"So, we are going to need to go down to underground car park?" Hirano asked conspicuously.

"Yes. That is if we are going to survive here, with the need of electricity." Takagi replied.

I had to think about that for a moment. Do I really want to go down there? I then remembered when we entered into the car park; the gates were open to the upper side of the car park. Not to mention, the blood in the car park guard posts. Is it possible we go down there and find 'them'? My thoughts were obstructed when Saeko had spoken.

"I don't like that idea. When Alice and I were wondering around, there were no sign of 'them'. However, just because I couldn't find them in the mall did not satisfy my suspicions. So I went outside the general mall area. The issue I found was on the Eastern side of the building was the underground car park." Saeko explained.

"So what's the issue?" asked Rei.

"Well, the problem we face is that the underground car park has been blocked. It is blocked by at least 20 cars trying to escape at once. So the exit has been full sealed off." Saeko answered.

"Hmmm…" Takagi hummed. She pushed her glasses up, and then folding her arms.

We all took a moment, looking at Takagi waiting for her idea, on the situation. After a moment she breathed out.

"Well… They're definitely down there." Takagi stated.

"Say what!" Rei questioned almost immediately.

"Well, think about it. People would have been here, shopping, working and so forth. Say an infected person walked in at random and started killing people, it obvious that everyone would flee the scene however, in doing so they went to their cars. The probably made enough noise from cars to attract 'them' down there. If the cars that obstructed the exit, there would be no escape." Takagi answered calmly.

"That makes sense." I replied.

"What about all of 'them' in the mall where did they go? Why aren't there any signs of attack? No blood?" asked Rei.

There was a moment silence, due to what Rei was saying makes sense. I knew that there has been an attack. I had to tell them, however it makes no sense. Then I realised.

"It was an evacuation." I said softly.

Everyone suddenly turned to face me. I really didn't even mean to say it. Oh well, now I got to explain.

"E…Evacuation?" Alice asked.

I looked down at her. Her young face was filled with question and fear.

"Alright, let's look at it from this perspective. Normal day, then one of 'them' walks up to the mall, attacks one of the guards at a car park lookout point. Other guard witnesses the attack, calls up the alarm. Alarm goes off, civilians go into panic mode. Evacuate, down to the car park. Accident caused during leave. Huge noise attracts 'them'. Civilians are trapped. Well, you get the picture." I stated.

"Hmmm…" Takagi thought.

I stood waiting for Takagi's reflection on my hypothesis. Rei walks off and finds a seat in one of the rooms. Hirano and Alice wonder off into one of the offices, with a lot of TV screens. Saeko stands beside Takagi, Miss Shizuka and I.

"There's one problem, can you back up your theory?" Takagi asked.

"Well, there was a lot of blood. I noticed last night as we past the inspection point there was a lot of blood." I responded.

"Hmmm…" Miss Shizuka hummed.

"What's up?" Takagi asked.

"Well, I have one idea, how about we check the surveillance camera recordings?" She asked.

"That won't work. The electricity grid is down until we revive the back-up generator." Takagi said.

"Actually, that might just work." Hirano said, walking in with what seems to be DVD.

"Hirano, it won't work there's no electricity remember?" Takagi said.

"No electricity. What about your standard laptop?" Hirano asked.

There was silence for a moment.

"That would work!" Miss Shizuka said.

"Actually it would… Is there a computer store or something here?" Takagi asked.

With that Miss Shizuka shot straight up and darted towards the management building poster. She scanned quite furiously in hope of something.

"Yes! There's an apple store! It's at the southern end of the store!" Miss Shizuka said.

"Alright, I'll get it." I said walking out towards the stairs.

"I'm coming with you." Saeko said right behind me.

As we started walking down the stairs, a voice shouted out behind us.

"Can you get me an iPad 2?!" Miss Shizuka said.

I chuckled. It can't be helped I suppose. We all still have our ambitions and wants, although it is post apocalypse at the moment. We moved down stairs and turned to our left to head south. We walked in search for an 'Apple Store' in the southern end of the mall. Saeko and I started to talk about future plans and preparations, in order to survive here for the time being. The idea that we could survive in this mall was quite comforting, however we would substantially closer to downtown of northern Japan region.

"There it is!" Saeko said.

As I looked out I saw the famous Apple Inc. sign. We approached the store door and I looked inside. It seemed to be empty, meanwhile Saeko walked straight in without any hesitation. Oh, right. She had already performed a mall wide search for 'them'. So that had put my conscience at ease. We walked through the doors and were amazed. It was still clean; there was no lighting or electricity to power anything.

"So, where do you think they keep stock of the laptops?" Saeko asked.

"I would say the back room." I said.

Saeko and I stared at the door in front of us from 10 meters away. It had a "Staff Only" sign. We walked towards it and saw all types of Apple electronics. No point taking any, they're all out of battery. As we walk to the door I go to open the door handle. I placed my hand on the handle and as I go to turn it, Saeko grabs my arm, quite firmly. As I pull back she turns my hand in front of my face. There was blood. I look at the handle; it had blood on the handle. I look down to the ground. The blood from the handle had been dripping. I look at Saeko. She put her other hand in front of my mouth, signalling silence in a quiet sexual manner.

"Shhh… On three, I enter." Saeko whispered.

We both looked at each other; we both started slightly jumping up and down. Both miming the countdown, 3…2…1… Then as soon as I did one, reefed as hard as I could on the handle pushing in the room with Saeko following right behind me with her sword at the fighting position. Once we were both inside, we went back to back. It was dark. Standing there meanwhile, the only light was from the door on my right. Neither of us moved.

"Clear" We both said simultaneously.

With that we both relaxed at ease. Then, I turned to face Saeko. At the same time, Saeko does the same thing. Her hair was down in front of her eyes. She had a dark face, the one you see in the movies where the main character has evil intentions.

"Can you make me a promise?" Saeko asked.

"Umm… Sure." I responded nervously.

"Don't move." She said. With that I saw Saeko leaping at me head on with her sword grasped by both hands on her right hand side. I froze in fear. "Is she going to kill me?!" I tried to move but couldn't get any response from my legs. Then it was certain. I am going to die, by the hand of a psychopath. I waited with my eyes closed as I accepted the fact that I am going to die, waiting for the sound of sword piercing my body.

PEEICHHH!

My eyes opened wide in disbelief. I turned to my left to notice Saeko going right past and attacking something behind me. I turned to face what was behind me. It was ONE of 'Them'! I witnessed to see the sword from Saeko had pierced the heart of what seemed to be a worker of the "Apple Inc." store. The dead worker gives the look with the eyes of 'them' where their eyes roll around in their head aimlessly. The victim of Saeko that had the blade piercing his heart had been jolted backwards off his feet onto his back. All I could do was watch in awe, as Saeko had taken it out mercilessly without any hesitation. It splatted and carried on rolling around on the floor. Saeko stomped her foot onto the chest wound of the prey. It went to attack Saeko, as it went to Saeko dug her high heel into the chest wound of the infected worker. The infected made a shriek and then Saeko lifted her sword and then sliced the head off the infected worker.

"Do yourself a favour, next time I say stay still." Saeko said.

"Yeah." I responded, nodding my head.

"Stay still." She answered.

I saw her as she got off the decapitated infected worker, come back towards me. I was merely in awe as I still was stunned at the fact I could have been killed so easily by her. She stopped at my feet, got on her knees, and kissed me. At this point, I had gotten a headache just trying to figure out what has just happened, however all I could do, was return the favor. So all I did was keep kissing her. It wasn't just a normal kiss either. This was special. So I indulged myself in the moment. Then, it was broke off by Saeko. I looked back up at her as she stood herself upright.

"Ummm… Th…Thanks for saving me…" I said nervously.

"No worries…" Saeko replied.

I went to push myself to my feet, and saw that Saeko had lent her hand out to me. I gazed at her, awkwardly. All I saw was her smile, she was happy. I took hold of her hand as she helped me up. I was now standing upright opposing her. She had a smile so big she couldn't see out her eyes. With that I gave her a hug. Her initial reaction was surprised.

"Just embrace it, while you have the chance." I said.

"Thank you, Takashi." Saeko replied.

With that we stood for about 2 minutes just hugging in the doorway, with the blood of an infected pooling around our feet. It couldn't be any more special. I broke off.

"Let's get what we need." I said.

We both nodded at each other, and got a MacBook Pro, iPad2 and an iPod Touch. The computer for the video surveillance tapes, iPad2 for Miss Shizuka and I got an iPod Touch for Alice. I thought to get her one because of when I scared her. We walked out of the "Apple Inc." store and headed back towards the "Management" room. We walked up the spiralling staircase towards the door. We walked in to see that everyone was inside with Hirano and Alice playing "Guess Who" in one of the desk rooms. Takagi was talking to Miss Shizuka and Rei.

"Hey, what took you so long?" Takagi asked curiously.

Saeko and I meanwhile dumped the items in the boxes on the table, except I put the iPod Touch in my pocket.

"We had to take care of a few things, and ran into a few familiars." Saeko replied, whilst cleaning the blood off her speciality sword.

"Well, that would be typical. Can't go anywhere without you two having any fun." Takagi said.

Saeko and I just looked at each other and blushed.

"Yeah, too right." Saeko said, laughing afterwards.

"Humph… Let's have a look on the surveillance shall we?" Takagi said, trying to pretend like she hadn't picked up on what Saeko and I were laughing and blushing about.