The streets were empty. Only the main road had emergency lighting, while both sides of the road were pitch-black, with nothing visible at all. That hair-raising silence felt like a man-eating monster, making the Old District at night seem even more grim and terrifying.
To be honest, even though my title was "Moonlit Gale," I was a little afraid of the dark.
Fighting in a city at night was no problem, of course. There were light sources everywhere. But in this kind of rural darkness where you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, I couldn't help feeling uneasy. It was as if something lurked within that darkness, stirring up the fear of the unknown buried deep in one's heart.
But if I showed fear now, the cool and aloof image I had maintained all this time would collapse.
Looking out the window, Alpha spoke with feeling.
"A city is only 'alive' because people live in it. A city without people is no different from death. If so, what meaning was there in our guarding the legacy of our ancestors for thousands of years?"
Meiya, who had transformed into Spider Man, made muffled noises and tapped the gag ball in his mouth.
He seemed to have something to say, so I pressed the switch on the gag ball.
"Alpha, the Supreme Council's ultimate mission was to restore the civilization of our ancestors. We guarded their property so that when they returned, they could find a familiar home. Now that plan has failed, and failed completely..."
The Supreme Council's original blueprint for revival had been to occupy Earth, then use the ancestral data stored within the Life Management System to reproduce those Blue-Skinned Bald Elves and restore the glory of ancient civilization on Earth.
But now Great Blood had