While carrying Sasaki's unconscious body, Nara carried him, as they went outside the area they were meant to patrol.
She smiled in relief as she carried Sasaki's unconscious body and gazed up at the starry night sky. The little boy's arms felt like a scarf wrapped around her as she gazed up at the burning night sky through her scarlet eyes.
"Father... I'll see you again soon."
***
It was night in the middle of the station. A young girl with ruby eyes watched the train rush by, with a delightful expression written in the girl's innocent eyes—her father was a train operator at the time, and she was waiting for him to get home for dinner.
"Mama, mama!"
While waiting for her husband to get off work, the mother sat on the benches and gave her a curious glance.
"Hm, what is it, Nara?"
"Why do we have to wait for Papa to come in the station every day?"
The mother looked at the child with a delighted glance—she had heard her ask the same question over again in the past.
"Well, it's so that Papa would feel happy seeing us when he returns from work."
"But can't we just live in the train with Papa?
He would always be happy if he saw us while he's driving the train, right?"
The mother chuckled nervously.
"Well, you see-"
"I'm home!"
The two women turned to face the greasy, dust-caked, delighted man who was reaching out to embrace them. Nara immediately ran in the man's direction and hugged him tightly, only reaching his thigh due to her small height.
"Papa!"
Her father kneeled down to hug the small child, smiling as he faced his white-haired wife.
"How was work, dear?"
The father lets go of the child, carrying her on his back while keeping a smile.
"Yeah, it was fine. We've crossed into some anomalies earlier, but luckily nobody got harmed."
"Then again?"
The family began their journey home as the pair proceeded to discuss their husband's day at work. While they were talking, Nara fell asleep on her father's back. The mother smiled at her child as she stared at the adorable father-daughter pair.
"Is there something in my face?"
The father asked his wife in confusion.
"Oh, there's nothing."
She smiled as they continued walking along the peaceful, dark sidewalk, somewhat illuminated by the street lights and the lights coming from the house windows beside them.
While walking quietly, they noticed a gang of men in dark ragged attire sexually assaulting a woman beside the pavement while she glanced at the couple, screaming for help.
"Help! Please, you two!"
The father, who was carrying his daughter on the way home with his wife, considered assisting the woman. He reasoned that if he assisted the woman, nice things would happen to him, but the hoodlums would attack them, and if they didn't, they would be able to return home safely.
"What are you gonna do?"
The man gazed at the woman's bad countenance, while one of the men in black smiled at the pair. He approached the two, taking a switchblade from his pocket.
"Hey look, man, I see you've got yourself a chick there. So why don't you we make a deal? You mind your own business and you go home safe and sound with your family. How does that sound?"
The father, already having predicted his words, looked at him with a disappointed grin and walked away from the area.
"Heh, that's what I thought."
The man went back to the woman with a devious grin and rubbed the blade on the woman's beautiful face.
"Now what should we do to you?"
In a swift glimpse, the man had a bone-like blade protruding out of his chest, as he turned around to see the man's dark red eyes blazing in the dark as he stabbed the man full of bloodlust. The group of ten gazed at the father in terror.
"Y-you're... It's an anomaly! Run!"
In a rush, the party of ten fled to leave the impaled guy behind, but they were unable to escape when several threads pierced their heads, marking all of them as deceased.
The impaled man looked at the father, terrified, as in an instant the father bit his face, removing a chunk out of it as he began eating the man while he was screaming in pain in front of the woman they'd assualted beside them.
"Are you okay?"
The mother inquired of the woman, her gaze drawn to the two fearful figures. Pulling herself back as he saw the man in front of her be devoured by Nara's father.
"S-stay away from me, you monsters!"
The woman's words pained both of them, and they gazed at her in disbelief.
"But we just saved you."
The woman hastily stood up and raced away, till her figure was no longer visible to the pair. The woman looked at her husband, worried.
"What are we going to do with these corpses?"
"Just leave them there."
"Yeah..."
The pair had made a grave mistake, leaving the corpses in the street while they were on their way home.
Rumors regarding the massacare last night quickly spread throughout the media the next day. And something happened that day. The doorbell rang unexpectedly and aggressively.
"Hey, dear, can you answer that for me? I'm cooking breakfast!"
The father, dizzy from just waking up, came down the steps to the entrance as the doorbell began to ring more quickly.
"Argh, can't you just ring once? It's getting annoying."
The man held his hand to the cold doorknob as he noticed the scent on several people standing near his house and over the rooftop. The father's expression was immediately struck with fear, knowing what would happen once he'd open the doorknob.
He discreetly creates brasskunckles made out of bones and wraps his face with a mask. He quickly opened the door, taking cover at the concrete edges as the soldiers shot their rounds directly and over the home.
"Riko, get the kid out of here!"
The mother abandoned what she was doing and dashed to the second floor, frantically waking up her daughter, who had just awoken.
"Nara, quickly to my back."
Nara was confused by the commotion as gunshots and screams grew louder.
"What's happening downstairs?"
"Papa's just talking with a few people downstairs, alright? Also, you like surprises, right?"
Nara nodded, smiling while the gunshots kept roaring louder.
"Alright then, close your eyes and cover your ears. Don't cheat or else mama won't reveal the surprise!"
"Okay!"
Nara closed her eyes and placed her palms in both ears as her mother sprinted downstairs while her father slaughtered CAU members.
She ran to the kitchen running outside the backdoor to see no CAU soldiers in sight. She placed her daughter down the grass and partially sat down.
"Nara, you can open your eyes now."
Nara opened her eyes with a delighted look, only to witness a hole puncture her mother's brain softly grazing her child's forehead—anonalies can only be killed when their brain gets pierced or crushed.
"Mom?"
She poked her mother's corpse as she could hear drums beating swiftly while staring at her mother's murdered corpse, a hint of blood running down the child's left brow.
She bit off her flesh trying to feed it at his deceased mother, trying to bring her back to life but she soon realizes...
No can do...
"Dude, kill her al-"
Suddenly, a tail-like structure penetrated the man's head, blowing it to pieces. The man looked at the girl's ability, terrified, as it formed a vein-like structure in the child's bones.
"Two kigais?!"
The man put his right eye to the scope, aimed his rifle at the girl, and was about to shoot when his right eye was punctured.
The child stepped into the room, her eyes flowing like a torrent, carrying her mother with her Kigai as she walked to the entrance while her father was fighting the CAU.
"Dad~"
While fighting the CAU men, the father glanced at the child with a troubled expression under his mask.
"Nara, what are you doing here?! Go with your mother!"
The father was left in shock. Trying to get a better look at her wife's dead body, the father partially removed his mask. He looked back at the terrified members of the CAU with a disappointed look partially showing in the right part of the mask.
"What did we even do wrong? All I did was save a person. I saved a person, and you repay me with this?!"
Nara's father, Naoto, creates a broad sword out of his bones while wrapping sphinx-like armor around his body, his eyes glowing crimson as he stares at the CAU, infuriated.
His breathing was steaming as he gripped his sword tightly, and you can slowly notice his voice changing into a hound-like expression while deeply breathing steam out of his mouth.
"Nara, I'll be gone in just a second; Dad's just gonna have a small talk with these kind men, so just sit back and behave."
To be continued... ———————————