Facing the oncoming Mud Train.
Hyuga Sho turned around, took a step, and began to run.
He naturally carried Kazahana Koyuki in one hand.
Hearing the roar of the whistle and the sound of the train passing over the tracks, Kazahana Koyuki's face had already turned pale.
"It's going to catch up..."
Kazahana Koyuki shouted.
"It's definitely going to catch up! Everything you're doing is useless! It's all over!!"
It sounded somewhat like Shinno's dejected attitude.
But it was completely different from Shinno's ideals.
Shinno was "truly lying flat."
He had deeply recognized the inherent flaws of humanity.
He was also aware that none of it could be changed.
And so, he fell into despair.
He went on to create Dark Chakra.
It could be said that Shinno belonged entirely to the faction of despair.
Suppose someone told him today that the world was going to be destroyed.
Then...
Shinno would probably have only one reaction.
His heart would be filled with boundless delight, and he would believe that his ideals had indeed been correct: humanity was beyond saving, and the world was hopeless.
Amid such frenzied, dejected thoughts, he would welcome destruction alongside the world.
But Kazahana Koyuki...
She was more like someone who was running away.
She avoided all kinds of things, yet had no choice but to keep going.
The activity in her heart was merely resentment.
It was not Shinno's complete despair.
In other words, hope still existed in Kazahana Koyuki's heart.
She was merely waiting for someone else to ignite that fuse.
"It's all over...!!"
With her eyes closed, Kazahana Koyuki shouted loudly, summing up her own fate.
However, in the next moment.
A sudden sensation of weightlessness enveloped her.
Hyuga Sho jumped onto the train.
More precisely, the locomotive.
And then—
Clack, clack, clack.