Chapter 344
Information about the so-called “Happy Clown” was made public even to ordinary citizens.
“The Happy Clown? That sounds a little creepy.”
“Is this… a Monster too?”
“I heard it’s a little different from a Monster.”
The previous System error incident had made people aware of the existence of “Mystery.” Was it not the sort of thing those unfortunate Gardeners saw and encountered all the time? They said this was another similar case.
“…But we aren’t Gardeners, are we?”
“If civilians can see it too, doesn’t that mean something is wrong?”
Some Gardeners even offered this opinion.
“Could this truly be the arrival of a second Great Calamity?”
Black Cloak’s “Garden” series had led to the mass recruitment of Gardeners. The unmistakable change, by no means a small one, almost seemed to foretell a difficult future. It was not entirely strange for some Gardeners to say such things.
Of course, it was still a hypothesis capable of driving anyone who heard it insane.
“Why the fuck would you spout such bullshit with that cheerful expression?”
“If that isn’t the case, how else could a Mystery visible even to people without the aptitude appear? More importantly, Gardener Jeong Haewoon is no ordinary Gardener. That mass recruitment must have had some meaning.”
“So you believe only a…