A scarecrow again? 

Adam had already faced an enemy in the form of a scarecrow in the past. 

However, this scarecrow was clearly different from Kim Garcia's Anomaly of Fear. This scarecrow was far thinner and frailer in stature, and there was a cane stuck vertically through its body. It was holding an oil lantern in one hand with a straw hat sitting on its head, and it was a very typical ordinary scarecrow used by farmers to scare away birds.

"It doesn't seem to be alive..."

The scarecrow didn't appear to be an emotional aberration or anomaly. It possessed no blood or flesh, nor any signs of life. It appeared to just be an inanimate scarecrow.

However, there was a huge cloud of black smoke permeating through the air all around it, as if it had been possessed by someone.

Thinking back to the footage of the first failed treatment that he had watched, a thought seemed to have occurred to Adam.

"Forget it, let's just focus on destroying it first...