Saya was on the roof top observing the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo. It had become her feeding ground for fresh blood. But her mind kept pondering back to Alice. Saya knew she wouldn't be human or alive if Saya didn't safeguard her from the bottom feeders. But she also used her to get to Onigen. Alice was right about the village 12 years ago. It was real. The little boy she loved wasn't real. She wanted him back… alive… unharmed.
Saya had missed Alice. But she missed the boy and the old man more. But why was she seeing Alice more now than ever before? She didn't have this problem before. Saya looked around to make sure she wasn't followed. She felt something had been watching her the entire time of being in the Chiyoda Ward. Maybe it was Saguaro, the new bottom feeder that started to follow her since that dreadful night.
"You know, Saya. She might die tonight," said a childlike voice, approaching from somewhere in the darkness of the environment. "Alice won't be killed as long as I'm around. You know it," hissed Saya, while her eyes were searching for the voice. At that point, a tall slender boy, no more than about 15 years old, trespassing from the shadows, crouching on the roof top far from Saya. Saya smelt blood on him. He's been feeding again, thought Saya.
"Go back, Saguaro. I have no use for you this time," said Saya, looking back to the view she was admiring before Saguaro came out.
"No, you don't. But then you won't know what will happen to her if she goes back to the base."
Saya shot Saguaro a cold but demanding look. Saguaro further explained, "Shou is planning on taking her out. He's not happy that his father was killed by you before he got to do it himself."
"That's not surprising," said Saya, as she rolled her eyes.
Then she looked back towards Saguaro's direction only to find that he was gone. She looked towards the street she was looking at before Saguaro had appeared. Someone who looked like Alice was walking, looking just as lost as Saya was.
She reminisced back to that night. Saya had gotten Alice away from the Council and she was badly injured. Alice managed to bring her to a village that was obviously from the 16th century. But Saya never thought that the girl would give her blood.
That's when Alice had helped her most to get to Onigen. Alice had also risked her life on getting to the truth. The village that they would later find was just a mirage created by Onigen herself. She thought she'd found the boy she once loved… the boy she had killed. She never had forgiven herself on that. Kato didn't tell her that she was a demon. Or at least half demon.
Now, Saya feels a change occurring. Something's taking place. What was it that was changing? It was familiar but was… questionably… odd. She looked at Alice, who was looking like she was lost. No, wait, she's feeling something, too, thought Saya. Alice's gaze, as Saya noticed, which wasn't at her, stopped at one of the top of the tall buildings to her far left, almost behind her. Saya followed her gaze to someone who seems to have been standing there for however long. It jumped down to one of the other buildings, disappearing.
Saya looked back to Alice, who was now crossing the street, also disappearing to one of the shops. As soon as Alice disappeared, Saya quickly went to the direction she saw the figure jump to. This had a burned but sweaty stench. It smelt old like cooked but rotting fish. Not as old as Onigen but not as young as Alice. Saya followed the smell to an alley somewhere in Shinagawa but lost it.
Where is that creature, thought Saya. There were a few scrapes and yells in the alley as Saya looked around as a scaredy-cat, paranoid of all of the noises. She kept looking for the smell while looking around, still paranoid of the nearby noises. But at the same time, her mind kept going to Alice. Since she had lost the scent, she thought about going to Alice's apartment. With a bit of luck, Alice would be wise enough to have blood in her fridge, thought Saya, hopeful.
So she headed to the direction of the Kanto Air Base, sprinting to get there before the creature got a waft her scent. Saya had gone onto the base without getting caught by the guards. When she got to Alice's apartment, it was by this time dark and Alice hasn't shown up yet. So Saya quickly and silently went to the kitchen just as soon as Alice approached the door. Saya didn't hear the door open when she reached for the fridge door.
Within 2 minutes of opening the fridge door, rummaging through finding the bottles of blood and saw Alice as she was took a swig of one of the bottles she had opened. Much to Alice's surprised, Saya was surprised to Alice had remembered her at all. "Saya," whispered Alice.