The sound of the screaming voices rang loudly in Minato's ears, and he freezes in place. What everyone did, it wasn't enough...?

He breathes again, into the unsettling silence, brought back into reality, but the conversations of the other Heroes around him were blurred into white noise. The foreboding of things that are probably only going to get worse hangs over their shoulders... This wasn't over, and they weren't just talk. Minato began to think more on their words: Cursed? Awakened?

An earthquake, the moonlight, and a sense of emptiness. This all seemed familiar, somehow...

Minato stays put where he was, and stares ahead of him, unsure what to do. As if--merely waiting for what comes next.