Nobuchika Ginoza ducks as a piece of asphalt soars over his head and impacts the walls of the Nona Tower. He narrows his eyes and stares at the massive mob that's gathered in front of the doors of the Ministry building. Another wave of asphalt- where are they getting all of it from?, he wonders- shatters the glass windows behind him.
"Ginoza-san!" The cry comes from a petite woman, her cropped hair swinging wildly as she runs out from Nona Tower with a bullhorn in hand. "Ginoza-san, what's going on?"
"They citizens are rioting," the Enforcer replies through gritted teeth. He draws his Dominator weapon from his belt and points it at the assembled mass, knowing full well that it won't be able to do much against a crowd of this many. He finds himself wishing his ex-partner, Kougami Shinya, was here to back him up.
"Is this about the frozen waters?" Akane shouts over the cries of the others.
"What isn't!?" Ginoza twists to the side to avoid another clump of masonry as Akane Tsunemori steps to the fore of the Enforcers attempting to secure the building. The ex-Inspector notices his boss hovering slightly behind his right shoulder, as if subconsciously relying on him to protect her from the violence, like he's tried so often to.
"Citizens, please disperse and return to your residences!" Akane shouts with the help of the bullhorn. "The Ministry of Welfare is currently working with the government of Japan to provide clean fresh water to each person! I repeat, please disperse and return to your residences, the Ministry of-"
"Akane!" Ginoza sees the threat too late and whips up his Dominator like Kougami had once leveled a pistol. The brown-eyed female glances once at her subordinate before turning-
And taking the full brunt of a large clump of concrete in the face. The Inspector falls, the bullhorn clattering from her hand and smashing cacophonously on the steps of Nona Tower. Ginoza stares, his breath caught between his heart and his windpipe, and for a brief second the entire world stands still.
A roar echoes up from the riled crowd. Ginoza turns to his left and sees the mass of people has begun to press closer, ignoring the efforts of Enforcers to keep them back. The dam breaks; an Enforcer collapses, his skull caved in by a large rock, and the populace begins to rush forward into the tower.
Ginoza struggles to reach Akane, stripping off the black vest that marks him so obviously as an Enforcer, but the push of the crowd sweeps him temporarily off his feet and by the time he's once again in control of his body, he's already past the entrance to the tower. He feels his gut wrenching in time with his frantic heartbeat as he pushes time and time again, always to no avail, against this current of madness.
The river of humans races up and down the stairs, the elevators, destroying all semblance of law and order in the city. Ginoza is faintly aware that he should get out of the tower as soon as possible, that Akane, being the rule-following boss she always was, had probably called the Japanese military in for assistance. He idly wonders if she will meet them at the doors, all prim and proper, before his heart freezes again.
She's already at the doors, blood leaking from a large cut on the side of her head, eyes unfocused, suit marred where hundreds and hundreds of dusty footprints made their mark on her purity-
-the crowd is yelling something. In their rampaging they seem to have found a hidden panel in one of the rooms. A branch of the makeshift army peels off, and Ginoza follows them as best he can, still in a daze.
They sweep him down winding staircases, banging on the metal walls all the way down, and finally they enter a large room, illuminated, and-
Everything falls silent. For the second time that night, all movement ceases as the crowd of a hundred-some people comes to a full stop, staring. Before them lies a sea of glass, a sea of brains, all pulsing with life and electricity, and Ginoza realizes before anyone else that this is the master he's slaved away for for so long.
The ex-Enforcer presses a hand to his mouth to stop the bile from rising, and he turns away before anyone can stop him and begins a mad sprint up the staircase. No one makes anything of it; they're either engrossed by the grotesque sight in front of them or otherwise beginning to start forward to smash and destroy the brains and their glass cases; their screams are beginning to rend the air and Ginoza is faintly aware of a voice coming from the Dominator, which he tosses away like a hot iron-
-and he wakes up, as he's done for months past, panting and sweating and hating that recurring nightmare that continues to plague him night after night. There's a clanging of metal- one of the overseers must've heard him sit up in the uncomfortable metal bunks, and he's banging his nightstick against the steel legs of the bunk Ginoza's in.
"Unit I-13, go back to sleep or I'll help you with that."
Ginoza acquiesces, lying down on his side and turning away from the aisle to face the wall. The overseer stares at him for a while longer before stomping away, apparently satisfied. The ex-Enforcer waits until the man is gone before releasing a long, shuddering sigh, one that makes his chest quiver with pain and grief.
First dad. Then Kou. And now, Akane. How much more do I have to lose? he wonders, his fists clenching the pitiful cotton bedsheets in a futile attempt to stem the pain building in his chest.
He had thought hard physical work and daily fatigue would wear away the memories of that day. He'd thought the ice mines would be a place where he could rest, where the cold would freeze his burning emotions bit by bit until he couldn't feel them any longer.
He was wrong, though, as he always is, and the brown-eyed man presses his eyelids together to stop the hot tears from trickling down the side of his face, as he's done every night since- and probably always will.
I deviated slightly from the Psycho-Pass canon for this, which states that the Sibyl System controls all of Japan. For the purposes of this melded universe, there is only one city (unnamed to hold to canon) that is under the influence of the Sibyl System. However, the events of Psycho-Pass Season 1 still hold true to this universe.