The concrete beneath Nirvana's boots felt like ice, yet sweat tore down her face, stinging the open gashes across her cheeks. Blood, thick and hot, dripped down her arm as she clutched her shattered elbow, kneeling helplessly on the fractured asphalt of Brooklyn.
"How can such a monster exist on this planet?!" Nirvana asked in shock, her breath hitching in her throat as she looked up.
Standing just a few paces before her were the remaining members of the Sword Academy's Invincible Five. Once heralded as the peak of their generation within Galaxy Fall's global rankings, their gazes were now entirely stripped of pride, filled only with absolute horror. Behind their trembling defensive line, five lower-year students huddled together, their weapons shaking so violently they rattled against their armor.
"Help me!! Let me go!!!"
