"Uh...?!"
"Ah...!!!"
"W-what the hell is going on?!"
"What happened?!"
In the vast blue flower field that stretched like an ocean, the few residents who had not been knocked unconscious by the terrifying wave of sound clutched their ears and heads with pale faces, letting out cries of anguish.
—"Fear."
—"Panic."
Those were the only things that filled the entire flower field.
Even though they normally lived in an extraordinary city, surrounded by extraordinary phenomena such as Espers, and had long grown accustomed to the extraordinary, every resident fell into shock at this moment.
—"Helplessness."
—"Confusion."
In this world, where nothing existed but the flower field and the endless mountain range along one edge of the horizon, even cries for help and screams went unanswered.
Thus, it was not merely the world itself that had been overwritten. The worldviews of the residents within it were also being shaken, allowing pitch-black negative emotions to spread through the surroundings.
In that case, those who had been cleanly knocked unconscious were the happiest ones instead.
Because they did not need to face any of this, nor did they need to face everything that followed.
"Boom—!"
Suddenly, an explosive sound rang out.
It came from the lone castle standing in the flower field.
Without any warning, the top of the castle exploded, turning rubble and stones into a violent storm that swept outward.
Immediately afterward, enormous, incomparably thick chains shot into the sky from the castle, bursting forth like pillars of heaven and probing into the high air at astonishing speed.
They reached toward the crimson Crimson Moon floating in the night sky.
Then, everyone saw it.
"Clank, clank, clank, clank—!"
Amid sounds so clear that even those on the ground could hear them distinctly, the enormous chains pierced directly into the Crimson Moon,