Chapter 1

Saya is a fairly normal high school girl, except that she has no memory of her life before a year ago and needs regular blood transfusions to stay healthy. She encounters a mysterious man playing a cello whose song triggers a vague memory. When Saya goes to the school that night to retrieve her forgotten shoes, the cello player approaches her holding a dagger. Saya flees and runs into a teacher, Mr. Inamine, who is then killed by a monster. Saya runs into the school, locking the door behind her, but the monster easily breaks through.

The cello player appears and fights off the monster before grabbing Saya and taking her to safety in a classroom. There he tells her the monster is a chiropteran. Meanwhile, her brother Kai arrives to retrieve her after her friend Kaori brings her shoes to their house, and also encounters the monster. The man kisses Saya, forcing her to drink his blood. He tells her "You must fight now."

Under some sort of mindset, Saya laces a sword provided by the cello player with her blood, then strikes and kills the chiropteran before it can attack Kai. Saya awakens from her trance and, seeing her blood-stained self in a reflection, screams "NO!" and faints. The man carries Saya and Kai to safety as American soldiers flood the school. When Saya wakes up in the hospital, she has no memory of what happened.

David tells George  what happened at the school, and rebukes him for being so attached to Saya that he doesn't want to let "them" have her back. Saya starts having flashbacks about the events at the school and goes down to find her father. Overhearing the conversation, she gets upset and runs away from the hospital. At the beach, she meets the cello player again. She asks who and what she is. The man says he will tell her, but before he can, Kai finds her and forces the cellist to leave.

David has given George a deadline to give Saya back to the Red Shield. George takes Saya to his family grave to tell what happened to her one year ago. After returning, they are attacked by another chiropteran, formerly a man by the name of Forest, and George is fatally wounded.

George, having been attacked by a chiropteran and is severely wounded, is currently in the hospital. Kai leaves with his father's handgun to track down the monster, yearning for revenge. The cello player appears again before Saya, and finally introduces himself as Haji.

George has been transferred secretly to a hidden facility in Yanbaru, Northern Okinawa, under the authority of the American forces there.

David, Saya, and Haji infiltrate the Yanbaru Center to rescue George. Meanwhile, the Commander of the U.S. Forces in Okinawa has authorized a surgical bombing of Yanbaru to remove any incriminating evidence. David, Saya, and Haji are suddenly attacked by a chiropteran. George appears and assists the group with combating the monster. Kai arrives later with news that the place is going to be bombed. After being injured by a chirpoteran, George starts turning into one of them; Saya, however, mixes her blood with his so that he can die as a human.

To be continued....

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