"No, that can't be right. Look at the sky—what's going on?"
At that moment, a bespectacled boy from the Student Council looked up and couldn't help gaping.
Broken houses floated in midair, like debris suspended in water, slowly drifting along.
Countless houses filled the sky in a dense mass, forming something like a three-dimensional city. Many of them were even connected through collisions and compression, creating naturally formed passageways.
—As long as someone had the courage to climb up there.
"What kind of special effects are these? How can they look this realistic?" Orito Kaori frowned.
"Could it be real?"
"What do you mean, real or fake? These are definitely special effects! Just special effects! Someone must have set up some reality show and dragged us all here."
"But... this doesn't look fake..."
"It has to be fake! We need to trust science."
Everything around them was baffling.
They had been sitting in the meeting room, enjoying the air conditioning and having a discussion, when they were suddenly taken away and dumped in this godforsaken place.
No one could make sense of the situation. They stared at one another, wide-eyed, yet got nowhere.
Then they discovered another problem.
"What's going on? We can't get out?"
"Something's blocking us."
"Why is this like an invisible wall in a game?"
They felt around the edge of the plaza. It was as though a transparent wall stood before them, making it impossible to leave.
"Something's blocking us. Can modern technology really achieve something like this?"
Tama-na pressed his palm against the invisible wall before him and rubbed it, as if he were touching a smooth pane of glass. He was thoroughly confused.
Most of the other people in the plaza did the same, touching the thing obstructing them in astonishment.
However, after confirming