At that thought, the girl suddenly felt relieved.
She leaned backward, and her whole body dropped from the balcony in an instant.
This time, she really had jumped.
The sensation of weightlessness hit her.
But it was easier to accept than she had imagined.
So this was all there was to jumping off a building.
She could die now.
She could be free.
She even wore a faint smile.
Full of mockery.
She did not know whether she was mocking herself, her family, or this unfair world.
At that instant.
A hum rang out.
Some strange sound rose beside her ears.
Immediately afterward, a ring of ripples shook the air.
Then she saw an unbelievable sight.
Her father, mother, and brother had their eyes wide open.
They froze.
They were fixed in place.
She turned to look downstairs.
The neighbors watching the spectacle, mocking and making snide remarks, instantly fell silent.
The property management staff had rushed out.
They were all frozen in running poses, their expressions horrified.
It was as if they had all been struck by a "time-stop" spell.
Then the girl discovered that she, too, was frozen high in the air.
In the middle of falling.
Time really had stopped.
At the sight of this abnormal, unscientific scene.
The girl's own eyes widened too.
Frightened and uncertain, she surveyed her surroundings.
How was this possible?
Why had time stopped?
And then.
She saw him.
A man standing on a Flying Sword flew slowly toward her.
He really was slow, like a snail.
But in this state of "stopped time," he looked so bizarre!
Then he lifted her out of danger.
He carried her onto the rooftop.
Time resumed once more.
"Huh? Where is she?"
"Didn't she jump? How did she vanish in an instant?"
"Holy shit,