"They treated them like vermin..."
Hiroki Sawada found that statement utterly speechless.
He had heard of speakers treating their audiences like vermin.
After all, crushing vermin to death really did not feel like much, aside from being a little disgusting.
But treating... them like vermin...
All he could say was that although he was a well-informed AI, he was still deeply shocked.
However, Hiroki did not sympathize with these people.
Having investigated what they had done, he felt even more strongly than Fujino that they deserved to die, and that compared to their crimes, this manner of death was still far too merciful—conservatives thought the radicals were too conservative.
Fujino slowly walked out of the basement. "Hiroki, where are we going next?"
"Most of this organization's people are here. As for the rest, now that the organization has been broken up, without anything to rely on, they'll only scatter like birds and beasts. There are too many scattered stragglers for you to deal with, Brother Fujino. We can leave them to the police."
After thinking it over, Hiroki Sawada continued, "Other than them, next are the officials connected to this organization: the Nagano Prefecture police, the various bureaus and departments within the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and customs... These departments are deeply intertwined, and the people inside them are an equally tangled mess. If we tried to visit every one of them, it would be very difficult. With just you alone, Brother Fujino, you probably wouldn't be able to keep up."
"Tch. Going after scattered branches one by one really would waste time."
Fujino fully agreed. He knew that for an organization like this to exist, it must have fed plenty of benefits to the people above. There were department after department, a whole crowd of people. It