The rather listless Black Stone Ball flew up and made a great show of looking into the distance... as though anything in the Upper Realm required his attention for him to know about it.
Only then did he speak hesitantly. "Damboro's Finch Family is doing reasonably well in the Upper Realm.
"They probably have some contact with their descendants below, too, so I imagine they've guessed who you are?
"They probably want to ask you how the Finch Family is doing lately."
Hill might not have been all that shrewd, but he could still guess what Finch actually wanted to ask. "Are you really stupid, or just pretending?
"It's not as though they don't know their descendants are guarding the delivery room for that Ismail of yours!
"Heh~
"They've come to sound out where I'll stand once Ismail arrives in the Upper Realm, haven't they?
"After all, everyone knows about my relationship with the Undead, and... the Ismail Family has a younger son serving as a lord for the Undead!"
Even knowing that Lucimar's background meant he was bound to have a poor relationship with his biological father, the Finch Family apparently still wanted a definite answer.
Little Finch in Basia City probably had a few selfish motives of his own, too, and had therefore failed to explain some crucial details.
Tsk. Hill couldn't help rolling his eyes at Oaisis. "You really are something. Blue oak rock raising a whole bunch of stalactites, with hardly a useful one among them."
"What do affairs in the Upper Realm have to do with me?" Oaisis replied indignantly. "I gave them somewhere to do whatever they pleased, and a gateway out of my universe. Everything else is their own business.
"If they go looking for death, am I supposed to rescue them?"
Hill