"Woooooo—!"
Accompanied by the steam whistle, the train raced forward along the railway, while the girls sitting in the carriage looked rather bored.
"Two days have already passed, and this world... There doesn't seem to be anything here at all?"
Eclair gazed at the scenery rushing past outside the window and yawned indifferently. Rumiere nodded as well.
"Yeah. The cities we've passed through are almost completely silent. Apart from those strange zombies and corpses, we can hardly see any living people. There are no radio signals, no networks, and no electricity... This world should basically be considered completely destroyed, right?"
"Is there really any hope left for this place?"
This was not only Eclair's question, but everyone else's as well. Duanmu Huai had already explained to them that the so-called Soul Fragment World was the echo of a destroyed world. To leave this world, they had to change its endless cycle. But honestly, in the girls' eyes... this world was already completely finished. There was no cycle to speak of in the first place.
"Ah, look! There's a little deer over there! It's so cute!"
At that moment, Mary suddenly cried out and excitedly pointed outside the window. Everyone looked up and saw a fawn weaving through the woods, seemingly chasing after their train.
"Wow, really. So cute."
"This world does have some cute things after all."
The girls gathered around as well, sighing over the fawn's vigorous form outside—but in the next moment, the little deer suddenly sprang out of the woods. Under the sunlight, they could clearly see that half of its face had completely rotted away, its skull had collapsed downward, and its eyes were glowing red. The Zombie Deer charged straight at their train and then... vanished with a slap.
"..."
"...This world really isn't cute