Fang Zheng dusted himself off, turned, and left. But for Tatsuya Shiba, this disaster from out of the blue was not so easy to put behind him.
"Brother, are you all right?"
Grasping Tatsuya Shiba's arm, Miyuki Shiba looked at him worriedly. He shook his head.
"I'm fine..."
"But Aunt Sayuri..."
"Yeah, I know."
Tatsuya Shiba nodded. They had both seen Sayuri Shiba's horrific state. Her body had been blown into several pieces, with blood splattering everywhere and organs strewn about. Though the siblings were hardly normal people themselves, the sight still left them shaken.
"I don't know whether they were targeting us or her."
Tatsuya Shiba could not make sense of it. He was more inclined to believe that the other side had acted in secret to eliminate Sayuri Shiba, but...
"Brother, do you think something is wrong?"
"Yes. I just received news from the military. If my guess is right, Aunt Sayuri came here because she wanted to use my abilities to investigate a certain Holy Relic."
"A Holy Relic?"
"That's right. The military is panicking too, because the Holy Relic was switched without their knowledge, and a bomb was even placed inside it. The important Holy Relic itself has also vanished..."
As he spoke, Tatsuya Shiba could not help showing a puzzled expression. Miyuki Shiba seemed to realize something and stared at him in shock.
"Could Father have..."
"Yeah, you figured it out."
Hearing Tatsuya Shiba's reply, Miyuki Shiba bit her lip and lowered her head. Tatsuya Shiba had never had a good relationship with his father. As mentioned before, his father had originally been in love with Sayuri, but due to the bloodline of a Magus family, he had been forced to marry Tatsuya Shiba's mother and have Tatsuya Shiba and Miyuki Shiba. Naturally, their father