The truth didn't work. So now, Silas speaks in explosions.
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2:04 A.M.
Naomi's Hideout — Reinforced Bunker, Eastern District
Yuzu sleeps in a cot behind steel doors.
Naomi watches a dozen screens. Her eyes are dark. Hollow. The city's grieving — but bracing.
She knows what's coming.
> "He won't stop. Not after Kai."
A ping on her terminal.
News breaks.
Multiple cities—evacuated.
Too late.
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2:07 A.M.
Downtown Core — School Administration Headquarters
An explosion tears through five floors.
Two hundred dead.
Seventy students, mostly Hollow sympathizers — vaporized.
Silas leaves a message etched in the fire-damaged floor:
> "EDUCATION TAUGHT YOU TO OBEY."
"NOW I TEACH YOU TO DIE."
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3:00 A.M.
Financial District — Government Surveillance Node
Detonated.
Data servers melted.
Three square blocks of concrete turned into shattered steel and bones.
Emergency responders find one survivor — missing half her body, whispering:
> "White hair… gold eyes… smiling…"
Before dying.
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3:46 A.M.
Global Broadcast — Unauthorized Satellite Feed
Silas appears.
Not masked. Not modulated.
Just his face. Bloody. Calm.
Behind him, bodies hang upside down — high-ranking officials, educators, reporters.
> "You thought fear would stop me."
"But fear is my native tongue."
> "Justice is dead.
Your peace was built on pain.
Now your cities will be tombstones."
He smiles. Then says what no one wanted to hear:
> "Next… I go international."
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5:09 A.M.
Naomi — With Yuzu in the Van, Evacuating
The world around her burns.
She watches the live feed of an entire hospital reduced to glass and fire. No warning. No mercy.
Naomi clenches the steering wheel.
> "This isn't a movement anymore. It's warfare."
Yuzu stares at the window. Silent. Trembling.
> "What do we do when a god stops pretending to be human?" she asks.
Naomi replies:
> "We kill him like the monster he's always been."
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6:30 A.M.
Underground Bunker — Silas's New War Room
Maps. Ports. Embassies. Airports.
Lines drawn in red across the globe.
He's planning more. Much more.
He marks a dot:
New York
Then Paris
Then Seoul
> "The world trained you to kneel," he whispers.
"Now it learns how it feels to bleed."
He opens a steel case.
Inside: six nuclear-grade chemical bombs.
Then he adds one more phrase to his wall:
> "TRUTH SIXTEEN: EVERY BORDER IS A GRAVE WAITING TO BE DUG."
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Final Scene
News anchors can't keep up.
Cities are on lockdown.
Governments scramble.
The world is fracturing.
One final video leaks from inside Hollow's core:
> "You had your chance."
"You called me a terrorist."
"So I became one."
"You will miss the days when I only told the truth."
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Final Line:
> "You wanted a god of justice," Silas says.
"Now you have a god of extinction."
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