Chiyoda Ward, Metropolitan Police Department.
"Superintendent Uchiha, in light of your previous achievements, we have decided not to discipline you for your dereliction of duty in the Seishi-gumi incident in Edo River Ward."
"Thank you very much."
Inside the conference room, Uchiha Senmon bowed deeply to the Metropolitan Police Department bureaucrats behind the mahogany desk, all of whom looked like people of considerable power and standing.
The Metropolitan Police Department had been in complete chaos lately. Both the Fourth Investigation Division and the Fifth Division were overwhelmed. Whether it was the Mount Bukō incident, where a Superhuman's intervention had brought the final death toll to 123, or the Seishi-gumi incident, both were major events unlike anything seen in the fifteen years since supernatural incidents had begun.
The Metropolitan Police Department had joined forces with the Yamanashi Prefecture Police Headquarters to investigate the fifteen skulls sent over by the Superhuman Chiriku. Through dental identification and comparisons with missing persons records, they had already established the identities of several of the deceased.
The earliest of them had gone missing three years ago.
Over the past few days, through reconstruction of the traces at the scene and questioning of the believers who had attended the Dharma Assembly, the joint investigation headquarters had pieced together a preliminary picture of the truth.
A Type A had been hiding behind the True Faith Society for three years, using the society's influence to secretly eat people.
Even setting aside the human Superhuman Chiriku's sudden assault on the True Faith Society and the deaths of over a hundred of its members at once, the society's collusion with a Type A was no small matter in itself. It meant those monsters had begun to familiarize themselves with the rules of human society and were even infiltrating it in turn.