[Digging and mining for resources beneath the Earth's surface are things humanity has done since the birth of the earliest civilizations, but never to that extent, not even in modern times. What Lapis' map indicated was...beyond any human scale of destructiveness. And it demonstrated no care for the Earth's delicate ecosystems. Whatever the gems had been hoping to achieve, they clearly didn't care what happened to the planet as a result. Not at all.
no subject
That thought chills Sakuma to the bone.]
That one?
[There were more?
Was she involved in those, then?]