"Kyaaaaa!"

Screams rang throughout the area as buildings burned, and dense clouds of smoke hung in the air.

"M-Mom..."

"C-Come here!"

A middle-aged woman ran while holding the hand of her young son, who was still in elementary school.

"Huff! Huff! M-Mom. I'm... t-tired."

Her son was out of breath.

Upon hearing her son's labored breathing, the woman stopped and turned to look at her son, tightening her grip on his hand.

"Kiieekk!"

Crack! Boom!

"ARRGGHH!!"

Demonic beasts with black skin, sharp teeth, and long claws were charging at people. One of them pounced like a hungry wild animal onto a man who had fallen to the ground, biting off chunks of his neck. A fountain of blood sprayed out from the man's wound as he screamed his last.

The middle-aged woman's face turned deathly pale.

“D-Don't look," she told her son.

"Mom?"

The woman turned her son's head away from the gruesome scene. Then they were running again.

A scorched smell wafted into her nose, and her heart beat so fast that she felt like it was about to explode. However, she couldn't stop running. The moment she stopped,...