That night, the same news reports continued to play throughout every corner of Kageno City.
"Kageno Island's northern district was frozen for unknown reasons and has now become a frozen wasteland. Not only the research facilities, buildings, and roads, but also the residents of the northern district have been frozen, with no exceptions."
"The Artificial Island Management Corporation has dispatched the Special Zone Security Force and professional research teams to the scene to investigate and explore the area. Their first priority is to thaw the frozen residents using the safest possible methods and rescue everyone in the northern district. The regional thawing project will be delayed, however, and all research facilities will be unable to operate for the next month. The losses incurred during this period are impossible to estimate. As for the cause of this large-scale, unexplained freezing phenomenon, it is still under investigation."
"In addition, before the northern district was frozen, unexplained destruction occurred in the southern district as well, causing part of it to become a disaster area. It has now almost been reduced to ruins. Fortunately, there were no major casualties. The damaged buildings and facilities are still being assessed, with losses estimated to exceed one hundred billion."
The reports continued without pause, throwing the entire Kageno City into uproar.
"Both the southern and northern districts have become disaster areas?"
"One was destroyed, and the other was frozen. What on earth happened?"
"I... My relatives happen to be in the southern district. They'll be all right, won't they...!?"
"My family works in the northern district!"
"Why did this happen...!?"
Similar remarks and disturbances continued to appear throughout Kageno City. Every road in the city was packed with vehicles coming and going, while nearly every communications channel was occupied. With most people affected by the incident, the