The atmosphere in the Mansion in the Hearthfire District was especially somber that day.
Vanessa and the others sat around the dining table.
"Should we have the children leave for a moment?" Vanessa looked hesitantly at Elsa and Clara.
"I'm just short. I'm only two years younger than Dorothea, so I hardly count as a child." Elsa sighed helplessly. "Besides, I'm a Supernatural person now, and I've already joined the Esoteric Cult... haven't I?"
Vanessa scratched her head with her palm.
She had actually intended to have a Conversation with Elsa that time to bring her in, but something had gone wrong on Elliot's end. The [Path] Card had been tied up in an upgrade, leaving Elsa's Card without its upgrade to Believer.
"All right... you can listen too, then. But Clara..."
"Let her listen too. This case is rather unusual. She should be careful as well," Allen suddenly said. "There were children among the victims in this Family Annihilation Case. The killer didn't spare them."
Everyone in the room immediately turned their eyes toward him.
"Start from the beginning, Allen. What exactly happened?"
"Well..."
Although most of the Hearthfire District's residents were poor workers, public order had always been relatively stable.
The factories needed their goods transported, making a stable environment practically a necessity. The Factory Guard patrolled the streets regularly, and there were not even any street gangs here. Moreover, most residents were workers, making the population relatively homogeneous. With no one having much money to spare, serious crimes had all but disappeared from the area long ago.
"But the day before yesterday, there was a Family Annihilation Case."
"A worker named Fango and his wife, who also worked at the Spinning Mill, both failed to show up for work. The foreman thought something was wrong and sent