He burned their symbol. Now they burn his silence.
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6:00 A.M.
Global Cities — Yuzu's Face Everywhere
Not on news channels.
On walls.
On flags.
On the backs of children's jackets.
Drawn in chalk. Projected onto government buildings. Carved into subway tunnels.
> "She died standing."
"Yuzu lives through us."
"She wasn't fire — she was the spark."
Silas wanted fear.
Instead, he gave the world a martyr.
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7:23 A.M.
Naomi — Hospital Bed, Broken, Breathing
She wakes up bandaged. Alive.
One hand clutching the last thing Yuzu wrote:
A note, crumpled in blood.
> "If I die, don't stop believing in the world."
Naomi stares at it.
And starts laughing.
Not from joy.
From clarity.
> "You killed her, Silas.
You freed us."
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8:45 A.M.
Underground Broadcast – Naomi's First Speech
She appears unmasked.
Black eye. Stitched lip.
Steel in her eyes.
> "This is not about restoring order."
"It's about tearing down the illusion that only one man ever cared."
> "Yuzu was a girl. Just a girl."
> "And she stood longer than all your gods."
The world listens.
Even Hollow cells listen.
Even Silas, watching from a black site overseas… listens.
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9:30 A.M.
Silas — Inside Hidden War Room, Montenegro
The international expansion begins.
Mapped on the wall:
Berlin
Jakarta
Buenos Aires
Toronto
Mumbai
Cape Town
Each marked with a red skull.
Each fitted with a timer.
Each rigged to explode in 7 days.
His engineers ask:
> "Should we delay? The world's pushing back."
Silas responds:
> "Let them push."
He smiles faintly.
> "This isn't revenge anymore."
> "This is remodeling."
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11:12 A.M.
New Underground Network Formed — "The Hollow Reversal"
Former Hollow loyalists.
Ex-government agents.
Survivors. Students. Veterans.
All led by Naomi.
They use Yuzu's last message as their creed.
> "We're not here to restore peace."
"We're here to remind them Hollow was never the only voice."
The group grows faster than Silas's control.
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1:00 P.M.
International Broadcast from the Resistance
Naomi steps forward.
Behind her: over 100 faces from every continent.
> "This is a call.
To every student who suffered.
To every adult who turned their back.
To everyone who watched Hollow and did nothing."
> "Yuzu didn't ask you to fight."
> "I am."
Silas watches from the dark.
> "Cute speech," he mutters.
But something in his smile… cracks.
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4:44 P.M.
Silas's Message to the World
He hijacks every screen again.
This time, no theatrics.
Just a plain camera. A table.
On it — six briefcases.
He opens one. Reveals the bomb.
> "Six days."
> "Six cities."
> "No more symbols.
No more martyrs.
Just extinction."
> "I am the reckoning you bred."
Then he speaks Yuzu's name.
> "Your girl didn't stop me.
She gave me purpose."
> "Remember her not as a saint.
But as the spark that justified your end."
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Final Scene
Naomi prepares her team.
Maps. Drones. Satellite scans.
The world begins to rally.
Students start walking out of schools, not in fear —
But with fists raised.
Graffiti floods the streets:
> "This time, the fire fights back."
"Burn the god. Save the world."
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Final Line:
> "You think you're the end of the world," Naomi whispers,
"But we're the start of the one you were too scared to believe in."
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