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Naoki couldn't help overhearing what Hana had said, and despite all that had still happened, she couldn't help but think to herself...

Guess even with the world ending all around us, there's always time to flirt. Jeez.

She sounded bitterly sarcastic and unlike herself, Naoki thought, and she didn't like it. But she didn't understand how people could still think of love and things like that when all that surrounded them was death and despair.

"Mall, right," she muttered in a low voice, stepping past Koji. "We're headed to the mall. Maybe then our resident lovebirds can date and tell us how they can still be thinking that way in a time like this."

"Hey!" Naoki snapped. She was still teetering between her headache and the pressure of Rikka's death, and her temper waas quick to rise. "It's not my fault I could hear you say "I want to be with you" when you practically announced it, you know. This corridor echoes. And I'm not discouraging anybody! If you want to fall in love because that's your way of hoping for a future in this mess, then so be it!"

Her eyes flared angrily, but when she spoke, her voice was cold and low.

"I'm just saying that I have no idea how you do it, how you can even find a spare moment to think about these things when everyone around you is either dying or dead. Even our families and friends. Maybe we're next if we're not careful. And still you think about satisfying your need for love, when it'll just come around and hurt you in the end. It always does. I don't understand, I just don't!"

And really, Naoki didn't. She had been brought up a family with brother and father dead, then spent half her life with the military... Where she had learned never to get too attached to anyone because when they get taken away, it hurt too much to even put into words.

Tying her hair up and standing in amazement how Rikka save Sirena.

Such a honor to see this girl saving her sibling...

Kirin tried to help, but Sirena already finished off Rikka since zombies already bit her. Kirin sighed as she heard Sirena. She turned to her and waited for others to get ready.

Sirena saw as Ryuu started moving and Kirin too. She followed Ryuu with a sword in her hand "We need to be careful, since we don't have any plan" Sirena sighed. She was trying to forget about what happened just now. But a new chapter of their life begin already since Rikka died.

Sirena turned back to the outside and saw others joining to come out. Sirena turned to the bus and a few zombies toward it. It made her picture Rikka...

Sirena shook her head and looked again. She ran quietly towards the zombies smashing their heads. The bus was clear. She looked back at others waiting for them.

Naoki stood guard by the bus door, waiting for everyone to get inside safely before she did. "Come on, hurry," she said quietly. "Before more of those things come..."

She saw Hana coming out and felt a twist of guilt for taking out her frustration on her, so hesitantly she approached the girl.

"Hey, um... Need help with that?"

As everyone began to exit the motel, Koji couldn't help but look back at the small corpse lying in the center of the room covered in a bloody blanket. His emotions took it's toll at one point and he shed a single tear. Quickly wiping it away, he closed the door and bid farewel to Rikka.

Back at the bus, Koji silently made his way inside the vehicle and sat at the 2nd row, blankly staring at the window. He pondered on thoughts such as whether or not some people deserved to die such a painful death. Rikka was far too young to perish. Sometimes Koji believes that it was better for him to have died rather than her.

"We have to go.. Now.."