"After they went far away, I heard them talking in secret."
"They said they wanted to capture some monsters with reason."
"And they also mentioned that they were in the business of buying and selling monsters."
Hearing this,
Haimo thought for a moment.
He had already identified the key details and casually asked a question.
"The one leading them."
"Was he wearing translucent smoky-quartz goggles that covered the upper half of his face, and carrying a spear that gave off a dark red aura?"
Hearing her God's words,
Onigawara Rin, standing beside him, instantly replayed the figure she had brushed past in the passage in her mind and nodded decisively.
"Yes."
"It wasn't just the spear. That guy also had a vicious air that made people very uncomfortable. Even though he deliberately reined it in, you could still tell he was a madman who liked seeing blood."
Onigawara Rin added.
At that, Haimo gave them a name outright.
"The captain of the Ikelos Familia, Dix Perdix."
"Barring anything unexpected,"
"Those should be the people you ran into."
At those words,
It was the women's turn to be surprised.
After all, they had only just returned from deep within the Dungeon's nineteenth floor. Even without lingering much on the way, this had only happened a short while ago.
They had only briefly described the leading man's appearance in a sentence or two.
Yet,
Their God had not only named his most distinctive identifying features outright, but had even casually mentioned his name and exactly which Familia in Orario he captained.
"My Lord."
"Did you already know about those people?"
Kikakujō Mary widened her aqua-blue eyes, looking at her God in disbelief.
"I've just happened to hear a few rumors now and then."
Haimo's tone was level.
"I didn't expect you