The Last Gentleman
Chapter 384

Defect

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Skinning Man. Alex.

Born into a wealthy family in the organization's fourth-largest city, he displayed intelligence far beyond his peers from a young age.

He rarely spent time with people his own age, often relying on his family status to converse with people more than ten years older than him. No matter the subject, he could always keep the conversation going.

In private, he often brought rats and frogs home to dissect. He became especially focused and excited when skinning them, yet he never spoke of it to anyone.

Every animal corpse was carefully disposed of, and his family never discovered a thing.

After turning ten, he developed a craving for art, especially art involving the display of the human body. He began visiting art galleries and even risked traveling to other cities to experience more art. After all, in a world like this, the development of art was extremely limited.

That continued until he saw a painting called Red Dragon and the Woman Veiled by Sunlight in an antique shop. He spent a fortune to buy it and brought it home, immersing himself in it day after day.

He even ordered the family servants to bring him more live rats, hoping to use their hides as material to perfectly recreate the painting.

But rat skin was simply too coarse. Even human skin was still insufficient.

He needed better skin—skin that could perfectly reproduce the painting. After learning that the Gentleman Organization was directly related to skin, he began training day and night, striving toward a single goal.

At last,

he became a gentleman, and even one of the best among them, breaking through his limits and passing the Watcher Assessment.

At last, his opportunity had arrived.

Those young gentlemen on the verge of breaking through, with their tender yet

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