The Angel Enters the Underground (Amazing!)

As I flew after the drone, I arrived in the city center before I knew it.

Usually, when people think of a city center, they imagine it bustling with people, but this place was the exact opposite.

The farther into the city center I went, the more the drones outnumbered the people.

There were more completely empty houses than homes with their windows blocked or covered by curtains.

If the outskirts had felt bleak, the city center was downright eerie.

It felt like I was looking at a bleached city utterly devoid of vitality.

"How could a place like this…."

How could anyone live in a place like this?

I swallowed the words that had risen to the tip of my tongue and looked around.

Whether people had fled after abandoning their homes or those responsible for maintaining them had disappeared, the condition of the abandoned buildings was a mess, to put it kindly...