News of the assassination attempt on the former Marine Vice Admiral and head of the Criminal Investigation Division did not spread throughout Marine Headquarters.
These were already troubled times, and Sengoku could not possibly allow such news to leak. If the already demoralized soldiers at Headquarters learned that something like this could happen within their own base, it would only further erode their trust in Headquarters.
At the same time, Sengoku had more or less guessed who was behind the assassination attempt. The meeting had only just ended when Tensei was attacked. That alone showed how deeply the mastermind's forces were entrenched within Marine Headquarters.
It was not just among the lower-ranking officers. Those people had even infiltrated the upper echelons of the Marines.
One assassin was dead and the other seriously wounded. Sengoku had no intention of treating the matter lightly and ordered a thorough investigation. However, he entrusted the matter solely to Kuzan, and whatever the outcome, Kuzan was only permitted to report it to him.
Although Sengoku already had his suspicions, an investigation still had to be conducted after something like this happened. At the very least, he needed to know the truth for himself. A guess was only a guess; whatever the truth was, he had to know.
Sengoku could roughly understand why they had chosen to assassinate a former high-ranking Marine officer in a place like Headquarters. It was probably to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys—to display their power to the commanders at Headquarters.
But the consequences of this incident probably would not develop in the direction those people behind the scenes had hoped for.
"This is nothing but adding fuel to the fire."
"Tensei must be sent away from Marine Headquarters as soon as possible. The longer he stays here, the more