The Mandated Punishers arrived at the crime scene almost at the same time as the police, who quickly cordoned off the villa of the grain magnate Ed Dean.
Initially, only one squad of Mandated Punishers had arrived, but after a brief examination of the scene, their captain, Hami, sent someone to fetch his superior.
Soon, Wilton, a deacon of the Mandated Punishers, arrived at the scene. He first glanced at the painting on the wall.
The painting was fairly simple. In the background stood a devil whose face was indistinct, while two people held sacks with greedy expressions, tearing flesh from the people around them and stuffing it into their sacks.
Although their faces were rendered with only a few simple strokes, it was immediately obvious that they depicted the two grain magnates who had died in this room.
Beneath the painting was a short sentence: The devil took away two "greedy" souls.
Wilton furrowed his thick brows, then looked at the two bodies again. They had been "arranged." With so many cuts in their hearts, they could not possibly have retained such peaceful expressions and poses.
Beside him, Hami, the Mandated Punisher captain, said, "Deacon, the letters carved into their hearts spell out the word 'greed.'"
"According to our inquiries, a Beyonder bodyguard named Nicolo seemed to notice something and came to knock on the door. The bodyguards in the corridor can confirm that he only knocked. After being told everything inside was normal, Nicolo stayed by the door for a while. But later, he suddenly kicked it open, stood there in a daze for a moment, and then left."
He paused before emphasizing, "And this Beyonder bodyguard is a Conspirer."
In other words, this scene had been arranged with a Sequence 6 standing guard outside the door.
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