AREA - Odaiba Beach.
9 YEARS AGO, Tokyo, Japan.
Raikun's face was covered with blood, dripping slowly.
A contagion is seen opposite to him.
Raikun dizzily notices the blood on the beachy sands, his breath hitches as he observes the surroundings.
He notices Ken on the ground beside him, barely being able to breathe. He averts his gaze to the contagion. "You," he says as his eyes water. He slowly limps towards the contagion as it notices him. "You," he repeats.
The clouds were dark, the sound of the sirens starting to sound muffled in his ears.
The waves of the beach started to wash away the blood slowly. Raikun drags his legs towards the contagion forcefully.
"Iori..." he says as he looks over at her body on the sands, her arm being cut off. His body started to become numb, his mind fractured, unable to process what he saw.
He looks over at his band members. "Kain... Cev... Niko..." his breath hitches as he falls to his knees slowly. "Kento..." the sounds of his heartbeat grew with each second. "Why are you..." his hands started trembling, "not responding?" He tries to get up on his legs, but he couldn't.
"It's my fault." His thoughts started to scatter. "Why." His mind became dazy as he struggled to focus his eyes. Everything was blurry.
The memories of that day started to flood in. The voices of those memories distorted in his ears. The singing. The cake. The laughter.
He looks over at his hands, covered with blood, and looks up at the contagion as he fell to his knees. His vision distorted. The world became dark and silent.