It was August 20, 1982. That was when multinational forces land in Beirut to assist in the Lebanese Civil war. Smells like President Ronald Reagan had a hand in this, Alice thought. A perfect timing for the demons to come out and play but what does this have to do with Alice?
Alice strolled from place to place the Chiyoda Ward in Tokyo, thinking about Saya. Saya was the adolescent who protected her and nevertheless fell through the rabbit hole while looking for Onigen in the looking glass. But Saya was not a normal girl, was she?
She missed Saya. It had been nearly 12 years since that night that she saw the demon. She never came back from that significant darkness. Alice could never figure out why. Why was Saya on her consciousness? Was she calling out for help?
Alice examined these problems when she noticed that she felt someone or something watching her. The general didn't leave Alice all that defenseless before the Council killed him. Alice looked around, bringing herself to a standstill in the intermediate alleyway in front of a geisha house. Her eyes lined the bases and then up to the tops of the buildings to find out what it was. She saw a shadow jumping from one of the tall buildings to one of the lower ones.
It was completely different from any human. Who would be tailing her? Unless these were Saya's bottom feeders lurking about. If they were, she had to nothing about. I hope not, Alice thought as she went across the street feeling ravenous. Alice went to a sushi restaurant to grab a bite.
A few hours later, Alice arrived back at her apartment at the U.S. Air force Kanto base with what was left of her dinner from the restaurant. The service was terrible and the food was a bit overpriced but the food was not bad. She had a hard time thinking of whether or not if she wanted to go back to that place to complain about those two things.
As soon as she walked through the door of her apartment, there was a crashing noise coming from what sounded like the kitchen. The only thing she had in there were bottles of blood in case Saya did arrive. Alice grabbed her gun from her holster and silently rushed to the kitchen. Before she went around the corner, Alice heard someone breathing as if they had taken a drink of something. She quickly went around the corner without hesitation only to find the one person she didn't think she would see again. Saya.