One mushroom after another exploded.
One mushroom after another bloomed.
Amid the blooming, a pair of cold eyes hid behind the mushroom clouds, sweeping over the ground.
Ice and snow covered everything; the land was locked in winter.
All vegetation withered, and birds and beasts wailed.
"Ah!!"
"I'm an idiot! An idiot! An idiot!"
"I clearly saw all of this, clearly saw all of this! So I was the true culprit all along!"
A beastlike roar of agony came from a hospital room. "This patient's condition is getting worse and worse."
"Yeah. He rambles madly every day and is getting closer to the edge of a complete mental collapse. He's already begun denying the meaning of his own existence."
Two doctors stood outside Gawain's hospital room, discussing his condition.
"Still, at this rate, he'll be mature soon."
"Yeah, he'll be usable any day now."
"Ha ha."
"Ha ha."
The two doctors laughed madly as they walked away with their arms around each other's shoulders.
Behind them, Red Ants brought a Little Girl over nearby.
"Uh, his condition is quite serious," the Little Girl said solemnly.
"I think so too. Before, he only said some crazy things. Now, he seems to be taking some kind of sin upon himself," Red Ants said worriedly.
"Let me take a look at his past." The Little Girl drew with a wave of her hand.
Fragments of Gawain's past appeared before them.
"Mr. Harrington, please don't be impatient. We are investigators from the West Continent Special Affairs Joint Bureau. I'm Lina, and he's Luoer..."
"Of course I saw it. It was an utterly despairing scene. Countless mushrooms erupted, trying to deal with a monster emerging from the ice and snow..."
Gawain was speaking to a man and a woman.
This was precisely the scene of