"I'm sorry, new director. I can't accept this order."
Tachika Fujimaru shook her head, her expression firm and unwavering.
"I've already said there's no need …!"
The fat director's face showed his annoyance, but he quickly calmed down and curled his lips.
"Forget it, do as you please. Don't cry and yell about giving up when the time comes. Since you've decided to do it, don't give up halfway."
His attitude changed so quickly that most of the people in the car could tell what he was thinking.
"New director … Thank you!"
Fujimaru Rika was also taken aback by this unexpected turn of events. She then thanked Gould sincerely.
The reason he said that was to divert everyone's attention from the residents of the anomaly zone to other places, so that Tachika Fujimaru wouldn't be overwhelmed by guilt.
However, he didn't know how to use other methods, so he could only deliberately put on a high profile.
When he realized that Tachika Fujimaru wanted to go no matter what, he gave up on his clownish speech and instead gave her a warning.
For such a magician to come from the Department of Justice of the Clock Tower, one couldn't help but wonder if she was a little lamb that had wandered into a pack of wolves.
After all, the Department of Justice was famous for being arrogant, and could be said to be a magician among magicians. Whether it was ethics or values, they were far from ordinary people, or even the average magician. They were existences that even monarchs would pale in fright at the mention of.
After Golder took a step back, no one had a reason to stop Tachika Fujimaru.
Thus, with everyone's tacit agreement, the submarine began to set sail from the Russian border all the way to Moscow, the center of the anomaly zone.
This wasn't an unwarranted march.
After the Tree of Imagination was cut down and the Wall of Storm gradually disappeared, the anomaly zone also gradually disappeared under the restorative power of time and space. It didn't disappear all at once, but gradually disappeared from the border to the center.
Tachika Fujimaru intended to fulfill her promise. From the border to the center, she would follow the vanishing trail of the anomaly zone and see all the Jaga people the moment they disappeared.
As the anomaly zone began to disappear, the snow on the ground began to melt, and the giant trees that occasionally stood tall in the snow turned illusory. Even the magical beasts unique to the area, the roaring beasts and the multi-headed serpents, gradually turned into nothingness without being aware of it.
Apart from the snow, the first town to disappear was the one at the border, the city they had visited before — Jaga Smolensk.
…
Patsy walked out of the house and saw the clear sky without the obstruction of the blizzard. He couldn't help but stare blankly.
He had just given the food he had hunted to his Alzheimer's mother and walked out of the house amidst her endless gratitude.
His mother had long forgotten him. Her memories were still of the happy family of three, but in fact, his father had long been eaten by magical beasts.
The encounter with the girls named Tachika Fujimaru and Matthew didn't change the trajectory of his life too much. Because he had retreated in time, no one knew that he had interacted with the old species of humans, and naturally, he wasn't mercilessly slaughtered by the Slaughter Hunters.
Not only that, he had learned from Tachika Fujimaru about the gathering points of magical beasts, which allowed him to hunt a large number of roaring beasts in one go. At least, it seemed that it wouldn't be a problem for him and his mother to survive this winter.
"This is the first time I've seen the sky …"
Patzsch looked at the cloudless sky and couldn't help but be immersed in the beautiful scenery for a moment.
Since the appearance of the Great Cold Wave more than 400 years ago, the entire Earth was covered in snowstorms, and the range of visibility was quite limited. Of course, the sky had become a legend, existing only in the oral records of the past Jaga people.
"Hmm? What's that box? It can actually run at such a fast speed on the ground! "
A roar attracted Patzsch's attention, and let him see a box galloping on the snow not far away. It was completely black and looked very spectacular. Using some unknown principle, it was running at a speed faster than the roaring beasts, which made him click his tongue in wonder.
However, compared to this, he also noticed another thing.
On the ground that the box was running on, all the snow was disappearing, and all the trees were becoming illusory, as if everything was dying, like a painting that was erased by someone.
No, it wasn't that box that caused the death, but that box was chasing after the death.
And the signs of death were rapidly spreading to the city.
In just a few seconds.
The signs of death extended to the town.
It seemed that there were also Jaga people who noticed the abnormality between heaven and earth, and came out of the house, and then were covered by the signs of death —
"It disappeared-?!"
Patzsch suddenly opened his eyes wide, and almost thought that his eyes were damaged. He rubbed them hard, and found that his eyes were not damaged.
"Isn't that even worse?!"
Patzsch quickly turned around and ran back to the stone house where his mother was.
Although he didn't understand why, in the face of an abnormality that humans couldn't resist, running away was the right thing to do.
He lifted his foot.
Then it didn't fall again.
A breeze blew.
The whole city suddenly quieted down.
Not far away.
The Imaginary Number submarine drove past the town, and the detection machine also accurately fed back the scene outside to the command room.
"Mr. Patzsch …"
Tachika Fujimaru and Matthew looked at the empty stone house on the screen, and fell into an indescribable silence. The entire carriage was affected by this, and fell into a dead silence.
Including Ryuga and Esders, no one said anything.
…
After nightfall.
The stars in the sky were still shining, just like in the history of pan-human history.
The Imaginary Number submarine returned to the outskirts of Moscow again.
After half a day, the entire anomaly zone had disappeared, and millions of lives disappeared without a trace.
Tachika Fujimaru fulfilled her promise. In this half a day, she sat in front of the screen, motionless, and memorized all the last scenes of Jaga.
There were those who fell as they fled in a panic, those who were so shocked that they couldn't even move a single step, and those who were completely ignorant … Without exception, all of them had disappeared.
"… Let's go, let's leave here and go to the next anomaly zone."
After everything was over, Tachika Fujimaru said to everyone in a hoarse voice.
"Understood."
Little Da Vinci nodded, then walked into the computer room. With the pilot named Munir driving, they headed toward the Russian border.
After the anomaly zone in Russia disappeared, the entire land finally revealed its original state.
What entered his eyes was a snow-white wasteland that stretched as far as the eye could see.
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