After investigating the scene, everyone headed to the Hot Spring Hotel. The Shiroho Group's Hot Spring Hotel had an excellent environment and decent decor.
But Duanmu Huai clearly wasn't someone who cared about such things. After arriving at the hotel, he found a conference room and gathered everyone for a meeting.
"There have been six disappearances so far."
Duanmu Huai tapped the table, and Sakuya nodded as she opened the laptop beside her.
"First, there was the disappearance of the shrine priest and his family. Next came the disappearance of the village chief and his son... These were discovered on the day people noticed the anomaly at the shrine."
"Then, a day later, a forest ranger disappeared. His wife reported it to the police, saying that her husband had gone into the mountains on patrol, but he still hadn't returned after a full day and night. No one answered when she called him, either..."
At this point, Sakuya finished speaking, and Manager Kashiwagi continued.
"After that, members of the Hunter Association searched the places where the forest ranger might have gone, but they found nothing."
"Don't hunters usually bring hunting dogs when they go into the mountains?"
Duanmu Huai voiced his doubt.
"They didn't use the dogs' abilities?"
"I didn't see it personally. I only heard that the hunting dogs refused to enter the woods at the time. Some even broke free of their leashes and ran away. Because of that, people suspected that some kind of wild beast might be hiding in the forest. But this is only a small island. We've also investigated the animals in the forest. Most of them are squirrels, wild rabbits, and the like, with no aggressiveness at all. Only the venomous snakes require attention. In fact, they didn't find any trace of strange