When I asked my senior fellow apprentice who was responsible for this, he just shook his head and said he didn't know either, telling me he had been investigating for several years now. On average, two or three people were killed each year, but this year was especially egregious, with two people dying in two consecutive days...
It wasn't until then that I understood what the foul stench coming from the room was all about—my senior fellow apprentice had carried their bodies back and buried them. When I asked him why he didn't let the police handle this, he told me that if he hadn't brought the bodies back, they would still have disappeared, and there was a chance they would have been transformed into walking corpses. If they truly became walking corpses, even if their souls were redeemed, they would never be able to transcend.
