Kael's POV
Reiss left the folder on my desk without any comment, which was exactly how he handled things he thought I needed to read alone. I looked at it for a while before I opened it.
'Akira Renshi. D rank. Main guild transfer, effective this week. A rank dagger. Bonded Beast: Celestial dragon'
That much I already knew.
What I didn't know was what I wanted to find out and was exactly what existed in the folder in my arms.
It was thorough, the way Reiss's work always was; cross-reference and layered with the kind of background reconstruction that required pulling from sources that didn't naturally talk to each other.
Hospital records from the original admission. All gate incident logs from the Stoner Guild's intake. Akira's academic file, his mother's business registration, the ramen shop's operational history.
