Chapter 351: Arc 5, - 45: When the Law Doesn’t Go Your Way
While they had gone up the stairs, the redhead made her way about the company, surveying the ground floor. No Alicia in sight, but no Mrs Aetherton either—same went for the secretary bird at her command.
She waltzed down the floor and through the sofas with the scents of coffee drifting about the building, only making her lips want a simple cup of tea instead.
Her footsteps stopped at the door of an office, only to see the lights were off and the door shut and locked. It seemed Peter Werner was out somewhere.
It was truly something to behold, this entire company. The ten best detectives... and only them? No cleaning staff, no accountants, no consultants, no secretaries, no guards—was it truly that autonomous around here?
She pondered in the quiet surroundings as she walked and surveyed around. Her eyes trailed along the brown wallpaper with diamond-shaped floral patterns, till they stopped at the door of an office—K. Namora.
He had suspiciously disappeared... In Hotaru’s mind, perhaps she understood Alicia’s sentiment to know the goings-on within said office.
She kept her tail down and ears folded as she kept her footfalls light towards the side of the door. Her eyes darted left and right, before her ears bristled.
The redhead pressed her ear against the door window where a small blind had been shut. Keeping her shoes away from the door seal, she tried to overhear anything going on—perhaps that’s where Morgana went?
Not much other than silence and the low buzzing of a radiator from inside... She heard maybe a few papers shuffling and then- "Click, creak..."
Hotaru stumbled to the side of the door and stood upright, as the towering figure of the office’s occupant stepped out... The wolf-girl’s ears folded and tail hid as Kazuo glanced to her.
Her ears spiked up and let her tail wave; she cleared her throat to say, "I was looking around for Mrs Aetherton, I thought she might be in your office." How did she fail to hear his footsteps approaching the door!?
His eyes darted up, "Well, her office is right above mine, so I’d maybe start looking there."