Later, around 10 PM, Kiyoteru and Natsuki met up at the same local cemetery where Sayori's family crypt was. As they arrived at the front gates, Akahito pulled up in a police car. Natsuki waved him down and said, "Over here!"

Akahito stepped out and immediately called over his radio, "Patrol 55-25 to dispatch, show me off on break." He then said to Natsuki and Kiyoteru, "I got your guns in the trunk. I'll be using my service pistol and my patrol car's shotgun." He then went over yo pop open the trunk of his car. He grabbed a rifle and two clips of ammunition and handed it to Kiyoteru. "Be careful with this, kid. This isn't some toy."

"I know," Kiyoteru replied. "Is it already loaded?"

"Yes," Akahito replied as he went back to grab Natsuki's rifle and clips. When he handed them to her, he said, "Say, you look kind of small for a third-year."

"Yeah," Natsuki replied, somewhat annoyed. "So what?"

"Nothing," Akahito said, moving to another topic. "Now, I'll enter from the back gate. You two enter from the front. This is a mostly deserted area, so there shouldn't be anybody else here except for us and the cultists."

Later, as Natsuki and Kiyoteru patrolled the dark cemetery, looking for any signs of the cultists, Natsuki said to him, "Hey, Kiyoteru, this place is giving me the creeps. Are you sure it was a good idea to go along with that cop?"

"I'm sure," Kiyoteru said before he noticed something and stopped Natsuki in her tracks. "Wait..." Then, they both saw two shadows appear out of the darkness. As they both readied their guns at them, Natsuki felt a hand grab her shoulder and screamed. "Natsuki!"

The pink-haired girl turned around and whacked a man that was significantly taller than her across the face with her rifle as the two shadows drew guns and fired on them. Kiyoteru shielded Natsuki and returned fire, hitting both and causing them to fall to the ground with loud thuds. "Kiyoteru, you alright?"

"Yeah," Kiyoteru replied as they both saw the man Natsuki had knocked down get up and pull out a knife. Natsuki immediately shot him, causing him to fall back down to the ground with a thud as he screamed in pain. Kiyoteru then said to her, "We need to get to the Hiirasawa family crypt now!"

"Agreed," Natsuki replied as they both bolted for Sayori's family crypt. "Akahito wasn't kidding about that cult!"

After a few minutes of searching, they found the crypt. Akahito, who was standing guard, called out to them and said, "What happened over there?! I heard gunshots!"

"Some of the cultists attacked us," Kiyoteru replied as he caught his breath. "We shot them!"

Suddenly, a bullet whizzed by Akahito's head and barely flew over Natsuki's head before a voice shouted, "You can't stop us!"

Akahito then turned around and fired at two men who tried charging at them with knives and pistols in hand. As they both fell, Natsuki yelled to them, "Get fucked!"

Akahito then walked up to them and asked one of them, "Did Yosuke send you cowards here to get Sayori's body?"

"Of course," one of the men weakly replied before coughing up blood. "I see you brought some lackeys with you, Akahito.

"I did," the unsympathetic cop replied before drawing his gun again and putting a bullet in his head. He then did the same to the other man, ensuring that both were dead. "They won't be hurting us anymore." Blood spatter had gotten all over on his pants.

Natsuki, shocked, asked him, "Is... Is that it?"

"No," Akahito replied. "I must leave you now. I need to go to Hokkaido. The OK Group is based there. I will destroy them."

"Let us go with you," Kiyoteru firmly replied. "Damn it, let us go, too! We have a stake in this ourselves! I wanna make sure what happened to Sayori and Yuri never happens again!" Tears then streamed down his face. "I wanna make Monika pay."

"Very well," Akahito replied. He then turned to Natsuki. "How about you?"

"I'm with him," Natsuki replied as she stood her ground. "This cult needs to be stopped!"

4 months earlier, Summertime

"Doctor Renier," a man said to another in French as they talked in a break room. "I see you have a new subject."

"Indeed," Jean Renier, a French doctor, replied to his colleague, Charles LaFleur. "After Elyssa died, we had to find a new one." He then sighed. "Dear Leader Yosuke really seems to think we are close to a miracle, but I don't know. Maybe in a few months, we will be. I had hopes when Sister Monika delivered Elyssa to our organization a year ago, but... It didn't work out."

"Perhaps she was too old," Jean replied before drinking some coffee. "She was 10 when Sister Monika brought her to us. Maybe since this new girl is just 3, she will be easier to work on." He then coughed. "What was her name again, Doctor LaFleur?"

"It was Libitina Marino," Charles replied. He then sighed. "Sister Monika lured her away from her parents soon after Elyssa had to be put down. Her parents and her older sister have no clue what happened to her." He then smiled. "Maybe with Libitina with us, we can finally break free of this false digital world we live in. We can finally advance past the year 2004, the year we were all trapped."

Then, a chestnut-haired girl with a ponytail and a labcoat walked in. She bowed and said, "Doctor Renier, Doctor LaFleur, are you ready for today?"

"Indeed, Sister Monika." Jean then drank the rest of his coffee. "You know, once you graduate high school, you really should move up here to Hokkaido so you can spend more time with us."

"I'm planning on it," Monika replied before she yawned. "Alright, so, what's on the agenda for Libitina today?"

"Smallpox vaccine reversal shots," Jean began as he listed stuff that they would do to Libitina that day. "Traumatic insertion of graphic images into the mind, a 200-question mathematics test done while she is constantly berated for being weak, and maybe, if we have the time, a force-feeding of raw meat. Oh, and she is to be hit in the stomach with a wooden cane for every answer she gets wrong on the mathematics test. The questions should be easy, nothing a toddler like her cannot handle."

"Oof," Monika replied. "That's gonna be a long day for us."

Present day, a week after the cemetery attack, 19 days since Sayori's funeral, and 24 days since Sayori's death

At a hotel in Niseko, a small town in Hokkaido Prefecture in Japan, Akahito checked himself, Kiyoteru, and Natsuki in for the night after a flight from Kyoto to Sapporo, followed by a rental car ride to Niseko. He said to the clerk at the front desk, "I have a reservation for three under the name of Kamijou Akahito."

"Ah yes," the female clerk replied as she pulled up the reservation on a computer before printing it out. As she handed the room number card and three key cards to Akahito, she said, "Would you like for us to move your bags, sir?"

"No thank you," Akahito politely replied. "We are all set, ma'am." He then turned to Kiyoteru and Natsuki. "Are you two ready? Let's go."