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My body is heavy.
Consciousness returned very, very slowly.
Gyeon Jioh blinked.
‘…Where am I?’
It was a place where no wind blew.
Air, mana… all the things that ought to flow had come to a stop.
When she looked around, all she could see was a sea of sand. A gray desert full of dunes filled her vision.
Jioh rubbed her foot against the ground. Tok-tok. It wasn’t soil, but stone dust.
And above all, that blue star visible way, way out there…
Earth.
‘Hmmm… at this angle, that means this is the moon.’
“Live long enough and you even make it to the moon. No—did I arrive here by dying?”
The usage penalty for the [Shadow Branch], whose uses had all been spent, was certainly “death.” So she’d been prepared for that much, but honestly, to lay it bare, she hadn’t felt a hundred percent like she was going to die.
If she fell somewhere alive, she’d planned to crawl her way back up again.
“For a wistful farewell, I’m… in better shape than I expected…”
[The body’s durability has reached its limit.]
[Recovery is impossible.]
[If no appropriate measures are taken any further, irreversible damage will be sustained.]
Ah, anyway.
‘…And yet, not hell, not the underworld, but the moon out of nowhere.’
Of course, it wasn’t certain. Even when she checked the notification window, there was only an unfamiliar…