Thrown In as Bait, the E-Rank Lantern Wakes Up Every Time He Dies novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Break
Through the chamber's tall windows, across the river, Mangwon-dong was turning white.
It started at the bathhouse chimney and spread outward street by street.
The families in the gallery were already running for the stairs, because their homes were in it.
At 4:14 Woo-seok stood at the bottom of Mangwon-ro, where the street ran down into the river park.
The trees along the street were white with frost, their new leaves frozen stiff.
Steam things drifted between the cars, pale and eyeless, in the middle of the afternoon.
People came running down the sidewalks toward the river with children in their arms.
The Blue Crane stood three blocks up the hill, and the cold rolled down from it in a slow white wave.
Somewhere inside that wave, something as big as a bus was walking.
The Association's standby order had brought forty lanterns to the riverbank by four.
They stood in a line on the grass in orange vests, their lamps on their chests, waiting for a raid leader.
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