After discovering their patrolling companion knocked unconscious, lights swiftly came on throughout the Happiness Cult compound as believers spontaneously walked out of their houses to search for the culprit.
About twenty or so followers and guards of the Happiness Cult came in groups, surrounding the Shrine.
It wasn't because they were efficient and quickly realized that the attacker's target was this place, but more to protect Komori Ai, the highest asset of the sect.
Trouble could happen anywhere in the compound, but not here, so the number of people dispatched to this location was also the greatest.
However, when they arrived to inspect the area around the Shrine, they quickly realized that all the guards were missing, found unconscious in various concealed locations, and the locks of the Shrine's main gate had been picked open.
Clearly, the worst had happened, and the Shrine had been invaded.
The believers immediately wanted to storm into the Shrine.
