3 Days

Toshi looked toward Raiden and said, "Ralf suddenly got a very high fever."

"A high fever?" Raiden questioned in confusion. "But, he looked just fine the last night."

"I don't know why and how but when I woke up he was sick and my old man had been taking care of him."

As Toshi mentioned his father, Raiden noticed what his father was doing all along. Toshi's father sat beside Ralf and were soaking the cloth on Ralf's head in cold water again and again, then putting it back on his forehead.

"It was about to be morning and I was sleeping in my room. Then, Ralf entered my room. He was coughing and struggling a lot, so I put him down on my bed and got some medicines present in our home for him," Toshi's father explained everything that happened.

"But, what actually happened with him? How did he get this much sick overnight?" Raiden was still thinking about what could have happened to Ralf that made him this sick.

"Maybe it's an infection?" Toshi hinted.

"Infection?" Raiden asked.

"The bite. Well, we did all we could but we are not doctors. We gave him some antibiotics but we can't say it for sure that he was safe from the infections."

"If it's really an infection then what can we do for him?"

"The most we can do now is to keep this cold cloth on his forehead," Toshi's father said. "Going to the hospital is out of the question right now. We will wait a few days and see if the situation calms down a bit or not."

Raiden and Toshi seemed to agree with him as there were no other options than waiting. The whole city was in a state of panic and the hospitals had no space available to take care of new patients. In that kind of condition, they could do nothing else but wait and hope.

Toshi's father stood up from his place, leaving whatever he was doing.

"Toshi, you take care of Ralf."

He ordered the single thing and left.

Toshi came out to the other side of Ralf where the cloth and the small bucket of cold water were placed. He started from where his father had left.

Raiden came inside and sat beside Ralf, on the other side of Toshi.

"It's weird seeing Ralf all silent like this," Raiden said.

Toshi chuckled as he grabbed the cloth from Ralf's forehead and soaked it wet in the cold water bucket.

"True. For the person who talks a hell lot, it's pretty unusual that he is this silent."

Toshi squeezed the cloth and let all the water fall back into the bucket. He put the cloth back on Ralf's forehead.

"But, now that I think about it, it's the first time that there is this much silence in this house," Raiden said with a little chuckle at the end.

"Yeah, and, it actually feels pretty good this way," Toshi said and they both chuckled.

"I can hear you rats talking shit about me behind my back" a firm voice came from Ralf.

Raiden and Toshi barely heard it but they burst out in laughter.

"Oh, you are awake! You should have told us sooner," Raiden said while controlling his laughter.

"No! I would have missed that you guys talk shit behind my back."

"But, you know too. All we said was true," Toshi said as he again grabbed the cloth from Ralf's forehead.

"Like hell it was!" Ralf tried to Raise his voice.

Toshi put the cloth on Ralf's face instead of his forehead. "Now, shut up and fell asleep already. You need that damn rest."

"Ouch! That's cold," Ralf shook his head in the process of getting rid of the cloth from his face. But, Toshi was kind enough to grab the cloth and place it on his forehead.

"Hey! That's harassment! You can't do that to a sick person!" Ralf called out.

"Oh really? What you gonna do? Go to cops?" Raiden said as both he and Toshi chuckled out.

"That's not funny, Raiden!"

"Okay! Okay! Just fell asleep. You need lots of rest."

"How can I rest while you two rats are right on my neck like that?"

"Hey! Don't call me that! I am taking care of you all this time."

"Alright! Alright! I will leave," Raiden said.

He tried to stand up but Ralf stopped him.

"Well, you can stay here if you are willing to keep your mouth shut."

Raiden smiled and said, "you got it."

Ralf immediately fell asleep when everything went silent.

Raiden and Toshi both sat in that room, silently and took turns taking care of Ralf.

After a while, Makie woke up and found out about Ralf's condition. She got worried and sat in the room with all 3 of them, silently.

The evening came and Toshi had prepared a soup for Ralf.

Raiden had to wake Ralf up and feed him the soup forcefully. It was not the best soup he had eaten but it wasn't the worst either.

Time was passing by and the 3rd day of the whole craziness was about to come to an end. That day Toshi's father was sleeping in the same room as Ralf so he could take care of him if Ralf would have any problems at midnight.

Ralf was sleeping the whole day but it didn't take him time to fall asleep once again. And, so did everyone else fell to sleep.

The 4th day came.

A total of more than 72 hours had passed.

It was the morning of the 4th day.

Raiden woke up as usual. But, it wasn't the same old silent morning that he had been living these past 3 days. A weird and high-pitched sound pierced Raiden's ears, forcing him to come to his senses.

Raiden got off of his futon and went outside his room. The sound was coming from Toshi's father's room so he walked toward it.

After reaching the room, he found out all 3 of Makie, Toshi and his father were present in that room. It surprised him that Makie had woken up before him.

But, the real surprise was awaiting Raiden inside the room. And, as he walked in, he found out that the floor had a few stains of blood.

But, that was not all as he saw a thing that completely froze him up.

The unbelievable thing for him which was present in the center of that room.

Ralf was tied up by a rope from one corner of the room.

His mouth was filled with blood and he acted like one of those Flesh-Eating Monsters.