"So what do you think of those grave robbers?"
Shade asked curiously.
"What is there to think? They steal from a place under my care—I'd love to hang them myself! And disturbing the dead is a grave sin in itself. Even if it's to put food on the table, no one should do such a thing. If you dare deal with the dead, you should be prepared to be strangled by them."
After speaking, the old man spat angrily onto the ground. Holding those large pruning shears for cutting tree branches, he looked as though he were ready to snip every grave robber he encountered to death.
The three robbed graves were connected to one another, located in the southeastern corner of Section 3. Tobesk Public Cemetery had gradually expanded eastward into the mountain forests, so the natural scenery in this corner was quite pleasant.
They spotted mounds of dirt from afar. Upon approaching, they found that these were left behind when the grave robbers had dug up the graves.
The Ridgewich Field police had erected three No Entry signs here, linked together by warning ropes. Iluna stepped right over them, her little black leather shoes leaving faint footprints in the grass.
Shade lowered his head to inspect the ground. The weeds were disordered, but the site had basically remained in its original state.
He came to the dug-up grave:
"The coffin is still here. The Gravedigger said there were no wheel tracks. Did the criminal carry the corpse away in a sack, or simply carry it on his back?"
"That's hard to say. I've read Church records—some grave robbers even dismember corpses before taking them away. What smells so awful?"
Iluna wrinkled her nose in complaint, then crouched down to inspect the three gravestones embedded in the ground.
"This