The Phantom of the Watcher's Sword abruptly appeared in Su Wen's hand.
Then, gripping its hilt crackling with dim blue arcs of electricity, he drove it fiercely into the cracks surrounding the rock wall at the very last instant before the Tokyo subway was swallowed by the pitch-black tide.
This was the information Handsome Scholar had obtained from Natsume Chie.
No.
More precisely,
this should have been the final legacy left behind by her grandfather:
Tokyo's underground "scar": structural damage.
It was right here, at the hidden danger her grandfather had once failed to completely resolve.
A hidden danger buried more than a decade ago.
Yet at the moment Tokyo faced disaster once again, it became the first Chess Piece capable of reversing the world.
In an instant,
the blade seeped an unnoticed deep blue into the depths of the subway structure.
Then,
amid faint clicking sounds like those of mosquitoes and flies, something slowly stirred beside this previously stable Abyss Gate.
The structure leading to the Divine Abomination Graveyard, reinforced long ago during the early stages, had now become an abyss on the verge of tilting.
But that was part of the plan.
Because Su Wen intended to force the Black Tide completely back in!
As for how to reinforce this place afterward, that would be the job of the Night Watch who would arrive soon.
This time, perhaps ninety percent of the credit truly came from the top-secret information Natsume Chie had provided.
In an instant,
as the fissure continued to widen,
the distant cultists seemed to sense something as well. The Black Tide, which had been surging forth to devour everything, suddenly stalled. Like a living creature, it consciously retreated to either side of Su Wen.
Then, it suddenly plunged downward, completely exposing the Abyss Gate that