The Ghoul attack on the school had naturally drawn the close attention of the Countermeasures Headquarters. Fortunately, Sayu had made the right call in time, and no dangerous situation involving students being taken hostage had occurred—after all, from a political standpoint, that would have been an extremely serious incident.
If a group of Ghouls had really kidnapped students as hostages, then loudly proclaimed their existence and their habit of eating people on a livestream, social unrest and government accountability would have been unavoidable. The Countermeasures Headquarters would likely have been implicated as well. Fortunately, Sayu had released smoke bombs at the time, so most people at the school had merely assumed there was a fire. Afterward, Date, having received Fang Zheng's notice, swiftly led a team to seal off the school and secretly remove the Ghoul corpses.
They publicly claimed that the school had caught fire, and that the bodies being transported away were victims of the blaze. That was enough to keep the matter covered up.
After that, the Countermeasures Headquarters intensified its search for the Ghouls, determined to find their hideout and wipe them out in one sweep!
But for Fang Zheng, none of that was a problem.
"Are you really going to act alone, Mr. Fang Zheng?"
Looking at Fang Zheng, dressed in a Black Trench Coat, wearing a tricorn hat and a triangular face covering, Sayu could not help but worry. They had already pinpointed the location of Bronze Tree's main base, and Fang Zheng had also confirmed the date of their gathering. But as Sayu feared, reconnaissance intelligence indicated that there were several thousand Ghouls inside the enormous building before them.
"We should still report this to Mr. Date and have him send in the military. That would be safer..."
Sayu had wanted to do