It had all happened far too suddenly!
So suddenly that... the Divine Assembly's people fell into a state of intense self-doubt.
Who am I?
Where am I?
Where are the people behind the wall?
Where are the people in the dungeon!?
Wait!
"How did they get into the interrogation room and take someone away!? Huh! Another traitor?"
Murata extended his hand, and a suction force dragged over the interrogation room staffer who had come to report.
The man struggled with all four limbs, but it did no good. His body landed in Murata's hand in an instant.
Murata's palm grew enormous, like a giant's hand, and closed around the man's soft waist. He said coldly:
"Tell the truth!"
The fair-skinned staffer, who looked rather submissive, was badly frightened. He said in a trembling voice:
"Just now, I heard fierce fighting downstairs. At first, I thought Officer Kenichiro was torturing a prisoner, but then I realized something was wrong, because the officer cried out in alarm. I hurried downstairs with some people, only to find Officer Kenichiro dead and Shangxiu Lingmin missing. We found nothing at the scene. It was as though Shangxiu Lingmin had suddenly vanished."
"Hiss..."
The Divine Assembly's senior members sucked in sharp breaths, then all rushed toward the underground interrogation room.
Murata flung the staffer who had made the report aside.
The man rolled several times on the floor before getting up. Ignoring his misshapen, bleeding nose, he hurriedly led everyone to the underground interrogation room.
The senior members of the Divine Assembly activated the energy analysis ability unique to Tier 3 Superhumans.
After a meticulous search, they found only the dead Kenichiro and the other imprisoned inmates. There was no trace of Xing Lingmin.
An intact metal neck shackle lay quietly on the floor.
Murata picked