"Sounds fair enough." Astaroth agreed to Maho's plan. "If Maho's volunteering to be bait, Elize and I can shadow you and surprise this Ripper fellow should he bite." Now that he was outdoors, the illusionist instinctively pulled his hood up over his head. His cyan eyes almost appeared to be slightly luminescent under its shade. Astaroth pulled the request paper out of his cloak and held it in front of him. "If I remember correctly..." he began to speak, but trailed off. Astaroth studied the paper for a few more seconds, coming up with what he was going to say. "This actually gives us a fairly educated guess on what we're dealing with."

"For starters," he began, "we know he specifically targets women. That alone isn't much to go by, but it's something to keep in mind. However..." Astaroth held up the finger for emphasis and continued, "What's really interesting here is not [i]who[/i] he is terrorizing, but [i]when[/i]."

"Let me explain," the blue robed mage smacked the paper with the back of his hand for punctuation. "He always strikes during a time known as the witching hour. Now, if I have my facts straight, the witching hour is a period of time starting at midnight and ending at around three in the morning. Little-known fact: it's also the time where black magics are supposedly at their most powerful. With that in mind, I can hazard a guess that Jack the Ripper is either a supernatural monster, werewolf, vampire, etc., or that he uses some other dark magic."

Astaroth pocketed the paper again, his shpiel complete. "It's just a hypothesis based on one sheet of paper, however. We'll need to do some proper investigating, like Maho suggested, before we try and hunt this guy down." He started walking off again, until he suddenly added, "Oh! My name is Astaroth, by the way. Welcome to Phoenix Wing, Maho."