Chiba City

Chapter 3 : Chiba City

He pants, still lying right under the beast. He’s confused, many questions in his head, but he crawls before standing up as he looks at his body, all in a perfect shape as if he hadn’t even been attacked by the beast just a few minutes ago.

“How am I even alive?

He asks himself as he looks at his back, with no bleeding or wounds, but a scratched-up shirt from the attack earlier, with stains of his own blood.

SHIRO : “Is this all a dream..?”

He punches himself out of nowhere, as his nose bleeds and he feels the pain. He looks at his hands and realizes he’s not in a dream, and it’s all real.

SHIRO : “How the hell am I alive..?”
SHIRO : “I was supposed to die..”

…

SHIRO : “Wait a minute..”

He realizes Sheena’s fang isn’t in his hand anymore. Shiro quickly checks his pockets to look for it, but it is nowhere to be found.

SHIRO : “Fuck..! Did I really lose the last thing Sheena left me?!”

He looks in frustration. As he covers his face.

SHIRO : “Sorry, Sheena.. I guess I lost your favorite fang..”

Shiro looks at the ground for a moment as he remembers what he dreamed of when he passed out.

SHIRO : “Sheena..”
SHIRO : “Was it all a dream..?”
SHIRO : “Or was it just.. her preventing me from dying..”

He tries to remember what she had said during those moments, but it’s all blurry now. All he can remember is Sheena holding his face and telling him that he’s not done with his life yet.

SHIRO : “I’m probably just being crazy..”
SHIRO : “But thank you, Sheena.. If it was you who gave me another chance at life.”

He looks back at the beast, still covered in thorns, but it is beginning to turn into ashes. Shiro walks back to his vehicle, opens its trunk, and changes into a new pair of clothes. As he enters the driver’s seat and starts the car, he’s on his way to Chiba City.

“I still wonder how I’m even alive.. and to be honest, I’d rather be with Sheena in the afterlife right now.. But maybe she wants me to continue my life.”“And I guess.. I do wanna continue living for her.”

He soon arrives in Chiba City. Its vibrant lights within the city are bright as ever, especially at this late at night.

SHIRO : “Here we go, Sheena.. City life.”

It seems quiet, though; no citizens were around, but some stray cats and dogs that Shiro would see as he drives around the city.

SHIRO : “It’s peaceful..”

He parks at a nearby empty lot he found. As he decided to take a quick break to look for some nearby hotels, he could stay at in the meantime.

Shiro opens his phone, looking for any hotels or condominiums he can stay at.

SHIRO : “Oooh.. this one looks good.”

…

SHIRO : “Ha!? They’re all not taking reservations!”

He realizes the time.

SHIRO : “Fuck.. It’s 2:30AM, what a damn bad timing.”
SHIRO : “Whatever.. I guess I’m sleeping in my car for tonight.”

He leans the driver’s seat backwards to make it into a bed. As he turns off his car’s lights but leaves his car’s AC on.

Shiro closes his eyes. As he begins to sleep.

…

His peaceful sleep was suddenly disturbed by some kind of wreckage or smash from outside.

SHIRO : “What the-..?!”

He looks outside to see a man in formal clothes with a jacket on top of it, holding a sword-like needle running away from a beast with only one hand in the middle of its chest, while its legs were in a squatting position.

SHIRO : “Oh no way..!”

He starts up his engine.

The man in formal clothes was cornered against a wall.

(?) : “I’M GONNA DIE. I’M GONNA DIE. I'M GONNA DIE. I’M GONNA DIE!”

The beast hears the engine starting behind it. As it stretches its tongue, lunging it towards Shiro.

It broke both Shiro’s rear and front windshields.

SHIRO : “AH..!”

The beast then grabs the vehicle using its tongue in the air.

SHIRO : “HEY! HEY! WHAT THE HELL?!”

It smashes his vehicle onto the ground upside-down.

SHIRO : “Ah..! That fuckin' hurts..!”

He looks at the broken window. Seeing the beast’s feet walks towards him as his eyes widen.

SHIRO : “Shit..!”

He tries to crawl out of his vehicle from the window.

The man in formal clothes runs towards the beast and slashes it from the back with their sword-like needle. As the beast then looks behind it, facing the man.

(?) : “That was a wrong move..!”

The man says in fear.

Shiro crawls out of his car. He was bleeding due to the shards of glass that had shattered when the vehicle was smashed, and his hands and his forehead were bleeding.

SHIRO : “This is now how I anticipated a new life would be!”

He then grabs his gun inside his shoulder bag, reloads it with a new magazine as the ammo inside gets covered with Shiro’s blood from the top of the magazine.

He begins firing the beast from its back while behind his wrecked vehicle.

The beast screams in agony as the bullets pierce through its back. before turning back and rushing towards Shiro.

Shiro kept on shooting at the beast, aiming it at its eyes and its head as it became blind and was unable to navigate its surroundings.

The man in formal clothes was panting. He was watching Shiro shoot the beast.

Suddenly..

Crimson thorns with gold veins began to puncture through the beast’s flesh. It was similar to what had killed the beast that attacked Shiro last night on the road.

Shiro freezes.. His eyes widen as he realizes it’s being damaged by the same thing that killed the beast last night.

SHIRO : “What..?”

Multiple crimson thorns punctured through the beast’s flesh. As the beast screams in pain, but began to rush towards Shiro as it released a smash onto the ground, launching him into the air and falling off the ground.

SHIRO : “I don’t wanna fuckin' di-”

His words were cut. As the beast lunges, its stretching tongue towards his head, breaking his skull and face in half. He lies there. His head was broken in half, bleeding uncontrollably.

The beast rushes towards him, about to bite onto his torso.

…

…

“Shiro, wake up.”

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…

His face began to regenerate, but with his eyes being replaced with horns that curved upwards onto the top of his head, his arms began to form a thorn curving downwards.

He stabs the beast’s face as it was about to take a bite off of his torso, puncturing its brain with the thorns that formed on his arms.

SHIRO : “I DON’T WANNA FUCKING DIE!”

He stands up, while having his arm still on the beast’s head, as he pulls it and beheads the beast. He then begins to butcher the beast’s leftover body.

He continued to butcher and cut the beast’s leftover body, over and over, even if it was already dead.

The man in formal clothes watches him. He was scared. In total fear of what kind of man he had encountered.

— Chapter 3, End : Chiba City