Out at sea, that magnificent yet eerie rainbow halo burst open without warning.
"On your guard!!!"
The female Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agent's sharp shout broke the silence.
As a member of Cipher Pol Aigis Zero, she knew something of the inside story, which made her a little hysterical.
The Marines obeyed and went on alert.
At the harbor, the local soldiers fell into mild confusion, mostly because they hadn't recognized the danger. Instead, the shout from that "important person" had startled them.
Phillip and his son Rake were bewildered, but neither dared speak. They simply stood there, staring helplessly as events unfolded.
The residents also watched the spectacle. Those over sixty still remembered the Rainbow Mist.
They thought the thing itself should be harmless... as long as nobody went inside.
But "Captain Rabani" and the four elderly officers behind him went on guard almost instinctively.
Hanzo let out a strange, almost choked cry, whether from fear or the ecstasy of seeing his lifelong pursuit suddenly materialize. He clutched his Rainbow Wave Receiver tightly.
Seeing Hanzo like that, Rabani and the other four had guilt in their eyes.
"...Hmm... something's strange..."
Atlas stood still, her large, sky-blue eyes contracting and expanding like camera lenses as she observed the Rainbow Mist's various readings.
She was highly mechanized, enough to rival a Pacifista.
With her 730-centimeter frame, her huge head also housed observation equipment. Unlike Lilith and York, she didn't need to rely on external devices.
-Energy readings... unclassifiable. Not any known form of energy, but exhibiting spacetime-related characteristics.
She quickly recorded the information and uploaded it to her original body.
After all, the World Government possessed the Door-Door Fruit. Though the difficulty had kept Vegapunk's spacetime research from progressing very far, he wasn't entirely ignorant of the subject.
*-Severe light distortion.