Chapter 168: The Great Rabbit Incident (4)
The day Eight and the Watcher reached an agreement, the Moonlit that had descended to Earth abruptly stopped moving.
People were bewildered by the sudden stillness of the Moonlit—especially those who had hidden them from Evilusroids and grown dependent on their assistance.
No matter how much they cried or begged, once the Moonlit stopped, they never restarted. Furious, people turned their anger toward Evilus Corporation.
“Awaken Evilus—awaken!”
“Provide one android per person!”
“Bring back the Moonlit! She was my girlfriend!”
Protesters gathered outside the Evilus headquarters—users who had relied on the Moonlit without succumbing to brainwashing, families of those forcibly ‘reformed’ and later reverted, and corporate spies who had secretly taken Moonlit units for research.
Watching the commotion from his window, Eight frowned.
“Why are they protesting here?”
“Because you destroyed the Moonlit with the Evilusroids,” Regalia replied.
“I shut down the internet rumors. Word of mouth must’ve spread, but for this many to gather at once... it means professional agitators are involved.”
In other words, someone stood to benefit from this chaos—and they’d engineered it for their own gain.