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"Th-This is..."
At No Name's base, Kudou Asuka and Kasugabe Yō, the two girls, stared at the barren, ruin-like wasteland before them and both drew sharp breaths.
"Th-This really happened because of a battle with some Demon Lord?" Kudou Asuka's normally imposing voice was filled with unease.
"No matter how you look at it, this seems more like natural decay caused by an excessively long passage of time, doesn't it?"
"And there isn't even a trace of life here. This is an abandoned human settlement—there should at least be stray beasts nearby, shouldn't there?" Kasugabe Yō was equally stunned.
"What... exactly happened here?"
Seeing the disbelief on Kudou Asuka and Kasugabe Yō's faces, Black Rabbit, Jin, and all the children of the Community looked dejected.
"There is nothing strange about it." Black Rabbit spoke with a complicated expression.
"A Demon Lord who could utterly defeat the companions who once developed this Community into the greatest power in the East District possessing this level of strength doesn't surprise Black Rabbit at all."
"Besides, they did this deliberately." Jin spoke in a heavy voice.
"Turning this land into what it is now and displaying their terror to the world... aren't Demon Lords the sort of beings who naturally enjoy that feeling?"
When holding large-scale Grace Games, capable people generally prepared separate game stages, or simply set up game boards in other dimensions, precisely to avoid powerful forces damaging Little Garden.
But Demon Lords were not the kind of people kindhearted enough to