In the blink of an eye, Annie had successfully "snuck" onto a planet in that mecha-survival wasteland universe. Then she looked around and realized she seemed to have landed in the ruins of a city or a small town?
"Hm?"
(゜-゜)
"This is..."
This was clearly a normal habitable planet. Annie could see trees, woods, and mountains in the distance, while all sorts of weeds grew nearby. Everything looked perfectly ordinary.
Aside from the air, which had a strange, rusty smell that didn't interfere with breathing, she couldn't find anything unusual.
And it looked like she was in a small town?
Of course, it was definitely not the kind of town you'd normally expect. It was more like a barren, abandoned place that time had forgotten—or that had been destroyed by war or something else—leaving behind nothing but steel and building ruins.
At any rate, aside from the yellowed weeds along both sides of the street, the buildings that had once stood there were now nothing but rubble. Even the walls still standing had long since cracked, their surfaces covered in mottled marks left by age and weather. They didn't look like anyone lived here.
The exposed steel structures in the ruins had long since warped and rusted. They stuck up in all sorts of strange shapes, surrounded by broken bricks, shattered glass, and other building debris. Add in the smell of dust and rust hanging in the air, and the whole scene came together to form a picture of a wasteland at the end of the world. It was almost too vivid.
"..."
("ヘ")
The town was incredibly quiet. It was so quiet that Annie could hear only the wind howling through the ruins in the distance.
There was no noisy human chatter, no chirping insects or birds,