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The sound of electrical interference crackled as static suddenly filled the display screens on the outer walls of the commercial buildings.
It was not just the commercial building displays. Televisions in taverns and residential buildings... all filled with static at the same moment.
Then, a figure unfamiliar to none of Dawn City's residents appeared on the screens.
He was a man in a black suit, with slightly wavy hair and refined features. Yet his eyelids always hung half-lowered, giving him a pair of perpetually narrowed eyes.
A small metal badge was pinned to the chest of his immaculate suit, engraved with elegant lettering—Azure Bird!
Azure Bird of the Zodiac, the traitor who had severely wounded Flying Bear and opened the gates of Number One Satellite City, now appeared on television as brazenly as could be.
He sat upright in the Apocalypse Official News Agency studio, smiling warmly at the camera as he greeted everyone in an unhurried manner.
"Good evening, all residents of Dawn City. I am Azure Bird."
His gentle voice echoed through Dawn City, which was filled with screams. The bright, soft lights of the studio shone through the screens onto streets strewn with blood and mangled flesh, creating an intense sense of discord, as though the two sides existed in entirely different worlds.
The civilians hiding in their homes, the enforcers fighting in the streets, the students of Qiming Academy banding together under their teachers' direction, the Apocalypse higher-ups fleeing in panic beneath the soldiers' protection, and Li You and the others guarding the Floating Gold Pavilion...
All of them saw Azure Bird on the screens.
Azure Bird tapped the table absentmindedly. Behind him stood an enormous floor-to-ceiling window. He seemed to have deliberately adjusted the camera angle so people could clearly see the horde of