The Fatal Stroll

Written by Nicholl

The proud city of Grandepolis, which held the rightful reputation of being the largest city in its region - both by area it covered and by the number of people who lived there, was a city bustling with life. Home to a plethora of very important institutions - banks, corporations and many others. The streets were dominated by cars zooming past the pedestrians, who were in an equal hurry to get to their destination as soon as possible, only to be met with another crosswalk that would take ages to get through with this much traffic during rush hours. Yet despite the obvious hecticness that one would expect from such an enormous urban organism, people here lived a relatively happy life - there were many families in the city who could enjoy all of its attractions, as well as use parks to host picnic parties and what not! All in all, busy as it was, the city was bustling with life.

It was a warm, summer Saturday and the city was particularly full of life on that day. The sky was clear and its blueness was a sight to behold on its own - and if you were some very important CEO, you could observe a beautiful cityscape whilst seated comfortably in your armchair, on the 40th floor of your luxury skyscraper, of which there were dozens in Grandepolis. But even if there were so many of those, not everyone was obviously a CEO of any establishment. Grandepolis was a good place to live, but it was no utopia. Saturday was a free day for some, and a workday for others. The ones who had to work were mostly businessmen and businesswomen, easily found in large quantities in the business and bank districts of the city. Apart from them, all sorts of laborers, restaurant staff, and also police officers were still on duty today. Those who did not have to work today, would either spend this day at home, enjoying some well earned time off, or would gather their families and head to the local parks to play, or on various road trips around the region. In short, everyone was doing something that day, and none of them would even allow for a sense of foreboding to cross their mind. After all, it was such a beautiful day - and on days like these, nothing bad should happen.

…right?

Not a person in this gigantic metropolis had even thought that somewhere over the horizon, an even bigger shadow was approaching. Except, it was no shadow at all. It was… an approaching giantess.

***

Kyoko was a blonde with sky-blue eyes and her hair reaching just a bit beyond her hips. She was slim and slightly curvy - all in all an attractive looking young woman. She had a characteristing scar going through her left half of the face, along with her left eye. That scar, however, only added to her charm, at least according to some. Kyoko, on the other hand, despised it, but she had a very good reason to do so.

She wore casual clothes - a blue dress that matched her eyes and a pair of sandals - perfect for a little stroll. And, as it happened, she was in the middle of strolling through vast grasslands, conquering mountains along her way with ease. That sounds like a pretty intense stroll, does it not? And to add to it, she had a very breathtaking view of the area surrounding her. Why would that be, one might ask? The trick to that was “simple” - she was about 1000 feet tall!

And so, with so much power at her disposal, it did not take her much time before, off in the distance, she began to make out details of what looked like a city. The closer she was, the more detailed it was. She began to notice all the buildings and billboards littering the landscape. However, it was all tiny to someone her size - so little, so brittle… It took Kyoko a moment to notice that she was walking right over a little road leading to the city. Following it like a string that led to the hank, she began to pay more attention to what was below her - albeit remaining completely unemotional about this. Finally, she seemed to have stepped on something, as she felt a crunch beneath her sandal. Apathetically, she lifted it off the ground to check what it was - but it could not be farther from the truth to say that it was because she cared what she stepped on in the first place. She could guess it was a car, which it indeed turned out to be, but she checked it just because it was a habit, nothing more. Seeing the black-tinted metal flattened hard and stuck to the sole of her equally black sandal, she sighed in disappointment and scraped it off her sole. What a way to start things up. It was not her first time visiting a big city like this. And almost all of the time, the beginning was the same - she stepped on a car along her way. It was bothersome. But she had something to look forward to, as she was close to the city already. Close enough to make out the little letters on the big welcoming billboard. It read…

WELCOME TO GRANDEPOLIS - WHERE WE TAKE “BIG” TO A NEW LEVEL!

Kyoko could not help but let out a scoffing laughter having read the city’s slogan. “Big” was the last word the little humans should use to describe themselves… And soon enough, she was going to let them know just that! With that mindset, and a grin on her face, she would go down the road, making sure her sandaled feet landed wherever there was something to break, as her shadow slowly began to loom over the outskirts of Grandepolis.

***

A young local police officer, out of the police academy less than a year ago, sergeant Doug Nutt, was in the middle of eating his lunch, consisting mostly of doughnuts. He was often made fun of by his colleagues that he had single handedly contributed to, and built the stereotype that cops eat so many doughnuts while he was simply eating what his name was suggesting he should. While he was having his fourth one, he suddenly got an unexpected message telling him he was to head to the southern outskirts of the city immediately, as the locals had reported some strange tremors. Other specialists were on their way, but the presence of the police force was also mandatory. He sighed, like anyone prevented from having a meal would, and ran as fast as he could towards his car. He fired up the engine, as well as the siren, and drove like a madman to his appointed destination. The matter seemed serious. It had better be, or else someone was going to buy him doughnuts for the upcoming month!

He was doing whatever he could to make it through all the traffic jams that regularly plagued the enormous metropolis, and he ended up doing quite a decent job, as in less than 10 minutes he found himself out of the city center, and therefore it was just a matter of getting there - no thinking how to avoid the jams anymore.

When he finally entered the outskirts, he began to drive slower, as he was tasked with patrolling the area in search of anything unusual, but apart from people dealing with their Saturday business, although with remarkably worried and troubled faces, the only thing he could hear and feel were some tremors of unknown origin.

Having driven around the neighborhood for about a quarter, he was slowly getting more and more convinced it was a fake report, and that the tremors he was still experiencing were some unannounced sewer renovation works or something. He was a bit… too hungry to care. So he kept driving with one hand, but his other one held his unfinished lunch. He was paying some attention to the road, not to cause any accidents, but frankly speaking, he was more concerned about keeping his stomach happy than watching his surroundings anymore.

He was so absorbed into eating his doughnuts that he did not see the world around him become darker and darker. Only when people’s screams arose and the tremors became thunderously loud did he realize something was wrong. He took a look around and saw it. The humans were fleeing before an approaching giant girl!!

Panicked, as this was beyond any training he had ever undergone, he pressed pedal to the metal and tried to escape - but out of fear, he drove forwards instead of backwards, and was headed straight for the colossal sandal of an even larger danger. He only managed to say his prayers before his car crashed into the hard, black footwear.

Kyoko, who had just arrived at the city’s edge, felt something at her feet. She leaned down to see what it was - a little car seemed to have crashed into her. Delightful. Even here they have to spoil the moment. She sighed, but then thought of something to spice things up. Maybe it was not too bad that it was there. She lifted her toes slightly, making her foot go up with the heel still attached to the ground. That caused the car, along with its panicked driver, who survived the accident, to slowly move underneath the sandal. And then… She pressed her foot back down.

crunch

That sound, muffled by a louder crunch of the flattened metal, marked the end of this young man’s police career, as well as of his entire life… and Kyoko’s first step into the mighty city of Grandepolis!

***

Kyoko looked around the street, which was now full of people running around aimlessly, their minds conquered by panic and the most instinctual need to survive. It was such a shame that screaming was all the little humans could do. It was… pathetic, at best. Kyoko smirked menacingly, her eyes scanning the street. She was just standing there, not doing anything, and yet it was enough for the little losers to start running away. That feeling of power was exhilarating to the towering giantess. Did she feel pity? None whatsoever. She was not going to do the whole “I come in peace” kind of thing. Oh no. She hated tiny humans. It was they who made that scar on her face, the very one that she hated so badly! Not only that, but they were just worthless. Tiny humans, nothing more than bugs to her, and they dare to live with dignity? She had every reason to despise themThey needed to be reminded of their place in this world.

“And teach you I shall…”, whispered the cruel girl, as she took another step into the city. Much to her cruel arousal, and to the tiny mankind’s terror. Being 1000 feet tall, it was like interrupting ants at their work - and to Kyoko, the tiny humans were nothing more than filthy bugs that she could not live without crushing, so the connotations go along with her intentions. The tiny humans would run as fast as their even tinier legs could carry them, but in the end they were no match for the might of Kyoko’s sandaled feet. Merciless as they were, not even their pleas for mercy would get past them, as they brutally trampled both women and men alike, adults or not. “Squish squash goes the trash…”, she said with an evil laugh, as there was no hope of outrunning her. Whilst advancing forward, Kyoko took a look behind her shoulder, only to see the asphalt shattered to a mosaic of a thousand pieces, glued together by whatever remained of those ugly insects, unworthy of any pity. She was a giantess and she was going to let them know what those are capable of.

After a couple of minutes, she decided that just walking like that stopped giving her pleasure - she cared not for the lives that were taken away for this mad and cruel entertainment of hers, they were not worth any attention that they involuntarily received. Good thing they were dead, lest the attention that they received got to their pathetic heads. She was going to pop their heads like grapes, each and every single one of them. The more she just stood idly surrounded by the fleeing insects, the more brutal her thoughts were becoming - she got a few ideas she wanted to try out, too! She scanned the area for a few spots where she could go to start her ‘teachings’. Far away in the distance there were many towering skyscrapers, signifying that that was where the city center was. That was an obligatory point on her list, but as it was a bit away, she wanted to try something a bit closer, first. While she was not going to pull any stops with the inhabitants of this city, she wanted to savor it, little by little. And so, she found herself a park, which seemed to be the go-to place for picnic lovers on that day. And so, with a devilish, fanged grin appearing on her face, she stepped off the street she was busy pulverizing up until now, and headed for the park, but not until she made sure to drag her feet right through a couple of houses that were in the way, demolishing them and leaving naught but rubble and debris. She did that in a rapid foot drag, so if there was anyone still in those buildings, then, well, they became a paper-thin puddle of blood, buried beneath the stones and bricks. Happy with her work, she turned her face towards the park, and kept walking, flattening smaller houses and trees with minimum effort.

All her way, she was not thinking much about the lives she had taken away with her own hands, or in this case - with her own feet. Instead, she was getting angry that these pathetic worms were going to ruin her pretty sandals. But that only gave her motivation - she was going to ruin these losers even more than they would ever ruin them!

When she arrived at the park, it took time for people to notice her presence. They all looked so carefree, spending time with their families. Kyoko looked at them, hating them for being happy. They did not deserve to be happy. They were too insignificant. Too tiny. They were not actually human! Kyoko was full of rage, harbored towards tinies ever since the days long past. But it was more than just a grudge. She wanted to dominate. She, as a giantess, wanted to get the attention she deserved, and if she had to slay them all in order to receive the treatment which she believed to be in order, then so be it. She was going to put them in their place, and their place was beneath her, where all other bugs belong.

Watching the families getting more and more aware of her presence, she noticed some of them started to run away, whereas others simply froze in fear.

“Awh, afraid of me…?”, she said with an evil smile, as she showed her teeth to the little family she was now squatting above. “Heh, I haven’t done anything, though…”, she continued, “...not yet…”. She was taking a good look at the family - there was a father, a mother, a boy and a girl, probably twins. The siblings were hugging each other as the father rushed onward to hide them behind his body, along with their mother.

“Acting bravely, aren’t we?”, she mocked his efforts, hovering her finger just out of range of actually flicking him away like a fly. “That’s cute, but I’m afraid you don’t realize just how little you are. Do you think you can do anything better than simply crunch?~”, she threatened him in a playful manner. She had to squint, but she could see him begin to shake, as he kept trying to stand in the way between Kyoko and his family. He was performing his duty as a father, telling his wife and kids to run. But just as he said that, Kyoko snatched him with a swift motion of her hand, squeezing him tightly, but not tightly enough to crush him. “Take a good look at your family, soon you’ll be the only one able to recognize them!~”, she grinned, as she slid her right foot out of the sandal and scooped the trio out of their picnic blanket.

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING!! LET THEM GO!”, roared the father, worried about his family. He tried to struggle, but he was completely powerless. Kyoko put the crying wife and kids on the surface of her sandal - there was a visible, sweaty imprint of her foot on it, courtesy of the day being so hot. The kids were shouting - “Daddy! Mommy!” - but their parents were powerless. The twins’ mother tried to hug them, but as the insole was sweaty and slippery, she just fell face first, and broke into tears, which made Kyoko chuckle a little bit.

“You taken a look yet?”, she said to the little man, as she began to put the sandal back on. “NO, NOOO!!”, he roared, full of despair, tears falling pouring down his cheeks. No father would want to see his family harmed, yet alone executed by a cruel giantess like this. In a series of short splatters and wet crunch sounds, the ones he loved and cared for, the ones he devoted all his life to, were gone. Helplessly, he hung his head.

“Hey, don’t make such a long face!”, she said, mocking his grief. He was there, heartbroken, and she was not letting him go just yet. “Just shattered a couple of illusions for you!”, she said with a tone suggesting she was expecting some sort of gratitude for him. “With them gone you now know that your life is worthless and you’ve wasted it all on something so fragile!”, she continued to verbally crush his heart, but then, she decided to deal the finishing blow, sliding his foot out of the sandal and putting him where her heel would normally rest.

From there, he could see three poodles of blood and broken bones, coated with smushed flesh and remains of clothing, all mixed with Kyoko’s putrid footsweat. Seeing what remained of his life mission, the little man broke down, howling from crying and roaring in rage like a wild animal - his emotions were out of control. He should have saved them! He should have done more!

“Care to clean them off? If you do, I’ll let you go free and rethink your life!”, Kyoko said with a grin, knowing all too well that the tiny human’s heart and mind had been turned into an even mushier mush than his late family members. Hearing her demand, he just fell onto his knees weakly, burying his face into the putrid insole, completely broken down. Kyoko just watched this and, with her mouth covered by her hand in a playful manner, she just muttered out…

“Guess that’s a no!”, and with an even longer giggle, she slid her foot back into the sandal, mangling and crushing the father along her foot’s way, turning him into a similar splatter to his family. Getting her foot comfortable, Kyoko scrunched her toes, having felt the subtle pop the tiny father made as the last thing he did in his life. Despite it being horrible, she felt a feeling of pride in her heart, and with that feeling, she stood back up to her full size, knowing all too well that if her feet continued to sweat as much as they do in such weather, the tiny family was going to get washed off in no time. Taking a look around, she realized that while she was busy torturing that one family, all the other parkgoers used that time to flee. What smart little bugs! But what those dumb losers did not realize was that she would snuff them all out, sooner or later. And so, she took her leave. Her next stop - the highway!

On her way to the highway, she was stopped by an obstacle - there was a very wide river blocking her way. Well, blocking would be an overstatement. Given her awesome size, she would be able to step through it like it was just a puddle. The problem, however, lay in her footwear. Nobody would want to walk through a puddle whilst wearing sandals. That would be highly uncomfortable at best. She knew that all too well, and the mere thought of getting her sandals wet like this made her cringe. The only thing getting her sandals wet that she actually tolerated, albeit unwillingly, was her own footsweat. It looked like it was finally time for her to take them off and continue to wreck the city barefoot - besides, she would get the most of the experience like this, as each crunch and every pop would be much more noticeable. Sliding her feet out of the sandals, she remembered the family she executed earlier. She managed to forget which sandal was their tomb already, but upon close inspection, there was nothing there - just a few beads of sweat. She laughed at how easily she crushed four people and they did not even leave a trace, as they got washed away by her sweat. Pathetic. Just pathetic. But at the same time, how suitable!

Being barefoot now, she grabbed her sandals, and then she got an idea. The highway was already in her sights, and it was just a matter of one or two steps to reach it. From where she was currently standing, she could see that the highway seemed to connect one end of the city with the other. She smirked mischievously, and took aim. She was going to take down two parts of the highway with her sandals, to isolate the middle of it. That said, she tossed her sandal to the left. The sandal flew through the sky and to the tiny panicked people down below, it looked almost like a crashing starship from some science fiction movie. And much like a crashing starship, it did indeed crash, taking down the left side of the highway, causing it to collapse, sending many tiny drivers to their deaths, as well as ruining the area around it. The way the crash zone looked once all the dust had settled was comparable to a powerful explosion, like someone bombed the place. And it was a bombardment alright! The same came out from the other sandal toss, except this time, it all happened to the right, which was a much more populated area. Kyoko could faintly hear the screams of the locals as the sandal flew above their homes, and then, with one final thoom, there was no scream left to be heard.

Kyoko kept her eyes closed, to sharpen her hearing. She wanted to enjoy those screams, and enjoy them she did. She even subconsciously curled her toes, causing them to dig deep into the ground and churn it all up. As her feet were still very sweaty, that caused bits of dirt, as well as the remains of those losers who got caught up underfoot, to stick to the underside of her toes. She obviously hated it when she found out about it, so she put her feet in the river, enjoying the coolness of its water, sighing in relaxation. If only those bugs were gone off the surface of the Earth… Her mind would be so much calmer! Still… She could not deny that killing them was bringing her joy and entertainment. At the very least, they only served that much of a purpose.

Taking a step forward, she now towered above an isolated segment of the highway, with both of its ends overlooking the magnitude of destruction caused merely by two flying shoes. With a dominant smirk, she stared down at the panicked drivers, who got stuck on that little platform with no hope of escaping it. Without any hesitation, knowing that they have nowhere left to run, she picked up a car. Inside, there was an in love couple. It would seem that some loving boyfriend wanted to invite her girlfriend on a road trip. How sweet of him!

“Where are we going, hmm?~”, Kyoko said in a scoffing manner, a mildly evil smirk appearing on her face. The girlfriend was scared and buried her face in the shoulder of her boyfriend, who was sitting behind the wheel, and he was afraid as well. “T-to the Grandlake, j-just to the west…!”, he managed to mutter out, and then began to plead for mercy, at which Kyoko just snorted with laughter. “No need to beg me, I’ll help you! Which way is it?~”, she said, mocking them for their fear. The young man just pointed towards his destination with a shaking finger and said “Th-thank you…!”. Kyoko faked an angelic smile, and then said “No worries! I’ll help you bypass the traffic!”. And she was not really lying while saying that. But still, she had something particular in mind - she took aim, and tossed the little car in the direction the young man pointed to. They started screaming as they flew at an extremely high speed. They could not have expected this kind of help! She laughed, but then, as she still saw the car in the air, slowly flying to its doom, Kyoko yelled “SHE WOULD HAVE CHEATED ON YOU ANYWAY!!”, and with one final laugh, the car eventually crashed into some skyscraper in the business district, causing the building to snap and shift, but miraculously, it did not collapse. “Oops… I guess I missed!”, she said as she faked an innocent laughter, and turned her eyes to the remaining cars, with their drivers twice as afraid now. She stretched to loom above them all and to have them all within her fingers’ reach.

Her newest idea was to rate the cars by the way they look. If she liked the color and the shape, they would be spared, and if not, she’d flatten it, along with the driver. That sounded like a fun way to kill some time! And not only the time, as it was soon to become apparent. With that, she proceeded to rate them. “Good… Good… Good… Not good!”, she said, with the unlucky driver being the owner of an old, white, rusty car. Not even letting him plead for mercy, she poked the car with her index finger falling from above, flattening it, and also causing the driver to explode under pressure, as Kyoko felt something wet splatter on her fingertip. She wiped her finger and proceeded to rate them next. “Gosh, how ugly! Here, let me help you salvage it!”, she cringed, after seeing some old camper. She wondered how many of those nasty bugs she was going to kill by flattening it. It actually took two finger slams to crush it, but eventually, it gave in to her pressure.

She continued to rate the cars in this pattern, laughing more and more with every single judgment, sometimes even judging the same cars twice or thrice, only to eventually flatten most of them. But from all this poking, the platform she created with equally brutal force was becoming unstable, and with one fateful poke, which did not concern a car, but a fleeing driver, who squished even easier than the cars, the highway collapsed, and all those who were still alive plummeted down to the abyss and river below, with Kyoko waving and saying her goodbyes to them. With the highway gone, she could finally go to the city center! That was to be the most exciting part of her rampage!

As Kyoko entered the crowded city center, she made sure she balanced her steps to get as many of the fleeing bugs as they could. It was a tight squeeze for her because of the buildings making the road way too narrow for her, but if she needed it, she just bumped into some of them with her hip or even her butt to cause them to collapse and make more space. She adored the feeling of tinies getting crushed under her bare feet, their insides oozing out and skeletons collapsing. It was all the feeling of power she deserved to feel as a giantess, and also, the most meaningful meaning in the lives of those pathetic losers.

Sometime during that stroll, curiosity got the better of Kyoko and she took a peek into one of the backstreets that she was passing by. She rubbed her hands out of zeal when she saw a scene straight from a movie! A criminal had used the chaos caused by Kyoko’s stroll of death and lured a young panicked woman and her daughter to rob them. The man and the woman were fighting over the woman’s bag, too busy to notice the giantess looming over her, with the little girl being the only one aware of her presence. With a tilt of her head, and a cruel grin, she sighed.

“So, the bugs can’t even fight their own crime in their filthy cities, eh? Fine, Kyoko’s on the job~”, she said with a giggle and managed to squeeze her foot into the backstreet, blocking the trio’s only way to escape. With a wiggle of her currently squeezed toes, she stomped it down, on both the fighting couple and the little girl, painting the opposite wall red from the power of the splatter. With a sinister giggle, she pulled her foot out of the backstreet and checked the sole. There was a lot of gore stuck to it, as well as lots of dirt and debris, but she was pretty sure she managed to spot the lady’s bag there, unharmed, but painted red with blood. She lowered her foot down, knowing that justice had been served, and proceeded to walk - she had something she wanted to do in the business district.

Once she made it there, she took a look around. The tinies there were all dressed very formally, surely most of them were some sort of important businessmen and businesswomen, investors and other sorts of people dealing with lots of money each and every day. Of all the tiny people, she hated those the most. So she was going to teach them a lesson. They were too busy scrolling through their phones, reading through the newest reports on the recent market trends and stocks. To get their attention, Kyoko stomped the ground. The booming sound finally got their attention, and obviously, most of them started running.

“So you think that you run the world because of all the money you have!?”, Kyoko started her tirade, and with these words, she started stomping the fleeing businessmen and women out with her feet, enjoying their crunches more than anyone else’s. “Kiss my feet, you stupid buggers, you aren’t running anything!”, she roared as she slid her foot over a crowd of reporters who were stupid enough to come there to make a sensation. Idiots, she would come for them later. “You’re all just some god wannabes, and guess what! This is your divine punishment!”, she yelled.

As she realized a lot of them would not get squashed underfoot because they were fleeing, she decided to get on her knees, and then all-fours. But she was not bowing to them, oh no. In this pose, she could continue to strike them down, but she could use her hands and knees to do it, too. “Your lives are all meaningless, and you reap what you sow from tormenting people with your wealth and your stupid regulations! YOU SWINES!”, she screamed even louder. She despised tinies, but that was on a whole different level. Normal tinies were just pathetic - and those? Those actually had the guts to try and become important. She could not stand it - and now neither could they stand her size, and therefore weight. She was going to paint this whole district red if she had to - and besides, killing those bastards was providing her with the joy and arousal she sought for so much. That feeling of relief, that she was ridding this world of this plague was more than divine.

Having single-handedly crushed hundreds of those, she decided it was enough work for her. She was going to finish them off in one, powerful move. As she was on all fours, she simply lay down on her stomach to crush whomever she had not crushed yet. In a swift motion, a cloud of dust arose around her as she flattened everything that was beneath her - humans, vehicles, minor buildings. The feeling of all those masses getting obliterated beneath her body felt like a massage, and it tickled her slightly. It felt like every single bubble on an entire sheet of bubble wrap popped almost simultaneously. Then rolled onto her back, eradicating two more districts that neighbored the business district, and then let out a long, maniacal laughter.

The laughter would reach to the most distant corners of the city, filling every inch of the city with fear. It was a laugh filled to the brim with hatred, with evil, with a neverending grudge held against the pathetic tiny humans. To her, they were no humans at all, just ants that infested the world. And in terms of bug handling, both giants and humans were similar - they needed to die. The only difference being that the latter considered the former a kind of bug as well.

In truth, however, Kyoko was one of the more cruel giants - many of her like-sized peers, whom she would avoid as much as possible - not out of hatred, but out of feeling uneasy around them - would have their limits while dealing with humans - they felt like they need to be responsible if they were the ones who were given a much greater size. But to Kyoko, that was just bullshit. She was going to let those humants know they were an aberration of this world at every single opportunity. That was her mission.

Feeling tired from all this rampage, Kyoko eventually fell asleep amidst a zone of her own destruction. She slept soundly, but the tiny buildings and all the rubble did not make for any comfortable mattress. She moved a lot in her sleep, unawarely destroying everything around her with her hands and heels. She even rolled a few times in her sleep, which to the fleeing locals was like a tsunami, except without any water - just the rubble.

After an hour, which to the locals felt like an eternity, Kyoko woke up, only to see the sun slowly go down. She really spent the whole day here, huh…? Looking around, she spotted that the city had mostly been abandoned while she was busy sleeping. Lucky buggers…

Kyoko got back up, causing the debris that got stuck to her to rain down on the ground below. She walked through the now empty, ruined streets, as she headed to collect her sandals. Holding them in her hands again, she decided it was enough teaching for that day. She yawned, covering her mouth with her hand, and decided to exit the city through its other end than the one through which she entered it. Seeing the city devastated like this, with no people in sight brought some peace to her mind. She won the battle against those little bastards. The war, however, was far from over. There could be no such insects in her perfect world.

As she stepped out of the city, her barefoot landed on a group of citizens still being evacuated from the city by the military and young volunteers. The entire group simply splattered beneath her foot, everyone save one volunteer. When Kyoko felt something under her foot, she took a look around and noticed them. She just smiled, showed off her sole to  the one that survived, but decided to spare him. The bugger got lucky, and besides - she now had someone who lived to tell the tale.

On her way out, she also picked that ridiculous sign up. She could not help it and had to read it again.

WELCOME TO GRANDEPOLIS - WHERE WE TAKE “BIG” TO A NEW LEVEL!

She laughed even harder than the last time she saw it. She was going to take it home as a memento. It would forever remind her why she was crushing tinies, why she was destroying their cities, ruining their lives. These losers just had to learn their place. And their place was beneath her!

THE END