-5th week before the wedding-

-Copenhagen, Denmark-

As Seiko placed her bags inside her own room in the hotel, she quickly got her laptop and tried to contact Naomi via Video Message. She got herself a cup of chamomile tea and some scones, thinking it would help her relax and calm down since it had been a hard day for her in the restaurant. By the time she opened her inbox, she realized that Naomi had sent her a video before she could. Worrying, she immediately opened it, and heard weeping for the first few seconds of the video.

Naomi Nakashima:

*sniff* S-Seiko...I-I'm sorry...so sorry...I didn't mean to kick you out of the house like that. I was j-just so fearful that you'd leave me again...but I knew that I could've stopped you...only if I just tried. S-Seiko...please promise me that you'll make it through the wedding. I want to live a happy life with you and Namari...I know it would be difficult to forgive me. *sniff* Just please come back! I'll wait for you...even if it's the week after the wedding...or month...or even years! *sob* I-I love you so much! Even if it hurts, I know that you're the one that's gonna make me whole...*sob* S-Seiko...

Seiko uncontrollably released her tears, causing it to drop in her cup of tea. "N-Naomi say no more...you know I would always forgive you...even if it kills me...I love you too!" She opened her Facebook account and started to chat with Naomi. [ Yes she's online! I'm gonna tease her to show my affection! ]

Naomi Nakashima: Online

Seiko: HEYYYY NAAAOOOMMIII~

Naomi: S-Seiko...u-umm did you see it?

Seiko: You mean your video message? Yup! :3

Naomi: ....s-sorry! I'm so sorry!

Seiko: Stop apologizing Naomi. I've forgiven you! Even if I die I'll continue to watch you...and your beautiful booty XD

Naomi: S-Seiko! 😤

Seiko: hehehe

Naomi: W-will you make it to the wedding?

Seiko: Hell yeah! This is Seiko Shinohara you're talking to!

Naomi: I'm glad you could make it in time

Seiko: Y-Yep!

Naomi: Ok! Good night dear!

Seiko: おやすみ

Seiko just felt her guilty conscience weigh on her chest. She had to arrive for the wedding just in time now. She bit the scone and felt her sweat drop as she continued to chew on the pastry. [ My job is on the line here...but my family always has to come first! ] Seiko drank her tea and made another cup since it made her feel nervous due to the fact that, she didn't lie only once. But twice. When she was about to go to bed, she noticed something different. [ It smells like blood! But I didn't get a wound...or did I?! ] Seiko took another step forward, but that stopped her. She flinched and was in pain, it felt like the wound was deep and the smell of blood started to spread in the air.

Seiko looked down on her feet and saw a deep, not shallow, but a deep wound located on her right foot. [ What the f***?! But I was just eating scones! How did this happen?! ] She lifted her right leg and jumped across the room to the lavatory, to get the first aid kit. As she reached out for the cabinet where the kit was, she felt a mere presence of a human. It's as if someone was watching her in the shadows. She turned back and saw nothing. She sighed and tilted her head and saw her left arm, scratched as her blood trickled from her skin to the porcelain tiled floor. "SHOW YOURSELF YOU BASTARD! I'M NOT AFRAID OF YOU!" She gathered up her courage and stood firm on the ground to show who's boss.

No sound was heard. Only a long sentence of silence can be heard inside the room. When it was as if she was talking to a specter, Seiko went inside the shower room to wash her wounds. When she was done cleaning and applying the ointment on the damage, she went out to see a small piece of paper on top of the dining table, with a knife beside it. [ I have a bad feeling about this...] She took the piece of paper and read it with frightened eyes.

Dear Seiko Shinohara,

It seems that you and your fiancé are back in good terms now. That's good! It would be more fun to kill your entire family. Imagine, Naomi being sliced open while she's still alive, letting out screams of pain and madness! Or, Namari screaming "DADDY! MOMMY! HELP ME!" As she is being whipped by a lasso to death! Finally, while you see them being killed in front of you, you're being tied to an electric chair, slowly being electrocuted while the volt is being increased per minute! Hahahahahahaha! I'll see you back in Japan. - ???

Seiko shook in fear, as she fell backwards on her bed. [ NO NO NO NO NO! I'M NOT GONNA LET THEM SUFFER AGAIN! IF YOU WANT ME DEAD...THEN YOU'LL GET MY CORPSE! BUT I WON'T LET YOU DRAG NAOMI AND NAMARI'S CORPSE! ] Seiko felt the numbness hitting her back again. "This feeling..." Seiko went to the kitchen to drink her medicine, but as she held the pill, her upper body was shaking but she didn't feel nauseous. She gulped down the pill and made her way to her bedroom. [ I need to go back to Tokyo! I need to order a ticket...as soon as possible...] She turned off the lamplight and in a flash, she fell asleep.

-Tokyo, Japan-

"Where's the baby? There she is!....Where's the baby? There she is!" Naomi covered and uncovered her face, while on the other side, Namari responded with giggles. "Wow! Namari-chan has a cute face!" Natsumi dropped her shopping bags filled with yarn and knitting materials. "Mom what are those for?" Naomi pointed at the paper bags. "Oh this? This is my wedding gift to you and Seiko! Of course I'll make one for Namari too!" Natsumi grabbed the bags and went inside her room. [ I'll knit a scarf for those two, and I'll make one for Namari as well. Just in case they'll have another child, I'll make an extra scarf. ] Natsumi started to knit scarfs, that brought curiosity to Naomi.

Naomi actually didn't mind what her mother was planning to do, but she can't rest for a second, thinking if her apology was really accepted by Seiko. But she just has to trust Seiko, if not, it might end as a disaster. The taller girl picked up Namari and dressed her up, since she was planning to go to Denmark to check on Seiko. As she placed Namari inside the car, the car suddenly locked. "NAMARI!" Naomi screamed as the car started up as if there was a ghost inside of it. She called for help and went back to the garage to get a hammer. Unfortunately, the car disappeared. Naomi dropped the hammer and saw the car speeding up to the outskirts of the city. She grabbed her motorcycle and followed the car.

"YOU PIECE OF S***! IF YOU WANT ME DEAD, DON'T INCLUDE MY DAUGHTER!" Naomi's yelling could be heard in the entire neighborhood. Luckily, the car was about to run out of gas, so she saw the car stopped by a gasoline station. Using the opportunity, Naomi went towards the car and checked if someone was in there. She couldn't believe her eyes. It was Misuto. She opened the door of the car and got Namari and staked Misuto on the chest with a cutter she had in her pocket. "Nice to see you again...Shinohara!" Misuto kicked Naomi on the stomach causing Naomi to almost drop Namari on the cemented floor. "W-why you!" Naomi knew she doesn't have a chance in defeating Misuto. But the police had arrived just in time to arrest him, since her mom called 911.

Before going inside the police car, handcuffed, Misuto asked the police to let him speak to Naomi. The police allowed him to speak with the furious girl for a minute. He leaned forward to the girl's ear and chuckled. "Y-you really think I died? I know that Sachiko said something to you while Seiko was still confined in the hospital. She told you that we're not gonna die...nor dematerialize. We'll always come back...never forget that..." Naomi hugged her daughter closer to her while Misuto was being pushed to go inside the car. [ "We're not gonna dematerialize"?! You mean that the deaths of our friends are still futile?! What kind of none sense are you talking about?! ] Naomi went away and spoke with the cops. But as soon as she was finish talking, she smelled her surroundings.

It smelled like crude oil. She turned back to see a leakage in one of the trucks and a fire was starting. "EVERYONE GET AWAY-?!" But before she could do anything, the gasoline station exploded and was on fire. Every single life was taken. There were no survivors from the incident. She knelt on the ground and covered Namari's nose so her daughter wouldn't inhale the hazardous gas. [ ...not again...I thought we were peaceful...but the war isn't over yet...] Naomi couldn't handle this anymore. All she thought about was Yuka and Satoshi's death. But now, she knew she had to speak to one person that knows all the details.

[ Sachiko Shinozaki...I need you to tell me everything! ] Naomi thought as she drove the motorcycle. She didn't have time to go to the airport to buy a ticket and ask for a passport and visa. All that matters now is her and her family's security. Naomi drove to the hospital where she saw Sachiko cleaning a portrait. "Ms. Shinozaki, I have to talk to you." Naomi said with a straight face. "I knew you were gonna come. Sit down here, I'll get us some beverages." Sachiko closed her Windows, CCTV cameras and locked the door. She didn't want anyone to find out. She didn't want to tell Naomi any information, but she has to. It's like repenting on her actions when Yuki died. Sachiko went out of the small kitchen room and brought out two glasses of milk. "I know this is kinda weird, but I really like milk!" Sachiko exclaimed as she swallowed the milk.

"Ms. Shinozaki, we have to talk about the organization that is hunting us!" Naomi hissed. "Don't worry I'll tell you everything you need to know." Sachiko went to the light switch of the bathroom and flipped it 50 times. Soon, the tiles started to shatter, and the room separated in two, forming a staircase underneath the lavatory. Naomi embraced her child as they were going inside in some kind of den. Naomi followed Sachiko, as the smaller girl opened a wooden birch wood cabinet filled with webs and dust. Sachiko pulled up a strange document filled with scribbles and printed newspapers. "Misuto died a few years ago from a failed experiment. There's no way to bring him back to where he belongs, except..." Sachiko looked down on the floor. There was no way Naomi or Seiko or anyone else would do such a stupid thing.

"Except what?" Naomi glared at Sachiko for a couple of seconds before the smaller one replied. "...you'll have to go back to the old laboratory where he was killed. You have to get back his rotten corpse and burn it then seal the ashes in a clay jar, then wrap talismans around it, that's the only way. But it's no ordinary talisman that you're gonna use." After that sentence, Sachiko opened a cabinet filled with talismans inside. "You have to use these to seal his angry soul. If you didn't use this, you're gonna fail in bringing his soul to peace." Sachiko picked up the talismans and placed it inside a small chest box. But instead, Naomi declined to take it. "I wouldn't do anything as doltish as that!"

"It's your choice. Come back when you're ready to accept your cruel fate." Sachiko muttered. But in the end, Naomi took the document and read it.

Research program for orphans:

XX/XX/XX:

We have a new subject. His name is Misuto Kiriya. He was left in front of our laboratory. It was such a shame to waste such a kid. His muscles and wisdom are of high quality. He's like a gift sent by a god. It would also be nice to research on him. His body is the kind we need for the chemical we are researching for.

Day one of testing:

Misuto seemed to refuse the injection. It wasn't lethal...or was it? Anyway, when we inserted the sample chemical inside his body, he seemed fine for the first five hours. Normal breathing and normal everything. But after the five hours, he somewhat turned a bit aggressive, saying that we were monsters and other offensive words.

Day two of testing:

Misuto's vital signs started to become more like a superior human being. Maybe this was the chemical we were looking for. Sample: DNA 508125. He had inhuman stamina and strength. This is the most amazing result so far. We might end up creating a god!

Day three of testing:

The laboratory was sent on fire. This is Kou Kibiki of the research team D writing. It seems that Misuto died on day two. We didn't know. But his corpse was somewhere in the biohazard facility, I have no idea why it was placed there. But, to the readers of my journal, please find his body right away. That kid was the son of two hitmen. He might grow up like his parents. He is now looking down at me...please someone save me *smudge of blood on the end*

Naomi closed the book and placed it back on her bookshelf. She picked up Namari from her crib and slept with her child.

-4th week before the wedding-

-Copenhagen, Denmark-

Seiko arose early from her sleep. She didn't have a pleasant dream. Instead, she had the most horrifying nightmare in her entire life. It was Naomi dying because a boulder crushed on her, Namari and a boy that looked like her and Naomi being trapped inside a chamber, and her dying from a car accident. She knew it was just a terrible dream, or was it?

Author:

The 4th week will be continued in the next chapter~