...Both cars were empty. There was no one inside.
Chaisi straightened up from beside the car and scanned his surroundings.
His gaze fell upon the dark, gloomy expanse of Blackmoor City, where all the lights had gone out. It felt like a small boat adrift on the Black Sea, struggling to stay afloat, liable to sink into the darkness at any moment and never resurface.
Except for the shimmering Haisen River to one side, the world was silent and dark. Most of the streetlights had flickered out of existence, as if the heavy rain had washed the light from the pupils of humanity itself.
The wind, slicing through the deep and shallow shades of night, grew thick and sluggish.
Aside from the river waves washing against his eardrums, he couldn't hear any other unusual sounds.
The night had become completely unrecognizable. If someone had been driving, then suddenly decided to abandon their car and walk, it wouldn't be entirely unimaginable...
