Chapter 15: Run

Anya and Himiko encounter mummies during Stage Six. Himiko uses one of her flash bangs on the mummies, and Anya hits one atop the head with the pipe that he carries with himself. A mummy puts Anya in a chokehold, but Anya manages to escape his grasp; however, the mummy grabs ahold of Anya's helmet and pulls it off of him. This prompts Anya to lash out at the mummy with his bare hands, elbowing it in the head. Because of the attack, the mummy drops the helmet, and it rolls to the edge of the walkway that Himiko and Anya stand on. Himiko goes to the edge of the walkway to catch it, and Anya grabs onto her when she begins to fall. It cuts to the characters that are not in the game. They are chatting casually, and then Karin goes to the bathroom. She is followed by Yuzu, who holds onto her and lets go only when Karin calls out Yuzu on liking Akki. Yuzu subsequently pins Karin against the sink and, while pressing her thumb against Karin's bottom lip, suggestively says, "Could you give me a little saliva?" Kaikoku interrupts this exchange. Karin, blushing heavily, appears embarassed, while Yuzu, still pinning her, responds to Kai's interrupting with, "Can I help you?" Kai tells Yuzu that Akki is sitting "very dejectedly" in front of the ruins, to which Yuzu concernedly asks, "Is he hugging his knees?! Is he looking like a wet dog?!" She goes off to check on him, leaving Kai and Karin alone. Kai asks Karin if he was intruding, to which an angry-seeming, still-heavily-blushing Karin says that he wasn't. Karin comments that Yuzu acts strangely sometimes when Akki is involved, and she goes on to say that she wonders if they knew each other before the game. Kai silently notices Paca watching him, and they seem to make eye contact before Paca turns away. There is a flashback to Anya's childhood. Ken, Anya's eldest brother, is leaving to go some place, and he says that he'll stop by the store when he comes home. Shinya, Ken's younger brother and Anya's older brother, says that he doesn't want anything from the store, while Anya says that he wants mint chocolate chip ice cream. Ken leaves, and a few panels are shown of a motocycle crash. Anya is shown waking up, showing that he had been knocked out and the flashback was something that he saw when he was out. Anya looks at the motorcycle helmet that he usually has on him and rubs his eyes. He sees Himiko looming over him, and he begins to berate her. She says that she was just worried that he was injured. Tears drip from Anya's face, presumably still there from the dream, and he slaps himself. He asks if he said anything, and Himiko says that he said nothing. Anya threateningly asks again, and she says that he'd said "mint choclate chip" very loudly. He yells for her to forget it. They look at their scenery and notice that the ceiling has closed up. A squarish, alpaca-like face juts out of the wall. Anya kicks it, and it speaks, telling Anya not to kick it. Anya does not realize that it was the wall-face that was speaking, and he accidentally hits it again with his pipe. It says that, "That hurt." The face then proceeds to say, to a stunned Anya and Himiko, "Welcome, ye fools...'tis time for judgement."