Dawn had yet to fully break, and the light was hazy and indistinct. Two people stood quietly on a city street in Huaxia's Fog Capital.
One was a man with strange white markings "tattooed" across his face, his eyes pure white as well.
The woman beside him looked much more normal, though the air around her was especially cold.
These two were none other than Qin Manjiang and Qin Manyi, who had torn open space.
After surrendering all his emotions in a bargain with the Doll, Qin Manjiang had obtained the White Pupil God's power.
And so... at that instant, he had sensed that the world he inhabited was not a real existence.
More precisely, Fu City and Moon City were merely cages constructed using the real world as a framework.
Those two cities were playthings trapped inside a "glass marble."
Only beyond that "glass marble" lay the real world.
In other words... the place where the two of them now stood.
The mist in the air carried a faint chill. The unfamiliar city lay immersed in the cool spring fog, with the faint sounds of street sweeping drifting through it.
"Swish-"
"Swish-"
"Swish-"
The sweeping sounds brushed across their hearts, stroke by stroke. Both Qin Manjiang and Qin Manyi felt a slight stirring. They could not help looking over, watching the sanitation worker's figure recede into the mist.
Everything was clearly just like what they had seen in Fu City and Moon City, yet it felt different.
Perhaps it was the air, perhaps the mist, perhaps the sounds...
Neither could put it into words, and neither spoke.
It was so ordinary, yet both were profoundly shaken!
This was a city other than Fu City or Moon City. This was not their world!
Among the trees of the greenbelt, dense