As Sinai examined the body she noted that some of the knives were not precise punctures. To her that meant some of the people stabbing weren’t used to stabbing. Some of them however were very precise. Every wound had avoided major arteries, which prolonged the suffering. On top of that there were no wounds that didn’t have a knife sticking out of it so bleeding out was slow. It had to have been a slow and painful death, but for what? Why sacrifice the men, if the beast devours children? And the method, the cult like methodology and belief that it works. It didn’t fit together. 
Sinai left that building as silent as she had arrived. She kneeled down beside Alucard “do you smell that Spider hollow anywhere around here?” she whispered and the dog started sniffing around. There was no evidence that it was here, no way it could get into any building and not leave damage. Her suspiscion in that regard was confirmed when Aulcard whimpered softly. She took that as a no and stood back up. With that out of the way Sinai moved on to other homes. Likewise they were empty, she figured that all the residents gathered together for safety. Whatever was going on she could believe they were terrified. But nothing explained the bloody scene Haruka had found outside the town. 
Suddenly she sensed something, Just the same Alucard’s ears perked up. Something was coming from the south west. It wasn’t a hollow, she could tell that much. She looked down at Alucard with a devilish grin “how good of an actor are you?”