A minimum of 240,000 deaths every year would take Tokyo's death toll straight from 110,000 to 350,000?
Daichi Fujiwara could not shoulder that responsibility. Neither could the Cabinet, much less the Prime Minister.
Moreover, if the Ghouls were left unchecked, their existence would inevitably become public knowledge, exposing the Mystical Side to the public.
And that was taboo for the five great powers.
When that happened, China, the Americas, England, France, and Russia might jointly condemn Japan, or even... deploy more troops?
Japan already had the Americas as its overlord. Did it need four more?
The corner of Daichi Fujiwara's mouth twitched as he turned toward Akira Fukuda.
At that moment, Fukuda, the administrative vice-minister, showed no surprise at the total number of Ghouls, as though he had already known the figures.
He leafed carefully through the documents in his hands and said:
"Chief Tachibana, I noticed that the files you provided list the major organizations among the Ghouls. May I therefore assume that your department has planted informants among them, or possesses a means of pinpointing most Ghouls' whereabouts?"
Hearing Fukuda's words, which all but took "eliminating the Ghouls" as a given, Tachibana Kirika looked at Luo Shu again.
So why do you keep looking at me?
Luo Shu was speechless, but he still took over the conversation and explained directly to Fukuda:
"Forgive me, but I cannot explain our specific monitoring methods in detail. All I can say is that our department has indeed planted informants among the Ghouls, and can determine the precise whereabouts of the vast majority of them."
In reality, Luo Shu had already pinpointed every Ghoul's whereabouts.
After all, with a tool as convenient as the Occult Studies Encyclopedia, how could he possibly not use it?
Although twenty thousand people were a little troublesome,