Guns and a Girl

Above Chief's Square, the enormous Puppet Theater was still playing music and putting on its performance. But at this moment, it lacked one crucial role: the Lighting Technician. No matter how incredible a puppet performance in The Darkness might be, it could not draw anyone's gaze.

This highly theatrical scene seemed to hold an enormous attraction for the Great Being lurking in the unseen.

The nursery-rhyme-like "ding-dong~ ding-dong" suddenly became impassioned, instantly creating the atmosphere of a true battlefield.

Above the darkness, beams of light descended unwillingly from unknown places.

The theater became vivid once more, impossible to ignore.

At its very center was a beam brighter than all the others, several times more brilliant than the light shining upon Aishe Grasner.

Within that beam, the figure of a child appeared in an instant.

The supernatural beings hiding in the dark and watching this long-brewing war had already learned their lesson once before. Seeing that great beam of light descend from the "mysterious," they immediately understood.

Puppet God Borusa was about to descend!

They just did not know whether it would be an avatar projection, or whether, as legend claimed, Borusa would descend in his true body.

Clearly, the previous lesson had still not been profound enough for some supernatural beings.

Even as they began wondering whether the being descending within the beam was a projection or his true body—

Their curious gazes still turned toward him. Such sluggish, insensitive instincts for danger brought fatal consequences.

There were no wails, nor any screams.

Yet beneath the night sky, atop some tall buildings or within dark shadows—

Figures emerged from their hiding places. It was as though they had suffered some fatal blow, their faces filled with terror. At first, several lower-level supernatural beings stiffened the instant they appeared, gray-white mottled