Heart Force, Touching Heart Light Pulse

Drip.

Like a drop of water falling into a deep well, like a stone falling into an abyss.

The instant that sound appeared, silver ripples spread outward in circles, and every cell in Bai Cangshu's body seemed to be baptized by an invisible force.

His eyes, which had long ceased to blink from dryness, blinked once at that moment.

With just that single blink, everything in the world vanished.

The ruined New Tokyo City, Reverse Uchiha Izayoi standing atop the rubble, the giant outside the sky nearly as large as the planet itself—all of it disappeared.

The world before Bai Cangshu was completely empty. Beneath dim, eerie light, seawater that had lost its original color shallowly submerged the world. Everything had disappeared.

Buildings, mountains and rivers, land, plants, animals... humans...

Everything had disappeared.

Even the sounds that rang out at every moment, sounds your body had grown so accustomed to that you no longer consciously noticed them, had vanished.

Only Bai Cangshu remained, standing atop the water.

Bai Cangshu tilted his head and looked around. He discovered that visibility here was astonishingly good. Though the light was very dim, with his current physique and eyesight, he could easily see extremely far.

There were no obstructions in this world. He even felt as if he could see the curve at the edge of the world.

Standing alone on the surface of such an enormous planet, Bai Cangshu was instantly engulfed by an unprecedented sense of emptiness.

"You should have realized it long ago, shouldn't you, Bai Cangshu?"

"You are very lonely."

"You have no kindred spirits."

A voice sounded beside Bai Cangshu's ear. It was almost a murmur, making its tone exceptionally gentle, yet in the absolute silence, it was incomparably loud.

Bai Cangshu cocked his head, as though trying to