"Oh, I see..." The Chief of Police said. He was looking at them with all nervousness and caution. It was as if he was on the verge of revealing something unsavory to the women. "U-um, you may take a seat." he gestured to the chairs in front of him.<br/><br/>Yukina then took a seat on the chairs, only doing the same as Lexi did. She then pleaded once again, "Please do tell who are those men with guns in the dock, sir. I think that nobody here is safe with them around."<br/><br/>"Okay." he started his explanation. "To be honest with you two, we don't want those armed men around out city. We really don't want them here. But we can't exactly arrest them or do anything big either."<br/><br/>"Why is that, sir?" The Japanese lady asked. "I thought that the police are supposed to protect people and punish wrong-doers. Why cannot you do anything to them?"<br/><br/>"This will be a long story, okay? So you listen closely to this." He then leaned a bit towards the two of them, and Yukina did the same. "When they first came here, we at the police force approached them in the same way we have always approached highly dangerous criminals. We had a standoff in front of the docks for a week. But nobody, not even us, fired a shot. We weren't doing anything, and they weren't doing anything either. And that was for a week. It was like a siege up there, but we decided to break it up."<br/><br/>"You broke up the siege?" Yukina asked. "Why is it so, sir?"<br/><br/>"Because, on the last day of the siege, I saw something." He replied to her. "When I woke up first thing in the morning back then, I saw something written in my bathroom. It was written in blood, cause it smelled like blood. It was a threat, certainly from that group. It said something like them wanting us to break off the standoff at the docks, or else they would attack the city in massive numbers. I ran out of the bathroom to get my camera to take that as a photographic evidence. But when I came back, it was gone. That's the time realized that we were facing something more than a bunch of terrorists."<br/><br/>"That is so... scary." Yukina commented worriedly. "It seems to be impossible. It was as if they are ghosts or demons."<br/><br/>"I know, Miss Aikawa, I really do." he agreed with her sentiments. "But I saw it happen in my own eyes. I really wish I could do something without causing a massive incident here in Seattle. If they can send me messages written in blood and make it disappear in a matter of seconds, what else can they do to us? It's hard to imagine, you know?"<br/><br/>"But why did not you go to the higher agencies or the military for this, Sir Chief?" Yukina asked once more. "Maybe they could do something about it. They have better equipment, is not that right?"<br/><br/>"I wish I could do that. But I'm afraid that if we involve the FBI or the military in this, they would do something much bigger in retaliation." He said to her. "I know that this is big problem for the city or even for the state, but I don't want to escalate the situation by turning this into a military operation. Who knows what those guys in the docks can do."<br/><br/>"That situation seems to be hopeless..." she commented. "Is there really anything that you can do?"<br/><br/>"All we are doing right now is containment, young lady." The Chief said. "We keep them holed in the warehouse and prevent any criminal actions they would do. In that way, we are to be sure that they can't do anything bigger than sending messages in blood to anybody else, and not make the situation bigger."<br/><br/>"I see." she said one more time, seemingly deflated by the explanations.