Now that the first arc of the story is completed, I'm both wary and excited to see how the story is going to progress. It could go either way; Shu returns to school and his normal life or he could end up taking over the reins of the Funeral Parlor and end up bringing GHQ to the ground. Judging by the brand new, shiny intro sequence we have, I'm leaning towards the latter of the two. Anywho, we learn that two weeks since the incident at the airport has ended but things haven't quite returned to normal yet. All of Loop 7 (the area where the school, airport and other major buildings are) is under emergency quarantine. None of the students are allowed to go home due to the quarantine and a lot of them live outside the Loop, so they've converged on the high school in order to make it an emergency shelter. Shu is standing on the roof of the school and tries to contact his mother, but all forms communication - be it phones, radio or television - are out of commission. Just as he closes his phone, Inori shows up and asks him why he's on the roof again. Shu smiles and says that he's just drawn there; the two return to their friends at the school. On their way back to meet up with their friends to discuss what they should do next to keep the students safe, they see Ayase being harassed by two male students. She had tried to pick up a shoe that someone left sitting in the middle of the hall, but ended up falling out of her wheelchair. Two students arrive and offer to help her into her wheelchair, but being the proud woman she is, Ayase rejects their offer. That irritates the two men and they start harassing her to the point where they're about to molest her when Shu finally calls out to them. Of course, this just pisses off the two guys even more and they try to start a fight, but Tsugumi shows up just in time.
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