seven the youth (ultraseven for adults) #33 invade zombies

#33 invade zombies

Ochanomizu Station in the morning

One weekday morning, Ochanomizu Station,
the platform is crowded with a lot of humans.
Suddenly, MYSTERY circle of humans is shaped
in the crowd, at the center of which lies down
a person in suit.  He has been dead a long time. 

Transported to nearby T Univ Hospital,
the corpse turns out to have been lost
a few days ago.  It seems that someone took it,
suited it, and placed it on the platform.
MYSTERIOUSLY, however, witnesses say
it was walking with a stagger before falling down.
It cannot have been drunken.

A corpse with relatives are taken by them.
But one without kith or kin are formalin-treated,
and depending on the situation,
it is to be autopsied, used as a specimen, 
or buried as unrelated spirit.

"It's a terrible trick." 
"To believe the witnesses, 
we'd have to see it
as MYSTERIOUS phenomenon."

Next day, the similar case happens in Shinjuku.
Two persons in suit fall onto the railway,
which prevents JR Chuo Line from running.

The next day again, four persons in suit
fall down in the special rapid train.
They seem to have smelled formalin.

"Something MYSTERIOUS is approaching
Mt Takao again." FURUDA
"Just like IRONROCKS (#21), as is often the case,
INVADE aliens will come here by JR Chuo Line."
AMABE
"Necromancer alien done it, exactly." SOMA
"They don't attack people, it's OK.
But the number of bodies is increasing." YURI
"Anyway, keep on alert, the Youth." KIRIYA
"YES HOPE!!!!"
(The power to manipulate corpse is soaring.)

living dead in suit

After a few days, the number of walking corpses
has increased twice a day to thirty two.
A series of lost corpses have improved security 
of morgues in hospitals.  Nevertheless,
bodies are taken one after another.

Alien YUURIE, the necromancer, is just a shadow
without any substance.  It possesses a corpse, 
absorbs only a little spirit left in body, and
amplifies its own energy.  And gradually
dividing its shadow into pieces, each of which
also collect spirits of corpses, they combine again.

Just as the shadow haumts a body,
so sometimes the body possesses a shadow,
getting past an elaborate security system.
Once the shadow possesses a body,
hospital gown and patient skin are decomposed
to the level of molecules,
and recombined into a black suit 
with deodorizing effect against formalin.

The necromancer was sent off
from the planet YUURIE,
to send as much information about the Youth 
as possible,
and to destroy functions of their hideout
if possible.

As soon as it has finished the mission,
the attacking forces is supposed to leave.
To start with, the alien necromancer chose
one of the corpses preserved in T Univ Hospital
as 'one host,' and has since increased
the number of 'parasites' zombies.

The way of corpses' walking,
which was stiffy first,
is gettig closer and closer
to that of living humans'.
And the time of their acting
is becoming longer and longer.
Today, one hundred twenty-eight bodies
are wandering around in TOKIO.

Even weekdays, there are a lot of people
climbing Mt Takao, among whom
there are a number bodies in suit living dead.
Chemical faces of strangeness and paleness
hide themselves into their shadow,
getting into the hideout in turn.

Inside the hideout, Prof KIRIYA and three members
are talking about a necromancer.
Then, the door slowly opens, when eight eyes
cast a look at once, only to find nobody.

Suddenly, all the lights go out, but soon
auxiliary power supply starts running.
Next moment, a lot of zombies in suit
appear from the shadows on floor.

At the same time, zombies appear 
in T Univ Hospital.
YURI is waiting for MOROBOSHI to come 
to pick up in her office.

The door opens silently.
When she feels strange, turning around,
zombies show up from the floor and the wall.
The moment, she shoots their knees accurately,
as have the other members done.
They fall down, and begin to crawl on arm to her.

"Endless!  Just cremation."
"Exactly, the undead dislike fire."
"But flamethrower in the room?"
"It's OK.  Fireproof."

AMABE takes out a thrower,
when FURUDA and SOMA raises extinguishers.

YURI shoots down some bodies,
but others step over the mount of bodies.

invade zombies

"YURI saaan!"
MOROBOSHI hears the situation from KIRIYA.
Althouh he shoulders, elbows, squeezes,
and fights his way to YURI, he cannot reach her.

KIRIYA gives him call.
"MOROBOSHI, in Hospital, aren't you?
Go to the mortuary, and you might find the host."
"YES HOPE!  (Great, Professor!)"

He teleports to the mortury, 
and find the necromancer, the first host zombie,
or alien YUURIE, is sitting in ZEN meditation,
on one of the beds at the center of the room.

The alien is surrounded
by dark negative auras or vibes.
clearly enough to be seen.

When he attempts to attack the host,
parasite zombies rise up in the way.

In the hideout, making more use of fire
would make the room blown up, 
which has been filled with explosive gas
zombies give off.

In thn hospital, YURI has just cornered
in her office.

It is EYE SLUGGER, the knife of light, 
that has destroyed the head of master zombie.
Its body falls down to the bed,
but the spherical core of sticky black liquid
is floating in the air.

MOROBOSHI crosses knuckles in front of face
and opens arms, a sword of light in right hand.
Raising the sword and slowly turning it around,
he quickly slashes down its point at the sphere.
Its blade of light extends and struck the core.
Less than a second, it evaporates to the air.

At the same time, in the mortury where MOROBOSHI is,
in the office in which YURI is in,
and in the hideout the other members are in,
INVADE corpses turn back to ordinary bodies.

It is hard work to put away the bodies around
over the area.

"I know a lot about corpses because of my job.
Even though it might be a corpse,
I'd not like to shoot at the body.
MOROBOSHI kun, do you believe in afterlife?"

"Not at all.  After humans die,
they would go to Heaven or Hell, or be reborn,
which is just a story for comfort humans imagine.
After death, nothing would last forever and ever,
I think."

"Certainly, it might be as you say,
just when I myself die. 
But, my parents were lost a few years ago,
you know.  Their bodies haven't been found yet.
They may well be dead.  Nevertheless, I hope not,
they're alive somewhere.  Even if they should die,
I'd like to think that they always watch me down
from the sky.  My loneliness will probably makes  
me feel so.  We humans are MYSTERIOUSLY
full of contradictions, aren't we?  I've seen 
men and women of all ages die of diseases 
or killed in accidents.  The day will definitely come
to every human, of course, to you and me. 
No matter how painful and hard life might be,
every human will die a happy death
with a heartful smike, I hope."

MOROBOSHI cannot say anything.
While saying nothing, a second has just passed
to the day.

#33 the end