Soi Fon spoke as she frowned, a hint of helplessness appearing on her delicate face.
"While the Research and Development Department was setting up surveillance equipment, Captain Aizen and I were stationed at the easternmost and westernmost sides of the Kasumioji Clan estate. We also sent other squad members to the south and north, doing everything possible to prevent the Kasumioji Clan from resorting to any tricks."
"Since surveillance equipment was also following us at the time, we believed the Kasumioji Clan would never dare do something like this in plain sight."
"Unfortunately, we still miscalculated! The Kasumioji Clan estate was simply too large, and its internal structures and routes were exceedingly complex. Captain Aizen and I could reach our assigned locations ahead of time, but the other squad members were constrained by their speed and the terrain and simply could not arrive in time. It was precisely because of that that a Reishi fluctuation appeared at the southernmost part of the Kasumioji Clan estate!"
"Captain Aizen and I rushed over immediately, but we were already too late. As that flicker of Reishi rose, several other places throughout the Kasumioji Clan estate seemed to respond to some kind of control. In that instant, brief Reishi fluctuations appeared at eight locations across the entire estate!"
"Although we sealed off those eight points of Reishi fluctuation in time, they still managed to set up their Kido. When we demanded that the Kasumioji Clan remove the Kido, they refused. They claimed that these Kido spells had been laid down by their ancestors to defend against outsiders and that they did not know how to dispel them!"
By this point, clear displeasure showed on Soi Fon's face. She lightly touched the Kido shimmering with blue light and said in a low voice:
"If we