Just after the Demonic Gate opened.

Who would have felt the most urgency?

Perhaps the hunters, tense yet excited by the appearance of new enemies, wondering what sort of gains they might reap?

Or the ordinary citizens, sighing as they cheered for Utopia, in a world now disturbingly accustomed to monsters emerging from gates—only to learn that even stronger ones were on the way?

Or maybe the politicians who, having lost influence and relevance to the rising power of hunters, were grinding their teeth in frustration, only to leap in front of the cameras as soon as a new stage …