The dark weather continued long after they had finally reached their destination, but with the haunting silence still lingering over their heads Lavi couldn't bring himself to say anything to try and cheer the situation up again.
Although the walk to the village was short, the tense atmosphere made it feel like endless miles upon endless miles, without looking back to see if his friends were following close behind, Lavi took off ahead of them, 'If only to escape the horrible atmosphere...'
"You came for the singing demon, correct?" A thin woman asked him as he slowed down at the village entrance, "You must be coming for the singing demon, as there is nothing else here. The demon is all that is left, as it's taken everything we have."
He could only stare at the seemingly starving woman as she spoke to him in anguished cries.
"We're here for the singing demon." Lavi started when he heard Kanda speak to the woman from behind him, "We'll get your kids back."
The woman smiled, turned away from Lavi and his friends, before singing a strange song as she laughed down the dirt road into the main area of the village.
Lavi turned to his friends, but was disheartened as Kanda walked past him without comment, and Lenalee refused to make eye-contact with him as she quickly followed after Kanda, 'Why is she suddenly so wary of me?'
Lavi's heart ached as he saw Lenalee walk into one of the bricked buildings with Kanda, before deciding that saving the children was more important than an unrequited love.
Entering the building slowly, Lavi stumbled upon a confusing conversation.
"Your child is the last of the inhabitants of this village! Which means yours is the last to be taken, so we must use her to get the other children from the singing demon!" A small man in all white exclaimed furiously.
"NO! I don't want you doing experiments on my child when she's all that I have left!" The mother of the little girl on her lap, cried, as the girl gripped her mother's shirt.
"You lost another child, correct? This is a chance to get that child back." Kanda spoke calmly to the woman, though Lavi could tell that he was already losing patience with the woman.
"That child is already dead! I will not use my only baby left to gamble with another who is already dead!" The woman screamed, hysterical, as she held her daughter and refused to cooperate with them.
"The singing demon with take your daughter like all the rest, this is the only way to save her and the others." Lavi spoke up, although he didn't know the specifics of the plan, he could tell that the woman was needed in order to save the others, "Please. You must believe that it will work, otherwise...This plan is doomed to fail, along with the lives of all the village's children."
Lavi hadn't wanted to say anything as he knew that he would only make their dreary situation even less cheery like in the train, but it seemed like he had no other choice if they were to succeeded.
