For Kurogane, it wasn't that he wanted to go to the basement, it was that the area was his last option. He'd never been there himself outside of Landel's damned transport magic, and with how he kept getting held up from reaching the place, his gut was telling him something down there had answers.

"It's one of the places we know he's been," he answered, knowing his own reasoning well for how long he'd thought on it, "Already searched through the Chapel, little good that did, and with the third floor out of reach, the basement's the last lead for finding that damned doctor."

As he explained, his teeth ground harder into his food from the continued frustration of it all. "There's no point looking for something without at least some lead. Started heading there looking for Landel and got the radio message halfway through. Might not be Landel making a mess in the basement, but if it isn't, then the radio guy's doing something."