Hojo glared, irritated. It looked like he was going to have to tip his hand early... how annoying.

"In the basement," he said. "There's not much else down there, so it shouldn't be hard to find." Wait, didn't he claim that it WAS hard to find?

As far as Hojo was concerned it didn't matter if they knew he was lying by now. Not at this point. Now the only thing was to get there first -- and that would mean getting rid of the swordsman.

He would wait until Dias was inside to do anything. He was confident that he could get away from the rest of the group fairly easily.