Inside the terminal control tower.
The captain who had been temporarily pressed into service, along with the onlookers watching through the huge glass windows, could only stare as the more-than-seventy-meter-long plane drifted through midair toward the runway. Then the entire aircraft suddenly rolled and tilted to the left, its left wing nearly scraping the ground.
Yet just before it touched down, the plane suddenly leveled out in an instant. Then the entire aircraft slammed onto the runway, immediately straightened its nose along the runway, and skidded through the torrential rain trailing a thick mist.
The Boeing 747 bearing the SKJ logo slowly came to a stop.
The airport fire engines and escort vehicles rushed onto the runway at once.
Thanks to Fujino's precise handling, none of the disastrous events from Shinigami Elementary School Student's memories came to pass—the ones where he and his phantom thief friend had landed a plane in gusty winds and smashed straight into the airport, setting the whole place ablaze, blowing up several planes in the process, then forcing a high school girl to make an emergency landing at a harbor and crash a wing into a crane, nearly sending everyone to their deaths.
Other than the landing being rough enough to rival those captains who were retired carrier pilots, everything had gone fairly normally.
In fact, aside from first class, the ordinary passengers downstairs had no idea what had happened to the plane.
Fujino even thoughtfully used the cabin broadcast to report the local weather, adding some standard pleasantry along the lines of, "Thank you for flying with us."
Hearing a voice different from the one they had heard during takeoff,
some people felt rather confused.
It was not until the flight attendants opened the side emergency exits, shouted for everyone to evacuate, and had