The Sapphire Star plummeted through the spatial turbulence. Just before she hit the floor, she shot out her Clutch Claw and caught a protruding railing.
Click!
Her fall stopped dead. Using the momentum, the Sapphire Star swung forward, flipped, and landed on a precariously swaying platform.
"Whew..." She panted softly and quickly surveyed her surroundings.
The scene before her was nothing like the last time she had stumbled into this place. Where was the eerie but neatly structured Infinity Castle she remembered? All she saw now was an apocalyptic wasteland.
"Holy shit... what happened here? Did Muzan tear down his own house?" Bewildered, the Sapphire Star climbed higher to get a better view.
The Infinity Castle's enormous structures floated at crooked angles. Countless broken wooden corridors and shattered paper doors drifted aimlessly through the void like garbage.
"Caw-! Caw-! Caw-!"
While the Sapphire Star surveyed her surroundings, several Kasugai Crows with dark red wooden tags tied to them struggled through the floating debris and circled down onto her platform. Their feathers were disheveled; clearly, passing through the portals had been dangerous for them too.
"Lady Sapphire Star! Are you all right, caw?!" the lead Kasugai Crow asked anxiously.
The Sapphire Star scattered a handful of Potion Lifepowder to heal the crows, then asked, "Why did you all follow us in? How are the others doing? Have we suffered heavy casualties?"
The lead Kasugai Crow beat its wings urgently, its voice fraught with anxiety. "Caw! The moment those portals appeared, most of the Kasugai Crows rushed in with the swordsmen. Now... things are in complete chaos!"
"Caw! Everyone's been scattered! They've fallen all over the Infinity Castle, caw! The exact casualties... we can't count them, but there are definitely injuries, and even... caw!"
It paused, struggling to steady its voice. "We...