Comprehensive Anime: I and the World's Top Daughters Have Our Five Senses Linked Chapter 709

The Family's hidden refuge, Eternal Harmony Cathedral.

This planet had no name.

Or rather, it had once had a name, but wrapped beneath layer upon layer of Memetic material curtains, even the contours of the very concept of a "name" had been blurred.

Its coordinates did not exist on any Star Chart, the Trailblazer's beacons could not catch its signal, and even the sharpest Memorian, if they tried to peer into this place, would see only a gentle, blank silence.

This isolated branch of The Family had been hiding here for more than one Amber Era.

Deep within the cathedral, inside the Seven-Layer Harmony Hall, an enormous Resonance Crystal hovered beneath the dome, radiating a steady warm golden glow.

This should have been the most peaceful moment—night prayer had just ended, morning hymns had yet to begin, and the only sound in the hall was the almost inaudible hum of the crystal as it operated.

Then a shrill alarm tore through the silence.

"—Emergency!"

The hall doors were shoved open, and a Family deacon in harmony vestments stumbled in, too frantic to care about the decorum he normally valued most. His face was as white as if he had just been dredged out of an ice cellar. "The Memetic material barrier in the Third Resonance Zone—"

Before he could finish, the entire hall suddenly shook violently.

It was not an earthquake.

The Resonance Crystal suspended in midair trembled violently, and the warm golden halo seemed to have been contaminated by something, a viscous, constantly writhing black-purple spreading in from its edges.

From outside the hall came the faint rumble of a low roar—the roar pierced the soundproof barrier, pierced the hall's heavy stone walls, and rang directly in everyone's mind.

The deacon's legs went weak, and he collapsed to his