Night quietly fell.
By the time almost the entire sky had darkened, Minamoto no Yorimitsu and Chiron returned from their reconnaissance outside.
Moreover, they had brought back extremely valuable information.
"You found the people Yggdmillennia sent to receive Assassin?"
Fiore looked at Chiron in surprise.
Chiron nodded as well, speaking with a rather serious expression.
"Berserker said she smelled something unusual nearby, so I investigated the surrounding area and eventually found them."
Hearing this, Fang Li looked toward Minamoto no Yorimitsu.
Noticing Fang Li's gaze, Minamoto no Yorimitsu nodded with an equally serious expression.
"The area was filled with the scent of some kind of oni. Others might not have noticed it, but I am used to it."
The strongest Mysterious Slayer of the Heian era explained it this way.
"Should I call them demons? Or undead? In any case, the area was filled with an incredibly dense resentment, enough to become a curse."
It was precisely because she sensed that atmosphere that Minamoto no Yorimitsu informed Chiron, who possessed the Thousand Mile Eye, and had him take the high ground to investigate the vicinity.
In the end, the two found people buried beneath construction materials at a work site.
"They were probably just casually discarded there." Chiron frowned. "Their bodies had been chopped to pieces, with no intact parts left, which was why they had gone undiscovered all this time."
In other words, everyone Yggdmillennia had sent to receive Assassin had been killed.
And they had been dismembered.
"If that really was Assassin's doing..." Chiron said gravely to Fiore, "Master, we may have to find a way to stop it."
Fiore nodded with a tense expression.
If Assassin had truly killed the Yggdmillennia personnel who came to receive it and was now murdering people without restraint in Bucharest, it