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"Let's rescue anyone we find along the way!" Jonathan said.
Using her shadows, Maria stored everyone she discovered while Jonathan healed them as well.
They hurried toward Jonathan's family residence.
There he saw his home—crushed beneath an enormous boulder.
"N-No…! Mother! Father! Hello?!"
Jonathan screamed, rushing forward to search for his parents and little brother.
If they had been at the ball, Maria would have told him already.
"I can feel something… down there…! Beneath the boulder…!"
Jonathan swung his fist forward. The boulder split cleanly in two, then four, twelve, two hundred, a thousand pieces—reduced instantly to dust that scattered and vanished.
He dashed into an underground chamber, a kind of basement.
"M-Mother?!"
The first thing he saw was a blonde woman lying unconscious on the floor.
"Father!"
A man held her tightly, shielding her from falling debris.
A massive rock had crushed his back.
"Ah…!"
He was gone.
