The promised three days.
The final day at Horizon Lodge dawned.
“……”
The civil servant got out of bed.
He was not in a particularly good mood.
Because it felt as though things had begun to twist out of shape at some point….
And if, on top of that, the work itself was not exactly welcome either, then naturally no one would be in a very good mood.
Still, his duty was not yet over, so he put on the prepared work clothes, fastened his equipment, picked up his tools, and stepped out of the room.
And was met with a sight he did not appreciate in the slightest.
“……Hoo.”
The first-floor living room was drenched in blood.
As though someone had been making an offering to something, a pentagram had been drawn in blood, and on each point lay dismembered body parts.
And on the only clean sofa, an unconscious woman had collapsed.
It was the wife from the married couple.
“……”
The civil servant hesitated for a moment, but in the end he decided to carry out what had been decided.
Because he knew the danger of arbitrary judgment.
And….
“Ugh…… h-huh?!”
Because they were not people whose lives had much value to begin with.
“Aaaahhh!”
The woman on the sofa jerked awake and screamed.
A sturdy man stood before her in a black raincoat made of waterproof material, and in his hand was a butcher knife easily over thirty-five centimeters long!!
The one holding that slaughter knife suppressed a…