This World Is Seriously Ill

She had gradually cast this weapon, stained with sin during the Fishing Hamlet incident, into an ancient well in Innsmouth out of guilt.

However, as the nightmare faded, the scenes formed from those fragments of memory gradually collapsed. Her Rakuyo was recovered by Kevin and returned to its rightful owner.

Humanity bore original sin. Sometimes, one had to face what had already happened, carry the burden forward, and bravely step over it before the future could hold promise.

"Let's go. We're going to meet Master Willem."

Maria's thoughts returned. She lowered her arm, sheathed Rakuyo at her waist, pulled Kevin up with one hand, crossed the laboratory, and headed upstairs.

To reach the top floor where Master Willem was—the Moon Observatory—they first had to pass through that sea of Brighttree flowers.

Yet this return to an old place was far from pleasant. The Brighttree flowers, once golden like sunlight, now glowed with an eerie color beneath the crimson moonlight.

Moreover, whether due to the Blood Moon or Master Willem's experiments, the two of them frequently encountered all kinds of monsters among the flower fields.

For instance, giants twenty feet tall with a single independent eyeball for a head and a pair of forked hook-claws for arms...

Or fluorescent flowers that extended petal-like tentacles from beneath the earth and used toothy maws to prey on living creatures...

The most common of them were undoubtedly the Garden Eyes they had encountered before...

Working together, Kevin and Maria swiftly slaughtered these obstacles in their path and continued pressing forward.

As he compared the monsters' appearances and sorted through his thoughts, Kevin gradually realized that they seemed somewhat similar to several familiar faces from his memories.

That one-eyed brute reminded Kevin of the Great Old Ones.

And those fluorescent flowers, possessing both plant and