Chapter 218

Maelstrom—whether in the game or in reality—was a gang composed almost entirely of cyberpsychosis-adjacent lunatics.

Take any one of them and drop them into normal society, and without exception they’d all be sent straight to a padded cell. Not a single one would be wrongly diagnosed.

But under modern standards, as long as a Maelstrom member still retained a shred of rationality, they could barely be considered a “normal” person.