"Yamagami Toru?!"
"How is that possible? Wasn't he supposed to—"
Others might not have recognized the middle-aged man, but everyone in the Unification Church remembered him all too well!
Amid the clatter of chairs toppling over, the "priests" in the conference room sprang to their feet in horror, as if they had seen something monstrous.
And no wonder: Yamagami Toru had killed the former prime minister of Japan with two shots. Though many people had pleaded for him and protested on his behalf, so he hadn't been sentenced to death, he had still received life imprisonment. And now he had suddenly appeared here. If this wasn't seeing a ghost, what was?
"What are you doing here?"
Even the old woman on the golden throne had instinctively braced herself against its jeweled armrest and risen to berate him.
"Didn't you want to witness supernatural power?"
"I'll show you."
?!
"Kill him—"
The old woman had followed that "religious leader" around the world since she was fourteen. She was just as ruthless, and now she raised a hand, pointed at Yamagami Toru, and shouted her order.
The four "fanatics" guarding her immediately stepped forward and raised their M16A4 assault rifles.
Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat!!!
"Ah!"
"Fuck!!"
The sudden burst of gunfire sent the "priests" in the conference room diving to the floor. They covered the backs of their necks with their hands.
A few unlucky souls who hadn't reacted in time were riddled with bullets, jerking on the spot as blood sprayed everywhere.
Whoosh—
But Yamagami, the target of the four "guardians of the faith," blurred out of sight, electricity crackling around him as he appeared beside one of the gunmen.
Thud!
The gunman didn't even have time to react before a steel pipe slammed into his jaw.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Amid the crackle of