"Whooo-"
It was the whistle of a steam train. A black train slowly pulled into the Florence stop.
[Florence ahead. Passengers getting off, please take your belongings with you!]
Loud announcements began playing through the station. Crowds streamed off the train, and a handsome young man with blond hair and golden eyes slowly stepped out of the train's A1 VIP carriage.
The blond young man wore a black trench coat and a hat with a slightly narrow, upturned brim. A large white dog with red eyes followed behind him, wagging his tail.
According to the information Sharon Euliphis provided, the [Hand of Pestilence] has a station in Carmignano. With its dangerously high distortion level, that place is the sort of hazardous area strangers should stay away from. Only suicidal lunatics like the [Hand of Pestilence] would go there.
Xia Xiu silently spoke to himself as he held a photograph. It showed a patch of swamp woodland in Carmignano. The swamp woodland in the photograph was covered in wetland grasses and mosses, and beyond those, rotten, decaying trees were also visible.
The EVE particles in Carmignano's swamp woodland were unusually chaotic. The high distortion level made the ARad field there exceptionally discordant. The [Hand of Pestilence] had camped there purely because they were unafraid of death. They themselves kept springing up in successive crops like chives.
The plague spreader is probably quite well known in the [Hand of Pestilence], too. I'll have to find someone and ask nicely.
Walking beside him, Jam saw the warm smile on his boss's face and knew someone was about to have bad luck again.
"Let's go take a look at the Father's followers."
"Woof-"
Carmignano, swamp woodland.
A sedan had crashed headfirst into a thick, rotten tree. Flames rose from its roof,