"Run, hurry! Who offended the gods? How could they punish us so cruelly with something like this..."
"Run? How are we supposed to run? There are only ten minutes left. With the meteor's impact, there's no way we can escape..."
"We're dead! We're all going to die!"
"..."
The enormous city erupted into chaos.
Despair spread through every corner.
The hope of survival among the citizens who had originally planned to flee was instantly shattered beyond repair by the successive cries of doom.
Some even collapsed onto the ground and burst into tears.
Escaping the city within ten minutes, with crowds packed together and roads gridlocked—
That was nothing more than a fool's dream.
Faced with such a hopeless outcome, even more people began indulging in one last bout of madness.
Others began showing the ugliest side of human nature to those around them.
Just as these signs began to emerge, the roar of helicopters rang out.
"It's the Hero Association's helicopters! We're saved..."
"Saved? A falling meteor like this isn't something heroes can fight against. Otherwise, the Hero Association would have solved this problem already."
"Aren't Blast and Tatsumaki, ranked first and second among the S-Class heroes, humanity's strongest trump cards? If they're willing to act, we should be saved, right?"
As soon as those words fell, many people tensed up.
After all, during the Hero Association's battles against monsters, they had also promoted and publicized their own heroes.
Among them, Blast and Tatsumaki had undoubtedly received the greatest emphasis.
At the very least, the Hero Handbook praised the strength and exploits of those two to the skies.
"Didn't they say Blast, the one ranked first, has disappeared? And as for Tatsumaki, can that little girl really do it on her own?"
The hope that had just begun to