The Announcement
Humans are pathetic species, do you agree?
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I'm driving on Blue Revenue, and there, in that block, where there's a blue high building, my flat is on the 9th floor. The western sky looks just like yesterday, or the day before. Today's Thursday.
My speaker is producing some rattling sound, as usual for the last 2 months, but I figure that there's something strange about it today. My phone is playing the same song as ever, 山崎まさよし (Yamazaki masayoshi), or "One more time, one more chance". I liked this song, so much that I probably have it on repeat on the last 10 years, although my memory of the exact movie plot has already perished.
They say there are two types of favorite movies, the ones you rewatch and the ones you never dare to watch the second time.
The speaker suddenly grumbles again and now the sound dies out. I try adjusting the volume, but it didn't seem to work. I guess I should bring my car to a garage to get it fixed. I don't really recall when I received this car from my father as a gift for my birthday, probably 8 years ago, when I turned 20.
I aren't really in a rush, so getting stuck in this traffic isn't half bad.
Suddenly the red expensive-looking car next to mine honks and then just not even 10 seconds after, all the cars around me starts to honk. The whole noisy sound are crazily bursting, like the roaring flames on a summer day, it's spreading an an unimaginable speed. Has something happened? Like something I didn't see? Why's everybody honking like there's a tsunami coming like the movie The Day After Tomorrow? I look at the car in the next lane, through the gray window, I think he's panicked.
Should I step out of my car and calm him down a bit?
But I would be in trouble if the long traffic starts to move again, which can happen any moment, since the traffic lights ahead are only 4 cars away...
But... I have a hunch that something strange is happening. Through the rearview mirror, the driver of the car behind me already got out of his car. But he's not the only one, there are... flocks of people behind him. And they are all... running as if they are chased.
And that moment, I heard a loud radio voice, coming from all directions. It wasn't a calm and professional voice. In fact, it's nothing but that. The darkest, most menacing voice echoes.
"Everyone... The Apocalyptic day has... ARRIVED!!! THE DAY OF RECKONING!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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