Night fell.
The white fog on the sea slowly surged.
Su Yuzu looked at the sea surface, as if invisible colossal creatures were surging in the depths, rolling up their tentacles.
Dark golden vertical pupils shone brightly, eyeing the land covetously and sorrowfully.
When she looked at the sea surface again, that strange sorrowful sensation departed with it, leaving only the surging white fog.
Su Yuzu pressed her hand against her chest.
The girl thought of the words the man from the "Eye of Insight" sect said before he died.
What they wanted was not the goddess's finger pointing at the moon, but the moon's true existence.
Then what about herself?
Was she that finger pointing at the moon, or that moon hidden behind the pitch-black throne?
Just as the girl was still pondering life.
[Ding—]
The familiar mechanical woman's voice rang in Su Yuzu's ears again.
[--Mission Distributing--]
[Sequence Two officially opened.]
[Part.1: You have gradually walked towards the storm; it is the storm, and also the stage.]
[Get ready to let the spotlight shine on you again.]
[Before that, the brave hero always has to clean up a few small fry to make a grand entrance.]
[Mission Content: Kill invading Walking Husks*10.]
[Mission Reward: Sylvia's Steadfast Heart Necklace.]
[...]
After completing the selection, the main storyline mission officially entered Sequence Two.
However... what Su Yuzu cared about more was the mission requirement.
Kill invading Walking Husks.
Su Yuzu trotted from the direction overlooking the sea on the rooftop and turned to look in another direction.
This experimental park was built on a seaside cliff; one side was the sea, the other was the forest.
Because the designer who originally built this experimental park had a kind of desolate resolve. Once the experiment went out of control, they would directly blow up the cliff, sending the entire experimental park plummeting into the sea.
In the forest... pairs of dark golden vertical pupils lit up.
Completely different from Zero or the nearly brilliant dark golden vertical pupils of Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi in the dreamscape. Those eyes in the forest were turbid and dull.
They were Walking Husks.
Pitiful revenants infected by the Catastrophe aura, yet unable to corrupt into Aberrants, abandoned by the Abyss. Each was skeletal like a walking skeleton, with eye sockets deeply sunken, leaving only rotating dark golden vertical pupils.
Sometimes Su Yuzu felt that the so-called Abyss Will must be obsessed with looks. Otherwise, why were the Aberrants all delicate and cute girls?
Su Yuzu climbed over the railing directly and jumped down from the lounge's rooftop.
At the same time, the experimental park's ear-piercing alarm also sounded.
"Yuzu!!!"
Kujou Katora also jumped off the rooftop following Su Yuzu.
Thanks to Kujou Katora's gift.
Possessing one-quarter of Kujou Katora's strength, Su Yuzu was already agile enough to be like a cat.
On the contrary, Kujou Katora, who possessed pure brute force, smashed onto the ground like a meteor landing, smashing a small concave pit into the white masonry.
Su Yuzu trotted all the way to the observation tower.
On the observation tower, Sylvia was looking at the forest with a grave expression. She looked at Su Yuzu with some astonishment. As if she hadn't expected the first person to rush over would be that Eldest Young Lady who seemed to be here for sightseeing.
"How is the situation?" Su Yuzu looked at Sylvia with a familiar air.
She was indeed very familiar with Sylvia. She knew the girl's depths.
"Still within a controllable range."
Completely unsure why the girl had that kind of self-familiar confidence, Sylvia raised her eyebrows to look at Su Yuzu, then introduced the situation to her.
"It's just a group of ordinary Walking Husks."
"This level of Walking Husks has absolutely no..."
"Damn it!!!"
Sylvia looked at the light yellow dots that suddenly started to surge explosively on the blue light screen in front of her.
Su Yuzu no longer needed Sylvia to explain what was happening.
She gazed in the direction of the forest.
Dark golden vertical pupils appeared one after another. Then skeletal figures shambled out of the forest.
"There is no problem." Su Yuzu gently patted Sylvia's shoulder. "It's just a group of Walking Husks."
Su Yuzu had an inexplicable feeling. That group of Walking Husks... appeared so densely because they had sniffed out her scent.
They had followed the convoy's trail here.
Perhaps during the day, they had been watching this white fortress covetously with those godless and turbid eyes. Wanting to pull the young girl sitting high upon the throne down from her pitch-black seat and divide her up to eat.
Enduring until the sun set, gathering a considerable number, only then launching a general offensive.
Sylvia looked at Su Yuzu sluggishly.
When the young girl patted her shoulder, there was an inexplicable majesty. Full of imposing manner. As if as long as she was there, even if the sky fell, someone would hold it up.
Sylvia suddenly had a very subtle feeling.
That group of burly men from the Fourth Action Division might not have followed along to protect a girl on a sightseeing tour. They were clustering around their head.
Although the process was unexpectedly chaotic, the result... seemed to be no problem either. Kujou Katora's master was indeed their head.
Taking off her baseball cap and handing it to Sylvia, Su Yuzu smiled at the girl. "Help me keep this for a moment~ Sylvia."
The girl's familiar tone made Sylvia actually think she was some acquaintance of hers. It was just that she had forgotten the other person.
She watched the girl messily tidy her hair, then pull out an extremely long tachi from who knows where.
Sylvia just subconsciously took the girl's hat. The fresh fragrance belonging to the tips of the girl's hair wafted into her nose.
Su Yuzu stood on the barbican's city wall.
Besides the laboratory's guards, there was also a group of burly men in black combat uniforms on the wall. Amidst the sound of a hail of bullets.
"Miss Yuzu?"
"It's very dangerous here..."
Hayabusa looked at Su Yuzu with some worry.
The Walking Husks outside seemed a bit different from the ones they had cleared out countless times before. Some of the mutated individuals among them had even stepped into the Sequences.
Even if it was just the First Sequence, their movement speed was extremely fast, and they were unafraid of death.
Espers were humans after all.
The fragility of their bodies was not in the same class as Aberrants at all. Otherwise... that laboratory wouldn't have been so excited after discovering Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi had returned via Inverse Aberration.
The physical intensity of Aberrants was completely different from humans. The endurance of Mihou Sakai and Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi... apart from Unohana Chiyo, even Sakura Mai couldn't quite compare.
"Graa—"
A rugged Walking Husk suddenly darted out from the group of Walking Husks, its sharp claws piercing the thick metal iron gate, issuing an ear-piercing scratching sound.
The Walking Husk was like an agile jumping spider wanting to jump onto the surrounding wall. It went straight for Su Yuzu.
Its hollow eyes seemed to regain focus; it could smell the fragrance of the blood on the young girl.
As if a voice was clamoring in its rotten chest.
Eat her—
If it ate her... everything would be rewritten.
However... what welcomed it was a snow-bright tachi.
Hayabusa looked at the young girl whose sword-wielding posture was as graceful as a butterfly, and suddenly recalled something.
Miss Yuzu had never been some delicate flower in a greenhouse.
On the contrary—
She was a treasured sword kept hidden by the Soga clan.
That Chimera Amalgam that almost killed Lady Kujou last time. It was killed by Miss Yuzu with her own hands.
A strong feeling began to rise in her heart: Did Miss Yuzu really need the protection of people like them?
Or was it that... Miss Yuzu actually left Keigunen to protect Lady Kujou?
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