"We didn't become creatures like this because we wanted to." "Help me clean this up." "In this world, there are no monsters or witchcraft." "Doctor..." "Do you still think that Megumi Shimizu died?" "This is a story from long ago..." "around the time burials were still common." "There was this girl from a very wealthy family." "She lived in a fashionable western-style house... a very, very large house with dozens of servants." "The girl was given lots of love by her parents, and grew up living in great comfort." "But one day... her father's friend brought that man to the house..." "A flower that cut itself off from the morning light begs for the rain that doesn't come and falls into an endless sleep" "I hear a soft voice that's calling out for someone is this dark paradise a lie or a dream?" "What I'll lose is my body and my sense of self" "If I offer them up as payment, what will I gain in return?" "Life is so fragile and fleeting that I can steal it away with my tears" "Do you bemoan the death that comes for us all as a thing to be "feared"?" "The calendula that sings of the curtain's fall quietly blossoms into full bloom" "Whether it's hatred or sadness, it pulls it in by its root" "The calendula that sings of life's end soaks up the loneliness" "It begs for the rain that doesn't come and falls into an endless sleep" ""Friday, October 21, Senshou"" "Natsuno..." "I killed again." "I'll continue to sin like this." "Visiting your friend's grave?" "I think doing that will only cause you to suffer more." "What do you know?" "True..." "Did you come to punish me?" "Sunako wants to see you." "Go to Kanemasa." "My father-in-law died..." "I killed him." "I can smell him decomposing." "Tokujiro will not rise up." "My real parents became addicted to alcohol and gambling." "They ended up practically committing fraud and ran off somewhere." "They left without me when I was six years old." "I wanted parents." "I wanted a warm family." "I wanted a house where I could belong." "Mikiyasu gave that to me." "A husband and son whom I loved." "I considered his parents as my own parents." "So I wanted to call them to this side." "But Mikiyasu, Susumu, Father and Mother... none of them rose up." "My ability to rise up probably came from those parents of mine." "I got it because I was born from those bad people!" "Everyone in my kind family died while I became a creature like this." "There's no doubt that, with their eyes calmly closed, they'll gather somewhere peaceful and rest in peace." "I cannot reach that place." "It was I who said "Please come and visit us" to Seishirou Kirishiki that time." "But Jun invited him then, too." "This isn't fair..." "You think so, too, right, Jun?" "You'd think that this isn't fair and feel sorry for me, right?" "A summons by the Kanemasa residents means punishment." "A summons by Sunako is especially serious." "You get a rebuke and severe penalty..." "In the worst case, you get killed." "Have a seat." "Shiki cannot eat regular food, but they can drink liquid if they have to." "Please go ahead." "This is playing human." "I heard that you're suffering because you killed Natsuno Yuuki." "Is that right?" "That's just natural, isn't it?" "!" "I don't think attacking people is a bad thing." "Why not?" "!" "It's murder we're talking about!" "If you're going to blame yourself, you should go as far as to hate and kill yourself." "Come to think of it, along time ago... a very long time ago when burials were common, there was a girl who was suffering like you." "One day, she awoke to find herself in darkness inside a coffin." "The girl cried and screamed a lot." "Then, someone came and saved her." "And then..." "I attacked this person..." "Ill"?" "...because I was so hungry." "When I returned home, I was soon sent to some unknown town and locked up in a storehouse there." "Someone brought me food once a day, so I attacked that person each day." "The person who brought me food changed one after another." "When I think back on it, it's scary, right?" "I'm certain that my parents were feeding me in spite of who I was." "I came to learn about lots of things while being inside the storehouse." "I came to understand what kind of creature I was as well." "So I ran away from that place." "I victimized kind people on my way and returned home." "At my home, there were different people living there." "My family had moved away... so I looked for them." "I looked for them for a long, long time." "As I searched, such a long time passed that Mother wouldn't even be alive anymore." "Even so, I still kept looking." "And when I noticed, so much time had passed that even my little sister would naturally be dead." "Why did you tell me that story?" "I don't know..." "Maybe because I felt that you'd understand... that girl's feelings..." "Akira!" "What're you doing?" "!" "Get up, already!" "Your breakfast will get cold!" "Okay." "See you later!" "Akira, you've got bed head." "Huh?" ""Yamairi"" "I sucked a lot of blood again today!" "I'd better hold back or I'll gain weight!" "Oh?" "Mr. Tanaka!" "Megumi!" "How could you?" "!" "You're talking about me sucking your blood?" "Do you have a right to blame me?" "You being here means you did it, too, right?" "The thing that we do first after rising up..." "The ceremony of sucking the blood of a couple of weakened humans..." "Hey, you killed them, didn't you?" "Otherwise, they wouldn't have let you go outside." "Wh-Who were they?" "They were people kidnapped from big cities for the sake of you beginners." "You guys can't attack people you know in the village right away, right?" "So, what're you gonna do?" "Do you have a right to blame me?" "I'm saying, you'll have to have meals on your own starting tomorrow." "What?" "!" "I think you should attack your own family!" "You rose up!" "It's highly likely that your blood kin will rise up, too." "It's lonely being by yourself, right?" "What an awful thing to say!" "Even if you don't attack them, someone else will." "Did you attack your own family?" "!" "No way!" "I don't want those jerks to come to this side!" "Anyway, I'll talk to you tomorrow again!" "Women are scary..." ""Love"" "II II "Sunday, October 23, Senpu"" "My house..." "The place where my family lives..." "I came back..." "I'm home!" "Welcome me back... with happy faces." "So this is being "shut out"..." "Since I'm no longer a member of the family," "I can't enter the house unless I'm invited." "Love...!" "You too are..." "Love!" "What's the fuss?" "You're bothering the neighborhood!" "Stop barking!" "Sachiko!" "PUT}?" "It's me." "G-Ghost!" "What's the matter?" "It's me." "Wh-Why are you here?" "ls your soul lost?" "Sachiko..." "Th-This isn't a place for you to come back to!" "You're dead!" "Go to the other side!" "Don't come back!" "Wh-Why did you come back?" "!" ""Monday, October 24, Butsumetsu"" "Akira!" "Get up!" "It's already 9 o'clock!" "We're late for school!" "No way." "Why didn't Mom get us up?" "What's the deal?" "Any other morning she'd be bugging me saying, "Get up!" "Get up!"" "Mom, it's already 9 o'clock." "I'm going to school, okay?" "Yeah?" "Akira..." "Love was barking last night." "Huh?" "What are we gonna do?" "It must've been Megumi." "They must be planning to kill us all." "Megumi..." "Why...?" "I'm gonna go to Mizobe town." "What?" "What for?" "I'll buy amulets and stuff at a Hachiman Shrine again!" "But what about school?" "Who cares about school?" "!" "Besides, we're poor children whose father passed away." "They'll overlook it." "You go make some stakes using the lumber in the storage." "Wh-Why are you bossing me around?" "They killed Natsuno." "They killed Dad." "And now, they're trying to kill Mom!" "Now that it's come to this, we'll put up an all-out fight!" "That was really a shock!" "Yeah." "Oh?" "Isn't that the son of the Tanakas?" "Where are you going during school hours?" "Mom is sick and can't go out, so she asked me to run some errands." "Oh, it must be tough especially since it's right after your father passed away." "The wife of the hardware store owner passed away, too." "What're you laughing about?" "Huh?" "When so many people have been dying, why are adults just laughing and doing nothing about it?" "!" "Why are they letting things be?" "!" "Wh-What?" "!" "Oitarou!" "Sorry." "It's not that we haven't been thinking about it." "But even Doctor Ozaki can't do anything about it, right?" "The entire village is becoming odd little by little, but we don't know what to do, either." "One day houses become empty, and then people are back before we know it." "Yeah, we don't know what to do." "Forget it!" "Oh yeah, lkumi's family, too." "I heard that she's gone, along with her daughter." "You know what, though?" "It seems that someone's at their house at night lately." "Are they back?" "No." "I was told that it looked like the deceased lwao from the Maeda family." "Takeko!" "Stop saying silly things." "Where's that?" "Kaori!" "Have you made stakes?" "Wh-What?" "I've made only two." "That's..." "This is the second one." "Let me have it." "Akira!" "Natsuno..." "I'll do it." "I'll stop leaving things to adults." "What do you call that stuff, you know, those pieces of paper?" "That's confetti." "Oh yeah, that's right." "What do we do with you?" "Looks like the practice for the November Kagura dance started." "What a complacent bunch..." "Soon the ownership of this village will be transferred from humans to shiki." "There's probably only one chance to reverse this situation." "Just before they become convinced of their victory, huh?" "We need to endure and wait... no matter how many more people are victimized." "Let me tell you one thing." "I'm going to annihilate shiki." "I don't intend to persuade them or negotiate." "Of course." "We'll annihilate every shiki." "And that includes me." "It'll be fine." "They come out only at night." "I've got enough time." "Boards are put up from inside." "It must be in order not to let sunlight inside." "Natsuno..." "Damn you!" "As expected, this doesn't seem to be a vacant house." "But... no one's around?" "Besides those boards and plaster, I don't see anything strange in here." "A curtain?" "A closet?" "This is the old man from the Maeda family!" "He's cold..." "I-I found one of them!" "I'm gonna destroy all of you!" "They are murderers!" "They killed Natsuno and Dad!" "So I'm not gonna think that this is a terrible thing to do!" "I'll do it!" "Hm..." "Huh?" "Under cover of darkness, you hold your breath" "Clad in darkness, you smile softly" "It's just your imagination, I'm sure no one knows you" "Only the moon is gazing at you" "Ahh, wandering in the endless night" "Ahh, just dreaming about you" "Ahh, wandering in the endless night" "Ahh, just dreaming about you" "Ahh..." "There's no doubt now that the village is in serious danger because of shiki." "Salvation is needed." "Someone needs to take action, or this village will be annihilated." "Even so..." "I'm still upset with Toshio because he killed a shiki." "There's darkness somewhere inside my body."