Written Before the Update
After reading the comments for two days and seeing all the discussions, I found them rather strange.
There were comments asking, "How could the Progressive Party Elder be assassinated so easily?" and "Blackstone Security was far too disappointing this time."
First of all, we need to acknowledge one thing: in this world, anyone could be assassinated, and the chances were quite high.
What about the Federal President? What about the leaders of various countries? Weren't they all going to die if they were meant to?
Why had assassins been one of the oldest professions since ancient times?
Because the job not only had a market, but was also not so easy to avoid.
What about the big shots of the East Ninth District? If someone was shot in the back and sent straight to heaven, surely his bodyguards had been highly professional. Why had they failed to notice and stop the assassination?
Were the people around the one whose skull had been blown off unprofessional? Why, then, had he still ended up meeting Old Man God so suddenly? Someone who drowned while swimming in a pool would have been even more aggrieved. There had been at least twenty people around him, so why had no one noticed that someone was drowning in the pool? Besides, hospitals were crowded and relatively cramped no matter where they were. It wasn't just like that here; other places were the same.
No matter how capable Blackstone Security was, it couldn't search every person entering or leaving the hospital. That would not fit the environment or spirit of a free federal society.
Secondly, the person who needed protection had not been killed in his own hospital room. The assassin had not even appeared on that floor, but had perished together with