By the next morning, a voice note went viral.
A soldier near Kaduna had secretly recorded something during an unauthorized mission.
> "…Target ranked Unknown. Requesting extraction. I repeat, Unknown—"
"…they're not dying, sir. The bullets aren't working—"
[static]
"…oh god, he's not human…"
The clip ended with screams.
But what chilled Anthony the most wasn't the audio.
It was the timestamp.
3:13 a.m.
The exact moment his own abilities had started to surface.
"Coincidence?" Confidence asked.
"No," he said.
He didn't believe in coincidence anymore.
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Later, Confidence showed him a map online.
There were outbreak zones now. Cities marked red, orange, and black based on threat activity.
And right in the center of the black zone in Nigeria?
Abuja.
Their home.
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