"What exactly happened? I advise you to be honest and tell the truth."

Saying this, Duanmu Huai let out a cold laugh, staring at the guy with glasses.

"If you dare to hide anything...… the next one to die might be you, you know?"

Actually, Duanmu Huai had a simpler method, a Shadow Copy would do, but for now...… let's see the situation first, there is no rush.

"I, I'll talk—————!!"

Finally, the guy with glasses screamed out loud.

"Saeki, she listened to me talk about the Bai Fan Family's ritual, and she was very interested...…"

"So that's why she came with you?"

"Y-yes..."

"Just as I thought!"

Hearing the confession from the guy with glasses, Blondie immediately started cursing.

"I knew it, you don't even look like someone interested in supernatural stuff, why would you join some supernatural club, so that's it, you had your eyes on her and used our family's ritual as a topic, right?"

"I, I just wanted to chat with Saeki, and she seems well-versed in these matters...… also, I'm doing this for Meijia...…"

"Right, Meijia!"

Blondie and Shajuye were suddenly taken aback. Given the current situation, the ritual was definitely disrupted, although they don't know how Saeki died, but what about Meijia?"

"I'll call her...…"

Shajuye quickly took out her phone, then her expression changed slightly.

"How can this be? No signal? It was just fine a moment ago...…"

"No signal?"

Blondie also took out his phone and glanced at it, frowning.

"How could this be?"

"Mine's the same."

Duanmu Huai threw the guy with glasses to the ground, then took out his phone for a look—-hmm, same.

It clearly had signal when checking the weather forecast this morning.

"Could it be that the lightning from before damaged the signal tower?"

Blondie scratched his head, looking displeased.

"I'll go to the second floor!"

"I'll go find Sankawa Granny, damn it, with this kind of situation, I don't care about any rules, let's get Meijia out first!"

Shajuye hurriedly turned and left, running in the direction they came from, and Blondie followed her out.

Duanmu Huai did not immediately follow them but instead first walked into the chapel, looking at the corpse in front of him.

He had only glanced roughly before, not taking a closer look, but now, Duanmu Huai finally saw the state of the corpse clearly; it was obvious she was entangled by these vines and had her body forcefully twisted and snapped to death. Her painful and stiff expression made it evident.

Moreover, the girl's abdomen had burst open with a large hole, and one could clearly see those vines surging out from it, and perhaps because a long time had passed, the blood had almost drained dry. From the gaping abdominal cavity, one could see the vine had drilled in from beneath the girl's body, then pierced through her body, ripping apart her internal organs and abdomen, with the remaining parts emerging from her wide-open mouth and ears.

Hmm...… judging from her horrendous state at the time of death, she must have been alive while all this happened.

"Did she say anything else to you?"

Duanmu Huai withdrew his gaze and stared at the guy with glasses, who was now completely paralyzed with fear at the doorway, not daring to look this way at all.

"She, after hearing what I said, said she wanted to take a look at the chapel. But I told her the chapel only opens on birthdays...…"

"Then how did you end up here?"

"B-because this morning when I went looking for her, I found the room empty, then I figured Saeki might have come to the chapel, so I came to check...… and found that the chapel door, which was supposed to be locked, was open...… then I pushed the door open, and I...… I...…"

"Oh."

Duanmu Huai nodded and withdrew his gaze.

There's nothing worth seeing here, this isn't some detective murder case, there's no need for a crime scene investigation. Although these vines are suspicious, for the moment, Duanmu Huai didn't sense any resemblance to the power of an Old One or an Outer God. It just seemed to be ordinary plants...…

Let's leave it for later, in any case, I should first go see how things are going over there.

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