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"Here we go again," said Aryan as he ran with Mei through the streets of the dilapidated city. The city might have looked crumpled, with roads damaged in an unsightly way, buildings missing whole chunks while some were mended by the Construction Pillar for the use, but it still looked like a lively place with the weeds finding refuge in the cracks of buildings and the broken tar.
It might have been a broken world, but the land was still alive here.
"What did you expect? Frankly, our response was lacklustre considering that Rena warned us beforehand. I can't imagine the death toll," said Mei as she grunted in displeasure. "And by the way, why must it be me who has to carry this heavy ass speaker?"
Mei was lugging a large speaker behind her back which was roughly a meter and a half tall.
"You're the one who eats all day, every day. Surely all those nutrients are going somewhere," replied Aryan nonchalantly as they took a sharp corner.
