In the afternoon, the corpses of about a hundred Ratmen had been dragged to another larger open space for storage. The local community had to discuss how to dispose of them, whether to burn or sell them.
The most important were the three captured Ratmen, who were stuffed into indestructible alloy cages, placed near the pile of their own kind's corpses, displayed as a sort of spoils of war.
Every minute, countless people flocked to the square just to take pictures of the living Ratmen, to keep as a treasured memory for life.
They curled up, squatted down in the cages, covered themselves, fearing everything, trembling and uneasy.
Onlookers crowded around, bustling and lively.
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On the other side, Mizuiro Yoshioka led several newly recruited Witches to the Witch Division for work, and midway received a message from Tsuchigumo.
