The city had become completely silent.
Zeri slowly lifted his head toward the sky, and what he saw made the fear inside him deepen. There was no moon, no stars and not even the faint glow of the distant horizon. Darkness had swallowed the entire sky, stretching from one end of Yuno City to the other until it seemed as though the city had been separated from the rest of the world.
The only light remaining came from the street lamps below. Their weak artificial glow illuminated fragments of ruined roads and collapsed buildings, but even those lights seemed insignificant beneath the endless darkness above. There was no wind moving through the streets, no distant gunfire from the Agency, no explosions from the invasion and no cries from civilians or soldiers. For the first time since the attack had begun, the entire city had fallen into absolute silence.
Zeri stood in the middle of it with his body completely rigid.
Several meters away, Yuuta lay unconscious upon the shattered road.
