Inside the Gear Hotel, the sick and injured were everywhere to be seen.
People were relatively silent, presenting a vision as if the end of the world were imminent.
This planet was undergoing "Cocoon"ization, information that the summit councilors had gathered from the injured nobles of Mechanical Star. According to prophecy, Mechanical Star would be destroyed by the plague known as the Flesh Curse, and every living being on the planet would transform into machinery; after that, no humans would survive.
The Owl also learned that the Empress had passed away, and there was no one left to curb the spread of the epidemic.
Worse news came that the roads leading out of the Royal Court, other than the road to the Mechanical Throne, had been blocked by the "Cocoon"ization, which was also why there had been a large number of flight equipment crashes. Only a few nobles had managed to rush out of the Royal Court before the roads were sealed.
