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Jack isn't some kind of ruthless monster; rather, while he may seem a bit mischievous now, he's fundamentally kind and warm-hearted.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have rushed to help when he saw the Memory Monster almost strangle the Nightmare Monster.

On the day he defeated the Bandaged Man, he did not lay a hand on the Bandaged Man's other subordinates.

Jack clearly remembered that neither of the two strange men in front of him had shown up during that battle; he had assumed they had escaped.

However, the Memory Monster said that after that battle, the Nightmare Monster went to find their defeated leader and prepared to leave Miracle City with him.

"That idiot left me a message, but by the time I found it and went to investigate, his magical activity had already disappeared," the memory monster said sarcastically. "I only found his core, and within a few days this just as troublesome guy was born."

The Memory Monster says that the Nightmare Monster is blind loyalty.

The bandaged monsters are clearly not worth following. Given their attributes and strength, even without joining any local tyrants, they wouldn't be living as miserably as other weak monsters.

But the Nightmare Monster was fixated on the Bandaged Monster, and even lost its life because of it.

The memory monster couldn't bear to see his brother's successor wandering aimlessly through the streets, so he awkwardly tried to take care of the child.

But she wasn't the kind of weirdo who was good at taking care of children. She lost patience after only a short time and bought a leash from a roadside pet store to casually tie the little weirdo to her body.

Jack: "...I see."

Looking at the foolish new Nightmare Monster, he felt a little sorry for him and tried to suggest, "This can't go on like this. Why don't you try going to join the Fear Monster?"

I don't really know how to take care of children, but there's a ready-made nanny at the current post.

That guy seemed like he knew how to take care of children, and he provided normal, healthy meals. In every respect, it was better than being a homeless person with a memory monster like this.

The Memory Monster had never seen the Fear Monster before, nor had it ever fought it head-on. It didn't know the nature of the monster's magic, so it couldn't recognize that the Jack in front of it was the Fear Monster.

And lately I've been busy taking care of my child, so I didn't know that the Fear Monster's side had also temporarily changed its leader.

After much thought, it turned out that the most suitable thing to do was to leave the child with that old woman.

"...Although I really want to entrust this guy to the right person and leave Miracle City, this garbage dump," the memory monster hesitated, "I'm not such an irresponsible monster. I can't just dump this guy on a stranger."

In other words, in the current turbulent situation in Miracle City, kindness alone is not enough to protect the weak monsters.

The memory freak is definitely not the weak and resilient single mother raising a child; her temper is not that good at all.

In fact, if a few more days passed, her patience would be completely worn out by the little rascal's crying and tantrums.

By then, all she could do was dump this newborn weirdo on someone else's doorstep.

It's not that she's cold-blooded, but rather that she never had a very deep relationship with her brother.

Monsters don't have the same blood ties as humans. Most monsters live alone from the moment they gain consciousness. The same goes for the Memory Monster, who only met the Nightmare Monster after he made a name for himself.

She and the Nightmare Monster share similar attributes, making them siblings in terms of attributes. However, their relationship is only slightly closer than that of their other colleagues; in reality, they don't have much of a sibling bond.

Her feelings for the Nightmare Monster weren't deep enough for her to tie her life to his successor.

To her, the successor to the Nightmare Monster was just a newcomer who had risen to the position of "Nightmare Monster." Helping him was a favor, not helping him was her right.

Jack has recommended someone to entrust the child to, and after a brief hesitation, the memory freak decided to go and see what the situation was like.

After making his suggestion, Jack felt relieved, realizing he had upset the old woman and that she might not be able to maintain her feigned tolerance.

YES!

I've done someone a favor, and I've also caused trouble for that old woman. It couldn't be better!

The thought of seeing the Abyss Gentleman get tricked but not being able to keep a gloomy face made Jack forget even that he was going back home after less than half a day since he ran away from home.

He immediately led the memory monster toward the Abyss Gentleman.

"So you brought them here to me?" The Abyss Gentleman's tone was unreadable.

Jack said smugly, "Yeah, aren't you the one who loves taking care of people the most?"

"Not bad at all." The Abyss Gentleman's tone suddenly brightened, and he said this with a pleased expression.

This was not a lie; he was genuinely pleasantly surprised by Jack's actions.

Because, in his memory, the Memory Monster didn't even have the chance to hand over the Dream-Eating Clown to someone else to take care of before he was stripped of his magic and fell into a deep sleep.

More than a decade later, there were still no signs of recovery.

And the one who did all this was the former leader of the Miracle City monsters, the Bandaged Monster.

No, they should be called "false thugs".

The Abyss Gentleman only learned later that the villain who called himself the Bandaged Monster actually possessed a very special attribute: [Void].

Text: 323. Your complexion doesn't look right.

"Huh? Why did the live stream get interrupted?"

I was watching TV when suddenly the screen flickered and then the normal picture disappeared, replaced by static.

The clown grumbled in dissatisfaction, stood up and patted his old television, but he didn't control his strength well and it started smoking.

...Waaah.

The Dream-Eating Clown dared not move again; he turned off the power and threw the remote control aside.

"Why did it have to be at this time... The boss isn't home right now."

Normally, if something breaks in the house, the Dream Clown will seek help from the Abyss Gentleman next door.

The Abyss Gentleman Boss is capable of everything; he can even capture terrifying insects without batting an eye, and repairing televisions is no problem for him either.

But recently, the eldest brother was invited by the strange city to be a judge at a festival, and there's no one in the next house. It looks like the TV can't be fixed.

The Dream-Eating Clown was a little frustrated.

The holidays were supposed to be the perfect time for him to cause trouble as a weirdo, but both the magical girl and the Abyss Gentleman, the leader of the weirdos, had taken their families to the neighboring city.

Without a leader or a magical girl, his current antics are pointless; he's just bullying ordinary people.

Moreover, he had been severely beaten by Mayumi Haga before, and after that defeat, the Dream Clown was depressed for a long time.

Because his magic power was almost completely depleted, even though the Gentleman of the Abyss gave him a little bit later, he still needs to rest.

In the end, he was just a cowardly weirdo who didn't dare to go out and do bad things alone when his magic was depleted, since the feeling of running out of magic was just too unpleasant.

Although he was not fully conscious when he was young, his [Dream] and [Memory] attributes are interconnected. After he was able to freely use his own innate magic, he was able to access his own and others' memories through dreams.

Of course, he can only see memories; he cannot modify them like a memory monster.

Because of this characteristic, he was actually very clear about what happened in his childhood.

He would always enter the dreams of memory freaks, wandering in their almost eternal dreams, piecing together his own origins.

Shortly after his birth, the Memory Monster took him and wandered the streets.

Because of the turbulent situation in Miracle City, and because the Memory Monster was injured while working for the Bandaged Monster, his magic power kept leaking out uncontrollably. Just as he was about to fall into a deep sleep, he threw himself into the territory of the Abyss Gentleman Boss.

During that period, Miracle City was actually haunted by many nightmares.

He unconsciously absorbed nightmares, his magic power continued to increase, and soon he regained full consciousness one day.

But he was still too weak to even catch the eye of the Abyss Gentleman boss at that time.

However, even without special protection, it's still much better than being silently taken away by the bandaged monster.

It was only years later that the Dream Clown pieced together the turbulent undercurrents he hadn't noticed in his childhood from his old nightmares.

When the Abyss Gentleman defeated the old leader, he indeed failed to manage Miracle City, and his inaction plunged Miracle City into chaos and a state of being without a master.

He has no desire for power, but if he continues to let things run wild, the gaping maw brewing in the shadows will devour all the monsters.

Just as the conspiracy in the darkness was about to succeed, something happened that made the Gentleman of the Abyss change his mind.

Although the scenes in the dream were somewhat blurry, the Dream-Eating Clown still vividly remembered the major events of that time.

Back then, it was only by teaming up with the magical girl that the Abyss Gentleman solved the "mass disappearance of monsters" case.

It was only in recent years that the Dream-Eating Clown gradually realized that the memory monster's magic depletion was a harbinger of the monster's disappearance.

However, compared to other monsters who can recover, the Memory Monster is not so lucky. It has been asleep ever since and shows no signs of waking up.

The core of the memory monster is currently hidden in the Dream-Eating Clown's special dream to prevent any accidents.

Over the years, that core has remained untouched.

Even if he wakes up, he won't be the same person as before.

The Dream Clown was well aware of this, so he had no expectations whatsoever for the core's revival.

"The TV isn't working... and I don't have the money to fix it." Scratching his messy, corn-silk-like afro, the Dream Clown, sporting a thick clown makeup, muttered.

Sigh, if I had known, I would have agreed when the boss asked me a few days ago if I wanted to go to Strange City together.

Although the Dream Clown has a lively personality, he still has good emotional intelligence. He knows that this is a rare time for his boss to take his family out for a rest, so of course he won't go up and disturb him.

He was also very interested in the festival and originally wanted to watch the live broadcast at home, but the TV broke down.

After thinking it over, the Dream Clown decided to just go look in the window of the electronics store. After all, the festival's publicity had been overwhelming lately, and he knew of an electronics store that had tuned all its TV channels to the neighboring Strange City.

Thinking this, the Dream Clown opened the window and prepared to go downstairs, but keenly caught a complaint carried on the wind.

"No way, why did the live stream stop?"

"It seems like the TV signal is down over there... It's been almost half an hour, why isn't it fixed yet?"

Huh? How is that possible?

These humans don't understand, but the Dream-Eating Clown, being a monster, knows very well that programs broadcast via magic won't just suddenly stop.

The magic broadcast channel uses a special path.

For some reason, the Dream Clown felt a sense of tension, as if something had happened without his knowledge.

Before he could even process the sudden confusion that had surfaced in his mind, the next second, a strange noise from within the special dream world startled him:

A surge of magical power suddenly erupted from the core of the memory monster!

This is absolutely abnormal... He's never seen any weirdo's core suddenly erupt with magical power when it's reviving!

Twelve years ago.

"You don't look quite right, Ms. Memory Monster," the man who looked at the terrifying creature, who seemed different from the rumors, said in a low, calm voice. "Are you too tired?"

The memory monster never expected that the other party would agree to help take care of the newborn nightmare monster without hesitation, nor did it expect that the sickly look that it had been hiding all along could be seen.

How did this guy figure out that his own face is a display screen?

The Abyss Gentleman tapped his right ear with his black leather glove, indicating, "There's a crack here... It looks like there's a problem with your magic. Would you mind telling me what's wrong?"

Text: 324. I'm never the one who takes the initiative.

The Abyss Gentleman's words made the Memory Monster subconsciously raise his hand and touch his face.

Her fingertips also touched a thin crack, an anomaly that would be impossible to detect without careful observation.

The memory-obsessed woman knew that her body was indeed starting to have problems, but she didn't take it seriously at first.

After all, the erosion of her body by this crack was like boiling a frog in lukewarm water; normally, she wouldn't have paid any attention to this discomfort.

However, this problem was pointed out by the outsider, the Gentleman of the Abyss.

"It's nothing serious, I'm just a little tired lately," the memory-obsessed man said nonchalantly.

Many of the strange people she knew also experienced sudden magic depletion at some point, but as long as they spent some time resting, there would be no problem at all.

The cracks on her face made her feel uneasy.

In fact, even eccentric characters experience periods of physical discomfort due to magic depletion.

Generally, it is related to the weather, diet, and current epidemics. Mild magic depletion is equivalent to a weirdo catching a cold.

The Abyss Gentleman wasn't a weirdo without common sense, but he also had memories of the future, so he knew very well that the memory monster had fallen into a deep sleep at this time because of this little "weirdo cold".

This sounds incredible, but it is indeed going to happen in three days.

The Abyss Gentleman subconsciously sensed something was wrong, and after meeting with the Memory Monster and Nightmare Monster when they arrived at the base, he carefully observed them and finally discovered the problem.

Because he had come into contact with dark wizards in the future, and with the strange hybrid magic researched by dark magic societies, he was able to keenly identify it:

The memory monster had an extremely subtle aura of dark magic mixed in with it.

If he hadn't known beforehand that the memory monster's physical condition was abnormal, he might have easily overlooked it.

The dark magic wielded by the memory monster is actually quite similar to the magic used by the dark wizard.

It could even be said that the opponent's technology is the stage where the mark on the memory monster has grown to near maturity.