Midnight on a day past the middle of March. A car stopped in a dim and dark alleyway near the station. A fat man was all alone in that car. He was sitting on the passenger's seat, fast asleep. The driver's seat was empty, and the man was waiting on the person who sat there to come back.
“Zzz... Zzzz... Zzz...”
Like that, the man had been sleeping for about an hour.
And then all of a sudden, the door on the driver's side opened and a slim man jumped in.
“Wake up, Hachi! It's an emergency!”
Despite the slim man shouting, the fat man called Hachi didn't wake up. Hachi continued sleeping and drooled. Panicked, the slim man grabbed a hold of Hachi and violently shook him.
“I told you to wake up!! Can't you at least wake up when I'm being serious!!”
“Hwah!? A-Aniki...?”
“That's right! Wake up! It's an emergency!”
“Aniki... what happened?”
Hachi rubbed his sleepy eyes and asked the slim man what had happened. The two had been working on a surveillance job for several months, but until now, nothing had happened and the slim man hadn't been this flustered before.
“That girl's condition changed!! She's apparently in a critical condition!!”
“T-That's terrible!!”
The moment that he had heard the words critical condition, Hachi opened his eyes wide and fully woke up. He could now understand the direness of the situation.
“That's why I said it was an emergency!! Hachi, you contact Nee-san right away!!”
“I'll call her right away!! What about you, Aniki!?”
“I'm going back to the hospital!! I'll put this spiritual energy stabilizer on her that I got from Nee-san to make sure that she doesn't die!! I just hope I'll make it!!”
They were the ghost hunters that Koutarou and the others had once fought against. However, they had now given up on their hunting days and had taken up a different job. Their current job was now to regularly report on the condition of a girl committed into a hospital. It was a monotone surveillance job, but it paid well, so the two had worked on without complaining.
“Nee-san! Kiriha-Nee-san! It's me! Hachi!”
Hachi had used his cellphone to call Kiriha.
“Bad news! That girl, Sanae-chan is dying!”
And the two had been watching over a long term hospitalized girl by the name of Higashihongan Sanae.