Before he erased his “memory,” Jeong Haewoon visited the abandoned school.
Let us speak briefly of what happened then.
“……”
At the time, Jeong Haewoon had doubts about the simultaneous fever of the Source. He had spoken with Curator Yoo Seongwoon because of it, but that alone could not reassure him.
‘A Mystery of that magnitude may become capricious at any moment.’
One could not accept every rule of a Mystery without question merely because it was Mystery. This world overflowed even with Mysteries whose “rule” was deceiving humans. And the greater a Mystery became, the more irregularly it changed.
Thus, Jeong Haewoon once again had to act personally. He had to see, hear, and confirm matters for himself before passing judgment. Otherwise, some vast disaster might arrive later—one too great to contain.
‘They said that fever and the beginning of the changes came after that damned Portrait settled into the abandoned school….’
So he went there.
The reason was simple. They had said “Gio’s Portrait” was part of the Source. It possessed more than enough opportunity and Authority to become involved in the simultaneous fever of the Gardens. Jeong Haewoon had to learn exactly what had happened.
And Jeong Haewoon found his breath catching in his throat.
“…What the bloody hell…?”
That insane Mystery had created a spring at an abandoned school in the middle of nowhere.
After the Great Calamity, veins of Mystery had naturally spread throughout Earth. Compared with a human, they resembled blood vessels. Those blood vessels, flesh,…