Chapter 320: The World's End (1)
In a place devoid of light.
A pink-haired girl was slowly walking forward, relying on the faint light emitted from her fingertips.
A space with no landmarks to rely on in any direction.
For the girl, only the round pipe beneath her feet, illuminated by the dim light, served as a guide showing the way.
Thump. Thump. Thump.
Perhaps because the pipe was made of metal, her footsteps sounded like beating on an empty drum.
“It’s dark. I’m hungry. My feet hurt.”
[It’s dark. I’m hungry. My feet hurt.]
“It’s dark. I’m hungry. My feet hurt.”
[It’s dark. I’m hungry. My feet hurt.]
A voice echoing through the dark space like a reverberation.
Grumbling sounds kept escaping from the girl’s mouth as she walked wearily.
The pink girl wanted to lie down and rest right away, but not enough to sleep on a pipe only as wide as her two cheeks.
After all, it would be a disaster if she fell while sleeping, unable to see the bottom.
‘Was it a mistake to blindly enter this dark place to avoid the Starlight Ants….’
‘Well, of course it was a mistake.’
The girl walked along the endless pipe, inwardly recalling how she had ended up in this state.
Yawn.
The pink girl opened her mouth wide and yawned.
‘I’m sleepy.’
A space with nothing but darkness.
A pipe that required walking in a straight line.
Moreover, a whole day had already passed.
As she became more accustomed to walking on the pipe like a tightrope walker, drowsiness was overtaking the girl.
Chomp chomp.
So to stay awake, the girl took out a white petal and put it in her mouth, chewing.
Ugh.
The taste must have been very bitter, as the pink girl scrunched up her face and stuck out her tongue.
As the girl was in the midst of selecting and eating unpalatable but edible alchemy reagents, she spotted a faint light in the distance.
The pink girl opened her mouth and shouted “Oh!” before starting to sprint along the pipe at high speed, as if performing acrobatics.
“Light!”
Arriving in front of the light in an instant, the girl jumped towards it.
As she leaped into the light, the girl emerged from the massive building filled with darkness and found herself facing a familiar night sky and new scenery.
A solid and sturdy stone floor, unlike the metal pipe.
And soft white powder covering that stone floor.
The white powder blanketing everything in sight created a landscape the girl had never seen before.
The white powder reflected the starlight falling from the sky, giving off a soft glow, and the girl’s footprints were imprinted upon it.
When she raised her head to look at the sky, a familiar curtain filled her vision.
An endless sky curtain covering the entire visible sky.
It was the curtain that had been obscuring the sky since before she was born.
The sky curtain was torn and tattered in places, allowing glimpses of the night sky beyond.
The sky visible through the curtain was deep and dark black, but the stars twinkling in that darkness shone beautifully, as if jewels had been scattered about.
“Now, the moon is no longer visible.”
The moons that had begun disappearing one by one at some point had vanished without a trace, with the green moon being the last.
“Even the green moon is gone.”
The girl looked up at the sky and muttered with a slightly regretful expression.
The girl, who had never seen the sun, had now lost even the moonlight.
It was then.
An unidentified being appeared before the pink girl from the empty air.
A transparent blue like water.
Barely the size of a palm.
And something wearing a large hat.
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