Chapter 36: Blackout

Just when the villagers were getting ready, the power went out; Abyss and Tira cut off all the power to the village.

Tanaka Residence:

Kaori was terrified, as the dark was a big advantage for the shiki—and to a greater extent, Nightmare.

Kaori:

Lights went out. It's a blackout. He's coming. Nightmare is coming to kill me.

Megumi, help me...I know that you tried to get me out of here by hypnotizing my father...but now...

Nightmare, you took everything from me...my mother, my father, and my brother.

Now I have the right to take vengeance on you!

Outside:

Megumi stepped on Love to wake him up. "Wake up, you stupid mongrel!"

Love, "GYA-WOOF!"

Kaori:

He's here!

I left the back door unlocked on purpose, specially for you.

So, come on in, you ugly monster!

Like a lion tracking it's prey...

When the figure came in through the door, Kaori sprang out, and beat it in the head. However, it wasn't Nightmare..."Father...Father, why?!"

She continued bludgeoning him. "It's so awful! Why are you after me, Dad?! Why, Dad?! You're not my father anymore!"

Yoshikazu:

Kaori...So even you won't forgive me?

She finally came to her senses when Megumi came in the front door; She was human again(Though, because of her secret trait as a shiki, she retained immortality, but without the cost). "Megumi...Is that you?" Kaori was in tears.

"Yeah...yeah, it's me." She intentionally gave her friend a shoulder to cry on; she wanted to comfort Kaori.

She took it, and hugged Megumi; she already knew she was restored by looking at her.

However, a huge footstep interrupted their reunion as friends; Nightmare had just came out of nowhere, and grabbed Yoshikazu by the neck. "You failed to kill your children. You are now useless to me. But you were always...just...an expendable...pawn." Right after the last word, the vile knight's claw-hand constricted Yoshikazu's neck so tightly, his head popped off the rest of his body, killing him. He turned his attention to the girls after tossing Yoshikazu's headless corpse aside. They were barely able to make it out the door.

Town:

When they got out of the woods near the "Anti-Shiki base", Kaori fainted. Luckily, Connor came out of the base to find them, and caught Kaori. "It's about time you got here. I need your help, Megumi..."

This chapter was short, I know. But it has massive changes from the source material, as you can probably/already tell.

Nightmare claimed Yoshikazu's life(after death).

Megumi's an IMMORTAL human now(Reference to another, older horror anime called "Mermaid Forest." Check it out).

And the one who saved Kaori was Megumi instead of Natsuno.

So, even though it's short, a lot happens.

What will happen next, do you think?

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