Unique Individual

【■■■■ System has detected mental contamination affecting the subject.】

‘…Mental contamination?’

Nereia’s expression hardened as she read the system message that had appeared in her field of vision.

Mental contamination?

Nereia couldn’t easily accept or understand it.

After all, she wasn’t hearing voices. She wasn’t seeing hallucinations. She wasn’t feeling phantom pain.

If her thoughts had even faltered for a few seconds, she might have accepted the possibility of mental contamination.

But that hadn’t happened, either, so no matter what the system said, Nereia couldn’t easily accept the possibility that she’d been mentally contaminated.

In response, the system brought up a new message window right in the center of Nereia’s field of vision.

【Traces of external mana interfering with the subject’s thought process have been detected.】...