In less than two short minutes.
[Self-Binding Angel]: "What are you doing? Where have you run off to now? What's all that yelling in the city?"
[Titan Head]: "Hahahaha-what's wrong, my dear son-in-law-since the group chat disappeared-this is the first time you've opened a channel out of nowhere, hahaha-"
[Sir Awen]: "I'm working. What is it?"
[Colossus Brain]: "...(no message)"
[Eve]: "Gurgle, gurgle-(the confused sound of squelching flesh)"
[Witch God Head]: "Looking after my child."
[Xiao Xiao]: "(✪ω✪) Being looked after by Mother."
[Dollhouse]: "?"
As the string of messages from his family rang in his ears.
Lynn took a deep breath, drew it deep into his belly, and roared at almost the top of his lungs:
"I just got bullied out there!!! My brains were splattered all over the ground!! My blood sprayed more than ten meters!! They smashed the Trinity Frame until there wasn't even any scrap left!! I need connections! I need backup! This is a high-level fight! I can't take it! I'm about to get wrecked!!"
That one shout.
Silenced all of Dark Night City.
"..."
Less than a minute passed.
Lynn stood wide-eyed in the square, wondering whether he should shout again.
A faint black dot appeared in the sky. With a thunderous boom, an enormous head crashed down behind Lynn like a falling meteor, making the entire square quake and startling him so badly that he bounced dozens of centimeters into the air with an (ΩДΩ) expression.
A sticky tentacle slapped Lynn on the shoulder, and a deep, terrifying voice rang out.
"Where-let's go kill them-"
Lynn turned around with wide eyes and saw the enormous head of his father-in-law, Titan. His eyes were like two lighthouses, and at some point, he had clamped a cigarette several meters thick between his lips. With a