But good times did not last. Then one day... monsters appeared in the village, and those who had long been dead... came back to life.
No, they could not be said to have come back to life. They were merely corpses that could move, their bodies stiff all over, their nails black and sharp, with pointed fangs.
Most of them were walking corpses that moved by holding both arms straight out in front of them and constantly hopping on both legs. Aside from their heads and limbs, the rest of their bodies could barely move.
They were highly aggressive toward living things and possessed immense strength. After biting someone and sucking their blood, they could infect the bitten person and turn them into one of their kind. And gradually... even corpses that had been dead for a long time and buried in the ground showed signs of reviving.
Because of these monsters, it did not take long for the village, once like a secluded paradise, to become a dead village.
But for some reason, these monsters would not take the initiative to enter houses. As long as one hid indoors and did not go out, they would not be attacked for the time being.
However, hiding inside was not necessarily completely safe. Besides... everyone still had to farm, or there would be nothing to eat.
Fortunately... there were no monsters during the day, at least at first. Now, though, a few monsters were active even in daylight.
Not long ago, the girl Chōchō liked... was accidentally attacked by a monster.
To keep the girl from becoming one of the monsters, Chōchō began searching for all kinds of ways to treat her, but none of them worked... The only consolation was that the shrine seemed capable of slowing the transformation.
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