[ Noctis hesitates, glancing at the door to the back room and then back to Alucard, caught between common sense and the whole reason they came here in the first place. He grits his teeth. ]

I have to know if it was here.

[ Was. It isn't now, or he knows he'd hear the siren whispers of the thing calling to him to claim its power like he did so often in his youth. No, if it was in the shop at all, it's gone now. And the only person who could have told them if he'd seen it has been silenced.

He huffs and relents, shoulders sagging. ]

I'll go downstairs. If you see an inventory log or something else that can tell us what's been through here, just...tell me, okay?