Mind Hunter

When a person had to look at the dark, ugly side of human nature every day, it was like staring into an abyss. When fighting monsters, one had to beware of becoming a monster oneself.

Jack the Ripper wanted to understand what women were thinking, and the detectives hunting Jack were the same—they wanted to understand what this serial killer was thinking.

They wanted to catch him for fame or other things, because most of them were men, after all.

Only women like the victims would want to find him amid the vast sea of people.

Compared to the desire for fame and profit, the desire to survive was stronger. The children sent into the Minotaur's labyrinth would also run for their lives.

Only drunk people would stumble about in a dark, winding labyrinth where monsters appeared.

They did not even know to run, and no amount of warning from others would help.

Not everyone was like Harry, willing to give up the temptation of becoming champion and turn back to save Cedric.

Yet the end of the labyrinth was not a path to escape. The monster was waiting there for those unable to resist the lure of fame and profit to step into his trap.

When humans faced the unknown, they felt fear and curiosity. If curiosity became too strong—like Jack the Ripper dissecting women's bodies to study their internal structures—then that curiosity was worse than the negative emotion of fear.

Like love, it could make one's heart race.

At such times, adrenaline would surge. This was a stress response to the external environment, and people who were not thinking clearly could become infatuated with serial killers.

People were drawn to the dark, terrifying thoughts inside the minds of those contemptible monsters. Rather than being "prey," they preferred being