Tang Qi held Diana's hand, with Olga Nikolaevna, the Princess of the Slavic States, at his side.
The three stood in the middle of Hawknest City's busiest avenue, surrounded by towering buildings and massive electronic screens flashing with images.
Naturally, Olga found it unfamiliar. She was an "old person" from the Old Era, having slept within the hair knot. Upon awakening and seeing the changes in this world for the first time, she understandably fell into a daze.
As if to give her time to adapt, Tang Qi paused briefly.
The residents of Hawknest City could not see the three of them, but that did not diminish the city's liveliness.
President Joey Cleveland's "Television Address" and the upheaval of that day were not far in the past. The Federation had entered the New Era in a manner unlike any other nation on Origin Star.
The Transcendental World had merged into the lives of the Federation's hundreds of millions of residents with astonishing speed.
At that moment, it was nearly impossible to find a peaceful place in the Federation, in Hawknest City.
All kinds of "speeches" and parades were underway.
Surprisingly, those speeches and parades did not share a single theme. The residents seemed divided in their views, voicing their demands in a somewhat chaotic fashion.
For instance, the crowded procession passing before the three of them at that moment had demands that were both reasonable and somewhat fanciful.
"Keep the supernatural away! We don't want it! We want peaceful lives!"
"This is a conspiracy, a government conspiracy! They want to enslave us!"
"The authorities must have sufficiently powerful weapons. Bring them out, purge the supernatural beings, and let us return to a normal world!"
Such ideas of isolating the Mystic Side once more were still relatively normal. In some side