Eighth Crown

"Sorry, new director, I cannot accept this order."

Fujimaru Rika shook her head, her expression firm as if she would never waver.

"I said there's no need for it...!"

Director Fatty's face was filled with unpleasant annoyance, but he calmed down immediately and pouted.

"Forget it, do whatever you want. Don't cry and give up at that time. Since you have decided to do it, don't give up halfway."

His attitude changed so quickly that most of the people in the carriage could see what he was thinking.

"The new director... thank you!"

Fujimaru Rika also froze somewhat unexpectedly, and then thanked Gold sincerely.

The reason why he said that was actually just to divert everyone's attention from the residents of the Lostbelt to other places, so that Fujimaru Tachika would not be overwhelmed by guilt.

It's just that he doesn't use other methods, so he can only deliberately make that kind of high profile.

When he realized that Fujimaru Rika wanted to go there anyway, he gave up his clown-like remarks and instead gave him a warning.

Such a magician actually came from the law and politics department of the clock tower, and one can't help but wonder if a little sheep broke into the wolves.

After all, the Department of Law and Politics is notoriously arrogant. It can be said that it is a magician among magicians. Whether it is ethics or values, it is far from ordinary people and even ordinary magicians. Even the monarchs talk about it. exist.

After Gold made a step backward, there was no reason for everyone to stop Fujimaru Rika.

So, under the acquiescence of everyone, the submarine began to set sail, from the border of Russia, all the way to Moscow in the center of the Lost Belt.

This progress is not without reason.

After the fantasy tree was cut down and the wall of the storm gradually disappeared, this Lost Belt also gradually disappeared under the repairing power of time and space. It did not disappear all at once, but gradually disappeared from the border to the center.

Fujimaru Rika intends to fulfill the previous promise, from the border to the center, following the disappearance track of the Lostbelt, to see all the Yaga, the moment they disappeared.

As the Lostbelt began to disappear, the snow on the ground began to melt, and occasionally the giant tree standing in the snow turned into an illusion. Even the unique beasts here - the roaring beast and the serpent were unconscious. , gradually turned into nothingness.

In addition to the snow, the first town to disappear was the one on the border, the city they once visited - Yaga Smolensk.

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Patzie walked out of the house and saw the clear sky after losing the blizzard's hindrance at a glance, and couldn't help but be stunned.

He had just given his senile mother the food from the hunt, and walked out of the house in her great gratitude.

His mother had long forgotten him, and her memory was still in the time when the family of three was happy, but in fact his father had long since been buried in the mouth of the monster.

The encounter with the girls named Fujimaru Rika and Mash did not change the trajectory of his life too much. Because of the timely retreat at that time, no one knew that he had communicated with those old human beings, and naturally he was not killed and hunted. The soldiers slaughtered mercilessly.

Not only that, the gathering point of magical beasts that he learned from Fujimaru Rika also allowed him to hunt a large number of roaring beasts in one breath, at least let him spend this winter with his mother, it seems that there is no problem.

"I saw the sky for the first time..."

Patsch looked at the cloudless sky, and couldn't help but immerse himself in that beauty for a while.

Since the Great Cold Current appeared more than 400 years ago, the entire earth has been covered by snowstorms, and the visible range is quite narrow. Of course, the sky has become a legend, which only exists in the records passed down by the Yaga people in the past. .

"Huh? What is that box? It can run so fast on the ground!"

A roar caught Patzi's attention and let him see a box galloping on the snow not far away. It was completely black and looked very spectacular. It used some unknown principle to surpass the roaring beast. The speed dashed wildly, making him amazed.

However, compared to this, he also noticed another thing.

On the ground that the box drove over, all the snow was disappearing, and all the trees were becoming illusory, as if everything was dying, like a painting that had been erased by someone.

No, it wasn't the crate that caused the demise, it was the crate that was chasing it.

And the signs of that kind of demise are rapidly spreading towards the city.

only seconds.

That demise extends to the town.

It seems that Yaga also noticed the abnormality between heaven and earth, and came outside the house, and then was covered by the signs of demise——

"Disappeared--?!"

Patzhi's eyes widened immediately, almost thinking that his eyes were broken, and rubbed it fiercely, only to realize that his eyes were not broken.

"Isn't that worse!"

Patsch turned around quickly, raised his feet and ran towards the stone house where his mother was behind him.

I don't know why, but in the face of an anomaly that cannot be resisted by human beings, running away is the right thing to do.

He lifts his foot.

Then it never fell.

A breeze blows.

The whole city suddenly fell silent.

not far away.

The imaginary submarine passed through the city from outside the town, and the detection machine also truthfully fed back the outside scene to the command room.

"Mr. Patsch..."

Fujimaru Tachika and Matthew looked at the empty stone house on the screen and fell into an unspeakable silence. The entire carriage was affected by this and fell into a dead silence.

Including Lucia and Estes, no one made a sound out of ignorance.

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After dark.

The stars in the sky are still there, twinkling with the same pan-human history.

The imaginary submarine has returned to the outskirts of Moscow.

After half a day had passed, the entire Lostbelt had disappeared, and millions of lives had been cut off without a trace.

Fujimaru Rika fulfilled her promise. For half a day, she sat in front of the screen, motionless, and memorized all the last scenes of Yaga that were in front of her eyes.

Some fled and fell in a panic, some were so frightened that they couldn't walk, and there were teenagers who were ignorant and clueless... Without exception, they have all disappeared.

"...Let's go, get out of here, and go to the next Lostbelt."

After everything was over, Fujimaru Rika spoke to the crowd with a hoarse voice.

"learn."

Little Da Vinci nodded, then walked into the computer room, and drove in the direction of the Russian border under the driving of a driver named Munir.

After the Russian Lostbelt all died out, the entire land finally revealed its original state.

——What imprinted in the eyes is the endless snow-white wasteland.