Thanks to the power of the kaijin, in Zhen Liu's case, and the majin, in the girls' case, the entire party was well aware that someone or something had been rampaging in Rainbowden's underworld and had subjugated many of the factions that called this city home.
Amongst their number was the Beautiful Marionette Society, that group of puppet makers that Zhen Liu and the others had travelled with to get to Rainbowden and had assumed to be the reason why Axer's master and their old contacts had wound up dead.
It wasn't that hard to put together that a group obsessed with making the most beautiful and powerful puppets in existence would probably try and do something incredibly shady with the corpses of powerful aether warriors that were killed using [Mandrake Tears].
However, once they had heard that the Beautifully Marionette Society had been wiped out by another underworld force, they had figured that was a dead-end lead.
