Metro City – North District Ruins
Lady Fortress's eyelids fluttered, struggling against the sharp lights of Metro City that cut through the night.
Her body felt heavy, sluggish—almost foreign.
Even in the cool night air, sweat formed on her skin.
Slowly, she opened her now delicate eyes as her pupils shrunk at the brightness. The first thing she saw was the night sky and its stars peeking through the hazy smog of the city.
Everything was… quiet.
Unlike before. Unlike the moment when her chest was torn open, her heart ripped out with brutal force. Unlike the suffocating pain that came before the void swallowed her.
Then it hit her.
『My heart—MY HEART!』
Panic flooded her system like a crashing wave. She ran her hands across her body, her fingers shaking as they frantically searched for a gaping hole—a wound, a scar, something to tell her she wasn't imagining this.
But there was nothing.
No wound. No pain. No missing heart.
