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The familiar sun, unseen for so long, hung high above Asahikawa City.

The viscous darkness and low murmurs of the deep night were gone.

The ordinary people protected by the Two-Shaku clay statues still stared blankly outside. None of them had reacted yet.

Was it over?

Even more shocked beyond words was Kujo Machi.

"It's gone... It's all really gone...!"

Kujo Machi was so excited that she pressed her entire face against the transparent window, trying to get the widest possible view.

Yet within her field of vision, aside from the corpse already hacked into hundreds of pieces by Uesugi Tetsu and the motionless, shattered chains,

every other apparition had vanished. Not a single one could be seen!

Even the impostors everyone had been forced to guard against had disappeared without a trace.

—She had watched those mighty, dazzling thunder dragons blast them into pieces with her own eyes!

Kujo Machi no longer remembered when she had last seen a world this "clean." The relevant memories had become impossibly vague.

"Yay!"

Behind Kujo Machi, Chisa threw up both hands and cheered loudly. "As expected of Master and Sister Two-Shaku! You really defeated all those evil bad guys! Yay!"

She turned around blankly and stared at Chisa, who was cheering without restraint. After standing there for a moment with her mouth open, she also raised both hands and cheered with all her strength.

"Yay! Yay! Yay!"

Facing the radiant sun with both hands raised high, Kujo Machi could not stop transparent tears from flowing down the sides of her eyes.

Her voice broke into sobs as she shouted, and then she easily lifted Chisa high into the air with both hands and cheered several more times.

Then, overwhelmed with excitement, she ran out of the room, went downstairs, and opened the