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Tonight, the night was so cold and indifferent that it chilled the heart...
Even though the sky was clear, with nothing blocking the moonlight and starlight from pouring down, for no apparent reason, tonight felt oppressively stifling from the depths of one's heart.
Of course, not everyone beneath this night sky felt that way.
The ones who felt oppressed on this fairly pleasant moonlit night were only a portion of them...
As for Fuyuki City, it continued with its usual daily life...
The waves continuously crashed ashore with one swish after another, striking the dull-colored beach like an invading army, soaking grain after grain of sand and pebble after pebble, only to retreat weakly a moment later, over and over again.
On this beach permeated with the cold night air, an underground passage surrounded by a construction wall looked utterly out of place, unbearably conspicuous.
Presumably, whether it was night or even daytime, anyone playing on this beach would surely have their mood ruined by such an incongruous construction site?...
Fortunately, on this cold beach tonight, there was only the swishing sound of waves striking the shore.
And the clanging footsteps echoing from within the underground passage...
This was a circular passage only four or five meters wide, extending straight down into the earth.
Inside the passage, apart from the bricks covering the walls on all sides and the stairs leading underground, there was nothing else.
And through this passage of nothing but bricks and stairs, several people descended amid clear footsteps...
"Whew..."
A cold gust suddenly blew down from the passage entrance above, like