The City of False People, a New Area! Descending from Chisa's Perspective, the Mad False People and Bell Ghost

Chisa's disappearance was inseparable from that city of false people.

—That was what Ririko said over the phone.

"Uesugi Tetsu... I'm sorry."

Ririko's slightly hoarse voice came through the speaker via the Special Affairs Division's exclusive channel. "At ten thousand meters in the air, I could clearly sense that Chisa had returned to Hokkaido, but I couldn't pursue her. There was nothing I could do."

Rarely did she say such an unnecessary extra remark.

"Even though I promised you."

"Ririko, you should know this isn't your fault."

Uesugi Tetsu's gaze was as indifferent as ice, but his voice remained calm. Suppressing his unnecessary emotions, he asked Ririko, "Tell me how Chisa suddenly disappeared."

There was a brief silence on the other end before she slowly replied.

"Actually, I didn't sense anything particularly obvious before or even at the instant Chisa disappeared...

"It was only about half a second after she vanished from beside me without warning that I barely caught a faint trace from above the ground in Hokkaido and determined that the city was responsible."

The "without warning" Ririko referred to would have produced the same result even if ten ghost gods had been guarding her at close range.

If Ririko herself had disappeared through such means, it would still have been understandable.

But why would little Chisa be given "such an honor"?

Even using an anti-aircraft cannon to swat a mosquito wouldn't be this excessive.

Unable to figure it out for the moment, Uesugi Tetsu asked, "What about the others? Did anyone disappear at the same time as Chisa, or a little earlier or later?"

Ririko asked around on the other end, then had the specialists on the plane contact the Hokkaido Special Affairs Division. They reached a conclusion.

"There were no changes on the plane, and the