While the Tenryou Commission was still working desperately on that investigation report, the Raiden Shogun stayed inside Tenshukaku for several days in a row. She even kept watch in secret, hoping to find the person who had been leaving desserts and reports on her desk, but she saw no sign of anyone over those days.
The Raiden Shogun seemed to realize something and deliberately left Tenshukaku for two hours. When she returned, sure enough, another small plate of taiyaki and a bottle of Dango Milk had appeared on her desk, with an investigation report still tucked beneath the plate.
The Raiden Shogun extended her senses from inside the door. After the previous incident, the number of guards stationed at Tenshukaku's entrance had doubled, and the number of patrol personnel had also increased considerably.
This time, the Raiden Shogun picked up the investigation report first. Sure enough, the large headline immediately darkened her expression-Inazuma's accidental death rate had continued to soar over the past decade! In the past year, the death rate had already exceeded the birth rate!
This report specifically used Higi Village on Yashiori Island as a case study of accidental deaths among the populace. What had once been a perfectly fine village had contracted a strange illness en masse during the war. Men and women, young and old alike had suffered casualties, and the age of those developing symptoms had kept falling. In the end, the entire village had been abandoned because of it, with barely any survivors left.
Good grief, the birth rate dropping all this time was bad enough, but now more people were dying each year than were being born. Didn't that mean Inazuma's population was getting smaller and smaller?
After reading the report, the Raiden Shogun overturned the entire desk onto the floor. Documents,