Volume's End: Wonder, Heavenly Crafts, a Reunion Five Hundred Years Later, and the Ebb Before the Tsunami

Uesugi Tetsu pushed open the office door before him. It looked almost exactly like the one at the Special Affairs Division in Arakawa Ward, as though it had been carved from the same mold.

He came face-to-face with Kujo Machi, who was holding a photograph and swaying as she walked out with her head bowed.

He turned sideways, letting the dazed Kujo Machi—who had not noticed him at all—walk out.

He glanced at Kujo Machi's expression, then looked into the office and saw Nanjō Emi sitting there with her legs crossed, sipping a latte. A puzzled look appeared on his face.

"Kujo Machi can make that expression too? Is the world ending tomorrow?"

Uesugi Tetsu entered the office, and Two-Shaku-Sama, who followed him in, habitually closed the door behind them.

He could not help asking the smiling woman, "Sister Nanjō, what did you say to her?"

Nanjō Emi put down her latte. After crossing her long black-stockinged legs, which gleamed beneath the sunlight, she spread her hands. "Who knows?"

She shrugged.

"Maybe she was pleasantly surprised to learn that she could soon go to Arakawa Ward and seek refuge with her younger sister."

After thinking for a moment, Nanjō Emi continued, "Yes, it was probably similar to the feeling of learning that Uncle Jules was actually the captain of a huge ship."

"By the way, Uesugi-kun, if you return to Arakawa Ward later, remember to take the same flight as Machi, so she doesn't accidentally crash for various superficial reasons."

She leaned back in her office chair and said,

"Enma's Eye is very precious."

Uesugi Tetsu: "?"

Whoever heard that wouldn't be stunned?

Uesugi Tetsu felt his CPU spinning explosively, but he could not make sense of it no matter how hard he tried, so he could only ask, "Where