In the midst of the chaos, a child was crying on the floor of the cafe next to the restaurant. The cafe had caught fires from the repeated explosions next door. Clouds of dark smokes bellowed above him, making it hard to notice him especially when most people's attention laid on the restaurant.
Shouko didn't understand herself.
Once she saw the child, her body moved on its own.
She pushed Kyoya aside, ran toward the restaurant, drenched herself with a pail of water and grabbed a damp tablecloth to cover her body before she slipped past the crowd to enter the cafe.
Even when she heard his desperate cry for her to stop her body kept on moving.
By the time she realized what she had done, she was already standing in the sea of smoke and fire.
"Cough! Cough!"
Shouko covered her mouth and nose, her throat felt hoarse in an instant. The intense heat of the blaze made her uncomfortable yet she braced herself to look for the child.
