Mark didn’t go into the old man’s house out of curiosity. He couldn’t find anything valuable there. In desperation, the boy took what he thought was junk—but it was actually the very small box that the vicious policemen opened, having suspected him of theft, that prompted the experiment and… Aru has already forgotten the reason for the war: they were simply taking revenge on each other.
A mortar barrage tore apart her fuel truck. Burnt and half-alive, she reaches the settlement. A local resident, hiding from both “our” and “your” people, helps her get to the laboratory “Nora,” where her life can be saved. Aru understands that it won’t be herself anymore—but there’s no other way…