The next attack never came.
A week passed.
Then another day.
The reports remained quiet.
No mysterious explosions.
No ambushed convoys.
No destroyed routes.
The force that had kept the human domain on edge had seemingly disappeared.
Yet Zero became more cautious.
Earth Zero had already proven that silence could be just as deliberate as action.
So Zero waited.
And while he waited—
Hiro continued becoming the center of attention.
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It happened without anyone forcing it.
The people simply continued talking about him.
Every recent crisis had given them something to remember.
Not the attacks themselves.
Not the unknown enemy.
Hiro.
The man who appeared.
The man who responded.
The man who brought people home.
Even after the danger disappeared, the stories remained.
And stories traveled further than fear.
Zero noticed it during his visits to different parts of the capital.
