Of the nine of them, Joey was the least motivated. Wealth and money did not really matter much to him. The Dreamscape curse was a little troublesome, but that was all it was-a nuisance.
He had joined this gathering to find clues about Barbara.
Judging by the information he had gathered so far,
Barbara's disappearance was inextricably linked to him.
He had participated in an Occultism magic summoning ritual, provoked certain beings, and become entangled in the Dreamscape curse.
This had been a premeditated ritual magic operation. Its purpose was unknown, as was the mastermind behind it.
Or perhaps it had been a coincidence, a chance incident involving a group of people yearning for the supernatural and mysterious.
Judging from what Barbara had revealed during their last encounter in the Dreamscape,
They had been confined in a castle as test subjects, and those test subjects could only be female.
That alone allowed him to separate the Dreamscape curse from the Experiment Subject matter.
Two unrelated matters had become entangled in the same place. What Joey needed to do was find the connection between them.
In truth, he had hesitated when Annie said their objective was to land on the island. There was another reason, too: he felt that staying with this group would restrict him. To put it bluntly, they would drag him down.
Without Annie's letter, he would have set out to sea alone to search for clues.
And there was one thing he still could not understand. He was clearly the one with the problem, so why had Harvey Jeffrey abducted Barbara?
Had he intended to use Barbara as leverage because the Holy Hall was hunting him? To lure Joey out alone and exchange her life for his? That clearly did not hold up. From what Harvey had