One night had passed. When the cold sunlight once again graced Tanville, the citizens who had endured a harrowing night of artillery and panic found that the entire city had changed its appearance overnight.
On the streets, Armed Patrol Mecha and soldiers in Combat Uniforms were moving back and forth in rows. Street corners had been set up as barricades. The luckier ones could still stay at home, holding their terrified family members, watching the fully armed soldiers outside the windows, staring at the explosion marks at the street corners and the flames burning in distant buildings.
