Right Arm of the Saint by Gakuto Mikumo

Author:Gakuto Mikumo [Mikumo, Gakuto]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2015-09-22T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THREE

SHE’S CRYING

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The next day, the mysterious explosion that occurred in Itogami City blanketed the news media.

The newspapers printed photographs of the demolished warehouse district on the front page; television and video sites had interviews with survivors on a continuous loop.

The sixty or so damaged buildings had all been warehouses belonging to a major food conglomerate. About twenty thousand households had lost power; of those, half had no scheduled date for restoration as of that morning. The monorail track connecting Island East to Island South had been destroyed; direct damage alone was estimated at seven billion yen. When indirect damage was included, the figure climbed to fifty billion yen. The lone saving grace was the complete absence of fatalities.

“Whoa, scary. And the cause remains unknown, they said.”

With an apron over her school uniform, Nagisa was casually speaking while cleaning up after breakfast.

“Well, uh… It could be a warehouse fire started by lightning strikes, you know?”

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