Everyone investigated the scene, trying to deduce the murderer's method.
Judging by how warm the corpse still was, no more than five minutes had passed before or after the murder.
That was roughly how long it had been since they returned to the manor because of the rain.
In other words, the moment they returned to the manor, the murderer had immediately chosen someone who was alone and struck.
And the victim had been killed instantly, without the chance to raise any warning.
Yet aside from the Monster parts that had been dismembered, the victim seemed to have no other fatal wounds.
In other words, the victim might have been restrained, dismembered alive, and ultimately died from the pain.
Such a deranged method of murder, committed right beside so many powerful figures, had undoubtedly provoked everyone's fury.
Everyone displayed their own abilities, determined to drag out this nonexistent murderer.
As a battle-hardened High-ranking Dead Apostle, Marie Antoinette had set up a barrier as soon as she noticed something strange about the weather.
This barrier had been formed using her blood as a medium. Even if a fly touched it, she would sense it.
Marie Antoinette said, "I set up a barrier after entering the manor. At the very least, no one has entered or left the manor since then. There is a high chance that the murderer is still here."
After hearing Marie Antoinette, Tamamo-no-Mae, in her eight-tailed form, spread the power of Water-Heavenly Sunlight, Amaterasu's Eightfold Stone over the entire manor.
A burst of radiance descended, leaving the entire manor nowhere to hide within the mirror.
But she found nothing!
Tamamo-no-Mae shook her head. "Other than us, I found no one else. I could not even detect any trace that anyone else had been here."
Only five minutes had