"Where's Kazami? Why is he the late one today?" The fat Preta Path captain checked the time and realized Kazami was already quite late. Seeing the blank looks on Lin Chuan's and Bulemi's faces, he could only go to Kazami's house to look for him.
When he arrived, he discovered that Kazami had never returned the night before and knew something had gone wrong. He immediately reported to the Police Force that a Genin had gone missing in the forest and requested a search-and-rescue Ninja Dog. He gave the dog some clothes Kazami had worn and had it follow his scent.
The trail led to the tiger's territory, where they found Kazami's hollowed-out body. It had been hollowed out in the literal sense: the tiger had eaten his organs, and carnivorous birds had picked his head clean.
"Damn it," the fat Preta Path captain cursed under his breath. Faced with this outcome, he could only chalk it up to bad luck and wait for the officer beside him to record Kazami's cause of death.
The officer's investigation was perfunctory, too-he barely bothered investigating at all. Seeing that Kazami had died in a tiger attack, he recorded the cause of death, packed the body into a sealing scroll, and called it a day.
The thought that this negligence would also go on his record as a squad leader made him grind his teeth in anger.
He had clearly told Kazami and the others to stay away from the territories of dangerous beasts. Why wouldn't they listen? Now Kazami had been eaten and dragged him down with him.
Although one of his subordinates had died, the mission still had to continue. This time, however, the three of them did not split up to search. Even Bulemi was frightened and stopped suggesting they