In that instant, all the National First-Class Onmyoji in the conference room changed expressions and turned as one toward Miyoshi Jūgo.
There was no helping it. Miyoshi Jūgo's words were simply too frightening.
"A terrifying thing?"
"The Onmyo Agency is going to be finished?"
"Th-this... this has to be a joke, right?"
Kogure Zenjirou, Yamashiro Kojin, Yuge Mari, and the others all furrowed their brows. Some narrowed their eyes, some wore doubtful expressions, and others looked terrified, completely unable to believe Miyoshi Jūgo's claim.
Amami Daizen's expression grew somewhat solemn.
Miyaji Hanao fell silent.
Kagami Reiji, however, narrowed his eyes slightly and instead became interested.
Everyone reacted in their own way. Other than Kurahashi Genji, who still had his eyes closed and remained silent, everyone else had more or less reacted to Miyoshi Jūgo's words.
To put it bluntly, if Miyoshi Jūgo had said those things to anyone else, nine out of ten people probably would not have believed him, while the remaining one would only have been half-convinced.
But seeing Miyoshi Jūgo's ugly expression and uncertain gaze, the people present, even if they had not accepted his words completely right away, had still begun to take them seriously.
That was because Miyoshi Jūgo was a Special Spiritual Officer—and the strongest one at that. The excellence of his Spiritual Perception Talent was something ordinary people could never imagine.
At the very least, within Tokyo, whenever a Phase 3-level spiritual disaster appeared, Miyoshi Jūgo could rely on his Spiritual Perception Talent to discern the movements of the Spirit Veins and discover it.
That was observation covering the entirety of Tokyo.
Of course, this was also because disturbances in the Spirit Veins were relatively easy to observe. Ordinary Special Spiritual Officers absolutely could not accomplish something like that. At most, they could