
HOLY HELLY THAT LORE IS HEAVY!! Uncle is turned? I think he looks like a dog.
My first thought is that A did not send that message, my bets are on the organization. Specifically that guy with pink ears (pig maybe?) and glasses that got beat up when mc arrived at the farm and later stood at the entrance when G came back to the barn. He's sooooo suspicious. The way he looks at mc, how he's a hybrid working for the organization, the fact he's the only character we know whom we've had no contact with aside from A himself, all makes me think he knows what's up and got beat up for doing something about it.
Also think that the "incident" caused whatever the virus was to break out of containment and start mutanting into the animal virus of today. The project is way too new to have started when mc was a kid, people couldn't have been turning into animals then, but I DO think mc is patient zero, he was affected by a much weaker version so he doesn't have any crazy traits, but there's still something about him that's "off". Maybe the virus even started ON animals, maybe that little goat from ch1 is what was inside that box and that's why he's crying. The picture was taken shortly after A forgave him. Mc couldn't go outside bc he was in quarantine with the virus, and when he started going out on jobs, that's probably when the virus started to spread at mass scale and mutating from person to person until it developed clear symptoms.
So I saw the comments on the passage of time thing and tbh it's hard to make sense of it. Initially it hadn't mattered to me bc for the first volume not a lot of time actually went by since the villagers mentioned 3 years since MC left, same as MC said when he met ML, so their journey was less than a year.
So then I thought the time skip happened between volumes, but in ch8 we saw a picture of Ilse still young at the time they're talking about the clinic opening and people still using the distilled alcohol ML left behind, so unless he made a fuckton of it it should've been fairly recent, and therefore Ilse was still young when they had that conversation, that's the same timeframe they meet the orc child since MC's hair is still the same, but then that's where the timeline gets really weird bc the jump from ch9 to ch10 is strange, suddenly guns are introduced, they have a grown dog and MC's hair is slightly longer, but it couldn't have been much time bc the rat ML adopted back in the orc child's house is still alive and well, so somehow they found the rat around the time the clinic opened, Ilse was still young then, but is now an old woman when the rat is still perfectly alive. Unless MC was referring to the alcohol as "the technique to distill alcohol" that ML left behind, which wasn't the impression that I got, there's a time dilation happening that's fucking me up... Maybe I shouldn't think too much about it?
Anyways I want backstory on the puppy and the art is great, the story is still amazing and yea go read it it's still crazy good