When the eerie, high-pitched laughter rang out, the roar of gunfire and the shouts of battle were drowned out. Even the sound of the torrential rain drumming on the stone slabs and rooftops vanished in an instant.
No, it wasn't just the sound.
Wei'en's first instinct was to shout the name that could undo the Demon Clown in the Gonzalez language—Arnold Lilith Leonard. But he found his body frozen. He couldn't open his mouth or move. Beyond the turn he had just made, he couldn't even shift his gaze from the clown doll.
What he didn't know was that with the clown doll as the epicenter, everyone—from the eastern edge of the core area to the western entrance of the Dumitru District—had been paralyzed, silenced, and had their Extraordinary abilities nullified.
In that moment, the world of the Secret Investigation Department's Investigators and Vasquez's warriors fell completely silent. All they could hear was that eerie laughter.
