With the help of high-powered communications equipment, Levi's voice quickly spread across all of Proxima Centauri.
His impassioned speech echoed through the home of almost every Proxima Centauri person.
One by one, the Proxima Centauri people woke from their sleep and slowly opened their three pairs of eyes.
Confusion, astonishment, anger, fervor...
Within just a few minutes, a complex mix of emotions flickered through the eyes of the Proxima Centauri people and the Marus.
Bang!
In the quiet night, the sound of a door being thrown open rang out especially loudly.
"We protest! We protest! We protest!"
A Proxima Centauri person stepped out of his home, raised his short, powerful forelimbs, and shouted.
Amid the endless darkness, his lone voice sounded especially feeble.
But in the next instant!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The sounds of doors being pushed open rang out, one after another!
Lights came on in house after house, tearing a gap in the endless darkness!
People began gathering of their own accord.
Every Proxima Centauri person held a lamp glowing orange-red.
It was the color of their primary star at dawn!
"Come on! To the Academy of Sciences!"
"Come on! To the imperial palace!"
"We want to live!"
Countless murmurs gradually converged into a deafening torrent!
The crowd began moving again!
Small, thin Marus joined them, one after another!
The crowd continued to swell!
Bathed in orange-red light, the crowd split in two and surged toward the Academy of Sciences and the imperial palace!
At the same time, a shrill alarm rang out through the night sky.
It seemed to herald the dawn of a brand-new era!
The Academy of Sciences.
A Proxima Centauri person dressed in gray, his body bulging with subcutaneous fat, hurried along on his short little legs.
From a distance, he looked like