"I have no idea what happened - the Hinoki Theater was empty all day long, no sign of a raid by the Black Dragons. I then came back to let you know, but I saw what you see now!" said the monk as convincingly as possible - Poropo knew to keep his clues to himself, just as Weirdlock might be doing. To defeat a serial killer who is pretending to be a detective, the monk would need to behave like Weirdlock - the Iron Deity would not be happy with the methods of Poropo, but the results could end up clearing the name of the monk among the legion of the Iron Deity.
"Hmmm...this is a strange situation, for sure...I'll get back to you on what we should do next, Poropo. In the meantime, try not to spend it all at once," responded Weirdlock as he handed Poropo a sack of jewels, bigger than any the monk had received from the detective thus far. The monk slowly took the sack - a bit of hesitation could be felt by Weirdlock which prompted him to say, "don't worry about it - you may not have done anything, but I already let go of this when I asked you to do this job, hahaha!"
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