This is not how he expected this evening to go, Azym muses as he holds onto a slowly falling metal beam and watches the destruction around him.

Tonight's game was not very important, but the stadium had still been packed full. He's not sure he's ever seen the stadium not be packed full, to be honest, outside friendly non-ranked practice matches. And it's not really something he gives much thought to most of the time, but as he watches the huge floating sphere of water slowly lose coherence as the supporting antigrav pillars lose power, he wishes the stadium had not in fact been full.

It's not just the water, though he's very carefully not thinking about what will happen when the tech holding the over thirty thousand tonnes of water completely fails and all of it comes crashing down on whoever has not fled the crumbling structure by then. It's the reason why everything's crumbling that's especially distressing especially because of the full stadium. It's the, uh...

He's not sure what the gigantic water bubble that seems to have emerged from the ocean is. But in addition to being a gigantic water bubble that puts the blitzball stadium to shame in size, it is a gigantic water bubble that is actively using antigrav tech—or, or something—to slowly pull all of the buildings with a view of the coast apart, piece by piece, as their structural integrity is insufficient to resist the gravitational force. It is also a gigantic water bubble that is actively shooting fucking missiles or some shit at the buildings, and for some damn reason seems to be aiming directly for the stadium. He doesn't know why it feels like that's true, but it does, it feels like it's directly attacking the blitzball stadium and all of the rest of the city that's being casually destroyed is just irrelevant collateral damage.

For the first time he regrets never having been curious about what, exactly, the world outside the island looks like.

...he's not sure why he's never been curious about that. He would've expected himself to want to know. But it's only occurring to him now that he doesn't know, and that maybe he should've, because then he would know why a gigantic water sphere is destroying his city and killing everyone in it.