"Isn't it an epidemic?" "I wasn't really close to Shimizu or anything." "As I suspected, her case is the same as Megumi's." "Good evening." "People can't die from cutting their wrists." "I'll definitely come see you..." ""Sunday, August 28, Butsumetsu"" "Hey, Kaori..." "Like I said, this is definitely strange!" "What?" "What is?" "This village!" "Too many people are dying." "Megumi, Yasuyuki from Maruyasu Lumber... and many, many more!" "It started after those people moved in to Kanemasa." "Yasuyuki met the mistress of Kanemasa before he died, right?" "!" "Megumi, too!" "She died after she walked up the hill to Kanemasa!" "On top of that, she told you that she met the mistress, right?" "!" "She's beautiful..." "But..." "But they said they didn't know anything." "Stop it!" "Kaori..." "Let's not talk... about those things." ""Shiki"" "Hageshii kawaki ni kuruisou" "Me o tojite tsumi bukaki kuchizuke" "Omae no nioi kuruwaseru" "Mayonaka ni mezamete kyouki ai nomihosu" "Oide kono ude no naka "acchl no yami wa nigai zo"" "Kimi wa madoi yurameku" "Yagate eien ni naru "kocchi no yami wa amai zo"" "Boku wa fukaku tsuki sasu" "Oide kono ude no naka "acchl no yami wa nigai yo"" "Kimi wa madoi yurameku" ""Monday, August 29, Taian"" ""Munehide Murasako, Sotoba Area Caretaker, Masao's Father"" "If you'll recall, he was a high school teacher." "Teacher...?" "Then it wasn't Gouzou, but his son Kenji, that died?" "That's right." "So, about his funeral..." "So now the number of dead is twelve." "As we thought, this might be..." "Hello...?" "Oh, Masa." "Hey, Seishin." "Have you heard?" "Mr. Takami did...?" "How terrible..." "His wife is so dumbstruck by the shock that we can't ask her anything." "Could you call her and talk to her?" "Okay." ""Thursday, September 'l, Tomobiki"" "The Takami family moved away?" "But Officer Takami just passed away, right?" "Right." "But his wife and two children moved on the same day without saying goodbye to their neighbors." "What?" "On the same day?" "Right." "And what's strange about it is... that most of their stuff was left at the residence." "Movers came last night suddenly and took them." "It was in the dead of night, no less." "It was a truck with Takasago pine trees on it." "Well, it's not like anyone cares." "Just between you and me, he's kinda sinister-looking." "Mr. Takami looked young, so..." "Can the next resident police officer be decided on this quickly?" "Beats me." "Come to think of it..." "I've heard of a similar story." "The Shinoda family moved using movers with a truck with Takasago pine trees on it." "In the dead of night, without saying goodbye to their neighbors." "Since it was so sudden, people were wondering if they skipped town." "The Kanemasa people moved in during the dead of night." "Is it some trend?" "Here's your pasta lunch set." "Wow, it looks good!" "Thank you!" "In any case, strange movings, strange outsiders..." "Something is wrong with this village lately." ""Wednesday, September 7, Senpu"" ""Susumu Yasumori, Son of Mikiyasu and Nao Yasumori"" "This way..." "This way, please!" "He had a cardiac arrest!" "Just now!" "Hurry!" "Yes Doctor!" "This doesn't mean we have no hope of reviving him." "Did he get infected via Nao?" "Mikiyasu..." "Ah!" "Toshio... ls Susumu dead?" "He's got tachycardia." "He's breathing shallowly, too." "The whites of his eyes are..." "Last night, Susumu was..." "M..." "Mommy... sleep-talking and calling Nao." "That became... his last word." "Hold on a sec!" "Him, too!" "Take him to the government hospital!" "But let me draw some blood before you go." ""Ozaki Clinic"" "I heard that Mikiyasu's son was taken to a hospital by ambulance so I wondered..." "What did you tell Mikiyasu?" "Actually, I'm examining the peripheral blood of Mikiyasu himself right now." "What?" "Both hematocrit value and hemoglobin concentration have dropped." "It's clear that he has anemia." "When I checked the smear, I noticed an increase in reticulocyte count." "That means..." "It's the same as the others." "Ahh!" "Ahh!" "They both probably got infected via Nao." "It's likely that neither of them will make it." "Mikiyasu, too..." "Even Mikiyasu..." "You are..." "Sunako..." "Good evening, Mr. Muroi." "Hey, what is this place?" "Where am I?" "This is the temple grounds." "Temple...?" "But isn't this a church?" "No, this isn't a church, is it?" "This is a church." "At least the one who built this tried to build a church." "I see." "There's a spare flashlight inside, so I'll lend it to you." "This is my secret base." "Stained glass..." "What a creepy picture..." "That one has a man covered with flames." "It's called mino-odori." "I see..." "The person who built this must've been interested in martyrs." "I think so." "One of the people of Kanemasa built it before the war." "Kanemasa..." "I've heard of it." "That's what people in this village call the land my family lives on, right?" "Sunako... do you always go out this late?" "I can't go out during the day." "I have a serious condition that gets worse if I'm exposed to lots of UV rays." "To tell you the truth, we moved here to help me recuperate." "I see." "It's nothing you have to feel down about, Mr. Muroi." "Well, it's not just about you." "My childhood friend, who's still young, and his son may die from an illness." "How strange." "If the sick person is old, you wouldn't feel down?" "It's not like that." "But don't you feel it's terrible that those two very young people have to die?" "Death is a terrible thing for anyone." "The young, the old, good people, bad people..." "It's the same to everyone." "Death treats everyone equally." "There's no such thing as an especially terrible death." "That's precisely why death is frightening." "Your everyday conduct, your age, your personality..." "Your wealth or beauty..." "Those things matter only while you're alive." "Death makes them all null." "That's why any death is terrible." "Sunako"." "I have to go home now." "Is it okay for me to come here again?" "You're free to come, but it's dangerous to walk around at night so I can't encourage it." "Unlike other people, I only have freedom for half of the day." "I can't give up on it over a bit of danger." "I'll bring your book next time." "If I see you again, would you sign it for me?" ""Monday, September 12, Tomobiki"" "Doctor, Dr. Taniguchi from the government hospital is on the phone." "Okay." "Yes..." "Okay." "Well then..." "Doctor..." "Was it about Mr. Mikiyasu Yasumori?" "Yasuyo, Ritsuko..." "I'd like to hold a meeting in the lounge after the morning consultations." "Please tell everyone else." "Yes, Doctor!" "Mr. Mutou and Mr. Towada, this might be hard for you to follow since you do the admin work." "Ask me if things are unclear." "Mikiyasu from Yasumori Construction passed away on the 10th." "This puts the death count in the village at 19." "19..." "That many...?" "Right." "There were indeed that many." "Some of them died outside the village." "Including them and the deaths reported to the village office," "Mikiyasu is the 19th person." "We're in the midst of something abnormal." "I don't think it's a mistake to consider it an epidemic." "But it's not an existing one." "Though unlikely, there's a possibility that it's an allergy towards some substance." "In any case, unless we identify the cause of this series of deaths, we can't even ask for help from the federal government." ""Mutou, Chief Medical Administrator" Uhm, can't we ask the local government to investigate?" "I'm planning on it." "But in order to do so, we have to gather data." "The only thing I know so far is that it starts with anemia." "According to the test results, it's normocytic-normochromic anemia." "Then, the cause is bleeding or hemolysis..." "But she didn't have any internal bleeding." "Then hemolysis?" "By the process of elimination, that's the only possibility left, though we can't confirm from the test results whether or not the red blood cells are being destroyed." "Or, it could be some poison or drug..." "But considering who the patients are, this possibility is low." "Also it's important to note that they die at night most of the time." "I see." "Then this means that" "Nao got a blood clot due to PNH and died of heart failure?" ""Satoko lsaki, Nurse"" "Ah!" "The cause of Ms. Fuki Gotouda's death was kidney failure, wasn't it?" "But doesn't PNH progress slowly?" "Yeah..." "I wonder if this is a severe version of it." "Our nurses are very capable." "I think that's extremely likely, too." "But Mikiyasu's test results, which I received earlier, show disorders not only in his kidney, but in his lung and liver as well." ""Yuki Shiomi, Nurse"" "It's called secondary MODS nowadays, right?" "In any case, it means the entire body breaks down." "It starts with anemia, and then MOF." "It takes about 3-4 days." "I wonder how it's transmitted." "If it's direct infection, the patient's family are the first ones to be infected, right?" "Us, too." "Then, what about vectors?" "If that's the case, wouldn't the entire village be infected by now?" "Maybe the incidence rate is low even if people are infected?" "Some families continuously have deaths while others don't." "I wonder if it depends on their physical constitution." "For now, I suspect the case of vectors, too." "But, in any case, let's gather data on the cases." "I'm sure you guys are worried, too, but if we're careful, I think we can prevent infection." "The most important thing is not to make the clinic a source of infection." "Also... don't spread word about this until we know for sure what we're dealing with." "A panic is what we should be afraid of the most." "Good morning, Yuuki." "There's no way she was there." "She's dead!" "Natsuno!" "What's the matter?" "You're walking unsteadily." "Whoa!" "You look terrible." "What's wrong?" "Let me stay at your house tonight." "Sure." "No problem." "There's something I wanna talk to you about, too." "Hey, it's hot." "Oh?" "Where're Toru and Natsuno?" "They're in Tom's room." "Natsuno's been coming by a lot lately." "I wonder if he doesn't have friends." "Hey now, Aoi!" "Game over." "What?" "!" "Natsuno, I get that you want to leave the village." "But if you stay up so late studying for entrance exams, you'll get sick." "It's none of your business." "And, like I said, don't call me by my first name." "Say, Natsuno..." "I have a favor to ask." "That's rare." "What is it?" "Well, you know..." "I want to... ask Ritsuko out for a drive on the weekend... but I don't have the courage." "Would you come with me when I ask her?" "What?" "But she was with you when you were practicing, wasn't she?" "Well, this time, it'll be a date." "Wait, wait." "To begin with, she might look young but she's quite a bit older than you, right?" "I'm not trying to say anything about your taste in women, but..." "Okay." "I'll go with you." "Really?" "!" "Thanks!" "I knew you'd say tha" "Like I always say, don't do things like that." "I'm really sleepy." "I'm gonna go to bed now." "Ah, wait!" "I prepared a bed for you today." "You can stay over night here anytime from now on." "Yeah..." "So don't fall asleep yet." "Shimizu!" "Oh..." "They've already gone to bed?" "Oh darn, I wanted help with my homework..." "It was just Aoi..." "Yuuki..." "Yuuki..." "Shimizu!" "I don't like him... because he gets along with you better than me." "Right, Mr. Tatsumi?" "So..." "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "Ookina yume mezashi aruiteita" "Mayoi mayotte owari no nai tabi" "Ano toki wa yuki majiri no ame de" "Namida ka douka wakaranakatta" "Sayonara mou nido to aenai" "Watashi ga eranda mirai e mata ippo fumidasu yo" "Ookina kabe o koete" "Suki datta noni doushite "saigo da" nante ittano?" "Ima de wa chanto wakaru" "Dakara nee "walk" tsuyoku" "The village is plague-stricken..." "That is what's going on." "And yet, why does it seem that something is outside the village?" "The triangle at the tip of a harpoon..." "Momi fir tree groves that surround the village..." "Demons that are surrounding the village and watching it from all over the groves..."