Perhaps no one could understand what had happened at that moment.
Yes.
No one could understand.
Even Sylvia herself did not understand what had happened.
Sylvia had only seen it.
She saw the agitated young man raise one hand and chop downward.
That was all.
Yet, with merely that motion, the atmosphere stirred by it centered around the young man's arm and transformed entirely into an impact.
Then, everything around them "collapsed."
That was right.
It "collapsed."
Just as the word implied, amid a thunderous boom, the surrounding area was ruthlessly destroyed and crushed to pieces in an instant, as though it had been pulverized beneath an overwhelming mass.
And that destruction could not be defended against.
Just like the young man's self-righteous speech, this destruction was proceeding with complete irrationality.
Even with Sylvia's versatility, she could not find any ability capable of defending against that wave of destruction.
Thus, Sylvia and Rem, whom she had been protecting behind her, were both swallowed by the unreasonable destruction at the very first moment.
"Rumble—!"
Amid the deafening roar, at one corner of Gate City, a bridge built over a waterway was suddenly blasted apart.
The terrifying impact ravaged the bridge, turning it into rubble as though it had been crushed flat, kicking up dust and violent gusts before shattering it completely in the explosion.
The crowds closer to the bridge let out screams one after another, instantly turning the surrounding area into a hell of panic.
Among those people, some had only just regained consciousness as though waking from a dream. Upon seeing the blasted bridge, they fell into a daze.
Because those people had been standing on that bridge not long ago.
They had left only because Sylvia, upon noticing something strange, had immediately sung a song that drove people