The next morning after everyone left for work, Haru once again went into the bathroom and took a bath. His swimsuit worn and stretched out after having it for two years and wearing it almost every day without being able to get a new one. He missed swimming. No one had time to swim because of the whole infected situation, and Haru himself didn't even know if he could swim the same again after what happened to his leg:
Haru, Nagisa, Rei, and Rin were together with about 20 other people gathering supplies from an abandoned store. While they are getting some canned food, a boom is heard from the back, and they are ambushed by more infected than they could handle.
"MAKE A RUN FOR IT!" someone yells.
"Shit, run guys!" Rin says.
Rei and Makoto are carrying are carrying the food in large backpacks, and Rin, Nagisa, and Haru are protecting them. As they try to move as fast as possible while having canned foods in their possession, they are blocked off by three infected, which are sliced each by Nagisa.
"Come on, we have to keep going!" Nagisa says.
As they get to the front of the store, they see they are blocked off by a giant group of infected, too big to fight off on their own. They see most of their group they came with have been bitten and eaten, and they must find another way out of the store before it's too late.
A knock is heard at the door. Haru is still in the bathtub, and is now annoyed at the fact he has to get up. He opens the door and sees that it is Nagisa. Nagisa walks in without saying a word.
"What happened now?" Haru asks.
"I got in a fight," Nagisa says.
"With who?"
"Some guy; He was talking shit about me."
Haru rolls his eyes at the juvenile act that Nagisa had committed. There were numerous times when Nagisa was sent home because of his behavior, and the only reason he hasn't been discharged is because he's one of the most skilled fighters in Area 7.
"What do you mean, 'talking shit'?" Haru asks.
"I accidently bumped into him and he called me a nutcase, words were exchanged and then I punched him in the face."
"Nagisa—"
"I know I shouldn't have done anything, it just pisses me off when people say stuff like that about me."
Haru sighs and it is silent. They sit together at the dining room table in silence as they try to make peace with what Nagisa had done, and move on.
"How's your leg?" Nagisa asks.
They find a way through the back of the store that hadn't been inhabited by many infected, mostly shot and hung corpses of those who ended their lives properly rather than become an infected. They get outside and must get over a broken wired fence. As they cut through the fence, Haru is the last one to make it across, but his pant leg is caught in the wiring as he climbs over and it is ripped to the calf and he falls.
"Fine," Haru says.
"…"
"Are you okay?"
"Huh?" Nagisa says.
"Are you okay?"
"Oh. Um…I guess."
"You haven't been sleeping or eating well."
"I'm just not hungry or tired."
Haru scoffs, "It's not that."
"…it's been two years since…that."
"Oh."
"Yeah."
There was more silence.
"You shouldn't burden yourself over it," Haru said.
"I know."
"You are though."
"…yeah."
"Do you want to take a bath?"
Nagisa chuckles, a rare sight to see, "No, I'm good."
"Suit yourself, you interrupted mine," Haru gets up; "I'm going to go back," Haru walks back to the bathroom.
"Do you miss swimming Haru?"
This question makes Haru stop in his tracks.
"…Of course," he replies.
Haru's leg gets caught in the broken wiring of the fence, and as he tries to untangle himself, an infected from the other side comes and bites his calf that's stuck. He stabs the infected in the head with his butcher's knife, but already knows his fate.
"SHIT!" Haru cries, "I'M BIT!"
"Oh fuck," Rin says and panics.
No one wanted to leave Haru, but they knew it was too late for him until.
"Everyone stand back! Haru, this is going to hurt, brace yourself," Nagisa said. Nagisa takes out his katana, and cuts off Haru's leg from below the knee. Haru cries out in pain and tears stream down his face, "Haru you're going to have to endure the pain until we get you back to base," he says as he puts Haru's arm over his shoulder, "Stand up with your other leg," Haru was still in shock and breathing hard from his lower right leg being cut off, "HARU STAND UP," Nagisa yelled, then Haru struggled but was able to stand up, "Okay, let's go," Nagisa says and starts to walk quickly.
Haru keeps walking to the bathroom and goes back into the bathtub to soak some more.
"Hold him down!" the doctor yells as he gets the stitching out. Makoto and Rin hold Haru's arms down as the doctor goes in and stitches up what he can and Haru passes out from the pain.
"It's not enough," Haru mumbles.
Haru wakes up hours later, to his lower right leg not feeling right to then remember what happened earlier today. He looks down from his cot to see his lower right leg is gone, and all that's left is a nub for his right thigh.
"SHIT!" He yells and slams his hand down on the bar of the cot, then starts to cry again and holds his arm over his face to hide the tears. The doctor and Makoto come in to find that Haru has woken up and is a mess.
"Haru!" Makoto said.
"Haruka, your lower right leg has been amputated and we have given it the best care we can in this situation. Your wound should heal and you have no trace of the infection virus since your leg was cut off in time, but we're not sure we'll be able to give you a prosthetic anytime soon," the doctor said without any warning. Haru was still crying.
"Haru it's okay. You're not infected," Makoto said, trying to reassure Haru.
"It's not that," Haru said.
"What is it?" Makoto asked.
Haru says with a sob, "I…I will never be…able to swim again."
