Are there connections between the worlds where these terrifying beings live?
Or rather, was the 'place' Jason just visited connected to the 'place' he had been to before?
Or are they different places?
What, exactly, are these terrifying beings he has encountered?
Are they merely oddities?
As Jason pondered, he began to run towards the distance.
Although he had been caught off guard, Jason hadn't forgotten his original purpose: to find 'food'.
Similar to Jason, who was on his journey, Jennifer was also hastening on her way.
The surroundings were a monotonous gray.
The sky was a dull gray.
There were no plants, only countless stones of all shapes and sizes.
She was trying to return to the living world from the Land of the Dead.
She had walked this road more than once and was almost intimately familiar with it.
But unlike before, this time her mood was quite good. She hopped along as she walked, humming a tune that ordinary people couldn't understand at all.
"Hmm~ Harvest~ Hmm~ Rachel~"
"Fool~ Fool~ they are all big fools~"
After humming several times, Jennifer suddenly paused.
"Why would I hum this?"
Jennifer stood still, pondering.
Such a pause was undoubtedly dangerous in the Land of the Dead.
A few seconds later, Jennifer caught someone's attention.
A slender shadow suddenly sprang out from behind her, enveloping Jennifer.
"Hehe, delicious soul!"
As the cold, raucous voice arose, the slender figure stood upright in this dreary world, having no hands or feet, no features resembling a head, just a massive mouth at the top. When it opened, layers of sharp spinning teeth were enough to make one's blood run cold, but what was truly terrifying was the creature's body.
Hundreds of human faces were grown on it.
"Come, let me devour you!"
"Let your soul nourish my body!"
As the slender figure spoke, the densely clustered faces, like malignant tumors, opened their mouths and emitted their own sounds in response to its words.
Pairs of eyes also stared at Jennifer, filled with greedy desire.
And the slender figure bent its head down to bite at Jennifer.
Jennifer, who had been deep in thought, had her thinking interrupted and looked up, meeting the gaze of these eyes with fury.
Even though she was just one person, the 'thousand' pairs of eyes staring at her caused a piercing pain.
Then, Jennifer saw the 'Bizarre' before her.
The 'Bizarre' paused.
Its instincts told it that the soul before it was terrifying and that it needed to distance itself immediately.
"It's all your fault!"
"I was just about to remember something!"
"You deserve to die!"
Jennifer roared with fury, a crimson glint appearing in her eyes.
The moment that blood-red yet more vibrant glint appeared, the slender 'Bizarre' froze mid-air.
A gray color, the same hue as the dismal landscape, began to spread from its head.
It spread uncontrollably.
The faces rapidly solidified.
In a matter of breaths, the slender 'Bizarre' became a statue.
Jennifer said this and lifted her foot to kick the statue.
The dull thud was followed by sounds of shattering.
The next moment, the petrified 'Bizarre' became a pile of debris.
Yet Jennifer still wasn't satisfied.
She raised her foot, stomping the remnants to dust utterly and thoroughly.
After about ten minutes, Jennifer stopped.
"Indeed, Jason is different. Being able to come back from 'there' proves his extraordinariness—but why would the mirror say it wasn't him? Everything seems to fit so well?"
As Jennifer thought to herself, she almost mumbled, "... huh?"
The moment she uttered the word, Jennifer noticed something was amiss.
The name Rachel, like that other name entrenched in her heart, had become unspeakable.
Subsequently, when she tried to think of it, the name also became blurry.
Essentially, she knew it, but could only describe its general sense, unable to articulate it precisely.
Moreover, even general descriptions remained unheard by ordinary people.
Upon hearing them, something strange would occur.
The first and only time she described the name she remembered to someone else, the listener went mad on the spot and then, as she tried everything to save him, he bluntly chose suicide.
You should know, that man was no ordinary man.
He was a well-known Diviner in the 'Mystical Side' on the surface.
He could even be considered the foremost Diviner.
But even such a Diviner went insane upon hearing the name from her memory.
Afterwards, his suicide was deemed an accident.
Only she knew, it was no accident at all.
It was that person's name!
For this reason, she specifically chased after him to the Land of the Dead.
However, here, after finding that prophet's soul, another accident happened, and the prophet disappeared.
As if he had been erased by an eraser.
The whole process was instantaneous.
It was as if he had never existed.
Since then, she tried several times.
The best case scenario was the same as that of the prophet.
They turned into monsters.
One by one, filled with. desire. And smelling of sulfur, they became monsters.