“Um, Assistant Manager, I’m heading out now. I’ll be fine on my own.”
Assistant Manager Dolphin readily volunteered to be among the first to drop off at the first altar.
Someone had to take the lead at the first altar, since from there on people had to go alone, and I also needed to remain behind until the very end to organize and confirm the passengers.
That said, Assistant Manager Dolphin did not go down alone either.
“Th-then I’ll… go first too!”
“If we’re doing it anyway, better to do it early.”
There were so many volunteers that even at the first altar, several people had decided to jump down together.
And just before it began.
Distance remaining: 4
“You still have a chance to back out even now.”
Even at the final fork, not a single person backed out.
“Let’s gooo!”
“Aaaah!!”
People went out through the window.
With Assistant Manager Dolphin in the lead, more than seven people all tumbled down together from the first altar.
Open the waterway
The train quickly passed the altar, and the surroundings brightened again.
“Uh….”
The passengers blinked at the nearly routine, almost learned scenery that had repeated itself for a full fourteen loops.
“They, they went.”
Naturally, it must not have looked all that different from the times people had jumped before.
“The fact that they didn’t have painkillers wouldn’t take effect until after they dropped.”
And then a strange symptom appeared.
“Wait, was it actually not that big a deal?”
Maybe that was what they thought, because people started speaking up belatedly to say they wanted to drop too.
Like this person.
“Excuse me! I’m getting out too.”
As for this passenger, he was the same man Assistant Manager Dolphin had marked as a candidate sacrifice after watching him behave like trash….
Maybe he had conveniently deleted from his memory the part in the early loops where he had raised a fist at people and told them, “Get out of the way before I just beat you up.”
He spoke to me as if nothing had happened.
Well, that was fine…