"The Bohr Family inherited black magic." The first sentence alone was shocking enough. For Kent, who had never entered the spirit world, this truth was deeply unsettling.
"Bohr controlled Jinges and had him kill me because he wanted the circus." The second sentence was another bombshell. Kent's eyes widened even further.
"There was something wrong with the town's water. People mutated."
Kent was full of question marks. Kate had mentioned something before about the town's water being contaminated, but he had not asked for details. Even now, seeing those words, he still could not make sense of it.
Linda, who had finally swallowed a hamburger, wiped her mouth and said, "Someone poisoned the water, and then they mutated. Their thoughts were kneaded together..."
That only made things even more confusing. Kent could not understand any of it, and Linda was limited by her ability to express herself, unable to explain it clearly no matter how long she tried. In the end, Satean revealed the truth.
"Factory wastewater."
The moment Kent saw those words, he understood. He was a reporter and was extremely sensitive to matters like this. He had written dozens of similar reports.
He did his best to piece together what he knew with what they had said and inferred part of the truth: industrial wastewater had apparently caused people to mutate, and then their minds had gathered together, creating something.
"Bohr's son died and entered that place. He used black magic to give it new rules."
"So it wasn't an object, but some kind of new world?" Kent tried very hard to understand what they were saying. "Bohr's ancestor's son, Linda's grandfather—we'll call him Old Bohr for now. After he died, he entered that place, used black magic there, and gave that world new rules?"
Satean's soul did