William had been holding it in,
ever since he saw the gigantic body manifested by the Fourth Calamity—more precisely, he had been holding back his laughter.
Even if this giant body was merely the "Surface Layer" rather than its true interior, it was enough to delight William.
After all, when he had passed through one laboratory after another and seen those retro-metal structures, he had still felt a little apprehensive, worried that the Fourth Calamity had completely transcended the realm of humanity and that the plague's effects would be suppressed to the lowest degree.
Now, it seemed that he had simply been worrying too much.
His excessive excitement had fully activated the Clown Virus brought by Yate, but he had still considered the bigger picture. Through the forced suppression of his Frenzied Brain, he kept his urge to laugh from showing.
As long as the other party displayed a human form, as long as they possessed the foundation of carbon-based life, the simplest and most direct infection was possible.
His so-called negotiation was merely a pretense,
because he understood the Fourth Calamity's psychology and the essence of its malice. It was fundamentally impossible to suddenly discuss cooperation with someone like that.
William had merely used the pretense of cooperation and the gift he had prepared in advance to approach the other party, accomplishing a close-range infection.
Why had he selected this ugly, fat otaku—whose appearance completely overturned William's image—from among tens of thousands of Video Tape enthusiasts?
It was not only because this fat otaku possessed a natural immunity to Fatal Video Tape, but also because his flesh was sufficiently loose and his body sufficiently large to cause the greatest possible spread of disease upon his eventual death.
When the Video Tape was inserted into the back of the fat