A small group of 5 was strolling through a city, and that group happened to be Satoya' group, who were Sakonori, Rayna, Edward, Johnathan, and Isaac, they seemed to have recovered completely from the conflict in the 3rd capital, but currently they are asking every single citizen of the 4th capital's main city on where Satoya went, but sadly to no avail.
"He isn't answering my texts nor calls." Isaac pointed out as he was looking at his new phone, "I wonder why.." Rayna shrugged as she glanced at his phone's screen, "you really had to call him 48 times within 2 minutes? I'm pretty sure he blocked you." She sighed.
"All of you come here!" A voice called behind them, this person was wearing glasses, had a very arrogant posture, wearing what looked to be a business casual suit and brown khaki pants, holding a folder with "classified" on it.
"Huh? What's with that guy's attitude?" Sakonori asked, "Seems important, let's go." Edward suggested as they started following the man, with Sakonori reluctantly following. After a couple minutes of walking, they followed the man into a large conference building.
"Oh it's you guys!" They heard as the group walked into a large conference room. They looked around to see Sendo waving toward them, happy to see them.
"There's several seats here!" Sendo called as the group walked to where he sat. "What are you doing over here?" Rayna asked, "I got a message saying if I attended the meeting and the mission that this conference is solely about, I'll rank up to elite rank finally." Sendo said happily.
"Wait, where's Satoya though? I thought he'd be with you guys." Sendo asked, trying to think of a possible area. "We don't know either, Isaac called him a "couple" times for where he is but he isn't answering any of the phone calls at all." Sakonori said, before the lights on the stage turned on, with silence. Sendo also asked them to sit down, and they then sat down.
Then a woman stood up, wearing an attire that Sendo pointed out to be the actual mandated elite rank uniform (that being a business casual suit, but more so looking like a salaryman, except a noticeable badge on the right side of the chest). A couple whispers were spoken, before shushing.
"Ahem, god, where did he go?" She mumbled, before pointing at a young man in the crowd of audiences. "Get the hell up here." She demanded, before the young man stood up and hesitatingly walked up the stage. "You're just gonna show the pictures, nothing bad, man up." She said, before the young man scoffed.
"Hello, I am Akemi Takanada, Elite rank 20." She introduced, before glaring at the young man, "O-oh, uhm, I-I am Kaito Y-Yamasaki..A researcher for the VHC…" He introduced sheepishly.
"Thank you for attending this meeting, with that said, this is a meeting regarding, a potential threat to humanity, despite being thought to have been killed." Akemi spoke, with her voice echoing throughout the conference room. "What do you mean by a threat to humanity?" A prideful man raised his hand, while he was smoking a cigarette. "Good question, as I will answer that." Akemi answered.
"This is the 8th cataclysm of the 8th disaster." She said, followed up with almost everyone whispering to each other, asking "What is a cataclysm?" as well as "What is a disaster?"
"A disaster is a phenomenon that occurs randomly when the power of a sealed god leaks from its seal—a seal so elusive that its location is impossible to detect," she explained, her tone measured. "A cataclysm, on the other hand, is an individual whose ambition aligns with that of the sealed god. The leaked power chooses them, manifesting through them. A disaster cannot end until the cataclysm is either killed or somehow disappears."
"Some of you might not recognize it, but all of these cataclysm and disasters are periods in history, that are well, not mentioned in history classes (except a single cataclysm of a disaster), as the term "disaster" and "cataclysm" are classified from the public, and you all have been trusted with this information." She said, before someone started laughing out loud, "that sounds so cringey! You just need an excuse to present some nonsense for mo-" A extremely muscular man tried to mock before a large glacier froze him completely.
The man was sitting on the far side of the conference room across from the group and Sendo, then a woman said, "this is serious matters, silence!" The crowd started whispering more again, with Johnathan asking Sendo, "who froze that guy?" Then Sendo responded with, "Oh, that's Juliet Cerulea, elite rank 12, she spends a lot of money on fashion, especially on modifying her armor."
"Oh I would love to meet her then." Rayna muttered with a smile before Isaac scoffed annoyed. "She spends too much money on clothes, she almost made Edward and I go into debt." He said.
A person raised his hands amidst the crowd who were whispering to each other, then asked, "So who is the 8th cataclysm of the 8th disaster, and how long ago was the 8th disaster?" He asked before the crowd slowly went quiet to hear Akemi's answer.
"That is what this conference meeting is for, Kaito." She nodded, before Kaito reluctantly displayed a collection of photos and videos. Of a man in blonde hair stained in blood, and green eyes. Then another video was an old video Kaito discovered, and it was a video of the man with his hands out wide laughing as they watched a strange beast completely dissecting and devouring an entire town of people.
"That was the level 18 Iya this man had artificially created with the combination of a 9 year old child and what we assume to have been drugged with the blood of a level 19 Iya." She spoke as the audience was looking at the video in awe, disgust, or even contempt. "This level 18 Iya would cause the 8th disaster, with the man, responsible, being deemed as the 8th cataclysm, and the casualty was in the millions, and no military, or even the elite ranks of that time managed to kill it, and only died due to the child herself dying from the drug." She said, "Who is the 8th cataclysm's name?" Another person asked.
"Roland Saeonius, with the 8th disaster being ~1000 years ago, so this makes Roland himself over 1000 years old.." Akemi revealed.