"Hey? What are you thinking about? Why did your expression suddenly become so scary...?"
Iki Hiyori instinctively shrank back a little. The purple-haired, blue-eyed young man before her had suddenly taken on an unusually grave, even somewhat cold expression.
Since they were not all that familiar with each other and could hardly be said to know one another well, the girl naturally felt a little afraid. She could not help glancing around. The night was deep, and while the city lights were indeed dazzling, they could not change the nature of darkness itself.
Many places were pitch-black, because light and shadow were always relative. She suddenly realized that she was standing on the top floor of a skyscraper, looking down over an entire city dotted with star-like lights beneath the dark night sky... For a middle school girl, finding herself in such a setting without anyone familiar by her side was something to worry about.
Still, she had always been rather tomboyish and carefree. On top of that, none of this had been within her control. From the very beginning, she had not come here of her own accord. And compared to the barrage of information about gods, monsters, Regalias, and such—
All of it had understandably overwhelmed her, to the point where her brain felt unable to process it all.
Compared to her crumbling worldview, these were merely trivial details. Naturally, she had not noticed them at first. Only now, after the dust had settled, the tense and thrilling danger had passed, and she had received a definite answer to her own problem and relaxed somewhat, did she have the spare attention to consider other things.
Why had this person put on such a frightening expression the instant that god left?
What was he planning? Had she been too