The Primal Universe.
Earth.
It was eight in the morning.
In a martial arts hall, Apprentice Level practitioners were practicing martial arts.
In a skyscraper, people in suits and polished shoes were talking in a conference room.
On the streets, some pedestrians hurried along while others walked at an unhurried pace, and vehicles flew overhead.
On the route between Earth and Mars, spaceships traveled like the buses of the past.
The wind rustled the leaves.
In a nature reserve where monsters were kept, a tiger monster pounced on a pig monster, tearing into it and devouring it.
Suddenly, everything stopped.
Then time began to reverse.
The pedestrians all moved backward.
Employees heading to work returned to their homes, and students heading to school went backward all the way home.
The wind blew backward through the leaves, and those that had been swaying grew still.
The tiger kept spitting out the pig monster's corpse. Once it had finished, it leaped backward, and then the pig came back to life.
After returning home, a young woman first took off her coat and put it back on a hanger in the wardrobe, its wrinkles smoothing themselves out.
Then she went to her dressing table and used her makeup tools to remove her carefully applied makeup.
She went to the kitchen and put clean dishes in the dishwasher. After a little while, she took out dishes with some stains on them.
She went to the dining table and kept spitting out food. Soon, food filled the stained areas, leaving them looking clean.
That food formed from crumbs inside her mouth before returning to the plates.
Among it was bread with spread. She held the jar suspended upside down, and the spread flew off the bread and back into the jar. In that brief moment,