CHAPTER - 170 - DIMENSIONAL_REALITY_IS_ANNIHILATED! /13.10/

The shot still rang in the night air like a warning bell. Inside the Skyripper's steel belly, Svetlana's eyes snapped open — that hollow, fractured orange glow flickering weakly in the dark cabin.

She coughed, her bandaged side searing. "Reza… we need to leave. Now."

He didn't answer at first — just stood in the chopper's hatch, hair whipping wild in the rotor wash, one boot braced against the doorframe like he owned the sky. The corner of his mouth twitched, something almost like a smile — but sharper. Crueler.

Below, the city burned and blinked and bled.

Nagase's bullet had come too close. Svetlana's hand grasped his sleeve, but he shrugged her off — his eyes locked on the spot where the shot had come from, like a hawk scenting prey.

"Always a pest," he muttered. "They never learn."

Her fingers tightened. "You can't— you're not—"