Don't confuse the okiagari's attacks with murders!
Are you Abel?
Was Natsuno cremated?
"Sunday, October 16, Tomokiki"
I wonder why people offer cut flowers to the deceased.
It's been seven days since Natsuno died.
This is now the seventh flower that I offer by his window, in lieu of his grave.
Asa no hikari o tebanashita hana
Sosogarenai ame o motome samenai nemuri ni tsuku
Dare ka o sotto yobu koe
Yami no rakuen wa uso ka yume ka
Ushinau no wa karada to jibun to iu kokoro
Sono taika o sashidashi nani o erareru no darou
Kono namida de ubaeru hodo ni inochi wa morokute hakanakute
Subete ni otozureru owari o "kyoufu" to nageku no ka
Shuuen o utau kinsenka shizuka ni saki hokoru
Nikushimi mo kanashimi mo sono ne de taguri yosete
Shuuen o utau kinsenka sabishisa o uruosu
Sosogarenai ame o motomete samenai nemuri ni tsuku
Good timing.
Help me clean this up.
Seishin...
What's that look? What would you have done instead?
What would you prefer I do? I made a decision.
I cannot just allow this contamination to keep growing.
So I'll hunt shiki. This is my justice!
Killing others is never justice, no matter what kind of noble cause one upholds.
"Why did he kill his own little brother?"
The older brother gave in to temptation.
That's right. He acted on meaningless impulse. That's all.
"Murders without the intent to kill are accidents, not murders."
"There is no murder without the intent to kill."
When there is the intent to kill, there is always a reason.
But I didn't have the intent to kill.
I don't wanna kill anyone.
I really had... no reason.
"Monday, October 17, Senpu"
Don't be. I'm the one who said it'd be better during the day.
Yeah.
W-Well, there's no specific reason.
I thought that you might not like to go out at night.
You see few people on the street at night, so...
At our clinic, too. Patients used to come even right before closing time,
but now, no one comes once the sun sets.
Deaths continue in the village.
No, it's beyond "continuing."
Now, someone dies almost every day... as if it was just natural...
Do you guys remember the fuss lkumi from the ltou family caused?
You think that was just a prank by a crazy old woman?
I can prove what she said is true.
If you like, let's open up the grave for Nao from the Yasumori family.
--Her body shouldn't be insi-- --Stop it! How stupid!
There's no way that's the case!
Please... I need your help.
I can't stop this all by myself.
You're exhausted.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it a delusion, but a grave with no body?
Masa...
Come to think of it, there's a theory that human bones work on lung diseases.
I heard that people dug up and stole bones a long time ago.
Oh yeah, that happened in the US, too.
An incident where dead bodies were stolen from their graves...
They made a movie about that.
Yeah, that's right. What was that movie?
So that's your response, huh?
I understand that you're convinced and determined.
But we've received the baptism of modern rationalism.
You could call it brainwashing.
In this world, there are no monsters or witchcraft.
That's our perception towards the world.
We can't change it now.
This is an epidemic, right?
Someone outside the village will probably become suspicious soon.
Once that happens, everything will be made public
and the situation will probably calm down.
"Takafumi Hirosawa, Used to Run a Lumber Shop in Kami-Sotoba"
Well, I was asked to work part-time to watch the office...
since no one's here during the day.
No one is?!
I heard that the chief fell sick and he could come in only at night.
So the other employees now come in and open the office
at night as well to match the chief's schedule.
If you need to submit something, you can give it to me. But if you're in a hurry,
please come back around seven. The employees should be here by then.
If we get home after dark, Mom will scold us!
Wait
A common scene at the village office...
if it wasn't at night...
Excuse me. ls the public health officer in?
No, he isn't. He went missing.
We haven't gotten any replacement since then.
Did you have some business?
I'd like to know the number of deaths since September.
Deaths? It's zero.
What?! Zero?!
Yes.
These guys are all...
That trick won't work!
There're even people who died in the government hospital outside the village!
For example, the death of Mikiyasu Yasumori was confirmed in September
along with his son's death!
If you like,
shall I bring the doctor who attended his deathbed at the government hospital?
Oh, you're talking about the Yasumori Construction Company people?
They moved out of the village before they died.
They submitted the moving notification at the end of August.
So, when they died in September, they were no longer village residents.
So the number of deaths in the village is zero.
They all quit their jobs right before they died.
No. Not only the death count, but there have been many sudden movings.
They do so without saying anything to their neighbors. Isn't it strange?
Enough already!
Who cares about people who left on their own free will?!
That epidemic is increasing its momentum!
So everything was to hide the deaths in the village...
Do you understand it now?
I don't get it. I wrote death certificates, too.
These are copies of them.
I'll take these outside of the village and cause a commotion
by saying that they don't match the family registers in the village.
Then, the matter will be publicly investigated and...
No...
Doctor...
It'd be in your best interest to keep your mouth shut.
I'm a gourmet.
And you are my prey-
But if you're going to cause us trouble,
I'll have you become these guys' food right here, right now.
I'm Chizuru Kirishiki.
I'm a shiki who picks only young, lively humans as her food.
I'll visit you at your place one of these days, Junior Doctor Ozaki.
"Sotoba Local Office, Mizobe Town Office"
Hmph. So I myself don't have much time left, either, huh?
"Sotoba Funeral Home"
"Tuesday, October 18, Butsumetsu"
"Funeral Hall for the Ookawa Family" "Tuesday, October 18, Butsumetsu"
"Funeral Hall for the Ookawa Family"
Of course, it will!
Because many people are dying, so...
Three days ago, we grandly held the funeral for Mr. Yoshikazu Tanaka
perfectly and flamboyantly.
Flamboyantly?
Yes!
Is it really gonna be okay?
I guess I'll have to observe today's funeral.
Understood!
Well then, please observe it while enjoying this chocolate bar.
No thanks!
What the heck is this?
Wh-What's going on?
Well... Atsushi had a kind heart and respected his parents.
--To think they're holding the funeral at night... --He was a promising young man who was well liked by his many friends.
--Moreover, this is so disgraceful. --He was a promising young man who was well liked by his many friends.
It's not like they were my first choice.
Since the temple was already busy, I had no choice but to go with them.
Now, everyone! It's finally time to say goodbye!
Well, everyone, goodbye!
A-Atsushi!
This is behind the hall, underneath the altar.
The coffin brought down via the trap is switched with an empty one here.
Then the empty one is given to the family, put on the bier
and brought to the cemetery on the mountain by them.
And... the corpse will be kept here for a while
in order for us to check if they rise up.
By doing things this way, we can save the time it takes to dig up our fellows.
Sotoba Funeral Home was created exactly for that purpose.
He's gonna rise up today.
Whoa! Just as we'd expect from a jinrou. You have a good nose.
Well then, we'll immediately move him to Yamairi.
Also, make the funerals a little less flashy.
Funerals are for the surviving families and friends.
They want a place where they can indulge in sentimentality.
Yes, understood!
If you say so, Mr. Tatsumi, we'll start it, say, tomorrow.
Huh? We don't have to assist in the wake?
We, the women in the neighborhood, will do it.
Sorry to ask you this, but please take care of the admin stuff.
Well then, we're busy, so...
Okay? Thanks!
Why...?
The epidemic...
We work at the clinic, so we're the last people they'd want to be near, right?
In other words, it's absurd that people like us would prepare and serve food.
I... see...
Oh, you people!
I don't want the lower class people going around
touching things in the house!
Now, go to the kitchen already.
B-But...
We're not your servants!
You don't seem to remember who's paying your salary.
I get paid by the clinic to be a nurse!
Satoko...
But... we're definitely not servants!
How dare you speak to me like that?!
If you don't stop it, I'll tell Toshio to let you go.
Why don't you do that?! There're tons of hospitals that are in need of nurses!
What?!
The doctor doesn't even worry about Yuki even though she's missing.
If he's like that, I started thinking maybe I don't have to... I...
"Sadaichi Tamo, Monzen Area Funeral Team Substitute Caretaker"
"Wednesday, October 19, Taian"
"Letter of resignation"
"Satoko lsaki"
The incident with Yuki hit her hard.
What do you mean?
You don't remember? When Yuki went missing...
In this chaotic situation,
she's one of the nurses who worked very hard, even giving up holidays.
And when she went missing...
Ah...
Doctor! Yuki is missing!
...you just said, "I see." How could you do that?
Well... I'm sorry.
I'm not the one you should apologize to.
Yes, I do understand that you were in a tough situation with your wife dying.
But to Satoko, I think that she couldn't bear
that you didn't seem to care about Yuki going missing at all.
I know it's no use blaming you now, but...
That's my fault?
I thought I made that clear. It didn't sound like that?
I don't understand it, either.
But I sympathize with you, so I won't say I'll quit or anything.
"Thursday, October 20, Shakku"
Precisely for that reason, let's hold this year's
November Kagura dance grandly and solemnly.
Yeah, that's true.
"Munehide Murasako, Sotoba Area Funeral Team Caretaker"
Then, if your son learns them, that would make things quick and easy.
But if it was Koike's son,
wouldn't he be too dimwitted to put on a good performance?
Hey, watch your mouth!
What about the rest?
If I remember correctly, old lady Kitada also said she knows something.
None of these people are aware...
No... They don't want to be aware of it.
Oh, hi. You're back.
Yeah.
Say, Mr. Mutou...
Yes'?
You've been sitting there,
watching what's been happening since the summer, right?
Yeah...
Would you say, "The village is being invaded by demons"?
You're joking, right?
I see...
So you came to kill me?
If I remember right, you are...
...Natsuno Yuuki, right?
Doctor... There's something I wanna ask you.
What is it?
Do you still think...
that Megumi Shimizu died?
They said that someone at the atelier died.
Yeah, she died... though she's still moving around.
You're not alone.
Yami ni magirete iki o korosu
Yami o matotte futto hohoemu
Ki no sei sa omae nado dare mo shiruhazu nai
Tsuki dake ga mitsumete iru
Aa owari no nai yoru samayou
Aa anata no yume tada yume mite
Aa owari no nai yoru samayou
Aa anata no yume tada yumemite
Aa...
Since it is a childish wish,
it seems that it is a primordial wish.
It's like yearning for one's mother.
Regardless of whether it is a human or a shiki,
one wants something that embraces and protects them.
Who wouldn't wish for that?