Hino collapses as Yukari cries out to him while desperately rolling toward Hino, compelling Jason to quickly grab her around the upper torso to prevent her from falling over, but with her legs now dangling over the side, she finally tumbles; taking Jason along with her as the stretcher turns over onto its side. Jason falls across its edge and ends up getting the air knocked out of his lungs. He lies across the edge of the turned over stretcher gasping for air while wincing from a painful shoulder; making him wonder if he had dislocated it. With a groan, Jason slowly stands while gnashing his teeth and clasping his shoulder as he moves his arm around to get a feel for it.
"Ah shit!" Jason cursed as he stares down at Hino, wounded and lying upon the ground while Yukari cradles him.
"Hino-san!" Reito shouted with disbelief.
"Oops, looks like I could only get one of them."
Jason looks to see a group of armed women soldiers being led by a White buxom pretty woman who appears to be in her twenties with long blonde hair with a fringe and bearing a smug expression. Unlike the her squad, she is dressed like a stripper.
"Looks like two of them dodged. So as expected, you people took this path then. And you must be Jason Welsh."
"And you are?" Jason asked.
"Captain Chloe Mansfield!" As she proudly salutes momentarly.
"Oh yeah, I've heard of you," Jason said upon realization. "You rescued Reito and the others from that Minister of Technology."
"Ah yes you would have been told about me," Chloe surmised. "As I was told about you. The fifth male discovered to be immune to the MK Virus, who didn't need to go into cryo to await the cure for multiple sclerosis. It was because you got it before the other four males could get it. Afterwards, you came to Japan with your father; only to get trapped when the Outbreak struck and went into hiding, until Reito and his ladies discovered you."
"Stop Hino-san's bleeding!" Elisa impored Akane, who makes her move.
"Don't move!" Chloe said in a singsong tone while pointing her gun at Akane, prompting her squad to point their guns at everyone else as well. "Or else everyone will eat lead, you know?"
Jason feels as if his mind is getting detached from his body with all those guns pointing at them. He feels that any second now, this Chloe Mansfield will give the word and his own bloody bullet ridden corpse will be lying on the ground with the others.
"If word gets out that you killed the Numbers, you would make an enemy of the entire world!" Rea shouted at Chloe.
"If word gets out that is," Chloe gloated as her smile does not touch her gleaming blue eyes. "But, if you people were to die of an unfortunate accident, that will not happen!"
"Why would you do this?!" Reito demanded. "Was the UW the ones who spread the MK Virus to the world after all?!"
"Reito Mizuhara," Chloe sighed while momentarily shrugging and shaking her head. "In the end, you were a pervert just like any other man, hm?" Then gives him a look of disappointment. "I was wondering whether you were a somewhat decent man who would not give in to his libido, but . . . You enjoyed those two, did you not?" As she gestures to Elisa and Suou.
"That's," Reito stammered in disbelief.
"I-I asked for it!" Elisa stated.
"See? I knew it," Chloe said simperingly with a shrug.
Chloe next strides up to Reito and hooks her left arm around his neck.
"You are no use to me anymore," she said in a icy tone into his face as she points her gun at his stomach. "Right now, the States have begun preparing an environment where women can reproduce on their own. A world without men," her tone eager as she next shifts her gun up at his throat, "is coming soon! That is what I am saying."
"Big Brother!" Mahiru shouted panickingly as she attempts to run forward, only to be stopped by Sui.
"That is unnatural!" Elisa exclaimed angrily.
"Science was born in order to allow humans to oppose the irrationality of nature," Chloe explained. "Violence, war, discrimination . . . Those sorts of irrationalities. Along with the outdated concept of the male gender will be removed from this world, hm?" While looking down as she lowers her gun to point it at Reito's crotch.
"Then why save Reito's life in the first place?" Jason demanded whimsically.
"That was a mistake," Chloe answered, "which I will rectify it."
"So it was also you people who poisoned Taniguchi-san, wasn't it!" Elisa demanded.
"It was also us who unleashed the bear on Mizuhara-san in the lab right after he awakened, hm?" Chloe admitted.
"Kyou-chan!" Yukari cried, getting their attention, as she cradles Hino. "Kyou-chan!"
"Yukari," Hino groaned. "I'm . . . fine . . . ! The baby!"
"Now then," Chloe said while reholstering her gun and turning away with a shrug. "The cat is out of the bag now, so." And raises her right arm high. "Shall we remove Mizuhara-san and Mister Welsh as well now?"
A loud droning sound gets their attention while a spotlight shines down on them. It is an Osprey, part airplane part helicoptor. It stirs up the air, causing everyone to panic. They see the bottom open on it and a barrel lower to point at them.
So this is it then! Jason sighed despondantly, conclusively, as he holds his hand up to shield his eyes from its floodlight to see what looks to be a rocket launching tube.
Jason looks away from an even brighter light and painfully loud explosion. He looks up to see that the heliplane is being forced to fly away with fire blazing out of its tail.
"What the hell!" Jason rasped in disbelief.
A girl's yell gets Jason's attention and he sees another girl standing amongst the bushes. She has bleached hair and is holding a tv camera hoisted upon one of her shoulders and wears a formal uniform type outfit like the kind the Five Ministers of Japan had worn.
"That was nice, was it not?!" The girl exclaimed jubilantly. "Mansfisomething-san, is giving an incredible look! And that is a wrap!"
"Karen Kamiya!" Chloe growled wrathfully, causing her squad to point their guns at Karen.
More women suddenly emerge from the forest. They are all wearing simple white dresses and armed with AK-47's, though one of those women is armed with a rocket launcher instead. They are also up on a nearby cliff, with another one wielding a rocket launcher up there as well.
Jason takes note of two Japanese men amongst them. One of whom has white hair and dressed casually, while the other has the usual black but spiky hair and is dressed in a white tunic and trousers. The spiky haired man has wild looking eyes and a mark on his forehead.
Jason hisses to get the attention of the others. "Are they who I think they are?!"
"Yes," Elisa answered. "They are Izunami. The ones who took the fourth male. The one with the black hair and white outfit."
"Followers of the UW! Drop your weapons!" One of the Izunami women commanded at Chloe and her squad in English. She was Zen's superior before all this and is now one of the leaders of Izunami who led the capture of Zen.
"Never!" Chloe screeched as she raises her gun.
There is gunshot and Chloe screeches while dropping her gun to clasp her left shoulder.
"Get down!" Jason clamoured as he does so, prompting the rest to mimic him.
More gunfire erupts, only to end as quickly as it started and they look to see that the UW loyalists are no longer around.
"They got away!" Jason growled.
"Mahiru-chan, take him! I have to tend to Hino's wound!" Akane said taking this opportunity as she lifts the sling containing Hino's son from up around her neck.
"Right!" Mahiru agreed upon doing so.
Akane is quick to kneel next to Hino as she takes out a gauze cloth from her pocket and apply it to Hino's wound. Nearby Rea is cradling Yukari as she cries while Jason watches as he stands next to Reito and Mahiru as she cradles Hino and Yukari's baby.
"I hope he survives!" Jason rasped with an intense expression. "We simply cannot afford to lose anymore men, especially not those of us who are immune to this shitty virus! That fucking bitch, Chloe!" Hissing that sentence through gnashed teeth with shrunken irises, then grins dangerously as he glances sidelong at Reito and Mahiru. "But at least she also got shot for her troubles. I saw it. Right in the arm too! Hope she bleeds to death or her wound festers!"
"You should not wish for something like that, Jeeson-san," Reito chided.
"Why not?!" Jason growled as he leers at Reito. "That maniac shot Hino and was going to kill the rest of us, including his baby! And that shit she was spoutin' off . . . ?! I don't feel the least bit pity for her! I hope she gets what she deserves . . . ! But in the meantime," on a calmer note as he looks over his shoulder at Izunami, "are we safe here with those women?"
"I don't think they are going hurt us," Reito said as he also looks back at them as well.
"What the hell is up with that guy?" Jason pondered as he looks at Zen.
That is when Jason notes that the woman who had commanded Chloe and her squad to drop their weapons lean in next to the cheerful girl who had been filming everything and put her hand up to her mouth to whisper something, while staring directly at him. Even from that distance, Jason can tell that she is speaking words of delight about him. The other two men are speaking to each other too, with the man named Zen stretching out his hand to point. At first, Jason thought he was pointing at him, but it was actually at Hino.
Jason turns away to look back down at Hino while the cheerful girl is heard yammering at the other woman. He hears footsteps and looks back.
"They're leaving," Jason said with a sigh of relief. "I guess it looks like they're not gonna take us with them."
Reito and Mahiru walk over to Elisa, and Jason follows.
"How is he doing?" Reito asked.
"An artery near his heart is severed," Elisa answered dourly.
"Ah, shit!" Jason rasped. "That's far from good news."
"That is right," Akane sighed despondantly. "And there is no time to move him to a medical facility from here . . . Truthfully . . . He is already . . ."
Yukari cries out to Hino, who ends up gasping out what has to be his last words as Jason watches him raise his hand to touch his son. He starts crying as he raises his hand to his own face while speaking more gasped and pained words that Jason wishes he could understand. He watches as Reito kneels down next to Hino and they talk, with Hino holding hands with Yukari. His voice getting weaker as he gets increasingly paler.
Until he stops and goes limp.
Yukari cries out in despair. Her wailing cuts into Jason and he shivers from the wrath that churns within him, causing him to clench his fists and gnash his teeth. His irises are like pinpricks as his face twists with effort to keep his composure, causing him to turn away as tears flow down his cheeks.
Only to be confronted by Kamiya Karen as she has a camera trained on him with Shouta standing alongside her.
"Get that outta my face!" Jason snarled as he lashes out to knock the camera aside, causing Karen to gasp with a shocked and fearful expression. "And have some respect, you damn vulture!"
"Gah, I am sorry! I am sorry!" Karen squealed in English as she repeatedly bows. Shouta takes a step back with a worried expression as well.
Jason snarls at them and turns back to the sight of the now dead Hino. There is silence for at time as they stare down at the now dead Hino, with Yukari continuing to bawl as she lies over him. No one ventures to speak.
"Ah, excuse me!" Karen called to get their attention. "As touching as all this is, we have to be on our way. We can take Hino-san with us and give him a proper memorial."
Jason leers at her. He can see that she is definitely not broken up by this. Come to think of it, neither is the other guy.
"Ah, yeah," Elisa gasped as she stands with reddened eyes. "Ah, and that video is worldwide?"
"You bet it is!" Karen chimed while still holding the camera and flashing the peace sign with her other hand as a salute.
"What's going on?" Jason asked.
"Oh I am sorry," Karen said in a stilted apologetic manner. "My name is Karen. Kamiya Karen. And you must be Jeeson Wershu-san."
"Yes, I am Jason Welsh," he sighed.
"Well, he is Shota Doi," Karen said while gesturing at Shota. "He is another one of the males who is immune like you, Reito-san, Hino-san, and Zen-san that you saw awhile ago." The bubbliness returning to her. "I have a question for you." As she points her camera up at him.
"No, I have not mated with any women," Jason was quick to answer gruffly.
"I was not going to ask you that," Karen said. "I was going to ask you what you are going to do now?"
"What can I do?" Jason answered with a shrug. "Other than stick close to those people." Thumbing back at the others. "If I were to return to Canada, that would put me in direct danger with the UW, since their headquarters are only next door."
"Good point," Karen said as she lowers her camera. "Well, I am also the civil governor of Japan."
Jason gives a bit of a start over that revelation as he suddenly feels uneasy over his sudden outburst at her.
"Awww, are you scared that I am going to do something bad to you after you got angry at little old me?" Karen said in an overly dramatic pitiful manner after reading his mood change. "Do not worry, I get it. No hard feelings. In fact," as her tone turns jovial, "I will extend my protection to you!"
"Ah . . . thanks," Jason answered with uncertainty as he now understands that this girl-or is it woman-is someone he will have to be careful with.
"How are we leaving, Kamiya-san?" Reito asked her.
"Leave that to me," Karen said cheerfully.
The group get a large enough blanket to wrap and bind Hino's corpse up in it. They carry his corpse solemnly out to a waiting van and load it in. The next thing they all do is head off to Tokyo. It is dawn by the time they arrive at the outskirts of Tokyo and are forced to stop as they see several sources of smoke in the distance.
"I didn't think they would riot this soon," Jason noted.
"Indeed," Elisa said. "We will never be able to safely drive through the chaos that is going over there."
"What is going on over there is going on all over the world," Rea said.
"So what now, Kamiya-san?" Reito asked her.
"We will take a helicopter!" Karen chirped.
"What?" Jason asked.
"I said we will take an helicopter," Karen repeated in English. "Rioters are quicker to attack moving vehicles than anything else."
"Well, why didn't we take a helicopter in the beginning?" Jason asked.
"Because it would have taken too long and we want to give Hino-san a proper funeral as quickly as possible," Karen answered as she takes out her cellphone and places the call.
"There," she chimed a few minutes later while putting away her cellphone. "A helicopter will be coming in a few minutes."
Just as Karen predicted, a carrier helicopter arrives and they all board, along with Hino's corpse. They are soon flying over the city of Tokyo. The streets below show women as indistinctive colorful dots scurrying around, either singly or as groups, either into or out of buildings.
"If the rest of the world is like this," Jason said, "then the United Women's days are numbered."
"That they are, Jeeson-san," Suou said. "I just hope the main building is okay or else we will really be in trouble."
