Chapter 168 - 168 One missing clue, one crucial evidence

168 One missing clue, one crucial evidence

Andy was smiling at Xander, he seems excited to see the young werewolf in his library.

“Oh! I know you, you’re sir Xavier’s younger brother, right?”

Xander nodded his head at Andy. “Yes, I am. Nice to meet you.”

Andy enthusiastically approached the young man and shakes his hand, “Oh, Yes! Nice to meet you, so how can I help?”

Reluctantly, and cautiously, Xander gives Andy a glimpse of the crown prince coin.

“Oh, you… you have it as well.” Said Andy and he took a similar coin from his deep pocket. “So, I think you have like a secret mission… from…” He look around the room, although they were the only people inside the library, “You know who.”

Winced at the weird behavior of the fellow, Xander could only awkwardly smile and said, “Yes, I need to retrieve some profile document of one healer named Rosy, she enter the civil service two years ago.”

“Oh, alright, please come with me. I don’t know anyone wondering why a knight was here in the main hospital library.” Andy said to Xander, while he directed him into the inner private room.

Xander waited with a caftea in his hand. The enthusiastic Andy left him alone in the room while he searched for Rosy’s file. One hour went by, and Xander was anxious about how long Andy was gone for just one file. Until finally, he came inside the private room.

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“Oh, took you long enough.” He tried to make a light joke, although a bit annoyed by how long Andy took to get the file.

Andy came to him empty-handed, “I don’t know how to say this, but… Miss Rosy’s file was missing.” He said to Xander with a pale face, “That’s why it took me a while to search for it, but I don’t think the file was inside the library now.”

“Strange, how come her file wasn’t inside the main hospital anymore?” Muttered Xander.

“Anyhow, I will be asking the other librarian, we have three librarians that got into rotation every two days, so, probably one of the two knew about this,” Andy replied to Xander, while the two of them walks into the front door of the library.

“You don’t have any visitors log in here? Or maybe a file to record every file that went out from the library?” Asked Xander again. He can’t get the file out of his mind.

Andy shakes his head, “I am sorry, we don’t have a visitor’s log, we do have a record system, but I checked earlier, and there was no record of Miss Rosy’s file being borrowed or view for the last two years.”

“Two years, mean her file was here, but somehow it went missing.” Said Xander again to Andy.

“Yes, every other file, including miss Anne’s file, was here, but someone just came and took one file, that was miss Rosy’s file.”

Both of them took a long deep breath, clueless and also desperate to find more. Xander left the library, with Andy promising that he will be asked the other two administrators and will send the message tomorrow to him.

“I’ll send my familiar, a black owl named Kuro.” Said, Andy before Xander excused himself out from the library.

Xander left the main hospital and go to the alchemia tower where Vale and his teams were lying low for now. Chief Amaris really accommodate them and even helped to keep the secret of the incident. When Xander finally saw the alchemia tower, Vale was already waiting for him outside in the yard.

“Welcome, Xander.” Said Vale with a warm smile on his face. Xander knew, between the four of them, Vale was the gentle and also the most mysterious of them. Henry took the cake as the most brooding, but he knew, behind those gentle green emerald eyes, there was a secret that he kept.

“Primary captain, so good to see you.” He said also with a smile on his face.

They walk inside the new and larger lift that now can accommodate four people. Vale cranked the mechanism that will take them to the intended floor. Xander saw the act and chuckled. Vale took a glance and know exactly why he was laughing.

“Yes, I know. It will be hard work if we need to go to the highest tower.”

“Do we have to crank it as many as the intended floor?” Asked Xander, and he was curious about this new invention.

Vale was quiet for a while as he was busy cranking the lift. Since they need to go to the fifteenth floor. Finally, after like forever, he huffed his breath and wipes the sweat from his face. “Ah, they need to change the button into the crank. Since it becomes heavier, the button will not work.” He look around the lift, and added, “Well, that was what Kino said, though.”

“Kino?”

“The alchemist, in the alchemia tower, the one that invented this newly design lift.” Said Vale to Xander.

When they reached the fifteenth floor, there were so many people around, Xander was a bit surprised by it. It seems Vale’s teams were only able to use this floor. Brom saw the two of them, and he came closer to greet Vale and Xander.

“You’re here, primary captain.” Brom said to Vale and then turned his attention to Xander, “Oh, hello, have we met?”

Xander was stunned by Brom’s lack of memory of him. “You don’t recognize me at all, captain Brom?”

He tilted his head and said another shocking reply to Xander, “Should I?”

“What?! unbelievable!”

Vale snorted. Looking at another of eccentric style by his former subordinate, he patted Xander’s back and asked him to go inside his room. “We could have a conversation there.” He said to Xander.

Inside the room, there is a set of a chair, and in the center is a small table with bread and aggrus. Xander took a seat and also one of the bread. Brom took another chair, while Vale was standing in front of the two of them.

“As you all know, we tried to keep the incident a secret, until everyone was back from the encampment, so, Xander, I hope you have some news for us.” Vale tried to get some more good news from the young werewolf.

“Yes, primary captain, the patients will be able to travel in two days, and also they have found two pieces of evidence that might help. It was a fine fabric that you already saw and a rusty tip of a good sword.” Xander gave the information that Justice need to relay to Vale.

Vale brushes his chin, thinking for a bit, “Fine fabric? Hmm, then it was the same evidence from what we have, right, Brom?”

“Yes, you’re right, primary captain.” Brom excused himself from the room, and back with a glass vial in his hand, “Look, this is the fabric that we have found.” He handed the glass vial to Xander, who take a closer look at the evidence.

Xander was surprised to see the evidence. “Wait, this is…”