[A NICE QUESTION INDEED and isn't that the crux of the problem here, who the heck is potentially ritualistically sacrificing people... Rude, mysterious stranger. That's rude.]

I don't have an answer to that, though I certainly wish that I did. [But Kaoru was also around to learn about the people missing from the supposed Code, and wonders if these things are connected. Probably, because that's just the kind of awful luck they all have.]

Though - with the set-up and the blood, it's a little reminiscent of something ceremonial, yes?