Whoosh—
As the light faded, the sound of wind reached his ears.
Then, he heard two girls scream.
The moment he opened his eyes, he realized the situation was just a little bit bad.
His entire body had been thrown into the air, four thousand meters above the ground!
Besides him, farther away, a blond boy, two girls, and a cat had received the same treatment.
Before him stretched a landscape he had never seen before.
On the horizon ahead stood sheer cliffs that evoked the edge of the world.
Looking down, he saw an unknown city shrouded beneath a gigantic curtain so vast it practically threw one's sense of scale into disarray.
The world spread out before him was a flawless otherworld.
Yotsuba Mahiro did not cast any magic. He simply let his body fall freely, savoring the freedom of life itself. Even when something like a membrane of water below tried to catch him, he ruthlessly avoided it.
"Who needs this kind of crap?!"
His eyes flashed as Nihility activated.
The water membrane instantly shattered into mist, and his entire body passed through it before crashing heavily into the lake, sending up a spray several meters high.
"Gawoo—"
Vaguely, he seemed to hear a sound like that.
"Did I land on something?"
Yotsuba Mahiro climbed ashore. As his Thought Waves surged, his clothes instantly dried, and every drop of water vanished from his body. Staring at the rippling lake surface, he scratched his head in confusion and asked, "Say, Canary, did you notice whether I landed on something just now?"
"No. And even if you did, it wouldn't be a problem. This is Little Garden. Even an Asura, god, or Buddha from the lowest level wouldn't be crushed to death by a hit like that."
A hazy, indistinct