Father & Son

The news report filled them with a lot of useful information. But, with information, came the immense fear of the chaos going around the city. Not just the city but, the chaos happening in Toshi's own house.

Ralf started acting like one of those Flesh-Eating Monsters. Not only that but now, all of them were worried about was the bite, whose victim was none other than Toshi's father.

They all sat inside the hall room of Toshi's house. Just after the broadcasting of the incident happening in a hospital was done, they all tensed up. Several questions arose in their minds.

"All the patients became just like them?" Makie remarked as she looked a lot more scared than earlier.

"A virus?" Raiden remarked.

"A contagious bite?" Toshi remarked.

They all looked toward the bite wound present on Toshi's father's hand.

Toshi's father clenched his fits and stood up, "If what they are saying in the news is true, we will know about it in 3 days." He left the hall.

No one stopped him as he left. More like they couldn't. What could have they even said to him?

Toshi put his hand on his forehead and facepalmed.

"Don't worry Toshi, I'm sure what they are saying in the news is not true," Makie confronted Toshi. "Your father will be just okay."

"I don't care about that," Toshi said with no remorse for his father whatsoever. "The thing's bugging me is that if it really is a virus then I can't imagine the sight of this city in a few days."

"True," Raiden added in. "This city is gonna become a shit hole if things keep on going just like this. There will be no stopping them. I doubt the police that couldn't do anything in these past 3 days would be able to handle the upcoming terror."

"Yeah," Toshi said. "We should get out of this city as soon as possible."

"Yeah," Raiden agreed.

Both, Toshi and Raiden were on the same track but Makie couldn't agree with them.

"Wait-Wait-Wait-Wait-Wait a second. You can't just decide something like that, that quickly. And, if we go outside we will just die."

"So what then?" Toshi asked. "What will we do when we will run out of supplies? Just sit inside and starve to our death?"

"No, but, we can wait for help to arrive, at least it will be better than going out and dying."

"So, you still think help will be coming?" Raiden said with a sad look on his face.

Makie remembered that she said the same thing to Raiden while they were stuck in the school.

"Do you think the police went over to the school?" Raiden asked, with a gentle voice, almost hiding the sadness behind. "If they did we would have known by now. This house is so close to the school that we wouldn't miss something like that."

Makie went silent. She couldn't reply to that. All she did was imagine not leaving the school with Raiden and others in the hope of help coming to save her. And, that thought felt horrible. Just imagining herself waiting in the dark for help to come, surrounded by the monsters, made her shiver, endlessly.

"You are right! No help will come," She finally agreed. "So, what are we going to do?"

"Wait," Toshi claimed. "For 3 days."

The past 3 days had passed like seconds for them. And, the terror the 4th day brought was inevitable. Ralf had become a monster. Chaos returned to the whole city. People again started dying. The news about the virus. And, the deadly bite which will turn your fate upside-down. The 4th day was like hell's day for people living in Tokyo.

Now, Raiden, Toshi, and Makie had to wait for another 3 days to know the truth behind the bite.

"Does the bite turns people into a Flesh-Eating Monster?"

They all questioned it to themselves. And, the answer awaited them after 3 more days.

The answer also brought the fate of Toshi's father on the line.

Whatever the outcome was, Toshi's father was ready for it.

Toshi's father sat in a dark room. In front of him lay a photo of a lady. He constantly looked at the lady in the photo without saying a single word. He passed his time in that dark room, alone. He had denied permission for anyone to enter the room. It was just him and the photo of that lady in that room.

The first day passed. He didn't come out.

Toshi left the food outside his room and he made sure to pick it up and leave the empty plates outside.

This went on for 2 days. But, on the 3rd day, Toshi found out that the plates were not empty and untouched. He had to check in the room for his father. He opened the door and found his father lying on the floor, unconscious.

He turned on the lights and knelled down to check on his father. He turned his father around to see his face.

"Hey! Are you all right?" He asked.

Toshi touched his forehead and found out that it was burning up. He had a high fever.

"Hey! Don't give up yet!" He called out and shook his father to try and wake him up but it didn't work.

Toshi thought he should let his father rest for some moment. He put him down and rolled out the futon for him. He put his father on the futon and also placed a blanket over him.

In the process of covering his father from under the head to the legs in the blanket. When he came across his father's hand, he found a thing clenched inside one of his fists.

He opened his father's fist and found out it was a photo of a lady that he was holding.

"Mother?" Toshi claimed after looking at the photo.

Toshi looked at his father. He just glared at him for a few seconds, then, put the photo where it initially was, back inside his father's hands.

"So, you do care about her." Toshi left the room with those words.