Outside the window, the sunlight was bright.
Unknown birds chirped, irritating him.
After all, it affected his gaming.
After casually closing his game, Hood was just about to end his usual all-nighter and shut down the computer in front of him.
"Bang~"
Amid a deafening roar,
he felt a violent shaking, as though the earth were splitting and mountains collapsing.
"Crack, crack, crack..."
In that instant, accompanied by the sounds of the building cracking and furniture shifting,
he clearly saw countless fissures spread across the walls of his rented room.
They made the entire place look like a pile of building blocks about to fall apart!
The pipes and electrical wires had even begun spraying water and sparks of electricity...
"An earthquake?"
That unpleasant possibility immediately surfaced in his mind.
Then came the sight of books from the shelf beside him and heaps of clutter crashing down upon him.
From beginning to end, because it had happened so suddenly and so quickly, he had not even had time to rise from his computer chair.
Thus, those falling objects pinned him to the chair within moments.
In that final second, driven by an instinctive sense of danger, he urgently kicked with both legs and slid off the chair like a loach, forcibly curling beneath the metal-framed computer desk.
He avoided the various hard falling objects that followed, including bricks.
Then came the sensation of sinking and losing balance from all directions.
The building was tilting, collapsing...
At that moment, he was like a rat in a cage being shaken about...
Through his terror, he saw the floor beneath him come apart and the walls collapse with a crash...
Vaguely, he even saw the equally terrified faces of other residents downstairs...
Several dozen minutes later.
Amid ruins littered with dust, steel