"So, what you mean is... there was a gas explosion here last night?"
Early the next morning, several police officers from Fuyuki City stood at the entrance. They first glanced at Tokiomi Tohsaka, then turned to look at the devastated scene behind him.
Honestly, the Tohsaka Estate was completely unrecognizable by now.
The courtyard directly beyond the front gate looked as if something had peeled away an entire layer of earth.
It was not merely that the basement had been exposed. The entire front courtyard had vanished—lawns, asphalt roads, everything. It was as if several meters of ground had been forcibly scraped away. Anyone unaware of the situation might have thought someone was digging a foundation.
The deep pit even extended all the way outward, cutting through the entire road in front of the Tohsaka Estate before flattening the mountain on the other side.
Honestly, that was a massive undertaking. Even with construction machinery, digging out such an enormous foundation and leveling that mountain would never be done in a day or two. Given Fuyuki City's current ability to allocate resources... it would probably take at least half a month.
At that scale, forget a gas explosion.
If someone said a little boy had fallen from the sky, people might actually believe it.
"Yes!"
Yet despite all this, Tokiomi Tohsaka maintained his elegant demeanor. Keeping up his gentlemanly manner, he stubbornly insisted, "Fuyuki City's gas pipelines are old. The occasional explosion is unavoidable. Please rest assured, the Tohsaka family will not pursue this matter."
"No, this..."
The officers were not fools. They exchanged looks, then subtly lowered their voices. "Mr. Tohsaka, if someone is threatening you, blink once..."
"My apologies for interrupting, everyone."
Fortunately, another figure emerged from the Tohsaka Estate at that crucial moment.
"You are... uh, Priest?"
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