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Flames

Well, I guess that's it for sports.

Now, after these messages, we'll have tomorrow's weather...

I was not done.

This wonderful body...

Please standby.

Last night, around 12:05 AM, in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture,

there was a fire in building B-5 of the Sakura Housing Complex.

Roughly ten ladder and fire trucks were dispatched

from the Ichikawa Fire Department.

Approximately two hundred square meters were completely destroyed

by the fire on the fourth and fifth floors.

The fire was extinguished for the most part by 10:30 AM.

Eight lives were lost in this fire

and twenty-six people received wounds ranging from minor to serious,

but after the fire was extinguished,

one young girl was miraculously rescued from the burnt ruins.

The rescued girl was immediately taken to a hospital

and is receiving treatment.

Currently, the police are...

Miss Jun Fudou

What's wrong?

It's a person!

What?!

Hey, she's still breathing!

That's impossible.

Get a paramedic team, quick!

The survivor is Remi Takashima, four years old.

The eldest daughter of businessman, Shuichi Takashima.

Both parents died in the fire.

When she was rescued, she had burns on seventy percent of her body

and she was in a comatose state.

However, there are no other signs of trauma.

Immediately placed in intensive care at Ichikawa Central Hospital.

Regained consciousness the next day.

Transferred to JSDF biochemistry lab late that same night.

The one who ordered the transfer is me.

This girl is...

No human that has lost seventy percent of their skin to burns

can maintain continuous respiration.

Her recovery after treatment is also too quick.

But we haven't concluded whether she's a Beast or not.

There may be other reasons for this.

It isn't like I want every person I come across to be a Beast.

Better safe than sorry.

But if she does turn out to be a Beast,

I'll need you to discard your sentimentality.

Remi, please pick out of these flowers the one you like best.

Stage one of the process in which a human becomes a Beast uses the electrochemical potential

of positive hydrogen atoms produced by the electron transport chain as its driving force to form ATP.

Though it's on the order of nanoseconds,

the electric charge at this time equals that of a small bolt of lightning.

Up to now, we've called the detection of this phenomenon DBP,

the Devil Beast Progression.

But we can no longer deny the possibility that

this abnormality may be caused by an external infection.

A virus?

Analyzing that is a job for the Samuelson Lab.

Yes, Ma'am.

We tried a couple of psychological tests on her.

Assuming that she is a Beast,

we would like to know what will cause her to transform.

In the case of children,

their desires aren't as concrete as those of adults

and the way those desires surface is also random,

so it's hard to discern.

Wait a minute. What just happened?

I was showing her a picture of a lion...

No, that girl was looking this way just now.

They shouldn't be able to see us from the other side.

A mirror...

What can be seen through a one-way mirror?

Something that shines.

Show her the mirror.

We have detected a DBP.

Fires will be forbidden in the observation room, starting now.

Of course, fires will also be forbidden in the patient's room.

In addition, anything red, orange, yellow,

or otherwise warm-colored objects will not be allowed in that room.

In any case,

don't let her see anything that she'll associate with fire.

Jun...

"There's no time to be wallowing in sentimentality," right?

It may just be a matter of mentality.

Underneath those bandages is a body covered with burns.

She could never go back to being the child she used to be.

She's lost her vocal chords, so she can't even speak.

And she has no family.

Do you think she could be happy, living like that?

Because she's not human...

Are you saying she'll be happier dead

because she's no longer human?

Sometimes it's more cruel to tell someone to keep on living.

Isn't that something she should decide for herself?!

Even if she's not human...

Even if she has nowhere in the world to go...

If she feels that she wants to live...

The lab members may support your opinion, Miss Fudou.

What do you mean?

That girl is being sheltered extremely amicably

and she is a rare specimen.

If we can study her by suppressing her transformation,

it may prove useful for future dealings with Beasts.

You want to turn her into a guinea pig?

It's too dangerous.

Unlike previous Beasts, she is a child.

If all she responds to are flames, caring for her should be easy.

Is that your opinion?

Please pardon me.

This is a formal request from the Biochemical Investigations Team

to the Director of the HA Tokyo Branch.

Please standby.

Please standby. I'm home.

Please standby.

Oh, welcome home.

Shiro Sakazawa

You're early today.

Well, I didn't feel very well.

Well...

You haven't eaten yet, right?

I bought sauce for some trout, but which do you want?

Milanaise or polonaise?

Oh, did you already have something to eat?

No. Milanaise.

And shall we make some spinach salad too? With bacon?

You like that, don't you?

Yeah.

Say...

You should watch your health,

because you seem tired lately.

Okay. Thanks.

According to the Ichikawa Department's investigations, it has been determined

that the fire originated in the vicinity of the four-year-old child's room in apartment five

on the fourth floor, Shuichi Takashima's home.

Could that girl playing with fire have been the cause?

How terrible.

Aren't you used to it by now?

Up until now, all the Beasts we dealt with

had some kind of drive to become Beasts.

But in the case of that girl...

Is it not possible that her gene was awakened

just because she had to protect herself from the flames?

A possibility...

It looks like the rain's let up again.

So fast.

We underestimated her.

Asuka...

It was a waste of effort to keep fire away from her.

The cause of the fire was none other than that girl herself.

What should I do?

Wait until the force of the fire dies down.

No matter how coldhearted a beast master I might be,

I won't demand that you leap naked into that.

So what if she's a child?!

This is the worst case we've had so far!

Remi...

Are you Remi?!

Stop Remi, you're human!

Remember that!

Remi!

Jun!

Remi!

Stop it! Please!

Remi!

Remi, look at you, you're...

Remi!

Mama...

Remi...

Mama... Mama...

Come over here.

Mama! Mama!

Mama! Mama!

Mama! Mama!

No... No...

Mama!

She was too young.

She was too young, so she wasn't able to control her powers.

Is that all it was?

That's all.

Rain again.

Jun?

Hello?

Namida fuita sono kao o massugu agete

Noboru taiyou no hikari uketomeyou

Kanashimi de ochita hi wa asayake to tomo ni

Atarashii yuuki ni umarekawaru kitto

Atarashii yuuki ni umarekawaru kitto

Mukai kaze o kanjite massugu aruite yukou

Anata nara dekiru kara

Kinou made no unmei kaeteyuku chikara nara

Dare datte motteru

Sou, shinjite

Next Episode

Next Episode The man filled the box with the small joys of his life.

The man filled the box with the small joys of his life.

The woman entrusted to the box her desire to remain human.

The beast dyed the box red with the blood of sacrifices.

The night of Christmas Eve.

The curtains are about to rise on another tragedy.

What did the Devil dream of in this thick snowfall?

Next time: Box.

Please look forward to it.