Suita, Esaka
OE 102, January 5th
7:02 AM JST
An ordinary morning in Esaka. Salarymen packed themselves into railcars like sardines, young girls ran to school with toast in their mouths, and somewhere, someone was feeling like they were about to catch a cold from standing near the AC too long.
That is... Except for what was on television.
A melancholy figure was projected across the nation's screens, smartphones, and websites, cast in a dark light, scanlines flickering across its obscured features. At length, it spoke, a chanting, soft voice... As though speaking from somewhere very far away.
The TV screen panned out from the picture, focusing back to the anchors, located at the Channel 5 JNN News station. The anchors, a pair of middle aged Japanese - one man, one woman, labeled Mister Naraota and Mrs. Shifune.
"And that was the dire prediction given this morning by the Lunar Priestess, Lady Kaguya XIV, in an emergency press conference." Began Naraota, "The reclusive Lunar royalty made an unannounced, urgent appearance, saying that the world was on the brink of an unprecedented catastrophe. Previous predictions by the Lunar assembly have been uncannily accurate, and are normally reserved only for the upper echelons of the aristocracy."
"Now, we take you to Channel 5's Senior Lunar correspondant, Mister Morimoto, for analysis..."
OE 102, January 5th
7:02 AM JST
An ordinary morning in Esaka. Salarymen packed themselves into railcars like sardines, young girls ran to school with toast in their mouths, and somewhere, someone was feeling like they were about to catch a cold from standing near the AC too long.
That is... Except for what was on television.
A melancholy figure was projected across the nation's screens, smartphones, and websites, cast in a dark light, scanlines flickering across its obscured features. At length, it spoke, a chanting, soft voice... As though speaking from somewhere very far away.
"People of Earth, please hear my plea...
Disaster comes upon us, as swift as the falling night.
"The Heavens will split...
The Earth will tremble...
And the Moon cries tears of crystal...
Blood will run like rivers,
And the Alabaster God descends to judge us,
As darkness returns to the world once more!
Prepare, all of you, please!
A new era of conflict has begun...!
The Sundering has come...!"
Disaster comes upon us, as swift as the falling night.
"The Heavens will split...
The Earth will tremble...
And the Moon cries tears of crystal...
Blood will run like rivers,
And the Alabaster God descends to judge us,
As darkness returns to the world once more!
Prepare, all of you, please!
A new era of conflict has begun...!
The Sundering has come...!"
The TV screen panned out from the picture, focusing back to the anchors, located at the Channel 5 JNN News station. The anchors, a pair of middle aged Japanese - one man, one woman, labeled Mister Naraota and Mrs. Shifune.
"And that was the dire prediction given this morning by the Lunar Priestess, Lady Kaguya XIV, in an emergency press conference." Began Naraota, "The reclusive Lunar royalty made an unannounced, urgent appearance, saying that the world was on the brink of an unprecedented catastrophe. Previous predictions by the Lunar assembly have been uncannily accurate, and are normally reserved only for the upper echelons of the aristocracy."
"Now, we take you to Channel 5's Senior Lunar correspondant, Mister Morimoto, for analysis..."
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