For a moment, time seemed to stop.
The office froze in silence.
No one moved.
No one breathed.
Every person in that room had seen the same thing.
That impossible white flash.
That unnatural light.
The kind of light that does not belong to this world.
And in that single instant, **Sutomu Yamagoochi** knew something no one else around him yet understood.
The nightmare had found him again.
Before anyone could even speak, the second blast wave hit.
The entire building groaned like it was