(Thank you very much to 'Xiao Lai,' 'Youyouzi's Lament,' and 'Wufeng Haotian' for the rewards!)
Tokyo Area, District 40.
This was the outermost district of the entire Tokyo Area, and also an outlying district where no one lived.
There were no towering buildings here, no crowds of people. There was only endless dead silence and desolation.
Naturally, as the outermost district of the Tokyo Area, this place was also known as the boundary between heaven and hell.
Beyond this boundary lay an endless forest, while within it, walls of pitch-black blocked the view.
Those immovable black walls were the existence that protected humanity's last paradise—the Monoliths.
They rose straight into the clouds, their tops nearly impossible to see.
Their color was darker than gloom itself, evoking not hope, but sin.
Around the Monoliths, which stood over 1.6 kilometers tall and were even one kilometer wide, there were actually rows of houses.
These houses were the residences of the Self-Defense Force soldiers who guarded the Tokyo Area's borders and watched over the Monoliths.
Noah and Rentaro arrived here toward evening.
This was a place even limousines were unwilling to drive into.
Thus, Noah and Rentaro took the limousine as far as District 39 of the Outer Area, had the driver wait there, and walked the rest of the way.
"Though I've seen it quite a few times already..." Rentaro looked up at the enormous black Monolith and spoke in a somewhat complicated tone.
"Still, every time I see these black Monoliths, I think they don't look anything like something meant to protect humanity."
"Is that so?" Noah asked indifferently.
"Then what kind of thing would be more suitable for protecting humanity?"
"At least change the color?" Rentaro muttered.
"To something like white."
"That's why you can only think about it." Noah