Steel streaked across the sky like meteors.
"Those damned Imperial dogs!"
"Filthy..."
Smack!
A vicious slap landed across the man's face.
In the underground plaza of No. 1 City Zone, the noisy man clutched his face, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, murder nearly blazing from his eyes.
"Shut your filthy mouth! Look at what the people you called cowards are doing!"
Another burly man seized the loudmouth by the collar. His bloodshot eyes bored into him, veins bulging along his arms.
His vision darkened in waves. Overwhelmed by the massive gap in strength, the loudmouth was lifted clean off the ground, his collar choking his throat as he desperately slapped at the burly man's arm.
"Let... let me go..."
"Let your mother go!"
With a loud crack, the burly man drove his forehead into the other man's head, leaving blood streaming down his face.
"All I remember is that when everyone else was dead, they saved us! And I can see that right now, they're charging into the Insect Swarm without hesitation! Other than running your mouth, what the hell can you do!? You're not even as good as a woman!"
Bloodshot eyes turned toward him from all around.
The loudmouth understood the meaning in those gazes perfectly.
Contempt, disgust, hatred...
"Say one more word, and I'll beat you to death before the Bugs even get here!"
The loudmouth was flung to the ground.
The people around him watched without expression.
The loudmouth trembled, his face flushing crimson, but in the end, he did not dare utter another word.
First, a little girl pressed her hands together before her chest. Then her parents did the same, and gradually, the gesture spread through the entire crowd.
Beneath every city zone across the planet, every crowd unconsciously made the