"Cover Serial: White Town Arc—Rumors"
"In the royal capital of the Aka Kingdom, a neighboring country of Flevance, a woman had just returned from the market with groceries when she saw her neighbor waiting mysteriously outside her home. Seeing her return, the neighbor leaned in and lowered her voice."
"A contagious disease? It turns people into monsters like white ghosts? After hearing her neighbor out, the woman was shocked and terrified, her face turning pale. They wouldn't let people like that wander into their country, would they?"
The source had also been identified.
—It was the Amber Lead that had brought this country a century of prosperity.
Buried underground, it had no effect on the human body. But once mined, it poisoned people and caused "Amber Lead Syndrome." As trace toxins accumulated, each generation of citizens had shorter lives than the last.
The first generation a hundred years ago might have lost only ten years from their lifespan, with most still living to seventy.
The next generation could only live to fifty, and the one after that, thirty...
By now, it was difficult to even survive to adulthood.
That was why several generations had fallen ill almost simultaneously. Not a single citizen born and raised here could escape this calamity.
Law lowered his head and looked at his arm. It, too, was covered in white patches.
"Even the country's medical experts are helpless against it."
He looked up at Doctor Trafalgar. "But Dad, the World Government must have a solution, right? Why hasn't a medical aid team come yet...?"
"We don't know either..."
Doctor Trafalgar clutched his hair in anguish, half his face buried between his knees.
"According to the information sent back, doctors outside are afraid of being infected and don't dare come to Flevance. But our reports