"Hey, stop making things up!"
Sword flew into a rage and pointed at the man as he shouted.
"Mr. Kudo, save me! They nearly killed me just now!"
Seeing that he couldn't get downstairs, the man hurried to the other end of the hallway.
He kept pleading with Kyuichi Kudo on the first floor.
The five Civilian Devil Hunters beside Kyuichi Kudo sensed trouble.
They readied themselves for a fight.
Each drew a weapon.
"We didn't kill anyone. He's lying!" Sword tried desperately to explain, while Meng Fan remained calm beside him, seemingly unconcerned.
He simply stood there, quietly listening to what else the accuser would say.
"Why did you suddenly appear in my house?" Kyuichi Kudo asked, clearly more inclined to believe his employee's accusations.
After all, the accuser had worked as a cleaner in Kyuichi Kudo's home for over ten years. Surely he wouldn't lie to him.
"Our captain called in outside help, so we planned to examine the crime scene again today. But no one answered despite us ringing the doorbell repeatedly. I had a colleague check what was happening inside the villa, and when we discovered that many people had died, we climbed over the wall to see whether you were all right, Mr. Kudo."
"Now that we've seen you're safe, we're relieved," Tenten said.
Seeing the Third Division members explain themselves so insistently, Meng Fan guessed that this man named Kyuichi Kudo must have considerable influence.
"I imagine this man named Kyuichi Kudo has considerable influence," was not something he said aloud.
"Where's my wife?"
"We don't know. We only saw male bodies, not a single female one. Your wife has probably gone missing, just like Miss Ran Kudo."
"My wife is missing too!"
Kyuichi Kudo looked as though he'd been struck by a bolt