"She killed my daughter!" "She killed my daughter!" "I'm going to hunt down the shiki." "They're not here, huh?" "It seems there's no mistake that they've been using this place as their hideout." "Toshio!" "Look at this!" "PUT}?" "We found one!" "Is it okay to open it?" "He is the son of the owner of Ootsuka Lumber Shop!" "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" ""Sunday, November 6, Senshou"" "Mr. Tashiro, give me the stake." "What're you going to do?" "What am I going to do?" "We won't get anywhere unless we get rid of them." "We'd better hurry up and keep on going or the day will be over." "Er..." "I guess you're right." "If you're scared, why don't you go look around?" "There may be more hiding." "Ahh, yeah." "Toshio!" "So these guys did it?" "These guys killed my son?" "Mr. Tashiro, give me the stake." "Is it around here?" "Move it a little... here." "Don't move!" "What do we do with his head?" "Huh?" "Let's cut it off once and for all." "Would a hatchet work?" "Not to worry." "The stake is definitely hammered into the vital spot." "No need to cut it off." "I found more here!" "Where is it?" "!" "I guess this was to be expected..." "Doctor!" "Doctor!" "The clinic is...!" "The elder Mrs. Ozaki is...!" "Toshio..." "You guys, too..." "Tell your family to be careful." "Then"." "This is probably retaliation against me." "They're telling me not to go any further." "Wh-What does that text on the window mean?" "My mother won't rise up... because she was killed instead of having her blood sucked." "What?" "Why?" "They retaliated because he went against them." "Hey..." "Mrs." "Ozaki simply died." "Since she was killed, she can't rise up and come back to life." "Hey, what do you mean by that?" "!" "Are you saying that it's better to rise up to become a demon that kills people rather than to be killed?" "!" "I didn't mean it that way." "Mr. Ookawa..." "In any case, let's take the body out of here." "And... someone, please erase that scribbling." "What's the matter, Toshio?" "He's upstairs." "Atsushi!" "You damn brat!" "Ah!" "Mr. Ookawa..." "Give me a stake!" "Atsushi..." "This brat killed the elder Mrs. Ozaki!" "I knew he was a good-for-nothing brat, but I never thought that he was this depraved!" "But..." "There's no need for sympathy!" "If my son committed a sin, it is my own responsibility as a parent to settle it myself!" "Asking someone else to punish him is wrong!" "Is this the right spot?" "If possible, I don't want to make him suffer much, so..." "Yeah, that's the right spot." "Old man!" "Forgive me!" "Please forgive me!" "Forgive me!" "Atsushi!" "So there were this many..." "This is nowhere near all of them..." "Doctor, what should we do with these bodies?" "PUT}?" "Wouldn't it be quicker if we cremate them?" "Well, cremating a person requires quite a bit of heat." "In Sotoba village, we bury the dead." "If we hold such a large bonfire here, fire trucks will rush in here right away." "Besides, this isn't all." "What?" "There should be several times more than this, at the least." "There's no way in hell that there were only twenty of them." "But..." "There's gotta be another hideout somewhere." "And it must be quite a large one." "We searched throughout the village." "We must've missed somewhere." "Underground is pretty much the only place... we haven't searched." "That's it!" "Huh?" "!" "Underground!" "The underground tunnel!" "Mr. Tamo!" "You're part of the irrigation association, aren't you?" "Yes'?" "What's the status of the underground tunnel around this time of the year?" "You mean the pipeline?" "Since it's an off-season for farmers, there's no water in it." "We haven't searched." "Yes, they should be able to." "Although the intake is closed, you can go in and out from the pump shed." "That's it!" "They must've escaped in there!" "I'll take you there." "Doctor!" "A gunshot!" "Over there!" "Why do you interfere?" "You were able to become a jinrou." "Why do you interfere?" "Pardon me for saying this, but I, Seishirou Kirishiki, cannot understand you." "I'm not going to let the okiagari be... even after I've become a jinrou." "Shiki are probably evil according to conventional thought... as they kill people in order to live." "As people say, they're monsters." "But why is it wrong for shiki to hunt humans?" "Humans also hunt humans." "My father was like that, too." "In order to fulfill his own desire... and in order to fulfill his sense of superiority, he hunted people and tore them apart." "I always wanted to get revenge on those who oppressed me." "You see..." "I wanted to become a victimizer." "You wanted to become a shiki?" "Well..." "Yes." "There he is!" "This way!" "I want to become a shiki." "Mr. Muroi?" "Mr. Muroi..." "Looks like they didn't find this place, huh?" "The village?" "It's terrible." "Possibly more than 30% of our people were killed." "What about Seishirou?" "He isn't back yet." "This is it." "We should run away." "So I want to say, but we can't leave as of yet." "Hunters are hanging around the house." "By taking advantage of the darkness, I was somehow able to sneak in, but..." "Sunako?" "We have to go find Seishirou." "He can no longer make a levelheaded decision due to Chizuru's death." "He's fine." "But...!" "Pull yourself together!" "I'll go find a way to escape somehow." "Don't go anywhere until I come to get you." "You have Mr. Muroi with you, right?" "Stay here." "Okay?" "May I have a meal?" "Go ahead..." "Well... is this arm better?" "Either one is fine." "It's strange..." "Sunako acted boldly, hiding her sadness, when she heard Chizuru died." "But she's now upset because Mr. Seishirou hasn't come back." "It's nothing strange." "Is that because he's like a father to her?" "It's because he's a "human" who accepted her as shiki." "You want to attack her, right?" "!" "You're starving, right?" "!" "Then, please attack her!" "No." "If they make a raid here, you'll be killed, too!" "No one is gonna praise you for enduring like that!" "I don't want to." "Please..." "Get either one of us, Yasuyo or me, out of here." "I can't do that." "I don't want to attack her." "If I do that..." "I'll hate myself." "I will have to detest myself, just like you do." "Please move Yasuyo somewhere else." "If I do something like that, I'll be scolded." "I know." "My family will be attacked!" "They'll retaliate against me!" "I know." "Please..." "Get out." "You get out of here." "Yasuyo!" "Run!" "What're you doing?" "!" "If we let her escape, it'll be all over!" "She'll call in her people and we'll be killed!" "I don't want to die, either." "But I also don't want Yasuyo and you to die." "I don't want people to die." "If that was okay with me, I wouldn't have become a nurse." "I've worked all this time in order to help people." "That was my pride." "But I can't have both." "You get it, don't you?" "For me to live on, someone else has to die." "Why did I have to rise up... when I was dead once?" "Take this with you." "Thank you." "Please don't say that!" "I'm doing something to endanger my people." "This is nothing that I should be thanked for." "I..." "I guess..." "But let me thank you just for one thing." "Thank you for being kind to Ritsuko." ""Sunday, November 6, Senshou"" ""Monday, November 7, Tomobiki"" "Sorry to bother you." "It's Monday today." "What should we do?" "Huh?" "I think people are coming from the outside to bring in mail and stuff." "Oh yeah..." "What did we do yesterday?" "It seems that those guys who were blocking the roads told them whatever, like we were in the middle of an important ritual, and got rid of them." "That's probably the only choice we have." "Maybe we'll tell them that it's a grand festival held once a century." "Wouldn't they think it's strange?" "I'm sure they will." "But they probably can't even imagine something like this is going on in the village." "Well, I guess not..." "Have we found the Kanemasa people?" "No, we haven't found them yet." "But the resident police officer Sasaki and that doctor Ebuchi were found in the pipeline." "Excuse me, it's not easy to tell you this, but..." "PUT}?" "What is it, Oitarou?" "Actually, there were those who attacked caretakers here and there, but..." "Yeah?" "Th-They have a pulse." "They breathe, too." "They're not okiagari." "They're probably under hypnosis." "What?" "They can manipulate the humans they sucked blood from." "At any rate, we have no choice but to drag them to the shrine." "As long as they aren't getting bitten anymore, they'll regain their sanity." "No..." "Doesn't that mean that we have traitors who sold out to shiki?" "Like the Kirishiki guy?" "They're collaborators." "Even so, we can't kill them, can we?" "You think so?" "If we do, it'll be murder." "What about Yamairi?" "It's probably a matter of time." "Soon someone will remember Yamairi." "Yeah..." "They found the pipeline, too." "The hunters are dragging out those who were inside and hammering stakes into them." "Did it hurt?" "Chizuru..." "Mr. Muroi..." "Do you think that stakes can go through the chest in one stroke?" "Sunako"." "My body is a child's body." "My bones and chest are thin." "If they hammer it with all their might," "I think it'll go all the way through me with one stroke." "I'm scared." "Isn't it funny?" "I've killed so many people." "No matter how brutal the killer, I don't think he killed as many as I did." "My being killed is a punishment for it." "And yet, I'm scared." "Soon the day will break." "There're hunters outside the house." "Even though they may make a raid at any time, I will fall asleep." "Why?" "If it were the main character in a story, someone would surely come rescue them." "Even a miracle may happen." "But I have no one to rescue me." "Not a single god would cause a miracle for me... because I'm a murderer." "But I have done nothing wrong." "I just fed myself, that's all." "If I don't have meals, I'll starve to death, so..." "Should I have done so?" "Am I a bad person because I didn't starve to death?" "Answer me, Mr. Muroi!" "That's..." "It's not like I became a creature like this because I wanted to." "But if I have life, I don't want to lose it." "Is it my sin?" "Mr. Muroi... this is what we mean by being "forsaken by god."" "Ritsuko..." "May I come by your side?" "Thank you." "Hm?" "Matsu..." "I thought you ran away." "PUT}?" "You're Matsu, aren't you?" "Yes." "Mr. Ookawa!" "Watch out!" ""Huh?" ""Huh?" "Duck!" "Atsuko!" "Matsu!" "Doctor!" "He has a pulse!" "Hold him down!" "Mr. Ookawa!" "He's the same as the Kirishiki guy!" "He's working with them!" "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... h' it's criminals we're talking about, we can isolate them." "They can be rehabilitated, too." "However, this is not the case for shiki." "To them, being apart from their prey means starving to death." "H' there're no ways to change that habit, then for those criminals who we know will continue to kill, the proper punishment would be..."