Chapter 101: That's Just My Lot in Life, I Guess

...The Jeopjeop bird. It's one of the monsters that appears in a fairy tale my little sister liked.

That was a name I'd heard so often because of that woman that I was sick of it: Jabberwock, Jeopjeop bird, Bandersnatch.

'...Haah. Seriously, that crazy woman.'

<Grrrk?>

According to everything I'd learned about this Garden so far, it was a place that she'd deliberately made like this.

It wasn't originally a place with card soldiers, knights, and all sorts of monsters. She had brought the knights from elsewhere and forcibly turned the soldiers into cards, making them the foundation of the Garden.

I'd heard that even the Jabberwock, said to be the strongest of the Queen's many pets in the Garden, was actually another monster that had already existed in the Abyss—she'd cut off its head and named it Jabberwock.

So this Jeopjeop bird, too... There was a good chance she'd simply picked up some suitable bird in the Abyss as a pet and named it Jeopjeop.

'...Is this not even a suitable bird?'

It was a creature depicted as a ferocious monster even in the fairy tale. I didn't know how much Han Serin had cared about faithfully recreating it, but I could feel that this thing's specs were impressive, too...