel Clan's District. There you can ask around the name of 'Lily Zikel'

Sincerely

Your beloved grandfather}

Dean recounted the other letters and found it odd that it quotes 'Your father has most likely died'

This gave him some suspicion on what happened to his father as he thought his father died from another letter that his grandfather had given.

He guessed that it was most likely in a letter but Dean refused to look at any letters sent from his family during the time he was in the academy so that might have been the reason.

The top two paragraphs were no use to Dean making him focus more on the very last one.

His only clues were 'Lily Zikel' and 'Zikel Clan District'.

Lily Zikel was presumably a female from the first name and should have some connections to the Zikel Clan besides her last name that would enable her to give Dean some information.

The Zikel Clan District was most likely the area with all the mansions but that means that the security should be high.

This task was going to be annoying for Dean as he would be forced to ask security guards from that area about this Lily Zikel and hoped that he wouldn't get kicked out.

If his task was lost just like that... Dean was afraid to even think of what to do afterwards.

Socializing was an extremely difficult thing for Dean as he rarely got along with people that liked to talk and usually left the talking to the much more charismatic people.

Leonard liked to be indifferent to the world and was very quiet, similar to Ellis while Alexander was confident with his words.

Dean would be allowed to remain quiet like a sheltered child and liked to answer briefly but the Old Man pointed that out to be a poor point in business.

A common thing that strikes business that was mentioned by the Old Man was to create an illusion and test the waters.

His first step would be to pay some new clothes that seemed slightly formal yet something comfortable to move in while seeming a little more casual.

If he suddenly bought an expensive new suit then it would extremely suspicious causing him to just get immediately get kicked out.

A phrase he thought to come up with when interacting with the guards was

"Excuse me, is there a Lily Zikel residing here?"

It was meant to be polite and formal but he could always change it if the guards act extremely aggressive.

Dean was currently in a new place where the culture could have completely different laws compared to the local areas of the academy.

Taboo in this place was currently unknown which was why he was cautious.

If the guards react to Lily Zikel, then Dean can answer

"Send a message that the Wilkes Clan has sent a visitor."

With a plan in his head, Dean started to set his plan into motion by going to a few clothing stores and buying a clean white button up shirt and a red coat that would conceal his arms.

Plain black legs shouldn't be suspicious and using the phrases, Dean was able to get a mix of responses.

"Hmmm, wrong place fella. We're working with the Kuilin Clan."

"Piss off brat, get out of here otherwise we'll force you."

"..."

One was from a completely different district, another was in a bad mood and Dean was surprised at his temper in not immediately killing him.

The last was just sleeping...

He made sure to start from a logical manner and start from side of the area to another while making sure he wouldn't accidentally go to the same place twice.

Until he finally reached the other side did he finally get a suitable answer

"Do you think anyone can just talk to our Miss?"

Dean was finally relieved that there was someone that had an answer suggesting that Lily Zikel was actually here.

"Could you please send a message that a visitor from the Wilkes Clan has an important announcement."

The aggressive nature of the guard was unusual but it was best to start proving that he had some worth and tried to place the imagination that he was important.

He was slightly surprised that the man had a backing but he had never heard of the name 'Wilkes'

This brought a lot of trouble as he was unsure whether this was a powerful clan from a distant clan that may have just recently made trades with the Zikel Clan.

Remembering that the Miss has been having trouble with trading, it wouldn't hurt to just send one message.

Grabbing another security guard that seemed much more free compared to him who had to overlook any outsiders breaking in, he asked Dean.

"Would you like him to just say those words or do you have a note?"