After the Self-Defense Forces sealed off Nishi-Asakusa, the continuous explosions and fires there kept Tokyo's ten million citizens on edge. It was like returning to the nights after the Great March 11 Earthquake, with rumors everywhere and people lying awake, afraid of aftershocks.
The earth-shaking roar of the Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan rang through the night sky. In Sumida Ward, separated from Asakusa by only a river, even the most easygoing residents left their homes to look across the Sumida River.
Senso-ji and the surrounding streets had been razed to the ground. Everything once familiar had changed beyond recognition.
Everyone stared, dumbfounded, thinking they had yet to wake up.
What happened next horrified them even more!
"What is that?"
At the former site of Senso-ji, a blue humanoid phantom suddenly swelled. It was enormous, larger than the original Senso-ji Kannon Hall or even the five-story pagoda, and its mountainous bulk continued to rise.
Twenty meters, thirty meters, fifty meters, until it was nearly a hundred meters tall...
"Hahaha, I really must still be dreaming..."
Looking up at such a colossus, they were stripped of the resolve and courage humanity took such pride in. They could not even think of resisting and could only stand frozen like wooden statues.
Its divine might was as oppressive as hell!
"Boom!"
The blue giant slammed down a fist, shaking the earth. The ground seemed to turn into a sea, with the upheaved soil surging outward in every direction like cresting waves.
Even the residents of Sumida Ward felt as though they were standing in a pitching boat and nearly fell over.
"Aaah-!!!"
Only then did everyone snap out of their stupor. The Japanese people's extensive experience in earthquake evacuation immediately proved useful as they rushed out of their homes and fled in dense crowds toward