Pain stings. Eyelids twitch and finally get opened. Yuuma, bruised and injured, wakes up... As he tried to picture his surroundings, what traumatized him the most is that almost a hundred children including him were injured, bruised, just like him and were left amidst a dense canopy... Some were still unconscious, while some were sobbing, and some already standing up...
Yuuma, already shattered by the soul-wrenching experience and losing his family, shows no emotions... All he remembers is his family, the flashbacks of the massacre, and the betrayal of Taishiro....
Hiroto Tanihito, 13, the eldest of all out of those hundred, commands, "Nothing to get scared about... I'll make you all escape this forest safely!!" A girl, Mikoto Hoshizaki, from the crowd finds a metal notice plate which reads, "Survive for 10 days"...
"Everyone listen!! I don't know anyone of you!! But I found this metal plate which instructs us to SURVIVE HERE FOR 10 WHOLE DAYS?!?!" screamed Mikoto... Some kids panicked, some stayed silent... Either to show their bravery or because trauma struck them...
Hiroto proudly proclaims "HAH! So all we need is to survive for 10 days?!?! Not escaping from here?! THATS WAY TOO EA-"
A leopard leaped onto Hiroto's back tearing the flesh from its jaws and pulling out the spine while Hiroto still being alive, screaming shrilly for help before dying as the leopard crushes his head and eats out the flesh...
The other kids, horrified by this incident, ran in different directions and thus, got separated....
Yuuma as he ran along a group of children, visualised the same stampede where he stumbled upon a burning severed arm...
The leopard, followed another group of 12 children and ate 4 of them... and returned into the darkness of the canopy...
Yuuma, devastated by the memory and the incident he witnessed, fell to his knees while other children still running away, got left behind again... He stared at the sky, thinking about his family, checked his pocket and found his sister's bracelet... Again, he burst into tears, lying on the floor of the canopy, a place he never knew he would end up...