Su Youzi's Second Ring?

Gray skies constantly shed gray unknown ash.

It looked like gray snow.

The gray snowflakes began to burn the instant they neared the ground, as if ignited, painting the world with a lifeless yet dazzling brilliance.

As Su Youzi's most pampered operative, and the one with the most consistent check-in record,

Little Kiyomi had long ago been force-fed by Su Youzi until she reached the boundary between the Third Sequence and the Fourth Sequence.

And now—

She had effortlessly broken through the shackles of the Fourth Sequence, a boundary even her father had failed to cross.

The gray domain—

Unfurled.

Wuu—

The instant Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi embraced the Abyss once more, fell into an anomalous state, and entered the Fourth Sequence to unfold her domain, the piercing alarm inside the Manifest Manufacturing base rang out.

Because of Su Youzi's special and important status, the base had assembled an even greater security force to welcome her than the most important Kamikage Family base of Manifest Manufacturing.

Countless armed combat personnel surged out in an instant, warily looking toward the ice field.

Then—

They saw... an altered girl in a black dress kneeling half-kneeling before Su Youzi with devout fervor, taking Su Youzi's right hand and lowering her head to kiss it.

Unlike the many exceedingly risqué outfits worn by altered users—

Little Kiyomi's altered-user ceremonial dress was a rare example of an aesthetically beautiful design.

Although the black carp dress revealed plenty, exposing half of the girl's cleavage as if the front of her chest had been slit open, the dress, fastened only at the collar and waist, exposed her from the chest all the way below her navel.

And yet... it did not feel vulgar.

The girl's figure was elegant and light.

Like a work of art.

Yes—

A work