The earth shook, and dust and smoke rose once more.
And when the smoke cleared, all they saw was a gigantic corpse slowly fading away, and the figure standing before it with his back to everyone.
Dead silence.
The entire battlefield fell into a deathly hush.
The Wild Hunt seemed to have lost the power sustaining them, turning into black smoke one after another and dissipating.
The soldiers of Inazuma gripped their weapons, yet did not even dare breathe too loudly.
Kujou Sara opened her mouth, only to find that she could not say a word.
All she could do was watch that figure slowly turn around.
That face.
When Raiden Ei and Yae Miko saw that face clearly, both of them froze at the same time.
It was a face they knew all too well.
That face had once laughed and chatted with them beneath Inazuma's Sakura trees; that face had once closed its eyes forever amid the cataclysm of Khaenri'ah; that face was the countenance Raiden Ei had missed day and night for five hundred years, yet could never see again—
"This... How is this possible?!"
And at that moment, in the sky, the Stellar Train slowly descended, then landed in front of Mo Wang and Lumine.
Lumine was standing near the train.
So this was... the Stellar Train?
She curiously sized up the enormous thing before her, her gaze sweeping from the front of the train to the rear, finally landing on that tightly shut door.
Then, the door was suddenly opened.
Lumine blinked, still a little dazed. But immediately after, she heard an incomparably familiar voice from inside the open door—
"Hey! Move it! Let me get off first!"
"Pah! You damn siscon, you're obviously the one who should move for me!"
"You—!!!"
Listening to those