The rapid changes that went on in the Second Empire were made known to the world through the Shaman Chronicles. The newspaper still had a lot of negative things to say about the empire, but the good they spread was enough to get people questioning whether the Second Empire was the evil they had been told it was.
On this day, the earth trembled once more. This had been going on for thousands of years now, and the frequency was only growing closer, as though counting down to some climax that very few people knew was coming. Kai Syaoran was one of the few who understood that these tremors through the earth were the signs for the return of Existence.
