Tomoe sat back down at the bar stool and watched as Aisha walked towards another room further into the building - and by the gods did this particular man love watching women walk away. Not that he would comment on it of course, as this was a professional work environment and he would never stoop so low towards his admitted passion for the female body. No, certainly not.
With that, the shady samurai's gaze turned more serious towards Vali upon hearing his words of searching for threats in Magnolia. Darting around to make sure nobody else would hear him, he leaned in to his comrade and whispered once he was sure nobody else would hear besides the two of them.
"Truth be told, bud, there was something I spotted a while back. Me 'n Aegis were just out after hearing about some rumors, nothing big really. So we went out on a patrol one night, see, and..."
Tomoe looked towards the ground with a grim expression for a moment and brushed the hair out of his eyes before continuing. He would even take a drink from his glass of water before revealing his experiences.
"You know Kardia Cathedral? Well, a few nights ago we found a guy ripped limb from limb with his entrails strewn about. Brutal shit. He was like pasta sauce spread all over the walls around the back of the building.", the Joyan breathed towards Vali in a dreadful tone, somewhat shaken by the whole experience.
"There's someone - or something - out there, going around Magnolia turning everyday people into fucked up art exhibitions. We got a guard to report it, but they've kept awful quiet about the whole thing since then. Probably to avoid panic or whatever.", Tomoe finished with a shrug, leaning away from Vali to his default sitting stance to appear natural as if his words weren't important to any outsiders who might see them.
Tomoe would of course think to himself that the last part was a blatant lie - that the guard never did make it to report anything in that night, thanks to the vampiric hunger in him. Or at least, that guard didn't report anything without his life also changing irreparably. Julian definitely was such a cooperative friend, at the end of the day. The rest was truth though, with Tomoe stumbling across a spaghetti man outside of Kardia Cathedral alongside his fellow guild wizard. Even more so was that a part of him certainly was concerned that the perpetrator was never caught; at least not to his knowledge. Whoever performed such vile acts was still out there, and there was a decent likelihood that they were related to the recent demon activity in some form. Whether that be a cultist or a true demon in of itself, it was worth looking into and solving as soon as possible.
"I'd like to start there, probably. Follow up a bit more, since the guards ain't doin' shit about it right now as far as I know. No better place to start than to clear out our own turf first, eh? Saving the world 'n all that dandy stuff can come after."