"Then the number of guests here kept dwindling. Once, a surviving ninja said there was a murderous maniac nearby. Those people had been captured and killed by him. That was why..."
Mirai stopped him and asked, "Wait, you said... you said there was a survivor?"
The waiter nodded, then immediately shook his head. "How should I put it? He only lived for a little while. People said the ninja had been killed, but he survived because his heart was positioned a little too high. But... in the end, he died of his injuries. Before he died, he said some things about that murderous lunatic, and that was how we learned why!"
Mirai thought, Haunted? Of course not! Anyone capable of killing a ninja had to be a ninja as well—and a master at that.
But... why kill people from all walks of life? No, strictly speaking, they should have been captured, not killed!
The slain ninja might have discovered something, which was why he had been killed. Who possessed such formidable power?
"Do you know where the killer is?"
The waiter thought, How would I know? Everything I said came from previous guests, but since they were guests, it wouldn't be easy to say it outright.
The waiter smiled. "I don't know. However, people say it's thirty miles west of here, where accidents often happen! So now, most people don't dare go that way..."
By Mirai's calculations, it was roughly thirty miles to the west. Wasn't that the only route to the Land of Water?
The Land of Water!
Could it be the Land of Water?
He had long heard of the Bloody Mist. Had they done such inhumane things?
That didn't seem right either. They had no need to travel so far just to do something like this...
"Hmm..."