The dim, oppressive Ancient Castle, the terrified, dazed children,
the Butler with his fake smile, the eerie Anomalous Monster, the Crows circling in the gloomy sky.
He was back again.
His mind was still filled with the image of the little side-parted boy's future madness.
Now the kid was hiding among the crowd, head tucked down, not daring to draw a breath. He looked timid and clueless, with a hint of slyness lurking beneath his foolish expression.
It was hard to reconcile him with the tall, grotesque madman he would become.
Could he imagine what he would look like in the future?
Besides, Han Su's gaze slowly swept across Butler Kuling, Worm Monk, Meat Horn Madam, Pale Giant, half doctor, Pig Head Butcher, and Ghost Princess. So the children brought here were meant to inherit their powers?
No matter how he looked at it, the whole thing seemed utterly absurd.
Han Su looked toward the Pale Giant monster again and thought of the report titled "Codename: Pale Giant."
It contained a mural depicting a figure like a giant, worshipped and offered sacrifices; photographs of a huge tomb filled with enormous bones; and stills from a laboratory video showing people injected with something unknown, then transformed into a group of crazed little giants.
The depictions were all different, yet they were all filed under the codename "Pale Giant."
If that was the case, then what exactly was a God—
What was it, really?
If the monster on the fifth floor represented the world of "Copper" that had once appeared in reality, what about the other monsters?
How had these terrifying things been gathered in one Ancient Castle?
There were too many questions. The more he thought about them, the more his head hurt.
Every time he had come here before, Han