The residents of Infinite City had no idea Hawkins had left, nor did they know what they would face in the future.
But some observant people noticed that Hawkins had vanished—not City Lord Hawkins, but the other Hawkinses, those Hawkinses with numbers before their names, disappearing one after another.
The exhibitionist Hawkins who loved streaking naked at midnight, the lecherous Hawkins who lusted after anything regardless of gender, race, life, or death, the gambling-addict Hawkins who spent all year mooching around casinos, the ever-serious professor Hawkins, the actor Hawkins who cared about appearances and loved stealing the spotlight...
Many players discovered that these City Lord variants, who frequently appeared in the news, had all vanished.
Countless people speculated.
Some believed Hawkins simply did not want any more Hawkinses to exist.
Other players believed Hawkins might have become a Unifier, which was why his variants were gradually disappearing.
But in the end, it was all mere speculation. No one could produce solid evidence.
Several days later, high above the sun, within a mysterious space, countless Hawkinses—countless personalities derived from Mother—had all gathered together.
"Was it finally time to take this step?" a drunken Hawkins asked.
Another Hawkins, dressed in white, waved a fan in his hand and smiled. "We are all one existence. Enough already, stop acting."
"You tell everyone else to stop acting, yet you're the one acting the hardest. Shameless," a young boy Hawkins mocked.
The other Hawkinses immediately began putting on an act, but then Mother opened her eyes. In an instant, every sound vanished together. One Hawkins after another walked toward Mother and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Mother's form began to change.
At first, Mother kept transforming in an inhuman direction. But as all the Hawkinses, even Owl, Aiou, and the others entered him,