Especially the four-armed one born from the God of Birth was one of the strongest among the shadows.
That was how things had been back then.
They were the hunters!
And the protagonist group was the prey.
But things were different now!
The Hassans were the hunters.
As for them? They were merely prey.
They could only be prey!
Massacres and hunts.
Even trying to hide in the shadows and play hide-and-seek under the noses of the Hassans, who specialized in assassination—
That was absolutely impossible!
Ordinary people could not distinguish between shadows and humans.
But to the Hassans, aura and perception were lessons every assassin had to master.
The places where those shadows differed from ordinary people, where they seemed out of place! To the Hassans, they were practically bonfires in the night.
They stood out like hell!
Whether it was their eyes or their physical abilities,
There were nearly countless methods
That could easily reveal the traces proving they were not human.
Then, with that being the case!
Under such circumstances...
The shadows that had originally lurked in the dark were now out in the open. And in the deeper darkness, the Hassans watched them like tigers eyeing their prey.
Wasn't that the natural result?
Thus.
For a time!
This isolated island was swept up in a bloody storm.
No matter how slow on the uptake they were,
The people still realized that something was wrong, discovered something, and began to panic.
Because even if they did not know that the shadows existed,
Those who had been replaced by shadows would vanish completely after being killed.
As a result,
One disappearance case after another kept cropping up.
The island was already closed off and still retained some of the characteristics of the last century. It had no shortage