The next day, Yokosuka Port, Kanagawa Prefecture.
On the night of the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, an entire squadron of armed helicopters had arrived, and all of Yokosuka Port had gone onto a war footing. Martial law remained in effect, soldiers armed to the teeth stood guard at every turn, and omnipresent swarms of drones overhead ensured there were no blind spots.
Since the main experimental projects had been transferred to the mainland in the first year of the Superhuman era, Yokosuka Port had not seen this much activity in a long time.
The Government of Japan had originally intended to send the one-of-a-kind specimen resurrected through Impure World Reincarnation to the nearby Self-Defense Forces base at Maizuru Bay in Kyoto. But the Americans had been adamant and unreasonable, forcibly snatching him away.
The Japanese cursed the American monsters in their hearts, but obediently handed Takahashi Kazumasa over all the same.
However, the Americans also feared that what Abe no Seimei had sent was a time bomb wrapped in a gift box, so they first housed him at the U.S. Military Base at Yokosuka Port in Japan.
"OMG! He really came back from the dead. This is nothing short of a miracle from the Lord!"
"Such a peculiar form of existence. No heartbeat, pulse, or blood. Any tissue taken from his surface disintegrates the moment it leaves his body... Bizarre, utterly bizarre. I'd sooner call it the devil's work!"
"His body consists entirely of dust and scraps of paper. X-rays show no organs or bones, nor any trace of Madam Morinaga, who served as the living sacrifice."
"The resurrected man feels no pain, hunger, or thirst, but his five senses are almost indistinguishable from an ordinary person's."
A group of elderly scientists, including yellow-skinned Japanese and deep-eyed, high-nosed