97 Rampage... The Streets are... Blood... Run... (2/2)
Mary crawls backward on the floor.
The ghoul sneers with its sharp fangs bared... then pounces towards Mary in her underwear.
As tears stream down her face, Mary resolves herself.
”I remember advising you to run away last time...”
Together with those words, the ghoul is diced up in midair.
Lumps of meat fall all over the room, and blood splatters.
”Y-, you are...”
She recognizes that figure and that jet-black blade. Mary feels her heart beating loudly in her ears.
The person standing there in a jet-black longcoat... is Shadow.
”The Rampage has begun... Behold, the streets are stained with blood...”
”The streets...?”
Mary covers herself with her bedsheets and peers outside.
”How, how can this be... this is terrible...”
Sure enough, the road below is stained with glistening blood.
Lumps of meat strewn all over. Ghouls rampaging about. Prostitutes who ran too late being attacked.
”Watch ou-...!”
Seeing her senior among those being attacked, Mary cannot help but to cry out.
However, the next instant, the pouncing ghoul is reduced to lumps of meat.
”The Rampage is upon us... A tempest of blood demands its due...”
Beside her is a man in a jet-black longcoat.
”ae?!”
Mary whirls around, only to discover that there is no longer anyone standing beside herself.
”Run, lest you be swallowed up by this madness...”
”You, are you...”
That moment, a scream echoes out from somewhere not too far off.
The instant Mary's attention is diverted by it, Shadow disappears once again.
”... the Rampage is... blood... run...”
With a voice that seems to emanate from nowhere specific, parts of a ghoul are sent flying into the sky.
When she takes a second look, Mary realizes that the lumps of meat lining the street all came from ghouls.
She can no longer see the man himself, but the chain of explosions of ghoul parts is steadily growing further away.
Mary quickly throws on some clothes over her underwear, then packs a carry bag and hurries downstairs.
Mary's intuition proved true after all. Shadow really did come to save her.
”Thank you, Shadow-san...”
Thus Mary manages to slip away amidst all the chaos. With strong resolve in her heart to one day repay this debt to Shadow...