Humans 1

The sky gradually darkened. There were no brightly lit city streets here, only faint moonlight providing a little illumination. Seele stood at the edge of the rugged roadside cliff. Beneath her lay deep ravines and sheer precipices. Though there was a guardrail that had long since been smashed to pieces, she still felt that one careless step could send her to her death at the bottom of the mountain.

Seele looked down. The gray, overcast sky blended with the rocks of the cliff, cold enough to make one's heart tremble. The bare cliff face was covered in tiny, dense scratch marks, showing how many people had died here. These traces that buried despairing souls seemed to reveal the eerie light within the wide-open pupils below...

Just then, Seele sensed that something was wrong with Suzuki Yukiko beside her. They were already at the cliff's edge, yet she was still stepping forward.

"Careful!"

After a brief pause, Seele quickly grabbed her arm and stopped her.

"Was I...?"

Only then did Suzuki Yukiko seem to come back to her senses. She did not even seem entirely sure what had happened.

"Suzuki Yukiko, are you okay?"

Seele forcibly pulled Suzuki Yukiko back to the middle of the road. Only after confirming that she was conscious did she ask. At the same time, Seele glanced at Aso Yuna beside her and relaxed only after seeing that Aso Yuna was completely fine.

"I-I'm fine, thank you! Did I almost... jump down just now?" Suzuki Yukiko looked at the cliff ahead, patting her chest with lingering fear as a trace of terror flashed through her eyes.

"What happened to you earlier? There was clearly no path ahead... yet you kept walking forward."

Perhaps because Dark Seele was there, Seele had not sensed anything negative at all,