Chapter 46: Kamikawa Mitsu's Persuasion, the Big Shots All Believed It

Due to escorting the Prime Minister, the security guards were fortunate enough to witness the situation in the parliamentary hall.

Looking up, he took a sharp breath, his mind unable to calm, his palms sweating from nervousness.

The hall was filled with people, all familiar faces seen on television, none less than big shots who could make Tokyo tremble with a single stomp of their foot.

The entire cabinet, members of the imperial family, governors of all forty-seven prefectures, the highest officials of the National Police Agency, and vice-ministers.

Plus the Prime Minister.

The highest-ranking officials of the entire nation of Japan were gathered here.

Sweat beaded on the guard's temples; if a photo of the scene were taken and released, it would absolutely shock the entire nation.

For some reason, he swallowed, his mind on high alert, feeling a sense of panic: if all the highest-ranking officials of Japan were present, and a missile were to drop down...

He dared not think too deeply about it.

The Prime Minister, with a Solemn gaze, took his seat.

Until last night, he had been in the White House in the United States chatting with Kamikawa Mitsu, discussing major affairs; in less than a single night, he hadn't even finished the topics he and Kamikawa Mitsu were discussing, hadn't even had time for dinner, and flew back to Japan overnight.

Compared to chatting with Kamikawa Mitsu, the major incident in Arakawa Ward forced him to return immediately, with utmost urgency.

Unlike the Japanese citizens, everyone present was a high-ranking, powerful figure in Japan, knowing about the Yunhu incident in Arakawa Ward before the public, and knowing far more.

Scanning the room and seeing everyone present, Director Takahashi stood up, stepped onto the stage, cleared his throat lightly, and said:

"Regarding the major incident in Arakawa Ward last night, everyone present should be clear. Today, besides discussing the matter, we will also reveal some current investigation details; the content will only be told to you and has not yet been made public to the citizens.

Everyone present must absolutely not leak this externally; otherwise, it will be treated as the grave crime of treason."

A deep, solemn voice rang out.

The entire hall fell silent.

It could be seen that after Director Takahashi spoke, everyone present sat upright, eyes fixed and spirits focused, their gazes filled with seriousness.

They knew very well that the Yunhu incident had caused a situation of extreme severity, and the meeting held today regarding Yunhu might change the future direction of Japan, as well as Japan's future domestic and foreign policies; the economy, politics, and military, and even society, would change.

Immediately, just as they had thought, the next sentence from Director Takahashi directly released major information.

"After investigating and interrogating the three survivors of the Yunhu incident, and after investigating the scene, it has been confirmed that youkai truly exist!"

Having learned the news yesterday, everyone had mentally prepared themselves, guessing that youkai truly existed, but when the truth was confirmed and announced, it still caused a stir, shocking the entire hall.

Thinking that youkai truly exist, with power that shakes heaven and earth, and that they might be active nearby, just thinking about it made one's scalp prickle; who could stand that?

It must be dealt with as soon as possible.

The emergence of youkai has already threatened them.

As the highest bureaucratic officials, which one of them did not live a life above ten thousand people? Usually, others bowed and scraped before them, giving them quite the feeling of being retired emperors; now that youkai have emerged, uncontrollable, they very likely pose a threat to their positions.

Because once the Yunhu incident occurs in their region, or even a large-scale invasion of youkai threatens their area.

Leaving aside whether the people of the region will lose confidence in him, just the destruction of the region means these bureaucrats cannot live happily; at that time, not only will they be forced out of office and never hold high office again, but their very lives may be in danger.

Every time they thought of this, everyone present felt extremely uncomfortable.

What kind of situation is this!

Damn it, yesterday morning and noon everything was perfectly normal; enjoying what should be enjoyed, eating and drinking well, and occasionally receiving flattery; yet not a day had passed, a series of phone calls came, and the era had changed.

It changed so suddenly, so unexpectedly, leaving people bewildered.

Truly, Lord Cimu swung his blade, the sword technique so fast, cutting out an entirely new era.

"Regarding the report on matters concerning youkai, Minister Saito will speak to everyone."

Taking in everyone's expressions, Minister Saito, who had stepped onto the stage, straightened his collar and said in a deep voice:

"The reason we confirmed that youkai truly exist is that, through our investigation, after Yunhu disappeared, a large number of corpses and remains appeared on Arata Street in Arakawa Ward, along with the three personnel seen in the Yunhu footage.

By collecting DNA from the members of the Sakata Group at the Sakata Building and comparing it with the suddenly appeared corpses and remains, we confirmed they were high-ranking members of the Sakata Group and others.

Besides detecting that the flesh and blood of the remains were those of the Sakata Group and others.

We also discovered liquid resembling saliva and bite marks on the remains.

Through DNA comparison, this saliva did not belong to the deceased themselves; subsequently, we consulted several biologists and compared it with the DNA of existing creatures, and we found that this DNA did not belong to any known creature today, but to an unknown creature.

Counting the bite marks on the remains.

All autopsy teams unanimously determined that the people of the Sakata Group were torn and gnawed to death by an unknown creature; after comparing the teeth of the youkai in the filmed Yunhu footage.

The size of the bite marks matched the size of the youkai's teeth.

We have reason and evidence to prove that the scenes in the Yunhu footage are real scenes, and the Sakata Group was indeed killed by an unknown creature suspected to be a youkai.

Additionally, after interrogating the three survivors, according to their accounts, they were..."

After finishing the account of how the Sakata Group mistakenly entered the Supernatural world, Minister Saito continued speaking.

"Combining the above information, our investigation team infers that Sakada Wenzhijie and others indeed entered an unknown world unknown to us.

As for why we determined that this unknown world is the Supernatural world, and not the world of unknown creatures.

This point, besides seeing in the Yunhu footage that these unknown creatures look very similar to the youkai passed down in folklore, these creatures also speak Japanese.

Furthermore, after Professor Nakata, an expert in youkai studies, pointed out the types of youkai, through lip-reading translation, it was confirmed that other youkai called that youkai by its name, which matched the youkai name introduced by Professor Nakata.

Of course, if this were merely evidence provided unilaterally by the Yunhu footage.

There is another piece of evidence that can prove it.

We interrogated the three survivors, from their personal experiences and the content they personally heard.

They definitely heard the unknown creatures refer to that creature, which resembled a human scholar, as Cimu; this once again matched the youkai hypothesized by Professor Nakata, the two corresponding.

Not only that, before the three survivors were finally sent back, they clearly heard and saw the youkai known as the Lord of Evil Spirits lead the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons towards that ancient city, and heard a child youkai say, 'Let's go, to attend the banquet hosted by Tamamo-no-Mae.'"

And according to the accounts of the three survivors, the plaque on that ancient city bore the four ancient characters "Heian Kyoto".

According to Professor Gutian, documents in our country's ancient history recording youkai explicitly state that in the Heian period there was a great youkai named Tamamo-no-Mae, one of Japan's three great youkai.

The appearance of Tamamo-no-Mae in the unknown world, the ancient city inscribed with "Heian Kyoto", and the appearances of other unknown creatures as youkai, among other evidence, we have reason to determine that youkai truly exist."