As the anomaly's body continued to swell in size, Shae, Rabbit, and Armadillo were all struck by a sense of foreboding, and they quickly fled in all directions before the balloon inevitably burst.

In the end, a massive explosion rang out, and all three of them were swept up by the resulting shockwaves, sustaining injuries of different levels of severity.

Armadillo was the one who got off the lightest. After burrowing into the earth, he was shielded from the majority of the explosion's power, and he was relatively unharmed aside from being compressed by the earth.

However, the same didn't apply to Rabbit and Shae. They had been situated quite close to the anomaly, and it had severely injured both of them with its self-detonation.

Is it dead? 

While continuing to suppress the guardian angel, Adam backtracked toward...