Stars, Submit to Me

The howling storm came roaring in.

Amid the engine's thunder, Tsukuyomi Fuyu boarded the helicopter dispatched by the Kamikage Family.

"Hey!!!"

"It's raining this hard..."

"Can this thing really still take off!!!" Tsukuyomi Fuyu banged on the helicopter's frame.

Even louder than the helicopter's roaring engine was the racket of the torrential rain outside, forcing Tsukuyomi Fuyu to shout her question.

With several maids from the Kamikage Family holding umbrellas and supporting her, Tsukuyomi Fuyu successfully climbed aboard the helicopter.

"Please rest assured—"

"Our helicopter has undergone rigorous testing. Barring unforeseen circumstances, there absolutely won't be any problems."

Hearing the maid's words, Professor Tsukuyomi Fuyu's eyelid twitched slightly.

What did she mean by... "barring unforeseen circumstances, there absolutely won't be any problems"!?

"Couldn't we..."

"Couldn't we drive there?" Tsukuyomi Fuyu watched the helicopter rise into the storm.

Outside the glass windows, torrential rain poured down. From time to time, lightning flashed and vanished among the dark clouds.

The helicopter's repulsion field had already unfolded, keeping the rain at bay.

Even so, raindrops continued to slam into the windshield. Water gathered into droplets on the glass, while the high-speed airflow rushing toward them blew away the sparse drops.

The helicopter was well sealed. Once the doors on both sides of the fuselage had been pulled shut, the noisy rain had become a muffled, drumbeat-like sound.

The maid explained to Professor Tsukuyomi Fuyu, "The area between the Kamikage Family and the eastern port district has suffered severe damage."

"Especially the stretch leading to the port district... The most severely damaged sections of road have already sunk more than two meters."

"They've been completely submerged by seawater."

"At the same time..." The maid's expression turned grim. "After the torrential rain began, an abyssal rift was torn open in the eastern port district."

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