Why did they have to kill us? Weren't we just living peacefully in the city, with nothing happening at all...
"No!"
Looking at the monsters across from them, people gradually began clutching their aching heads as they remembered something.
"I-I didn't originally live here. I was captured and brought here, and then it was like I stopped caring about anything—"
"Me too! I never lived here!"
"What is this?! I want to go home!"
The possibilities granted anew by Infinity Soul allowed more and more people to recover their "hearts." As more people woke up, they finally noticed the monsters across from them. One after another, they fell to the ground in terror and scrambled backward on their hands and feet.
"M-Monsters!!"
"Why are the monsters from Kamen Rider on TV here?!"
"Help!"
"Hahaha!"
After sweeping aside the annoying little things in front of it, the Smash raised its enormous fist and laughed loudly at the terrified passerby who had wet himself. "No one can hear your cries for help, because superheroes are just things made up to fool children. But we, the ones who will kill all of you, are real!"
The moment those words were spoken, the fully ignited fear sent everyone screaming as they turned and ran.
The crowd shrieked as they fled in blind panic. They were merely ordinary people with their own lives and no power. Faced with monsters possessing such terrifying strength, there was nothing they could do but run.
Heroes were merely fictional beings passed down in stories. They could not possibly leap out of the television to save them. The thought that everyone was doomed began to fill every heart.
But then.
"~"
Something like an activation sound rang out from the black rectangular case at his waist.
Amid that tide of