The situation inside the building slowly calmed down afterward, though it was less because everyone had regained composure and more because nobody dared to speak anymore.
The only sounds left inside the room were the quiet sobs of children while their parents desperately tried to comfort them despite trembling themselves.
Robert had gone deeper into the building to check on something, he didn't tell him the details at all. Before leaving, he firmly ordered Eugene to stay beside his mother and make sure nobody inside did anything reckless again.
His father had been unusually persistent about it, and Eugene did not have the courage to argue back. It was not because Robert frightened him, but because he already felt he had disappointed his father enough today.
Meanwhile, the two corpses still lay in the middle of the room surrounded by dried blood. The sight alone was enough to make several people avoid looking in that direction entirely.
