The human world.
The wind howled mournfully.
The vast world was a blur beneath the torrential rain.
Dark gray clouds covered the sky. Now and then, flashes of lightning could be seen moving through them.
The world was illuminated in fits and starts.
At one moment,
a streak of lightning came crashing down from the sky, striking the mountains.
Flames suddenly leaped up in a mountain ravine.
The fire spread across the mountains and plains, gradually growing into a raging inferno that even wind and rain could not extinguish.
Boom!
Thunder rolled ceaselessly behind the clouds, deafeningly loud.
Wind and rain lashed the mountains and forests, while lightning and fire raged.
All things lay shrouded in darkness.
Far up in the depths of the sky, a tiny black speck suddenly appeared.
—it was a person.
The moment he appeared, he pierced through the thick, leaden clouds and plunged toward the earth below.
His eyes were tightly shut, and he wore a suit of white armor edged with red.
The armor had been utterly shattered. Only a few pieces still clung to him, and the howling wind gradually tore them away.
The man seemed to be unconscious, utterly unaware of everything happening around him.
Amid the wind and rain,
he fell faster and faster—
unless something unexpected happened, he would crash straight into the earth.
One breath.
Two breaths.
Three breaths.
Time continued to pass, but the man remained motionless.
Then a faint golden light appeared around him, condensing into a Golden Coin.
Ding-dong—
The coin circled the man once, let out a chime, and vanished.
Falling.
Falling.
Still falling.
A flock of birds in the forest was suddenly startled by the wildfire spreading through the mountains.
Naturally terrified of fire, the birds flapped frantically into the sky, desperate to escape