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Kirito looked at the old woman he had nearly killed and was a little bewildered. It seemed that these people really hadn't done anything, and Kerry had solved all the missing persons cases from the past few years.

Hojo's parents were actually the ones who pushed Hojo Satoko off a cliff when she was a child suffering from Hinamizawa Syndrome. Afterwards, Hojo Satoko was transferred to a clinic to receive treatment from Irie. Irie treated Satoko as his adopted daughter, so he didn't tell her the truth. Currently, Satoko's condition has completely improved, and that doctor has also been covering Rika and Satoko's living expenses for many years.

The dam supervisor, and the only perpetrator who escaped the dismemberment case, were captured and studied by the clinic.

Rika's father was poisoned to death at the clinic, and Rika's mother was dissected alive by Takano Miyo.

Hojo Satoshi, who went missing last year, fell ill because he committed murder, so he was treated with long-term sedative injections by Dr. Irie. The person he killed was his aunt.

The reason was also found from the villagers: Shaduzi's uncle was having an affair and was living with his mistress every day. His aunt was forced to adopt the two of them because of the law and the villagers' demands, so she abused Shaduzi every day. When Shaduzi was a child, he hated his stepfather, so he falsely accused him of domestic violence, which was found out and he was put on the child protection center's blacklist.

In the end, Satoshi must have killed someone in a fit of rage.

In other words, it seems that everyone who opposed the Sonozaki family every year died, but in reality, they had nothing to do with the Sonozaki family.

"Wait, what about the dungeon?"

Kirito noticed something suspicious.

"Didn't you say you were going to torture us there?"

"That...that was made by our ancestors. At that time, because of Japan's economic recovery, the tradition of executing mad villagers through the intestinal discharge ceremony could no longer be performed at the shrine, so our family built a single room in our basement that looked just like the one at the shrine."

However, there haven't been any cases of the disease in the village since then, and we've never used it.

"You...you kidnapped my friend Lihua! I'll kill someone if I have to find out where she is!"

Sonozaki Mion also realized that there might be some misunderstanding among everyone, and explained it to everyone.

Kirito was completely confused and finally looked at the old woman.

"Then why do the villagers say that you always have a strange smile on your face whenever something happens?"

“Old...I...I just wanted to protect the Sonozaki family’s reputation and make the villagers think we were capable, that’s why we did it. We’ve investigated who did those things over the years, but we’ve found nothing.”

Kirito was speechless. The so-called terrorist organization of the Bull Demon King, in order to make a name for themselves, would always be the first to step forward and claim responsibility for any international terrorist incidents that happened, no matter what others did.

In order to pretend that there was nothing in the village that the Sonozaki family didn't know, the old woman would act mysterious and profound every time something happened, when in fact she knew nothing at all.

Kirito thought for a moment, then stood up.

"I will investigate your affairs later. You had better be as clean as you say."

We still need your reputation in the village. The self-defense forces are attacking from outside; they're going to kill you all. Quickly gather the villagers, move the elderly and weak behind the bridge, and then try to destroy the bridge. Those who want to survive, fight your way out with us.

Kirito, who has a strong sense of individual heroism, doesn't really want ordinary villagers to get involved, but since it was Kazuma's request, he felt it was more reasonable.

But upon hearing his words, the three generations of the Sonozaki family were stunned.

No? What do you mean?

The Self-Defense Forces have attacked? Did we in Hinamizawa violate the Tenjō of Takamagahara?

"what?!"

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Chapter 147 Konoha F4! Reunited!

"The research institute has lost contact."

"Flames have been seen coming from the research institute. An advance team has been dispatched to investigate. We are awaiting the arrival of the main force."

"The troops are fully equipped and are departing from Okimiya. They are expected to arrive in Hinamizawa in 30 minutes."

The messages were reported back to the organization meeting one by one.

Even for Tokyo, a large organization that is semi-official across multiple fields but which is absolutely not officially recognized by the government.

Killing 2000 people internally is a very troublesome task, so they stayed up all night in meetings, listening to reports and waiting for the results of the mission.

Of course, the real problem lies in the fact that it must be completely eradicated, rather than in any psychological burden.

For those in power, as long as they don't get weighed, no matter how important the matter is, it's no big deal.

How would these politicians react to the sudden news of the research institute going missing and a suspected explosion just before they were about to carry out their mission?

There was no reaction whatsoever; some people even breathed a sigh of relief.

These are the people who could potentially benefit from this incident, since other factions advocated halting research and cutting protective funding, demanding that the Irie Clinic close within three years.

Originally, we might have had to check the accounts, but now there's no way to prove anything. As long as we insist that they paid too little money and even caused the death of valuable research talent, we can effectively suppress them.

On the other hand, the neutral faction saw this as a good opportunity. They could simply come up with a pretext to settle all the mess they had made over the years, saying that they had purchased valuable equipment and that the equipment had unfortunately been lost in the process.

Only those who advocated stopping the research looked grim, pondering how to shirk responsibility.

In short, nobody really cares about the state of the research institute. Anyway, there hasn't been any human-to-human transmission of that stuff. If the research institute hadn't been established there, and people might have been implicated, then so be it. Even if 2000 murderers were to emerge, the damage wouldn't be much greater than a car accident two years ago. It would just mean that the local councilor and governor would be in trouble.

That's how these people are. When something goes wrong, the entire organization faces external pressure, but a group of those who are out of power can still contact Takano Sanji without hesitation to carry out this plan. The losses are public, while the gains are private. These are the core members of the old Deng team.

"Continue the operation; it must be completed before dawn!"

……

Meanwhile, apart from the clinic still burning fiercely, Hinamizawa was peaceful.

More than a thousand villagers gathered on the dirt road in front of the Sonozaki family's house.

Among them were many elderly people and children. They all looked at each other blankly. They had been looking for Lady Pear Blossom all afternoon. What was she going to do tonight?

The altar originally used for rituals at the shrine was moved out and placed here. The head of the Sonozaki family and the village chief, Kimiyoshi, were standing there, with Kiritani Kazuto holding a katana next to them.

Because it was originally an altar, the torches below had been filled with oil and lit, and the three people's faces were gloomy from the flickering firelight.

A moment later, a villager on a bicycle rushed over from outside the crowd and climbed up the ladder to the platform.

"Village chief, it's really bad! The public phone booths aren't working anymore. My two boys went around the garbage truck that the Dragon Palace daughter mentioned and saw a lot of people with guns. There's also a castle surrounded by sandbags, with only one car's width of space in the middle that's empty. It's full of people wearing helmets and masks!"

Because this person was speaking too excitedly, many people in the front row heard their discussion and became frightened. The shooting at the clinic during the day was still fresh in their minds. Why was this happening?

Meanwhile, another commotion arose outside the crowd.

The group separated, and Kerry, Shoko, Kazuma, and Rika Furude, whom the three had met while evacuating the clinic, appeared here with prisoners and patients.

Pear Blossom really wanted to know what had happened, so she actually orchestrated this chance encounter.

Because Kerry thought that Pear Blossom's reputation would be useful in the next part, he explained it to her while retreating. As a result, Pear Blossom was stunned when she heard the news.

This explains why she couldn't get through countless reincarnations. Let alone the army, even if she could unite the six melee warriors of the Hinamizawa God Group to fight the 50-man armed force of the Yamaguchi, they would be easy prey. Not to mention that after dealing with the Yamaguchi, there was the Self-Defense Forces massacring the village.

Now she felt relieved, realizing that it wasn't a problem with her hitting the target.

She's just a primary school student who can't leave the village; no matter who comes, they can't break this deadlock!

Based on the discussion they had made before arriving here, Pear Blossom, who had entered the crowd, spoke up.

“I was kidnapped by people from those clinics.”

Moreover, our village has also encountered an unprecedented crisis.

Without hesitation, Lihua shifted the blame for her kidnapping to the clinic. Although these outsiders had treated her badly before, it was precisely this cruelty towards suspected villains that made Lihua trust them even more.

Pear Blossom's words sparked a discussion among the villagers.

The Hinamizawa Kamito group was overjoyed and excited to see Rika return.

Hojo Satoko was overjoyed to see her brother among the people she brought.

Kerry had no idea what they were talking about. Wasn't it obvious that there was a crisis in the village?

"These friends from out of town rushed into the clinic and saved me. Everyone heard the explosion, right?"

As she spoke, Rika walked off the stage and effortlessly went up onto it. As a shrine maiden, performing Kagura at the festival every June was part of her job.

Finally, the three oldest and most influential elders in the village stood together.

Kerry and his two companions easily went on stage.

"Everyone, time is very short, and I don't have time to explain in detail. In short, as the shrine maiden of the Oyashiro deity, I must tell you that the Oyashiro deity has been asleep for many years. There was no haunting or anything like that. The disappearances and murders of the past four years were all man-made!"

Taking a deep breath, she knew that as a shrine maiden, she now had to break the superstition that sustained her.

"And the people who went mad weren't cursed, but rather because of a virus..."

It took Rika about 30 seconds to explain the legend of the shrine deity and the various rumors that had circulated in the village over the years.

Many of the older villagers in the audience looked like their worldviews had collapsed, and they couldn't believe it.

After all, this is a small village, and there have been instances of people inexplicably going mad here. In addition, there is the feudal management, and everyone strongly believes in the concept of the God of the Shrine.

Now their witch is telling them that the gods are long gone and everything is just a matter of science.

However, as Rika said, time was really tight, and there was no chance for them to react.

Next up is the old hag, whose speech has already been dictated by Kirito.

The old woman sighed, never expecting that someone so old and about to be buried would have to go through all this. But when she recalled how Kirito had almost broken her bones with a rope, she blushed a little. Sigh... if only she were 50 years younger.

Then the old woman and the village chief explained that it was because of this disease that the Japanese government was now killing them.

The villagers had no choice but to believe it. After the quick speech, the group immediately arranged for the elderly, women, and children of the village to go into the mountains. The altar and the ancestral home of the Sonozaki family would be disguised as refuges for the villagers, and torches would be lit as the first battlefield to fight back.

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Chapter 148: Battle!

Although the villagers had already noticed that communications had been cut off, they still found it difficult to accept the situation.

Are you kidding me? You mean our country used us as guinea pigs, and now they're going to kill us all to silence us for no reason?

How can this be?

Then everyone thought, oh, this is Japan, then...it's entirely possible!

Spicy balls!

Some of the children didn't understand and just stood there blankly in the crowd, but the more precocious members of the group all had grim expressions.

The most unacceptable family is Keiichi Maehara's family. They moved here just a few months ago, and they are quite wealthy. However, just because they have been here for a few months, they were first told that there was some kind of infectious disease here and that their whole family had probably been infected. Secondly, because they have lived here for a few months, the Japanese government will not let them off the hook when it comes to ruralization.

Keiichi's mother nearly fainted, and not only her, but all the original residents of Hinamizawa were pale as paper, with women covering their faces and weeping, and men filled with fear and unease.

"Hurry up! Do you want your child to die here?"