Once a year, Hole has a night of horrors.
On that night, people are forced to fight something terrifying.
It's 11 o'clock.
Civilians are to lock their homes and stay inside.
Today is the "Day of the Living Dead".
All registered exterminators, please gather at the central graveyard.
This year's slogan is "don't stop, just kill".
The monks are on the move as well.
Let's hurry to the square too, Doc.
Man, what a bummer.
The guys this year are almost all my former patients...
Worry about your own life first!
On this night of horrors...
The Night Of The Dead
Duel!
In Front Of The Central Department Store
The black sky of Hole...
Wants even more bloodshed.
You lost!
It's your treat.
You eat way too fast, senpai!
Just a habit from back then.
Back then...
You mean when you were still a normal human living in Hole?
Yeah.
Life back then was intense, but fulfilling.
Had they found out you had sorcerer blood in you...
The whole town would've lynched you, right?
Everyone should experience something like that.
Makes you have some guts.
Did the heart guy come here?
You guys...
Are you trying to make fun of me?
Time, time... Shut the hell up already!
What else do you have in your life besides watching mushrooms grow anyway?
My watch is a cheap one, so...
Enough!
Noi.
Begin.
What a pain...
Alright!
Awesome! You healed her perfectly!
It'll still take a moment for her memories to clear up, though.
En...
Is it alright to start the next job now?
Yes.
Don't be so happy about it, Shin.
This is work.
Take it seriously.
Let's go, Noi!
To Hole!
We're just about to stop selling our goods!
Don't get mad even if you miss what you were planning to get!
- I will now explain today's mission.
Listen carefully if you don't want to die.
Hey, look at the monks' feet!
Nikaido!
Hm?
Can't run away if you're wearing a kimono with sandals!
Hey guys! Why not try these out?
What're those?
Poison balls.
Make 'em eat one of these and they're toast!
The stalls are about to close.
Wanna have a look?
These are really smart!
Oh! These are the prizes this year.
There isn't really anything I'd especially want...
I want that one.
I'll use it to mince meat for the gyoza!
180 plates, huh?
If it's the two of us, we should be able to get that many.
You sure?
Yeah! It's for my gyoza after all!
The plates are implanted in their necks when they are buried.
Please do your best.
We'll be in your care today.
We'll do our best spreading the salt as well.
It's 12 o'clock!
On this night...
Because of the sorcerers' smoke that accumulates in the sky...
The distortion in Hole grows.
And because of that the people who were killed by the sorcerers...
Rise up from their graves and attack the living.
There!
Monk! Salt please!
Yes!
Namu amida butsu! Namu amida butsu!
Here, here! Want a treat?
Here...!
Hm?
Oh shit!
Hole - Western district
This place is still as filthy as ever.
Nothing's changed since I lived here.
Ah! I used to dine and dash at that place several times!
More importantly, let's look for the lizard-bastard!
Ebisu's memories should come back any moment now.
But even so...
Hm?
Hey... The hell is that?
Kinda looks like a zombie?
Senpai, are there always zombies in Hole?
No... But I guess it's possible.
The effects of our magic make all kinds of things happen in this place.
It's like a town of fantasies!
More like a horrifying mistake!
Look!
The guy that was being eaten earlier has turned into a zombie.
We're surrounded!
Senpai! Wanna bet on which one of us takes down more zombies?
Alright, if I win...
- Listen here, you two!
Hole - Eastern district
Caiman! Over here!
There! Heave-ho!
There are so many this year.
Seriously!
Namu amida butsu...
Namu amida butsu!
We've collected a lot of plates.
Just a bit more for the meat grinder!
Yeah!
Hm?
Come to think of it, where's Doc?
Huh?
Hey! Caiman!
Nikaido!
Damn... Lost them, huh?
Huh?
Damnit!
Hole - The square in front of the department store
The dawn will break soon.
Not yet. Please give it one final push after your break.
Caiman, did you guys clean up on the west side too?
Nope, we've been in the east the whole time.
That so?
It was the work of someone as strong as you guys, though...
That looks tasty!
Give us some too.
A heart?
It's them, Shin! That's the lizard!
Hey, Ebisu! You look too...
Ebisu is being eaten by a zombie!
What? And I just healed her...
Hey, Nikaido. These guys are sorcerers, aren't they?
Sure are.
Alright! It's been a while since we got to hunt sorcerers!
Magic doesn't work on him, but I don't think I'd need it anyway.
I'll deal with the woman!
Ebisu turned into a zombie!
Let's go!
Wait, Caiman!
Hm?
Those two huge guys are probably cleaners sent to kill us.
They are different from the ones up till now.
Let's assess the situation a bit...
Ah! Hey, Caiman!
Magic doesn't work on me, so there's no way a sorcerer can beat me.
You're in my way.
Yeah, yeah...
Now then... How should I kill you?
Huh?
That's why I told you to wait...
Can't be helped...
- Hm?
I don't want to be too violent with women, but...
Whoa, you're great!
You really shook up my internal organs!
See?
Good grief...
Looks like you need a couple more hits.
I like you!
Be my friend!
Huh?
But no can do...
I gotta kill you.
Too bad!
Take a little nap!
Really, what a waste...!
But...!
It can't be helped!
N-Nikaido!
Hey now, are you alright?
Oh? You gonna cry?
Damn you!
There!
Huh...?
For real...
What a boring job...
Senpai! You did it!
Let's get out of here before it starts to rain.
Hm?
What?
Is this... A spell or something?
Or is it an illusion?
Ah...
You're not...
The one...
In any case, this lizard-bastard is an opponent you definitely need to finish off for good.
Hurry up and drop dead already!
Wha-?
I was never going to use this again, but...
Huh?
Wha-?
See ya.
So the woman was a sorcerer, huh?
Did she fake being dead and wait for her chance...?
I'm sorry, senpai!
No, the lizard as well.
That guy's probably still alive.
Let's start over.
To kill that lizard-bastard...
Let's look for the sorcerer who cast the magic on him...
To solve this mystery...
Ah!
Senpai! The knife was still stuck in you!
I'm hungry!
Don't eat him!
Good thing the poison ball worked...
Hole - Eastern district
Good grief... About time for the zombies to finally die!
Hm?
Caiman! Nikaido!
This sucks! Don't you have any gyoza?
Shut up! Don't talk when you're eating, moron.
Lizards don't regenerate the bones with the tail,
Just what the hell kind of a creature are you?
Would've been better if it had grown back as a human head if you ask me...
But more importantly, what about Nikaido?
She left the hospital two days ago...
Listen, Caiman...
Huh?
Nikaido is... A sorcerer.
Did the fat in your belly finally reach your brain, Doc?
If you don't want to believe me then don't!
Suit yourself!
Get well soon!
I wonder what Caiman is going to do when he finds out I'm a sorcerer...
We won't be able to remain friends anymore at least...
Welco-
Yo!
Caiman!
I came to bring this. We made a promise, right?
And friends keep their promises.
Caiman...
Um, could you make me some gyoza?
Yeah!
Caiman!
Hm?
Leaving the hospital as you please...
You forgot this!
Whoa!
It's your head!
Since we've got the opportunity, let's dissect it and do some experiments.
It ain't any of your business so don't say stuff like that!
Ms. Noi!
Hm?
I was looking for you!
Please hurry up, Ebisu's decomposition is advancing.
I wanna eat some fresh meat!
I have never cured a zombie before so I was doing some research.
There's more than enough about killing them, but...
Hey! Don't try to make me your food!
Oh well, let's just go for it!
Dissection, huh...?
But still, it's pretty creepy to walk the streets at night while carrying your own, severed head.
And before I realized it, I came by this alley again.
Huh?
But really, looking at it like this...
Really makes you wanna puke.
You're saying that in front of the person in question?
You don't seem to be too well, Caiman.
All this nasty stuff has left me without appetite...
That's serious!
Nikaido... Just what in the world am I?
The truth is...
There's still something I haven't told you...
Before this happened I thought I had just been mistaken.
This is about when I first met you.
Back then...
I was working as a cleaner and taking care of the corpses of the magic victims left in Hole.
That day, in that alley...
I found the headless corpse of a huge man over two meters tall.
I went and put the corpse in a body bag...
And called my buddies.
But when I returned with them to the alley the body was not there.
There were only some bloodstained footprints left.
And then...
A guy wearing a body bag came walking towards us on the street.
And that was me?
I thought I had just passed out in that alley...
I thought someone had just taken that headless corpse away.
But if there had been a head on that body, it must have been you.
Alright! I've decided.
Let's dissect the head.
It might help solve this mystery a little.
It is currently 11:34 p.m.
The victim is male.
Age unknown.
Also unknown whether subject is human.
Well then, I'm opening the head.
1523 grams, normal.
Both the weight and appearance are no different from a healthy human brain.
There's also the right brain
I thought you'd only have the left since you're a reptile.
Shut up!
The mouth is next!
Let's make an incision in the throat.
Let's open it.
Hm?
Huh, a power outage again?
Don't you have emergency power in this hospital?
Could you check the breaker?
It's on this floor.
Here, I got a flashlight.
Man, the hospital is pitch black.
Is it here?
Hey, Nikaido!
It's dark.
Doc?
That alley...
Finally some light!
Hey you guys, this is bad!
The head's gone! So there was someone here after all!
Unless a head can just disappear!
Calm down Caiman, this should've captured something.
Could you check the breaker?
It's on this floor.
That's the light from the flashlight!
It's dark.
Hey! Whose voice was that just now?
I didn't say that!
I saw someone's shadow!
Oh, there's the light.
So it was you after all, baldy! Return my head!
Who'd want to steal your filthy head? You idiot!
- What was that, you bastard?
- Now, now, in any case...
Ow, ow, ow...
- Let's search the hospital!
My head...
We couldn't find my head in the end...
My memories...
My real face...
Name...
I don't know anything right now.
It's all shrouded in black smoke.
But the smoke will clear someday.
That's what I believe.
So good!
This model does not require you to accumulate smoke into the tank before you ride it.
You only need to apply 50cc of smoke once per hour using the attached mask and gloves.
And naturally it works perfectly as a broom as well!
Why, it can clean two tatami mats in a single sweep!
Furthermore, it comes equipped with a hard disk and a navigator!
We have reservations for it already...
Boss! Mr. Shin is here!
Hm?
Yo, En.
What is it, Shin?
Take a look. Nice broom, isn't it?
I'm planning on selling these under my brand starting from next month.
En...
Could you tell him to leave for a bit?
I need to talk about something.
There's no need for that.
What we learned from the third curse:
1. Zombies are weak to salt.
2. Nikaido is a woman with a past.
3. Specimens are preserved in formalin.
And what you will learn from the fourth curse...
That's still a mystery.
That is...
DOROHEDORO