A rain of light suddenly fell.
Countless sharp swords, blades, and spears descended from the sky like a torrential downpour, mercilessly piercing the bodies of the dead and nailing them firmly to the ground.
Ozaki Toshio had no idea what was happening. He could only stare blankly at the unbelievable scene before him as if he were watching a movie, with no sense of reality whatsoever—then, a black shadow fell from the sky and landed on the ground. By the moonlight, Ozaki Toshio could see that it was the girl who had come to ask him for information during the day.
Ozaki Toshio watched as the girl landed on the grass, walked over to Mrs. Setsuko, and led her away from the dead who had been pierced by blades and nailed to the ground. Only then did Ozaki Toshio react. He turned around almost instinctively and desperately ran downstairs as fast as he could.
Ozaki Toshio himself did not know why he did it, but he wanted to find that girl and ask her the truth behind all this—he was certain that she knew exactly what had happened here.
"Aaaaaaah!!!"
As he ran, Ozaki Toshio heard piercing screams. Although he could not see anything right now, he could imagine that those monsters were suffering unimaginable torment. That did not stop him. He stumbled all the way to the first floor, shoved open the hospital doors, and rushed outside.
Then Ozaki Toshio saw a scene he had never imagined.
The black-haired girl held a Greatsword and pointed it at one of the dead nailed to the ground—the girl was someone he knew. She had been the first accidental death he had diagnosed, a girl named Shimizu Megumi.
In Ozaki Toshio's memory, she had been an ordinary girl who dressed fashionably, brimmed