Meanwhile, Xia Chi had just gotten acquainted with the Rotom Phone.
Over on the other side, Lacey had also finished her call with Carmine.
"Carmine has let her grandpa know. We can head straight over in a bit."
Lacey walked over as she spoke.
Xia Chi nodded. "Are you busy later, Lacey? Could you come with me?"
She was their go-between, after all. He didn't even have Carmine's contact information, so having Lacey come along would make things easier.
"Of course! I'd really like to visit Carmine and Kieran's grandpa too~"
Beside them, Nemona asked curiously, "Oh? Where are you going?"
Had it been an emotionally volatile guy like Kieran, he probably would have decided Xia Chi and Lacey were excluding him.
He might even have suspected, like someone with a persecution complex, that their little clique was secretly bad-mouthing him behind his back.
What made Nemona so endearing was her personality. She asked straightforwardly, "Can I come too?"
Xia Chi didn't mind at all. "Sure, let's all go together."
Verdant Town was neither particularly big nor particularly small.
After leaving the Resort, they hailed a Corviknight flying taxi. Nearly ten minutes in the air later, the three of them got out in front of a courtyard typical of northern Sinnoh.
The physically delicate Nemona stretched after getting out. "Is this the place?"
Looking at the words [Kizukuri Xuezhong Residence] on the nameplate, Xia Chi nodded. "Yep, this is it."
Some things were like that: hazy in his memory, but instantly recognizable once he saw them. The mask maker's descendant in the story was indeed called Xuezhong.
As for his surname, the game's story didn't seem to have explicitly mentioned one.
Still, "Kizukuri" suited the craftsmanship passed down through their family for generations.
They rang the doorbell and waited politely