"It disappeared!?" The green-haired girl stared in shock at Jiu Ming, who had suddenly vanished before their eyes. A living, breathing person had simply vanished—what kind of place was this?
Seeing that Jiu Ming was gone, the pink-haired girl took out her phone, snapped several pictures of the surroundings, and began writing the notes she needed to make. Compared to memories of what she had personally seen, she seemed to trust these manually recorded "memories" more.
That was how she had developed the strange habit of obsessively documenting everything with her phone.
"..."
"All right, C.C. Hurry up and give your Geass to Charles. Hasn't your long-held wish finally become something that can be fulfilled?" Jiu Ming recognized the childlike figure standing beside a burly, white-haired man with curly hair.
Behind them, a black double-helix pillar stretched out from the void below, connecting to the enormous earth-yellow sphere in the twilight sky, like Saturn itself.
"Heh~ You're getting desperate?"
C.C. gave a soft laugh and brushed through her long hair, staring at the two before her without a trace of amusement in her eyes.
The curly-haired man said nothing. Mao nodded. "The person at your side is far too troublesome. Our plan had to be moved forward because of him. All right, C.C., give your Code to Charles."
"And if I refuse?"
"That's no longer up to you." Mao shook his head and drew a pistol, aiming it at C.C. Even with the power of a Code and immortality, she could still be injured. "Time is running out."
Mao and the man beside him had not originally intended to carry out their "Godslaying Plan." But after the unexpected variable that was Jiu Ming appeared, they had no choice but to activate it ahead of schedule.
The "god" they referred to