“People down there, don’t move!”

“Hey, I’m talking about you guys. Don’t move, or we’re going to start shooting!”

When the Japanese government officials on the helicopter saw a few of them under the spotlight, they started shouting through loudspeakers. These people had abysmal judgment. There were sword marks on the grounds of Higurashi Shrine measuring a few hundred meters long and seven to eight meters wide. More than half of the shrine had also collapsed. In fact, there was even a large ho