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The sky gradually darkened.
Nights in this world were terrifying.
Because at night, in the dead of night, the low growls and roars of Gastrea would occasionally carry past the Monoliths and echo along the edges of the cities, leaving timid people unable to sleep at all for fear that once they fell asleep, they would never wake up again.
Of course, such sounds could never reach the noisy city center.
It was the same whether in Fairy Village or the Tokyo Area.
Compared to the rapidly developing Fairy Village, the Tokyo Area had not changed much from three years ago.
The Sacred Residence, where the ruler of the Tokyo Area lived, still stood there as it had for the past decade, unchanged.
At this moment, in a reception room within the Sacred Residence, two young girls sat facing each other as though they were having a tea party.
"It has been so long since I last had tea with Saint Tenzi so leisurely like this."
The girl who said that was none other than Tendo Kisara.
Behind Kisara, Natsuyo stood quietly like a secretary.
Sitting across from Kisara was a holy-looking young girl.
She was as pure and white as snow.
She wore a white formal dress resembling a wedding gown, white lace gloves on her hands, and an elegant hat atop her head, giving her an astonishingly sacred air.
Anyone from the Tokyo Area would surely recognize this young girl.
The ruler of the Tokyo Area—Saint Tenzi.
If the passing of three years had made Kisara much more mature than before, stripping away all her youthful naivety and changing her considerably, then Saint Tenzi was precisely the opposite.
It was as though