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Part 2: New Messages

Ritsu's POV

I heard muffled voices from a distant – there were so many I could not even pinpoint what they conveyed. "Help!" Someone screamed somewhere but all of a sudden, he was stopped with loud thuds and heavy groans. I slept for hours, I think. It was dark outside. "Mio," I called my wife as I turned on the switch but the light was still out. I then took my phone. "Great," I tched, given that it was dead. I heard some shouts again, all together with sirens – it must've been Toshio. He loved his damn TV loud no matter many times we argued but this time it was a little louder than usual. "Fuck him, it's not like Shion is sleeping here tonight," I snapped and I remembered the fight we had early this morning. I got here from work around two and they were gone – they must've arrived in Kyoto.

"You have ten new messages." I put on my jacket as I touched the button, waiting for the machine to play them. "Ritsu, can you-I'm sor-call me back," her voice rang across the kitchen as the next two messages were played soon after. I heard several gunshots from the street just before I reached the third one. I can't stop thinking of my family the moment I heard her – even more when people kept crying around her, on the other side. I took my handgun and I quickly rushed to open the front door, revealing some people encircling or clawing a car. I was about to call them when one of them turned, observing me hungrily. His skin was pale, his two eyes lost their colour and he groaned heavily. His skin fell, bit by bit, as he merely dragged his feet towards me. "Hey!"

I froze immediately at the sight of that monster. I did not run – I did not even struggle even when somebody pulled my collar by force, draggling me back into the house. "You're fucking stupid," she cursed breathlessly while we laid our backs against the door. The thing just pounced it over and over again. I doubled up the effort to hold the door as she left to grab a chair. I slowly let go once she barricaded the door with it. "I'm Yui, so umm, nice house," she introduced herself whereas I frowned in return. In the twinkling of an eye, it came from nowhere. I shot it – its leg, its arm, but it's still moving. "Its head! Shoot its head," Yui said and I aimed for its head simultaneously. The shot killed it. We backed away as its brain trickled down to the floor. "Now we're even," she chuckled lightly soon after.

"I love you." I kept replaying the tenth message, her last word – it was short but it was more than enough to break my heart. Yui gobbled everything she could find in the fridge and I got up to grab my duffel bag. "What's going on?" I asked as I filled it with all the guns I had. Yui shrugged. She did not even look away from the fridge. "Holy shit!" she mumbled as soon as she looked at me reloading the guns one by one. She grabbed a kitchen knife and she shied away until her back hit the wall. "I'm a cop," I confessed. She blinked once, twice, before she let up, falling down laughing, dropping the knife. "I thought – when you shot that thing, I was afraid of you two. I don't know, I just hate people with guns," she said while I was busy stocking some food and drinks. Yui looked lost somehow.

I sighed. No wonder she said nothing in the last thirty minutes. "Hey," I said as I threw a fully loaded handgun into her lap. She frowned at once. "This is the end of the world. So you might as well need one," I assumed as I pulled the blind, revealing an empty street – well, almost. I headed upstairs for my car key straightway and the phone, in case she called. "Shit, shit," I grunted in frustration once I noticed that I had about thirty missed calls, twenty from her. I gave her a call and I stopped at nine as she did not pick up. "What do we do now?" Yui asked shortly. I was relieved to see that she held that gun instead of tossing it away, although a bit shakily. I think of Mio and Shion – the only purpose I have in life. "Kyoto." Yui nodded. I sighed. "Do you have a family in the area?" I asked in a while.

To Be Continued

Author's Notes: Thanks for reading.