Metropolitan Police Department headquarters.
A long conference table stood in the center of the room, with a row of folding chairs without desks on either side.
Those who were not representatives, such as Suzuka Dairenji, Senior Superintendent Kiyonaga Matsumoto, and the Public Security Commission members, sat in these two rows of folding chairs.
Naturally, Him had quietly slipped in among them and sat directly behind Luo Shu.
So why am I sitting here instead of the head of the Intelligence Department? What the hell?
Grumbling inwardly, Luo Shu looked around at those seated.
At the head of the long table sat Daichi Fujiwara, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the nominal convener of the meeting. To his right was his Administrative Vice-Minister, Akira Fukuda.
Tachibana Kirika sat to Fukuda's left, opposite Director Ito of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Although Kirika was Ito's subordinate in terms of police rank, she occupied the first seat on the left. Yet no one present showed the slightest reaction to this subtle arrangement; clearly, they had known it would be this way.
Luo Shu sat to Kirika's right. Directly opposite him was Takayanagi Dōgen, the representative of the Metropolitan Police Department's Warriors Corps, an old man with a very gloomy gaze.
Besides them, Natsuki Minamiya, the Onmyoryo representative, sat to Luo Shu's right, opposite Nura Rikuo.
Whoever had arranged the seating had actually placed the feuding Takayanagi Dōgen and Nura Rikuo beside each other. Even Luo Shu, who only half understood the situation, was utterly speechless.
Compared to those two, Iwanaga Kotoko's seat at the far end and that of Ichijō Matoi, an Elder of the Vampire Elders Council sitting opposite her, seemed exceptionally appropriate.
The ten of them occupied most of the long conference table, while everyone else could only listen from