After the Captain-Commander finished speaking, the temperature throughout the Captain's Meeting Room rose. The intense heat warped the air, and the old man's formerly kind face now resembled that of a demon whose head was wreathed in blazing flames.
"Soi Fon, Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi, have you both uncovered what I asked you to investigate?"
At his words, the two immediately stepped out from the ranks. Soi Fon said to the Captain-Commander,
"According to the Stealth Force's investigation yesterday, there were indeed numerous traces of spiritual pressure within the small Dangai inside the Yamada Family that did not belong to its members. Furthermore, after reviewing the Yamada Family's death and disappearance records from the past century, we found several suspicious points."
"First, based on the Yamada Family's records, serious irregularities began appearing in personnel investigations fifty-six years ago. According to the records, seventy-six slaves of the Yamada Family were cremated after death that year, then inexplicably dug up and cremated again at another burial site. In other words, at least one hundred and fifty-two people died in the Yamada Family that year."
"Yet when the population was counted the following year, the Yamada Family only listed fifty deaths. There was a discrepancy of one hundred and thirty-two people. However, because those graveyards were specifically established for nobles, they did not hand over the original records to us. Instead, they altered them before submitting the data."
"After that, the Yamada Family would repeatedly have these extra personnel appear. They would travel as servants, branch-family members, attendants, or guards, and were highly active within noble circles. Using the Reishi tracking technology provided by Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi, we discovered that the Yamada Family's private soldiers frequently traveled to the Kumamoto Noble, the Shijo Noble, the Tsuname Noble... and the Tsunayashiro Clan!"
At that point,