When they learned that Mason Hart's entire family had died and had been devoured by that type of monster into human skins, the faces of everyone present became extremely awkward.
And when they were informed that Mason Hart had been determined to die and had developed the idea to perish together with those monsters, sympathy for Mason Hart appeared on their faces.
But as soon as they learned, through Zachary's observations, that monsters had exited from the nine households and entered Mason Hart's villa, everyone's complexions immediately turned pale.
They knew that there were only twenty or thirty households in the entire villa area. Including Mason Hart's family, the proportion of monsters in this community had already exceeded one-third. This meant that monsters had been lurking around them all along and, perhaps with more time, it could even be said that they were living among those monsters.