A thin sheet covered the springtime scenery on my chest...
"Sigh..."
I let out a long sigh, turned, and headed upstairs. There was no one in the hallway on my floor. The empty rooftop was nearly eight hundred square meters in size.
The entire sixtieth floor, all eight hundred square meters of it, had been prepared for me as a variety of different rooms.
The main reason was that I couldn't spend much time around other people, so this was how I had to entertain myself.
I walked through the quiet hallway as dark clouds gradually covered the sky in the distance. By the time I reached the rooftop, the sky had grown dim. Lightning flickered incessantly in the clouds, and every so often, a thunderous roar rang out.
"Rumble~ Crackle~"
The rooftop was wide open. There wasn't much up there, just a garden—well... a garden for one person.
Normally, I liked to come out and feel the breeze at dusk, but I wasn't in the mood now.
I turned and headed straight to the east side of the building. There... was a diving board.
It extended about five or six meters, right? I stepped onto it and looked down at the crowds below, moving in groups like ants toward the city's southwestern corner. Without hesitation, I bent at the waist and leaped upward!
"Thump~"
The wooden diving board shook, and my body shot beyond the edge of the building.
"Whoosh!"
The wind howled past my ears, flinging my long hair behind me. I spread my body into a star shape and plummeted straight down!
I had been falling for barely a second when my keen hearing picked up someone on the fifty-ninth floor shouting into a walkie-talkie.
"The Empress is heading out!"
I frowned. I'd always felt a little