Established under the National Public Safety Commission, it was a special agency that gathered intelligence and conducted espionage to prevent large-scale magical disasters and terrorist attacks.
This was the Lion King Organization.
The Lion King Organization originated from the Taki-guchi warriors of the Heian era, who protected the imperial court from vengeful spirits and supernatural phenomena. It was therefore an organization older than the current Japanese government. That it had become this country's intelligence agency and was wholly responsible for national security in the field of magical industry was understandable.
But although the Lion King Organization looked so glamorous on the surface, who in the industry didn't know that it was notorious for stopping at nothing?
Children like Yukina and Sayaka, who had been abandoned because their spiritual power was too strong, were adopted and raised by the Lion King Organization. At the root of it all, this was because the organization regarded them as tools and intended to train them like tools for missions against magical crime.
The Lion King Organization had a terrible reputation in the industry. Whenever someone mentioned it, the response was usually far from positive.
Even Natsuki had never held much affection for the Lion King Organization, had she?
That alone proved how disreputable the Lion King Organization was in the industry.
But who could understand the Lion King Organization's helplessness?
"You've already met people from the 'Great Scourge Faction,' haven't you?"
Endou En spoke in the tone of a bystander.
"Although their actions are unpleasant, their hostility toward demonkind does represent, to a certain extent, the will of humanity in this world."
Perhaps humans and demonkind had always coexisted peacefully in Demon Race Special Administrative Zones like Kageno Island, but elsewhere, humans and demonkind were mostly hostile toward each other.
For example, the Aldeia