Panic erupted instantly, like water dropped into a hot frying pan.
"Oh my god!"
"The Seitenshi has been hit!"
"She's bleeding! The Seitenshi is bleeding!"
"Are they crazy?! Are these two Patrol Officers crazy?!"
The passersby who had been coldly watching, or even turning a blind eye to the violence, now jumped up like cats whose tails had been stepped on.
Some screamed, some covered their faces, and others frantically took out their phones.
This is regicide!
It means public execution!
It will cause a massive earthquake!
If the higher-ups investigate, no one present will be able to escape the consequences!
"Po-Police!"
"Call the police! Someone is attacking the Seitenshi!"
A sense of justice suddenly erupted cheaply at this moment.
As if shouting loud enough could wash away the sin of watching coldly just moments ago.
As for the Fat Patrol Officer at the center of the storm.
At this moment.
His face, full of flabby flesh, had completely turned the color of a pig's liver.
Sweat poured from his forehead like a waterfall.
The rubber baton in his hand dropped to the ground with a "clatter."
He looked at the silver-haired girl in front of him, trembling.
That face...
He would recognize it even if it turned into ashes.
The portrait hanging in the police station lobby every day is this face!
"Ho... Ho-Ho-Holy..."
His teeth were chattering.
It's over.
It's all over.
Attacking the head of state.
This isn't just a matter of losing his job.
This is a matter of losing his head!
Even his family will be implicated!
After extreme fear comes extreme madness.
It was the ugly struggle of a drowning person trying to grab onto any straw.
"No... it wasn't me!"
"I didn't know! I really didn't know!"
The Fat Patrol Officer stumbled back two steps and fell onto the ground.
Then.
As if suddenly thinking of something, he pointed a trembling finger at the Girl in the Baseball Cap being shielded by the Seitenshi.
He roared hysterically:
"It's her! It's this monster!"
"This little mongrel stole something!"
"I was enforcing the law! I was maintaining order!"
"Seitenshi... how... how can you protect a criminal?!"
"Yes! I must have been deceived! I thought she was an accomplice..."
Even at this moment.
He still felt.
It seemed that as long as the other party was a Cursed Child, any violence inflicted was a reasonable excuse to absolve himself.
The various states of life, all ugliness exposed.
"Ho... Seitenshi..."
"I... I deserve to die! I really didn't know it was you!"
The Fat Patrol Officer had completely broken down by now.
He didn't care about the dirty water on the ground or the strange looks from those around him; he fell to his knees and crawled desperately toward the Seitenshi.
While crawling, he slapped his own face frantically.
"Slap! Slap! Slap!"
The crisp sound of slaps was exceptionally jarring in the silent street.
In just a few moments, his face was already swollen like a pig's head.
"Please... spare me!"
"I have elderly parents and young children..."
"I was also just maintaining order..."
"This is all... all a misunderstanding..."
Maintaining order?
A misunderstanding?
The Seitenshi remained in that kneeling position.
One of the Cursed Children in her arms—the Girl in the Baseball Cap who was clutching a can of luncheon meat tightly.
Was shivering due to the sudden turn of events, instinctively burrowing into her warm embrace.
Feeling the trembling of that small, thin body in her arms.
Then looking at the wailing, ugly-behaving Patrol Officer in front of her.
And the passersby around them who had originally watched coldly, but were now pale-faced, eyes darting around, with some even starting to hypocritically join in shouting, "The Seitenshi has been startled."
The Seitenshi suddenly felt.
Disgusted.
So.
What they revere has never been the law, nor has it been morality.
It is merely power.
If she were not the Seitenshi, if she did not have this white dress representing power, if she did not have that face elevated to the altar by the media.
Then, when that blow came down just now.
No one would have even taken a second look.
What kind of maintaining order is this?
What kind of misunderstanding is this?
This is simply—
Eating people.
However.
Compared to the ugly behavior of these mortals.
Heimer lowered his eyes slightly.
"In the name of the god, I declare."
"Disaster released."
Hum—
With the fluctuation of divine consciousness as Heimer released a shackle.
Thus it began.
[Divine Panel (Updating...)]
[True Name]: Heimer.
[Race]: God (Conceptual Divinity)
[Divine Titles]: War / Weapon / Strife / End... (And 108 other hidden entries)
[Authority]:
(...Original authorities omitted...)
[New Authority]:
Beginning of Calamity:
Blood is the red carpet for ascension, and wailing is the salute for coronation.
You are the beginning of calamity, the death knell of reason, possessing a primal and uncontrollable thirst for blood.
All beings who wield blades to commit slaughter, their souls and flesh shall return to your command in your name, receiving your favor!
You can forcibly strip away the body control of any who harbor killing intent or are regarded by the world as creatures of calamity, turning them into tireless war puppets that only know slaughter; you can also, even from ten thousand miles away, make the traitor's blood boil and flow backward, turning the weapon in their hand into an instrument of their own execution!
Thus it was done.
Rumble—!!!
Suddenly.
The sky changed drastically!
The Tokyo Area, the Japanese archipelago, and even the American continent across the ocean...
In this instant.
The rules of the entire world were forcibly rewritten.
The sky began to collapse.
The night sky, originally dark and deep, dotted with sparse stars, was now churning with clouds, presenting an ominous dark red, like a boiling sea of blood.
Immediately after.
An object that would make every witness unforgettable for a lifetime, enough to make their sanity value hit zero instantly, was slowly squeezing out from behind that rift.
It was like a portal of flesh and blood churning from the depths of hell!
Behold.
That was—
An eyeball emitting a dark red light, so huge it could not be described in words!
It occupied half the sky.
—It was the eye of a god.
It was also the gavel of judgment.
The hemisphere that should have been night was instantly shrouded in this dark red light.
The neon lights, car lights, and street lamps on the ground.
At this moment, they were like fireflies compared to the bright moon, instantly losing their meaning in the face of the red light filling the sky.
The entire Japanese archipelago was dyed a suffocating blood red.
Even the originally bright moon appeared eclipsed at this moment, trembling, as if fearing this giant eye and fleeing in panic into the depths of the clouds.
It.
Majestic.
Terrifying.
Not to be looked at directly.
It was like some high-dimensional existence, looking through that rift, coldly watching this tiny world, like a petri dish.
Watching the ants on this planet who were still tearing at each other for desire, for survival, and for hatred.
"What... what is that?!"
"The... the sky has cracked open?!"
"Ahhh! An eye! There's an eye in the sky!"
Countless people looked up at the sky, and after seeing this scene, their brains instantly crashed, leaving only the most primal fear.
On the streets of the Tokyo Area.
The passerby who had just been hypocritically calling the police now let their phone slip from their hand, shattering with a "crack".
The Fat Patrol Officer who was still slapping himself froze in mid-air, his mouth open wide enough to fit a fist, his whole body trembling violently.
The phone in his hand slipped and shattered, the cigarette in his mouth fell and burned through his pant leg without him even noticing; his brain crashed instantly, leaving only the primal fear etched into the depths of his genes.
Chaos.
Soon erupted at this moment.
Screams, wails, and the sounds of cars crashing out of control rose one after another.
However.
The true terror had only just begun.
Because.
Under the gaze of that giant eye.
Something had changed.
Certain things, originally regarded by humanity as natural enemies, nightmares, and sources of destruction, underwent an incomprehensible mutation.
The dark red divine eye hung there quietly, neither sad nor happy, casting its red light indiscriminately into every corner of the earth.
Penetrating the forest of steel and concrete, the ruins of cities, underground bunkers hundreds of meters deep, and even the crushing pressure of the deep sea.
—The entire planet!
All creatures infected with the Gastrea virus that had long since turned into monsters.
Whether it was the Stage I insect-type Gastrea lurking in the sewers, stealing trash;
Or the huge Stage IV composite-type Gastrea wandering in the wilderness;
Or even the Zodiacs—the collective name for Stage V Gastrea, terrifying monsters beyond Stage IV classification that caused humanity to teeter on the brink of extinction, entrenched in various places, rendering global military forces helpless and forcing them to survive by clinging to the Monoliths.
Their bodies, at this very moment, instantly stiffened.
As if a pause button had been pressed.
The original frenzied slaughter, the endless feeding, the chaotic roaring, all came to an abrupt halt.
The next second.
The most hair-raising scene occurred.
"Roar—!!!"
"Hiss—!!!"
Across the globe, hundreds of millions of Gastrea simultaneously raised their heads, roaring at the giant eye in the sky with a sound that shook the heavens and the earth!
That was—
A pilgrimage!
The sounds converged, forming a tangible wave of sound that scattered the clouds and shook the earth!
—The fanaticism of the creation finally seeing its creator!
Behold.
Those bizarrely shaped Gastrea, some with countless compound eyes, some having even lost their visual organs.
Their eyeballs.
Simultaneously lit up with a unified pattern!
—A complex, interwoven pattern.
That is—the Divine Seal is formed.
Which means, from this moment on, the largest and most terrifying population of hundreds of millions of Gastrea on this planet are no longer mindless beasts.
They have become the Familia of a god!
—Heimer's private army!
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