Boom!
The blast thundered, and a towering hurricane rose outside the window. Torn rebar and shattered stone whirled through the storm.
Kira had the driver stop, opened the door, and walked to the edge of the overpass, looking down in that direction.
"That place... the Fallen District?" Kira murmured to himself.
After serving as officer for a while, he had begun to learn a thing or two about the city. The area beneath the bridge was the Fallen District near the city's outskirts, inhabited mainly by people who had been branded but released from the Detention Center for the time being.
Those who had been branded were practically considered "bottom-feeding scum" in the city and found it difficult to survive there. Yet they were unwilling to be cast into the Satellite Sector, so many lingered in the territory between the city and the Satellite Sector. Over time, that had become the Fallen District of today.
At that moment, the hurricane pierced heaven and earth like a black pillar. A vortex carrying steel bars and rubble tore through the air with savage force. The Fallen District's already dilapidated buildings were ripped apart further, ancient brick walls pulverized like paper under the wind pressure, while chunks of concrete were swept into circular weapons that sliced through the remaining structures.
And shooting out alongside the hurricane were thick vines. Like enormous stitches, they pierced through building after building.
"Vines?" Kira had already guessed the source of the disturbance.
Sure enough, beneath the crushing wind pressure, the people of the Fallen District fled for their lives in every direction. Someone cried out, "The Witch! It's the Witch!"
"The Black Rose Witch has appeared!"
Dancing tendrils cut through the smoke. The vines summoned through the Duel Disk system were not Solid Vision at all, but