257. Five Years Ago part 1

Five years ago, when Fritz disappeared due to the force transfer, Rout and Lily were left to help the unconscious Newt. Their success in killing the Dark Magician ended up not in a happy one but more of a despairing one.

On their way down the tower, Rout and Lily started to have unsettling feelings. They felt uneasy as they took each step down the stairs, feeling heavy and overwhelming.

Over the course of their way down the ground floor of the tower, it was so quiet as no sense of life could be heard outside of the tower. It's like every life around them had vanished into nothingness, and it was just the three of them.

Restlessly, Rout and Lily had suspected from the very beginning that there was something wrong going on right now, but they just could not tell exactly what was going on until they left the tower.

The first thing they noticed when they were finally outside after