Whoosh, A flash of light, and four figures appeared out of thin air.
"It stinks—"
Saki, with her side ponytail, immediately covered her nose, her little face scrunching up.
"A strong stench of corpses. There are a large number of bodies nearby that died within the last three months."
The gloomy, long-haired girl Tatsuki Yukino showed no reaction. Her adoptive father, "Doctor," had once conducted quite a few "resurrection experiments," and having assisted him, she had long grown accustomed to this smell.
"Be careful. The principal said this world's 'difficulty' is very high!"
Tatsuki Hayato, who had manifested Spiritual Power gauntlets, and Yamagami Ryuji, with two enormous crimson Buddha palms appearing beside him, had already positioned themselves on either side, protecting the two girls between them.
"This world seems pretty bad."
The place where the four stood looked like a wilderness with only gentle rises and dips, its ground covered in weeds and shrubs, with several large trees in the distance.
That alone would have been fine, but when they looked up, the gloomy sky was packed with dark clouds; when they looked down, most of the vegetation was withered in a grayish-white state;
The few distant trees were also abnormally thick, twisted, and grotesque—given their eyesight, they could even see human skeletons tangled in the roots beneath the trees. There were no rotting clothes or leather armor on the bones, making their cause of death highly suspicious.
"Saki, attack those trees."
"Okay."
The side-ponytailed girl in simple power armor raised a hand and brushed it across her waist.
Boom, Amid rising smoke, An "FGM-148 anti-tank missile" fell into her hand.
To improve Saki's combat strength, Tatsuki Hayato, Yamagami Ryuji, and Tatsuki Yukino had done school missions every day, using all the money they had saved to equip the side-ponytailed