March 25, at 7:30 a.m. Opportunity City Memorial Cemetery.
Dark clouds swirled overhead, and the sky was somber. A fine drizzle ran down the car window, leaving tear streaks as if the entire city were weeping.
This was the largest cemetery in Opportunity City, not open to the public, and those buried here were retired or had died in the line of duty from the military and the Administration Bureau.
Countless soldiers considered it an honor to be buried in this cemetery after death, but most civil servants of the new era tried to avoid this issue as much as possible.
More than ten black Mercedes were parked along the roadside of the cemetery, and dozens of men and women dressed in black suits stood on an empty patch of ground, their expressions somber and the atmosphere oppressively heavy.
