If the awakening of the Grimm bloodline within Nick's body had brought him into contact with Wesen and lifted a corner of the veil over this world's supernatural side,
then that bizarre, fantastical experience in the hospital over a month ago had made him fully realize that this world was far more "exciting" than he had imagined.
As a tried-and-tested soldier of materialism, Nick was hardly going to break down and shout something like "That's unscientific!" over a little supernatural weirdness.
Although he disliked philosophical speculation, he still had a firm grasp of scientific methodology as a tool, because the core of true materialism lay not in what one believed, but in how one believed it.
Nick had never wavered in his commitment to understanding the world through observation, experimentation, and logical reasoning.
Things science could not explain, such as wondrous magic or demons and ghosts, were not unscientific; they simply could not be understood within the existing framework of knowledge.
Nick had read plenty of webnovels, too. Western fantasy had always been an enduring genre on a certain webnovel site, but protagonists with any so-called reverence for magic rarely appeared in the works of Cyrus webnovel authors.
Whether magic or even the more mind-over-matter divine arts, in those protagonists' hands, they were closer to tools or powers-things that could be observed, categorized, tested, summarized, and reproduced.
The same applied to understanding supernatural phenomena. Even resorting to quantum mechanics whenever one was stumped was still a materialist-leaning way of thinking.
In short, what troubled Nick now was not the supernatural side this world had revealed to him, but the sense of danger these encounters had brought.
No matter how good his marksmanship or how strong his martial arts, if he encountered a curse or spell he could not yet understand,