[Hearing Kirigiri's confirmation allows Minato to breathe a little easier, tension draining from him as he lets his shoulders sag. He's still disturbed by the scraps at the altar, but knowing the blood's too old to be Akihiko's allows him the small comfort of knowing that his friend isn't permanently gone.]

I see. Those scraps of cloth came from my friend's cape, but he vanished only a day ago... [He fights down a sick feeling from within to point back at roughly where it was.] Could this have anything to do with the sacrifices Occidi's natives told us about? [By 'this' he means all of it- they're still as woefully uninformed about the nature of the sacrifices as they were back then, it seems.]