The day after the Yokohama Incident.
The whole world was shaken, and public outrage surged sky-high.
The fragile balance that had barely been maintained between Jujutsu Society and ordinary people completely shattered.
Countless people took to the streets, demanding to know the truth.
Social order teetered on the verge of collapse, and the national system had utterly failed.
All that could be said was that the Yokohama Incident had been too tragic, and its consequences too severe.
It differed from the many Curse Spirit incidents of the past.
Those previous Curse Spirit incidents had mostly occurred within relatively small areas.
The number of people affected had also been relatively limited.
The impact they caused had been comparatively minor as well.
Under the control of Jujutsu Society and high-ranking government officials, the news had been easily sealed away.
But now, everything had changed.
The Yokohama Incident had not been a small-scale Curse Spirit attack, but a catastrophic disaster that had engulfed an entire city.
The casualties had exceeded a million, rivaling those of a large-scale war.
Moreover, countless pieces of information had spread out that very day.
The internet, television stations, newspapers, and all manner of privately recorded videos.
Even Japan's officials had been completely unable to contain it.
They could only watch helplessly as the Yokohama Incident became known to the world.
And after the world had personally witnessed Yokohama City's devastation, witnessed the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, and witnessed the night a million people were buried in death—
How could anyone possibly keep it together?
It had to be understood that so many casualties had not occurred in some Third World country.
This was Japan. This was internationally renowned Yokohama.
If even such a major city could suffer an incident this horrific—
Then other places would be