"Beep, beep, beep!!"
"Baka! Can you even drive?!"
The roads leading out of Sumida Ward toward the suburbs were already clogged with snaking lines of traffic. Rows of cars crawled forward bumper to bumper at barely a turtle's pace, as impatient honking and furious drivers' curses rang out one after another.
Behind them, the nearly hundred-meter-tall third-form Susanoo rose from the ground. Its imposing body stood as immovable as a mountain, like a giant god from mythology holding up heaven and earth.
After the earth-shattering battle between Jiraiya and Susanoo erupted, massive unrest broke out not only in Taito Ward and Sumida Ward, but in Tokyo's other wards as well, setting off a frenzied exodus.
The overwhelmed Tokyo Metropolitan Government struggled to exert any effective control. Aside from issuing a few bland announcements meant to reassure the public, it could only let things run their course.
Chaos, disorder, and panic were now the defining themes of Tokyo.
"Whoa, what's that? Ultraman wearing samurai armor... or a Gundam?"
"Stop joking around, you guys! Isn't that the giant that destroyed half of Sapporo City?"
"The giant in Sapporo City was orange-red. This one's blue, and its shape and size are different too."
Compared with the Tokyo residents fleeing in panic, the viewers in Amami Katori's livestream were quite relaxed and composed.
As the saying went, fortune favored the bold. The little money-grubber Amami Katori's greed had forcibly overcome her survival instincts, keeping her on the opposite bank of the Sumida River to film.
Her livestream's audience had now soared to a million, and it was still climbing.
"Even if only a tenth of them stick around, that'll still be more followers than my old account had. And then there's the advertising money... hehehe!"
Watching her follower count and donations skyrocket, Amami Katori's