You Are Only Monsters

Boom! Boom! Boom!

When flames suddenly shot into the sky within Kindling City, powerful mental fluctuations also rippled outside the city.

Outside the prosperous, brightly lit Kindling City, which looked like an iron forest spread across the earth, lay vast stretches of open ground, huge industrial zones, and a few farmland orchards. Most eye-catching of all were the enormous electrical towers standing upright across the land.

The Crimson Moon had already sunk toward the west, leaving the earth seeming vast and silent.

Only the stars in the sky gave off a faint glow.

In the slightly dim night, Mom, Black Queen, Dr. An, and Seven, riding a new motorcycle, arrived from different directions. They looked at one another with wary, appraising gazes, each carrying a faint sense of pride.

"Big Sis, you succeeded..."

Black Queen stood quietly beneath an electrical tower. Strange insects appeared around her from time to time, jumping joyfully around the hem of her skirt, but she could not be bothered to pay them any attention. Only the air around her occasionally rippled with a trace of chill.

Her voice was even colder than those ripples as she said indifferently, "You deceived not only Staff Hider, but us as well."

"When we first discussed this plan, you never said you would give Pale Hand to him..."

"..."

Hearing this, Dr. An and Seven beside her also looked at Mom with some coldness in their eyes.

Both of them wore strange glasses over their eyes. They seemed to be using them to communicate with Mom and Black Queen.

Faced with Black Queen's faint accusation, Mom merely chuckled softly. "It was just something I did along the way."

"Besides, when we discussed this plan, we only said what we had to do. We never said what we weren't allowed