With Reze's assurance, Asaba Kotone felt relieved.
That night, Asaba Kotone slept soundly.
The next day.
With the Time Devils' "rewriting" of time, the prophesied day arrived.
At that moment, Asaba Kotone stood atop a tower several hundred meters tall in Tokyo, looking down at the passing traffic and pedestrians below.
Although most people had gone to shelters, there were always some who refused to believe it. After all, a prophecy about the end of the world sounded fake to begin with, and moving the date forward from 199 to today made it sound even more fake.
Yet everything seemed so normal now, peaceful and calm.
It was nothing like the day the Nostradamus Prophecy would come to pass.
Still, Asaba Kotone felt this was probably the calm before the storm.
Just then, something suddenly changed below.
"What's...?!"
Asaba Kotone's gaze sharpened at once, his expression turning grave.
Above everyone's head below floated a large, pitch-black character meaning "death"!
And beneath the character was a string of... something that looked like a time?
"31 days 06 hours 24 minutes 46 seconds"
"18459 days 08 hours 32 minutes 01 second"
"3551 days 14 hours 56 minutes 23 seconds"
"..."
These numbers also changed with every passing second. In short, they decreased one second at a time.
Clearly, this was a countdown.
And paired with the character for "death," it was not hard to guess that this was probably a countdown of their remaining lifespans.
Adding in the fact that today was the date of the Nostradamus Prophecy...
Asaba Kotone immediately understood something.
He looked up and found that even he had these things above his head.
However, the time displayed was "∞."
This was probably because he was a Weapon Human and had no lifespan countdown.
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