Amuro slept until he heard that someone was waking up by his side.
"Ungh..." Mion made a sound like she was beaten up. "W-What? Amuro-"
"Shh... Everything's okay Mion. The storm passed, just like I planned" He calmed her.
"So all of this was to save... Shion?"
"The first part at least, and it seems that it was a success!" He smiled at her.
"Shion is alright now? I may have been a bit intimidating yesterday but..." She was getting upset again.
"Mion. Everything's fine" He hugged her as he told her these words.
"I-I'm so happy, thank God..."
"Now, I can finally tell you all the rest of the plan"
"Really?"
"Yeah, I can finally be sincere to you"
"Finally... Please tell me all about it"
"All right. From this point on, it should be like this: it's most likely that Takano discovers our hideout. If by any chance that happens, you are going to try to escape through the tunnel in the secret well along with Rika and the rest. I will stay with Kasai to fight. In case that fails, I also have a trump card, but that doesn't involve you, so don't worry. Once we eliminate that force we'll have to take different paths: I will go to the Irie clinic along Kasai, Shion and Irie himself, while you will go to the mountains, where Satoko already laid some traps. It will be dangerous, but none of you should die. From Irie clinic we will contact the Banken (a special unit) and that way, Takano and her men will be defeated"
"I understand. Don't worry, I won't die, not until I can see you again" She kissed him.
"Mion... If it gets too dangerous, don't hesitate to-"
"I'm sorry Amuro, I know you care more about me than anyone else, but I'm the Club president, I can't leave anyone behind"
"Of course... How stupid of me..." He felt ashamed of thinking in such a desperate and cowardly measure.
"I promised you I wouldn't die though, so do your thing, and we'll do ours with no error!"
"Yeah!" He felt a sheer determination to win thanks to her words.
Footsteps were heard from the hallway.
"Onee, Amuro-kun?" It was Shion.
"Onee, is that really you?" Mion asked back not believing that her sister was back.
Shion opened the door and ran to hug her. "I'm so sorry Mion... I didn't believe what you said about Satoshi-kun... And I was a horrible sister!"
"I also did terrible things to you Shion... It's my fault that you had to rip your nails!"
The two twins were crying as they hugged each other. Amuro smiled at the fact that the sisters were finally in good terms, and that his plan was succesful. It costed him one of the syringes with the cure for the syndrome, but that was a cheap price for changing such a terrible fate.
"Is Oryou-san awake?" He asked Shion.
"No, it seems that she was really tired for yesterday"
"Oh well, I guess it's not the right time for you to talk about your litlle switch up"
"You know about that too?" Shion was amazed.
"I know everything Shii-chan"
"But that's-" She protested.
"Just kidding. I know a lot, but not everything. I have to go talk with Kasai now, so Mion, please try to explain your sister who am I. No holding back ok?" He gave her a sincere smile and, waving his hand, he exited the room
"O-Okay" Mion didn't expect him to leave such an important task to her.
"What does he mean?" Shion asked her back.
"*sigh* Sit back Onee, cause it's quite complicated..."
~~~~X~~~~
Amuro opened the door to the chamber to find Kasai and Rika completely awake.
"Good morning" He said to them.
"Morning Amuro-kun ~nipah!~"
"Good morning, as well" Kasai replied.
"Kasai-san... You didn't sleep?" Amuro asked him.
"I had a quick nap through the night, but that's all I needed"
"You're amazing" The other two replied.
"Hahaha, I've spent many sleepless nights carrying out tasks. I feel like this is just another one of those"
"If you say so..."
"The rest should arrive soon. It's 9 AM" Rika told them.
"Once they arrive we can decide what will be our next move" Amuro replied.
"Yeah" The both agreed.
They waited a little while. Mion and Shion reunited with them in the chamber during that time too.
"Amuro, I think I told everything to Onee" Mion told him.
"I can't believe that such a thing is possible, but... I can't seem to deny it either" Shion told him.
"That's good enough. Also, what I told you about having a Demon..."
"Yeah, I know it's true"
"I've been able to control it so far, but Irie-san gave me some serum just in case..."
"I hope you don't have to use it" Mion said worried"
"I hope the same as well..." Amuro seemed unsure about it now though.
"Ah, I also brought you this thing" Shion said as she held the sickle in her hand.
"Oh, that... Thank you Shii-chan, I'm no good with fire arms, so I was planning on using this instead"
"No one in their right mind would plan to have a gun fight using a tool. Well, no one that values their own life at least..." Shion seemed worried.
"Don't think too much about it. My abilities are above the common man's" He smiled at them.
"Amuro-kun! Rika-chan!" Keiichi shouted from the outside.
"Keiichi!" Rika seemed happy. Of course, even in this world, Keiichi was a symbol of beating fate.
"Everyone, I'm glad you're all okay! ~Hau~ Rika-chan is as kyuut as ever!" Rena said.
"Has everyone in the village heard the news about Rika?" Amuro asked.
"Yeah. Everyone thinks that Rika has disappeared, and we made it seem that it was more likely that she was dead" Keiichi replied.
"Perfect" Amuro was content with this.
"So, what now?" Satoko asked him.
"You guys take the lead. Go to the mountains. We'll wait for Irie-san he-"
A car stopped in a rough way outside the manor and was heard from the chamber.
"What was that?" Mion asked.
"Get to the well, now!" Kasai ordered.
"All right. Everyone, come here" Mion showed them the way.
Kasai and Amuro went outside to see the situation. The car was an unfamiliar one.
"Amuro-kun, Kasai-san! They discovered our location!" Irie told them as he got out of the car.
"How close are they?" Kasai asked him.
"They should arrive at any minute!"
"Shit. Irie-san, go inside the chamber and follow the rest" Amuro told him.
"Okay. Good luck"
Kasai and Amuro went inside the chamber as well and sealed the door just when the Yamainu were arriving outside.
"Everyone, turn on a flashlight. We're getting pitch black here!" Amuro ordered them.
"Okay!" Keiichi's voice was heard
"Amuro-kun, can you see?" Kasai asked him.
"Heheh... More than you" He replied. He didn't exactly have night vision, but his senses were so sharp right now, he could sense his surroundings with his sense of hearing and smell like they were his eyes.
"As expected"
Kasai was in a strategical position behind a wall of rocks. Amuro crawled in the ceiling cells, waiting for the Yamainu to enter.
"Any moment Kasai-san. Get ready" They braced for the moment.
A loud explosion was heard and right after the sounds of footsteps was heard. The others were just arriving at the tunnel, when they heard the explosion.
The men were wearing night vision googles, which gave them an advantage against Kasai.
As soon as they got to the cells, Amuro jumped like a wild tiger towards his prey. Swinging his sickle he sliced the throat of two men. One of them screamed, which started a barrage of bullets that flew towards the shadowy figure of Amuro. Kasai started shooting as well, and managed to hurt five of them. They were wearing bullet proof vests, so they didn't recieve fatal wounds, but this gave Amuro the chance to kick them and leave them unconscious.
"I'd rather not kill anyone" He thought as he left the last one unconscious.
However, more and more men were arriving, and one threw a stun grenade. This left Amuro confused and disoriented, which gave man the chance to hit him and catch him.
"We have one! Go for the other!"
"Yes!"
"No!" Everyone said as they heard what happened upstairs.
Kasai was pressing his teeth as he heard this. He started shooting, but the bullets that flew towards him were more numerous.
"Damn it" He thought as the weapon lost all ammo. This forced him to surrender, so he threw the weapon away and put his hands behind his head.
A soldier went and caught Kasai. They aprehended the two combatants and left them in the dirt floor.
"We know you have Furude Rika! So, if you don't want us to kill these two men here, you better give her to us!" One of the Yamainu threatened the rest.
"No, it's a trap!" Keiichi told them.
"But Amuro!" Mion shouted at him.
"And Kasai!" Shion said as a few tears escaped her eyes.
"Everyone, don't worry. I'll be alright" Rika told them with a smile.
"What are you saying Rika, it's dangerous!" Satoko told her.
Irie remained silent.
"You go on ahead" She replied with her mature voice.
"Don't die, Rika-chan" Keiichi asked her.
"Of course not! ~nipah!~"
"I'll go with you Rika-chan. Shion-chan, I think it's best if you come too" Irie said to them.
"What are you saying Manager?!" Mion couldn't believe what he was proposing.
"Stop Onee. If the Manager is telling me this, he must have a good reason for it" She thought about Satoshi.
"But-"
"I'll be alright Mion. Trust me" She calmed her down.
"I don't want to lose you Shion... Not after we're finally getting along once again!" She cried.
"And you won't. I promise that we'll all be alright"
"But they'll suspect something if they only asked for Rika-chan" Rena made an observation.
"Not if we pretend that we betrayed her to save ourselves. It is obvious that they don't plan to leave anyone alive anyway" Shion put her tongue out to make a funny face, as in mocking the Yamainu.
"That's another reason for you not to go then!" Mion tried to convince them.
"Mion-san, trust me. I have a plan" Irie replied.
"C'mon we don't have all day!" The Yamainu shouted.
"Don't you dare die! And tell that to Amuro as well" Mion ordered him.
"Of course Onee!" She smiled at her.
"Let's go" Irie said.
The first to climb back was him, followed by Rika and Shion. This way, it would seem that they were forcing Rika to get out of the well.
"Don't shoot. We've brought her" Irie said to the men as he pretended to mesmerize Rika. Shion did the same.
"Hahaha! Splendid. Now leave her to us. Don't worry, we'll give you all a quick death as a reward"
The rest of the men laughed at these words as they pointed their guns towards everyone.
"Before doing anything, take that kid" He pointed at Amuro. "He's Tsugaru Amuro, with not known family. He has killed two of our men with a gardening tool and left almost a whole group out of combat in the blink of an eye. We'll sell him to a private militia for a great deal of money, I'm sure"
"Well thought. I'm sure Tokyo could make a good use for him as well" Another replied.
"Are you sure that's what you want you creeps? What worth is there in destroying a harmless village?" Amuro replied.
"Shut up kid. You have no idea of how the adult world works. Money is all there is to this world"
"It's always money isn't it... *sigh* I guess it's all that matters for miserable insects" He tried to win time by provoking them.
"Who are you calling an insect you bastard?!" A man kicked him in the chest.
"Haha... It had been a while since I had experienced pain, even though my girlfriend has slapped me harder than that..." He continued mocking them.
"You little!" He was preparing to deal a harder kick.
"Stop! We don't want to kill him, remember?" Another man reminded him.
"Fine..." He spat at Amuro's face, but he rolled in the ground to evade it.
"Nice try" He smiled at him from the floor.
"Hnghh!" The man was as angry as he could get, but complied and grabbed him to take him outside and put him in a van.
As this happened, gunshots were heard, but they weren't from the Yamainu. It was the police.
"Careful with the hostages!" A policeman said.
"That voice! It couldn't be... Ooishi?!" Shion thought.
"These are the people believed to have abducted Furude Rika!" Ooishi told the policemen.
A whole police brigade entered the chamber to fight the evil men.
"Take the girl, now!" A Yamainu ordered one of the grunts.
"Y-Yeah!" The grunt took Rika outside and was ready to throw her in a van when another Yamainu he didn't recognise threw a punch in his face and knocked him out.
"W-What?! You are not one of us are you?" Other grunt exclaimed.
The man revealed himself, it was none other than Akasaka Mamoru.
"Akasaka!" Rika shouted.
"Hello Rika-chan! I'm here to return your favour"
More men went to fight him, but Akasaka threw punches and kicks to leave them out of combat.
Ona man after the other fell to the ground after approaching him.
"Who do you think you are, infiltrating this unit? Do you even know who you're dealing with?" Okonogi told him.
"I'm just carrying out my duty"
"Very well, we'll see who can fulfill his job then!" Okonogi went at him.
They clashed with their fighting abilities, and Rika perceived that Okonogi and Akasaka seemed to be equal.
"I trained myself in martial arts after my first time here. I became a Karate expert so I could protect those I care for the most, and that girl is one of those!" Akasaka began throwing more forceful punches and kicks.
"W-What is this strength?" Okonogi thought.
"During my training, I had to suppress my punches so I wouldn't hurt any partner, but that's not necessary anymore!" He hit Okonogi with several punches and finished with a spinning kick that hit him in the chest and crashed him onto the front of the van.
"Tsk!" Okonogi made a last stand and punched Akasaka with full force in his chest. "Heh..." He smiled.
"Weak..." Akasaka looked down at him. "Let me show you a real punch. HYAAA!" He braced himself and threw a rolling punch at Okonogi, but instead of hitting him, he purposedly hit the van's windscreen, crashing it instantly.
"A...Agh..." Okonogi fell to the ground afraid.
"You did it Akasaka!" Rika congratulated him.
"Yeah... It seems I was able to save you"
The remaining Yamainu escape the Sonozaki Estate by foot and Okonogi quickly escaped his spot and got into the van to escape.
"They are getting away!" Rika told him.
"Leave them. We'll catch them sooner or later..."
Inside the cave, policemen and Yamainu had taken cover in different spots. Shion noticed that Amuro's sickle was on the ground, so she used it to cut the rope that was wrapping him.
"Amuro-kun, you're free!" She said as she finished cutting the rope.
"Thanks Shii-chan. Now, they are dead men" He ran through the rock wall and fell on top of them. Despite saying that, he didn't kill anyone, he limited himself to leaving them unconscious. He did give the specially annoying Yamainu a scar he wouldn't forget in his face.
"ARGH!" He shouted just before Amuro kicked him in the face and knocked him out.
"That about does it!" He smiled at his friends and went to free Kasai.
The policemen grabbed the unconscious men and took them to their vans.
They exited the chamber and met Rika and Akasaka outside.
"Akasaka-san, how did you arrive? I wasn't able to contact you in time..." Amuro asked him.
"No worries. Irie called me as he escaped the Institution. I took the liberty of calling Ooishi-san"
"Oh right, Irie-san, what happened? Give us details!" Rika asked him.
"Tomitake was captured. I met him and Takano at the Institution and she asked me if I was going to help her. I refused and escaped while I could, but I couldn't do anything to save Tomitake... He might still be alive if we hurry!"
"I'd like to say that the police can help, but it seems that we cannot contact anyone outside Hinamizawa" Ooishi told them with a bitter expression.
"There's one thing you can do. Ooishi-san, come with us to the Irie Institution. You can later go outside Hinamizawa and contact the Banken, but for that you need either Irie-san or Tomitake-san" Amuro told the old policeman.
"Hmm... I guess we have no other choice. I'll help you do that then" He agreed.
"The roads will probably be controlled by them too though" Akasaka pointed.
"I'll go with you. I know how to use the perfect weapon for the occasion" Kasai said.
"I don't feel too comfortable working with a Yakuza... But desperate times require desperate measures, mhmhm" Ooishi did his typical laugh.
"Let's go then, there's no time to waste!" Shion told them.
"Yeah" Irie agreed.
"Rika!" All the rest were coming out of the chamber.
"Everyone! What are you doing here?" Rika asked them.
"Sorry Rika, but we couldn't leave you like that" Satoko confessed.
"And I couldn't leave you two!" Mion told Shion and Amuro.
"But we're alright Onee, see?" Shion showed her that she was unharmed and Amuro did the same.
"Still, I was really worried... Thank God you're alright" She said as she hugged the two.
"We should head for the mountains now" Keiichi told the rest.
"Yeah. Now that we know Rika is alright, let's take her and protect her there!" Rena completed.
"I know I've told you this many times now, but please... Don't die Amuro, Shion, and everyone!" Mion said to them all.
"Of course not Mion, we're gonna win this!" Keiichi told her.
"I trust you guys. I will try to reunite with you later, but I have to go to the Irie Clinic now" Amuro told the club members.
"We'll be waiting for you Amuro-kun ~nipah!~" Rika greeted him with a smile.
"I know... So let's do this!"
Amuro, Shion and Irie went with Kasai in his car, while Akasaka and Ooishi went in another one. The rest would take a road through the forest and to the mountains.
"It's been long since we last met Akasaka-san, since the kidnapped child incident, doesn't it?" Ooishi told him as he drived.
"Oh right, I didn't do much at that time though, since I went back to Tokyo to check on my wife"
"Of course, Mhmhm" He stopped for a moment and then said: "You know... I used to think that the Sonozaki family was behind everything related to that dam, but now I know that they didn't have anything to do with the murders"
"I guess that all they care about is protecting this village, don't they Ooishi-san? Even if they have done some illegal acts"
"Justice truly is a difficult thing to grasp. Is there such a thing as true justice, or is everything a matter of perspective and context? A policeman surely has to struggle with this dilemma..."
"You speak the truth"
Kasai and Ooishi were driving as quick as they could to the Irie Institution. In about 7 minutes they were arriving.
"Ooishi-san, it's better if you wait here"
"I understand. If anything happens, I'll tell you through that device. Good luck" He gave Akasaka a communicator.
"Thank you"
The rest exited the car and met outside.
"We cannot simply enter this place. I have a key, but we need a plan so they don't suspect" Irie made clear.
"Yeah, I know. That's why I brought another Yamainu uniform. Kasai-san, change into this. We'll pretend that we caught Shion-san, Irie-san and Amuro-kun" Akasaka gave Kasai the clothes.
"Understood" Kasai left his black suit on the car and wore the Yamainu outfit, which consisted on a grey cap, jacket and pants.
"We won't be able to carry weapons if we pretend to be prisoners though..." Shion told them.
"I will bring one of the big guns just in case... We shouldn't need anything else" Kasai replied as he got hold of a shotgun.
"Where did you get that from?" Shion asked him.
"I brought a small arsenal with me" Kasai replied with a confifent smile.
"As for me, I can summon my sickle anytime" Amuro said. "Even though I'm not sure how much should I push my luck" He thought as he got the old serum and injected it.
"Are you all right Amuro-kun?" Irie noticed.
"Yeah, I'm just doing it cause I don't want to have an unexpected attack of paranoia in the middle of a fight" He truthfully said.
"Why didn't you use the cure? There's no one else that could need it right now"
"Are you sure about that Irie-san?" He looked him in the eye.
"T-That's... That's true, you're right Amuro-kun..." He remembered Satoshi.
"You never know, and at the very least, I won't rip my own neck because of the infection" He smiled, but thought: "Even though it would be better to rip it apart than to have Voracité take over"
Akasaka grabbed a weapon and pointed it at Irie from the back. "Please don't be afraid Irie-san, it's not loaded, but put your arms behind your head to pretend"
"You two do the same pose, I will pretend to threaten you with this shotgun" Kasai told Shion and Amuro.
"Yeah" They both agreed.
They all walked inside the Irie clinic. Nothing seemed off.
"Get ready" Akasaka warned as they got to the section where the card was needed.
He used Irie's card and they rushed inside. Akasaka shot the doork knob of the control room and kicked the door, only to be welcomed by gun shots. He was quick to take cover though, and Kasai supported him with his shotgun.
The pair of Yamainu inside screamed as they took cover and kept shooting repeatedly from their automatic weapons, until they got out of ammo. One of them turned on the alarm.
"An emergency situation has arisen within this section. All sections will be locked off. In 120 seconds, suppressive gas will be automatically released. All staff, please put on your gas masks" A message played.
"Suppressive gas?!" Akasaka muttered.
"Damn it!" Irie cursed. "They turned on the automatic defense system"
"What can we do?" Shion asked.
"The only way is if we force them to turn off the alarm, and before 2 minutes pass"
"Kasai-san, did you bring any special shotgun shells?" Amuro knew he had them.
"I did. *sigh* I had promised not to do anything like this again, but I guess there is no other way..." Kasai replied as he loaded his weapon with the other shells.
He shot one of the shells and made a hole in the fortified door.
"S-Shit!" One of the grunts shouted.
"Slugs!" The other one recognised the shells.
"That's right, and if you know their destructive power, I recommend you to turn off the alarm" Kasai replied.
"Don't listen to him, he's at a dead angle!" The other grunt told his partner.
A couple seconds passed and all the grunts did was taking cover.
"What's taking so long?! I, Tatsuyoshi Kasai, am allowing you to live!" He shot at the console to the side of the room
"Sh-Shut up! You can't do any harm to us from there!"
"You leave me no choice..." Kasai threw the door down and entered the room fiercely, pointing the shotgun at the scared grunts. "I'm a mountain of corpses above you fucking brats! Do as I say or go to hell!" He hit one of the two and left him out of combat.
"Wahh! W-W-Wait! I'll do as you say, but don't kill me..." The other one finally gave up.
Kasai kept pointing the gun at the guy while he entered the code to turn off the alarm. As he finished, he pointed the shotgun at him and said:
"This is your reward" And hit him in the face with the weapon, knocking him out.
"Well done Kasai-san!" Akasaka congratulated him.
"That was amazing Kasai!" Shion smiled at him.
"Was it?" He felt flattered.
"You looked cool Kasai-san" Amuro told him as he thought. "Shion's reaction is completely different as well..."
"Now we can look for Tomitake and Satoshi" Irie said.
"Akasaka and Kasai, go look for Tomitake. The rest of us will go to Satoshi's room" Amuro told them.
"Understood. Let's go we have no time to waste!" Akasaka replied.
"Satoshi-kun!" Shion shouted as she ran towards a wall that seemed like a dead end. "Satoshi-kun, can you hear me?" She was desperate.
"Let's go help her Irie-san" Amuro told him.
"Yeah" Irie sadly replied.
Irie opened the passage and they went to the underground level.
"Mion and the rest must be busy fighting the Yamainu right now... I hope that they're doing well" Amuro thought.
Shion ran through the hallway to see the room from afar. Separated by a glass, Satoshi was laying in a coma inside the bed. He had straps around his arms and legs and was receiving oxygen from a machine. She noticed the big bear in the background.
"Satoshi-kun!" She muttered in agony as she looked at the state he was in.
"He's in an induced coma so he doesn't do any harm to himself. He shows signs of life quite frequently though, but it's too dangerous to just wake him up"
"Irie-san, the cure... The cure can change that, can't it?" Amuro asked him.
"It can. But Amuro-kun, Satoshi-kun is well like this for the time being. The Yamainu wouldn't-"
"Irie-san, Amuro-kun!" Akasaka shouted from the top of the stairway.
"What happened Akasaka-san?" Asked Amuro.
"Ooishi-san told me that reinforcements are coming to Irie clinic. The police department got hold of that information!"
"We have to leave, now!" Irie replied.
"There is one problem... In the message the Yamainu sent, they said that their mission was to retrieve any information and experiments!" Akasaka completed.
"Then that means..." Amuro muttered.
"No! Satoshi-kun!" Shion screamed as tears ran down her cheeks.
"And the cure. We can't lose such vital information. Neither Satoshi-kun" Amuro said.
"What will we do?" Irie was at his limit. He wasn't able to think of a way out.
"I knew I did well to save this..." Amuro started saying.
"Amuro-kun, you're serious?!" Irie asked.
"It's the only way, I know. I will probably lose to him, but it doesn't matter right now. Even if I do, he's the only one that could wipe out those reinforcements on his own"
"You're determined to do this, aren't you?"
"Absolutely. So Shion, give this to Satoshi-kun" He gave her the cure.
Irie opened the room, and Shion entered.
~~~~X~~~~
"Nii-Nii!" Satoko shouted desperately.
"Satoko!" Satoshi ran into the classroom to her aid, but she wasn't there... "Satoko, where are you?!"
"Save me Nii-Nii!" She continued shouting, but he couldn't sort where the sound was coming from.
"Damn it!" When he opened his eyes again he was in a pitch black room. "Why do I have to see that over and over... I can't help her forever!"
He looked at his empty surroundings.
"Just... What is this place? It feels... Like I've been here for as long as I can remember..."
He remembered his sin.
"Is this... Is this Hell? Is this my punishment for doing what I did?! I just wanted to save her..." He cried and the tears fell into the void.
Satoshi was trapped in this world, damned to an infinite emptiness, that sometimes would change into a known space where his sister would cry for his help, but she wasn't there. No one was there...
"Satoko... As much as I love you, I can't help but think that you were a burden... I had to protect you, but I'm so weak... I needed someone to care for me as well, but that someone didn't exist did it?"
He looked at the empty space for a longer while until a memory came to him.
"How can I help you Satoshi-kun?" It was a girl's voice.
"Go away, you are annoying..." He replied.
"Oh no... Mion..." He said to himself, but then her voice appeared again.
"That's because I'm not Mion, I'm her twin sister: Shion!"
"No, it wasn't Mion. It was Shion... They are different. While Mion is tough and daring, Shion is delicate and caring"
He remembered her and he smiled.
"She was there for me, when no one else was... She was the person I needed, but I was so cold towards her... Thanks to her I could get the bear for Satoko... She defended me, even against the police..."
He remembered every moment with her.
"Oh Shion... I'm so sorry, but you can't hear me, can you?"
He crumbled on the floor.
"Where... Are... You?"
He looked at the empty space beneath him.
"I know if you were here you'd know what... To... Do..."
He looked at the emptiness in front of him.
"Where are you Shion? I don't even think that I can live through..."
He stood up and looked to the black sky, if that could be called sky...
"I can't take being in this dream... Please, wake me up, I am suffering... Suffering..."
He saw a faint light in the sky, as tiny as a star farther from his dimension.
"How can this not be make believe? Please, wake me up, I am suffering... Set me free..."
The light seemed to grow closer and closer, until it was engulfing his darkness. He jumped to grab it and as he did he heard Shion's voice:
"Satoshi-kun!"
He woke up, and saw that Shion was gently squeezing his hand with both of her hands.
"Sh-Shion? H-How can you? How can this? W-What is happening?"
"Oh, he's awake! Satoshi-kun you're back! You don't have any idea of how much I missed you!" She was crying out of pure joy.
"Welcome back Satoshi-kun. Normally we'd do a checkup on you, but we're running out of time. We have to get out of here, now" Irie told the boy as he finished unstrapping him. He had already gotten him out of the machines.
"I... I don't understand anything"
"Ungh... N-Not now! Damn it!" Amuro felt how he was getting an attack.
"Amuro-kun!" Akasaka got worried.
"I-Irie... Take Satoshi and get the hell out" Amuro ordered him. "NOW!"
"Amuro-kun... H-How, how can I repay you for this?" Shion asked him.
He made his best effort to smile. "Just... Tell Mion that I love her... Apparition!" He summoned the sickle.
"What are you doing?!" Shion got worried.
"Stopping myself. You just go on ahead. I don't know... If it's good or bad... But I won't die for doing this" He stabbed himself in the stomach with the sickle. The pain was unbearable, but he had to do it.
"Amuro-kun!" Irie shouted as he grabbed Satoshi.
"Just go!" Amuro shouted as he spat blood. There was blood everywhere near him due to his wound. If he was left alone, it was fatal.
"All right"
They went upstairs. Kasai and Tomitake were waiting.
"Let's go, quick!"
Shion, Satoshi and Kasai got into his car. Ooishi had asked for an armored van so they could defend from the enemy barricades around the roads, so Akasaka, Irie and Tomitake went with him.
"Where to now?" Asked Ooishi from the special vehicle.
"Out of the village. We need to contact the Banken. All phone lines are cut inside Hinamizawa, and the console inside the Institution was destroyed" Tomitake said.
"Kasai-san, please give us some cover while we escape!" Irie shouted at him.
"Understood. Kids, we're going into the woods. While I use the sniper I'm gonna need you to be my eyes Shion, and Satoshi... Well, try to bear with us"
"Leave it to me!" Shion replied. "Let's go Satoshi-kun!" She smiled at him.
"Y-Yeah" Satoshi still couldn't understand anything, but was happy at the fact that he was with Shion.
"Let's go!" Akasaka said.
"All right" Ooishi started the armored van and started going on the way out of the village.
As the two vehicles left, a whole convoy of Yamainu arrived at the Irie Clinic. They entered rapidly and went straight for the underground.
"We need to get the boy, he's the priority!" The one leading ordered referring to Satoshi.
"Yes!"
The group that entered the underground noticed the body that was laying on the floor, in the middle of a pond of blood.
"What the-"
"Isn't he one of those kids?"
"Yeah, I think he was the most troublesome actually"
"Well, that's what you get for messing with us, hahaha!"
"Damn it, they took the boy though" The grunt saw the empty room.
"Fuck. Well, we're gonna catch those brats later anyway! For now, let's go look for Irie's investigation"
One of the Yamainu stepped on the blood lake. As he did, a hand grabbed on to him with superhuman strength.
"Where... Do you think... You're going?" Voracité muttered from the floor.
"W-What the fuck?!" He managed to say, just before his leg got torn off by the demon's strength. "AARRGGHHHH!" The shock of pain left him unconscious.
"Je dévorerai!" He said as he munched the leg viciously.
"M-Monster"
"No way!"
"That's no human..."
The Yamainu had never been so afraid. They witnessed how after devouring the leg from the floor, he stood up with the sickle still incrustated in his stomach.
"Hehe... So this is what was giving me a hard time eating" He muttered as he pulled the weapon out, which made more blood come out of his body.
The men were engulfed by fear. They couldn't move, and they were starting to doubt that what they were seeing was even real.
Voracité's hands grew nails like claws. He used his bare hand to rip out the guts of the unconscious guy.
"You are low quality meat... UNFORGIVABLE!" He shouted after eating the guts.
"This is a nightmare..." A grunt literally peed himself.
The evil Amuro slashed the Yamainu with his Scythe and his claws and bathed in blood as the bodies of the Yamainu were ripped to pieces. The screams of agony were as loud as they could get.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA! This is so much fun... Are you seeing this Psychan? This is true joy! Pure, utter, brutality!"
"Who's there?!" The men upstairs noticed their partner's scream.
"Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill..." He muttered to himself as he crawled up the stairs with an animal speed.
"What's that? AGH!" Clawed to death in the stomach.
"Who in the... DAAGGGHH!" Sliced throat with a sickle.
Another Yamainu tried shooting at him. "You demon, go to Hell!" He shouted as he carved bullet after bullet on Amuro's body, with no success.
"And where do you think I come from? Fufufufufufu... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"S-S-S-S-S...S-SAVE ME! AHHAAA!" Eyes pierced with bullets and fatal brain damage.
Headcrushed.
Bled to death.
Stabbed multiple times.
Shot himself.
Hit with a heavy object.
Drowned in blood.
Eaten to death.
Grenade explosion.
Blew against a wall.
Braindrilled.
Suffocated.
Burned to death.
Hanged.
Beaten to death.
Sliced in two.
Snapped neck.
Skinned alive.
Severed head "Guillotine" style.
Impaled...
...And all around there was a horrible imminent death.
The Irie Clinic became a massacre in a couple minutes. This was the danger posed by the entity known as Voracité, whose ability was to heal his wounds and gain strength feeding on human beings. Different from Psychan, this ability didn't cost Mana and couldn't be turned on or off. It was an ability intrinsic to him.
"Now Psychan, I think it's time to show you what I really had in mind for when I took over... Fufufu, it's amazing that all this time, the only one who could save you from this was that girl... But she's not here now is she? Fufufufufu... Bwahahahahaha!" He madly laughed as he rejoiced in his body. After all, this Tsugaru Amuro was just a carcass for their fragments.
"D-Damn it..." Muttered Psychan from the collective consciousness inside of their body.
~~~~X~~~~
"At 11 O'clock, Kasai!" Shion told him.
"On it" He shot through the sniper.
The Yamainu in the barricade had no chance.
"I'm sorry that our re-encounter is in such conditions Satoshi-kun" Shion apologised.
"What are you saying Shion? None of this is your fault" Satoshi comforted her.
"Not this at least" She replied while thinking: "I was about to do much worse though... But Amuro-kun saved me"
"Those seemed to be the last ones. They should arrive at Okinomiya in no time" Kasai told them.
"This is going well so far. Now I should go help Onee..."
"Yeah" Kasai started putting the sniper back in its case.
They drove to the shrine and Shion exited the car.
"It might be too dangerous for you to come Kasai. You're better off guarding the entrance to this place" Shion told him.
"Are you sure Shion-san?" Kasai asked her back.
"Yeah, I have this stun gun"
"Em... I... I want to go with you!" Satoshi shouted.
"Satoshi-kun... I'm glad that you're worried about me, but you were in a long coma. Your body won't be able to stand for too long..."
"That..." He muttered while thinking. "That may be true... But I want to be the one to save her once!"
"Satoshi-kun... Do you know how to use a gun?" Kasai asked him.
"N-No. I have never held a real one in my hands..." He said dissapointed.
"Wait a second... I might have something a bit more familiar to you in the trunk" He exited the driver's seat and went to the back. He opened the trunk and opened a bag. He got an object and closed the trunk. "Shion-san has told me that you're pretty good at baseball..." He gave him a long iron bat.
"Kasai-san this... Is just perfect" Satoshi thanked him.
"Don't force yourself too much... But protect her in my place"
"Absolutely" He nodded.
"Good luck, you two" Kasai got hold of his sniper again and hid behind some bushes. "I won't let more of those come near you"
"Thanks so much Kasai!" Shion said to him before entering the forest taking Satoshi by the hand. "Let's go" She smiled at him.
"Yeah" Satoshi blushed a little, and then determined himself to protect her.
Upper, in the mountains, Yamainu were falling for Satoko's traps all around the place.
"Well done Satoko, your traps are a complete success!" Mion congratulated her.
"Thanks Mion-san. If it's about traps, you can always count on me!" She pridely replied.
"Once we run out of raps we'll have to fight them ourselves though" Keiichi reminded while swinging his bat.
"No matter. When that happens, Rena will hit them so hard they won't even remember their names" Rena said while rolling her cleaver.
"Let's do this ~mii~" Rika said to raise their spirits.
"Everything is going amazingly well Rika!" Hanyuu told her.
"I knew we could count on him. I wonder if Amuro-kun will be able to join us..."
"Let's hope for it"
Careful what you wish...
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Woo-hoo! I knew I'd be motivated when writing this. I'll start writing the next one immediately, but I hope that this can keep you happy for now. This story is far from over, just in case you might think it is..
Evhron out...For now