I had a lot to think about. The enemy leader chuckled and continued where he left off.

“If you want a mutant as an underling, you have to turn it into your underling before it mutates. The ones that are already mutants won’t turn into your underlings, no matter how much you push them.”

‘I already know that.’

“And among the mutants, there are some odd ones.”

‘Odd ones?'

I repeated his words as a question, raising my eyebrows, and the enemy leader continued in a calm voice.

“You will encounter some mutants that won’t hunt for new dreams even after becoming a mutant. Those are the ones that meet the conditions to become a stage-two mutant.”

‘When you say stage-two mutants… Are you talking about the one that showed up at Gangbyeonbuk-ro?'

"That’s right. Stage-one mutants all mutate into similar appearances, but from stage two onward, their appearances vary. I don’t know what makes them different, but stage-two mutants look completely different from each other.”

'How many stage-two mutants do you have?'

“I ordered one of them to kill itself, and you killed the other one.”

‘You ordered one of them to kill itself? Why would you do that?'

“I was curious if it would follow my orders.”

It seemed like he’d been meticulous in his experiments with mutants.

In order to have a mutant as an underling, the first and most important thing...