For the people of Osta, that was a day they would never forget.
That day, eternal night blanketed the entire city, and sunlight was forever cut off from them. The bodies they had once needed to preserve so carefully vanished from them completely, leaving behind only their souls. People emerged from their rooms, watching one another uneasily. Then, from Fang Zheng standing atop the tower, they learned what their future would be.
Unable to touch sunlight, able only to live in eternal night, stripped of their bodies and beginning a new life in the form of souls.
Faced with this sudden change, everyone was too stunned to speak. Yet once they gradually accepted reality, an unexpected sight unfolded...
"I still can't believe anyone would actually do that..."
Sitting aboard the Void Radiance Ship (No. 2), Misaka Mikoto recalled what she had seen earlier and found it unbelievable. After learning that sunlight would cause them to vanish completely, quite a few people in Osta chose to leave the city voluntarily. Like moths rushing into flame, they left the city shrouded in eternal night and charged into the brilliant sunlight. Raising their hands high, they melted beneath its rays like snowmen.
Misaka Mikoto simply did not know what to say. She had always thought that everyone who came here had chosen death because they wanted to live forever, but...
"Under certain circumstances, eternity is poison too. Those people didn't used to be unwilling to die. They simply couldn't die even if they wanted to."
In response to Misaka Mikoto's feelings, Fang Zheng merely shrugged and did not take the matter too seriously. At the moment, only a few of them remained aboard the Void Radiance Ship. Philly had taken another Seed of the World Fang Zheng had given her and boarded the