Punisher Boton led his team into the Meeting Room of Balan Fisheries Company. Two neat rows of corpses lay on the floor, as though someone had lined them up after they died.
The floor was covered in wood chips, and not a single piece of furniture remained intact.
The window glass had long since shattered, and it looked as though the impact wave from a violent explosion had broken it, because the corpses on the floor were visibly covered in many glass fragments.
But strangely, no one had witnessed or heard any violent explosion.
Stranger still were the branches of a large tree outside, which had stretched into the room. From outside, it looked as though the tree had bent over and reached its branches inside.
Someone had witnessed the tree seemingly coming to life, and others had even heard it speak.
One wall in the Meeting Room seemed to have become elastic, turning wavelike. Two of the walls were covered in fist-sized holes.
Those who had participated in wars were very familiar with such a scene. This was a room that had been swept by an enemy heavy machine gun or Automatic Cannon.
The problem was that no one had seen a heavy machine gun here, heard one firing, or found any traces of one being set up.
Thus, the police believed this was an Extraordinary case and handed it over to the Punishers. Gale was ostensibly a Believer of the Lord of Storms.
Boton glanced at the line Hobart had left behind: "This was most likely revenge, but it should have been a grudge formed long ago.
"The murderer killed so many people in succession and even wrote 'Heh heh.' That's enough to show he's a rational yet deranged Extraordinary!"
At that moment, a police officer hurried over