It was as if they had forgotten they were bipedal animals, and all of them moved through the forest on all fours.
Taken together, this Doll Legion might have been enough to buy Misaki City, with enough left over to purchase a prime piece of land in France.
But in the eyes of Touko Aozaki, the girls' enemy, they were nothing more than disposable pawns.
To the witch who sensed her treasure (her mansion) being threatened—
they were merely ants she could crush at will.
When thick white fog rose from the mountain and a girl-shaped figure appeared within it, the massacre officially began.
The fog, which had crept in from who knew where, reflected a dark fairy tale.
The dolls noticed something was wrong.
They were Non-human "mystical artifacts," and therefore understood even better than living creatures how terrifying the girl in the fog was.
So the dolls tried to flee.
Unfortunately, their master had issued an almost suicidal order to attack head-on—and even without that order, they were already unable to move.
A huge crack split open in the white fog.
Within those cracks, the fog pulled itself into fine threads. But as the cracks widened, those threads revealed their true forms. They were not viscous substances within the mist, but strangely shaped white limbs.
—There was some incomprehensible monster lurking in the fog.
White, razor-sharp teeth and bright-red claws.
It looked like a bird, yet also like a beast. In the end, it seemed that it must be some kind of enormous dragon.
The dolls that could not escape charged into the white fog one after another, then vanished.
Crack, crack, crunch, crunch, crash—before long, even the last doll had disappeared.
In the forest, along the mountain paths, on the stairs—strange sounds echoed everywhere. The dolls' screams