She waited for death to come.
However.
The anticipated sharp pain never came.
The square, originally filled with noise and deafening cries for blood, suddenly fell silent at that instant.
The man's movements stopped.
He was not the only one.
It was as though someone had pressed the mute button.
Even the sirens of the police cars in the distance disappeared.
The silence came swiftly and extraordinarily abruptly.
The Seitenshi opened her eyes in confusion.
She saw.
Everywhere she looked.
Everyone remained frozen in their poses from a second before-holding stones, mouths open, fists waving.
But their faces.
Without exception, they had all gone rigid.
Only one thing remained in those eyes that had been filled with brutality and madness.
-Fear.
Utter fear.
Their pupils trembled and their mouths quivered as they stared fixedly at the sky.
Someone even dropped a stone with a clatter, striking their own toes, yet could not let out so much as a cry of pain.
The Seitenshi froze for a moment.
She slowly raised her head.
She followed everyone's gaze.
The next second.
The Seitenshi held her breath as well.
She saw.
Clouds churned.
Behind the thick clouds.
That enormous dark-red eye appeared again.
It was even clearer and larger than when it had appeared at night, almost occupying half the sky.
Its dark-red pupil gazed indifferently down at the tiny ants below.
Moreover.
Beneath that enormous eye.
The once-empty sky.
At some unknown point.
Had become filled with densely packed black dots.
At first, they looked only like a flock of migrating birds.
But.
As they descended.
The true forms of those black dots were finally revealed to everyone!
People finally saw what they were!
-Gastrea!
Tens of thousands of winged Gastrea!
Enormous dragonfly-type Gastrea! Giant bird-type Gastrea! And even more bizarrely