As Tori spoke, Alice physically responded. Her lip quivering, the tears she was holding back with all of her strength, Tori could see it all. Alice was absolutely devastated by this news, as if she knew exactly who was responsible and the truth of it crushed her very spirit. It was like she was internally suppressing what she knew to be the truth, and was trying with everything she had to refuse to acknowledge it as such. She could barely even breathe, the truth hurt her so badly. After Tori finished speaking, it seemed the struggle proved too great as Alice let go a breath and her shoulders dropped in defeat to the reality. She asked the man's name. She asked if it was Konstantin. The name Tori couldn't bear herself to utter. Yes, he killed a child, but in pursuit of achieving a greater good. Yes, he attacked Sakama, but to defend innocent civilians as was his duty as a Rune Knight. But attacking her guild hall...he had to have had a reason. He would not have done this for no reason, because he showed her no hostility, but compassion, back in Crocus. Tori let out a breathe just as large as the one Alice had let escape.
"Yes."
She looked at the ground, waiting for her to respond to the news. She would ask what the blonde meant when she said he wasn't well and asked if Tori knew him him well. She was visibly shaking while she talked, barely able to even stand from the looks of it. It was obvious that Alice was close to Kon, much closer than herself. It surprised Tori that all of this was new information to the female knight. The blonde took a deep breath and let it escape before she would explain.
"The attacked woke me up. I was sleeping on the second floor when it happened. I ran around trying to find the cause when I passed a window and there I saw it. An armored knight standing on top of a huge, white creature. I ran out to that balcony to investigate when it hit me." she explained, making sure not to leave anything out. "The armor, the Rune Knight cloak, the striped horse, it all pointed to him. But that wasn't how I knew." she paused. "It was his scent." This comment would likely confuse Alice, unless she had dealt with Tori's kind before. While it was common knowledge that Dragon Slayers existed, unless one had dealt with them on a personal level they wouldn't be aware of small details like their heightened sense of smell. To ease her confusion, Tori would go on.
She would sigh before she continued speaking. "I haven't been fully honest with you either, Alice. But what I'm about to tell you, you cannot tell a soul." She couldn't believe she was going to confess to Alice. No one knew what Tori was about to reveal, not even her closest friends. But for some reason, she knew she could trust Alice. She just hoped Alice wasn't also a Dragon Slayer. The reason Tori withholds this truth from people is so other Dragon Slayers don't come after her and hurt her friends in the process in pursuit of the fabled title of Dragon Emperor. She knew there would be people who would stop at nothing to claim that throne, but she knew Alice wasn't that kind of person, even if she was one as well.
"Alice. I'm a Dragon Slayer. A such, I have a heightened sense of smell far beyond that of an average person. I recognized your scent as you approached me earlier, since I familiarized myself with it back in Crocus. Because I've met Kon before, I knew his scent as well. That's how I knew it was him, even though he was in armor." Tori would give Alice a moment for that information to sink in before she would continue. "I shouted to him. I demanded answers why he was doing this. What we ever did to him..." A tear started to trail down her cheek. "He simply looked at me, even though I couldn't see his face, I could hear the despair in his voice. He just said 'I don't know. I'm not okay.' then he just...left." Tori spoke softly, tears continuing to fall as she stood her ground without crumbling, never taking her eyes off the guild hall that now sat in ruins. "I just don't understand. I don't know him extremely well, not as much as you clearly do anyway. But we've fought together. We defended the Magister's Index together, although there was that child. But that was for a greater good, much as I hate to admit it. He was there to fight Cell. He picked me up at my lowest in Crocus. I know he's a good man. But something is wrong. Something is terribly wrong." she finished, as she realized that she didn't want to send him to prison. He needed help, and if Tori was any kind of friend, she was going to make sure he gets it.