Branchi

Featured in the one-shot Future Present from God, this large retail outlet stands within an unspecified Japanese city. Its facade is wrapped in windows, and above the doorway a projecting canopy carries the shop's name in capitals. A second sign repeats that name near the roofline, while a billboard jutting from one wall advertises the place to passersby.

Everything that befell the store traced back to a writing error in heaven. Deciding to discipline a young pickpocket called Bran, God reached for the Pen of Fate to drop a meteor squarely onto the boy's residence. In transcribing the target, however, the name of Bran's home was botched, and the word came out as Branchi. That single slip redirected the falling rock away from the boy's house and toward the shop, transforming a bit of divine correction into an impending calamity threatening every customer inside.

Determined to prevent the loss of life, God tasked Bran with emptying the building before the meteor came down. The store's president dismissed the boy's warning as nonsense, so Bran resorted to a fake threat, waving a pistol and swearing to detonate the premises inside half an hour, which sent the crowd fleeing. Exactly when God had recorded, the meteor descended and reduced Branchi to rubble, though by that point no one remained inside to be harmed.