The Erased Place

***

I stepped outside and walked down the familiar street.

Perhaps because this was already a quiet neighborhood, and there'd even been a Gate Break.

Even though it wasn't that late, I couldn't hear a single voice.

“Nothing ever changes around here.”

I walked down the quiet street toward the place I'd had in mind.

The place I was headed for was an empty lot at the edge of the neighborhood.

People did pass through now and then, but

this neighborhood was already so quiet.

More than anything, no lunatic would come outside in the middle of a Gate Break...