They arrive at their investigation location. The driver parks the car outside the barricaded walls of the abandoned warehouse. The 3 steps out of the vehicle, with Amuro wearing a sword-bag containing his katana on his back, Zaki waving his hair as if he's some hero ready to fight, and Shiro with his slumped posture coming out of the vehicle.
SHIRO : "An abandoned warehouse…?"
- He asked, looking at the abandoned rusty warehouse.
ZAKI : "Correct! I'll be teaching you how to sense the beast's energy within this environment!"
- Zaki confidently answered, with a smirk on his face as he arranged his sunglasses.
SHIRO : "How will I do that…?"
- He asked curiously, looking at Zaki's confident gaze.
ZAKI : "First! You must take in the energy within your surroundings, negative or positive; any kind of energy is useful."
- He leans downwards towards Shiro's face while having a finger up.
SHIRO : "Huh…?"
- Shiro looked confused after hearing Zaki's mind-puzzling sentence.
- Zaki moves behind Shiro as he covers Shiro's eyes with both of his hands gently.
ZAKI : "Close your eyes…"
- Shiro stood still, letting Zaki cover his eyes.
ZAKI : "Sense the energy around you, take in all the aura of any person, and absorb it."
- He whispered into Shiro's ear while keeping his hands covering Shiro's eyes.
SHIRO : "I see…"
- Zaki's eyes widen, ready to hear what Shiro is seeing.
SHIRO : "Nothing."
ZAKI : "Keep trying, just sense the environment."
- He whispered again to Shiro's ear.
SHIRO : "I still see nothing."
- Zaki immediately removes his hands from Shiro's eyes and puts them on his hips.
ZAKI : "Ehh…? Really? Nothing?"
- He said with a frustrated tone.
SHIRO : "Look, man, I don't believe in all that aura and energy stuff."
- He spoke as he began to walk away, heading into the abandoned warehouse.
- Zaki had a frustrated look, seeing how stubborn Shiro is.
AMURO : "I sense it, it's behind the warehouse."
- Amuro suddenly spoke.
- Zaki looks at Amuro with excitement on his face.
ZAKI : "Good job!"
- Amuro looked slightly annoyed, but kept his firm.
…
The three walked to the back of the abandoned warehouse to see a beast with 5 human arms coming out of its back. Its neck was long, its face didn't have eyes but had a massive mouth, and the beast also had its own torso piercing through its own purple skin. The beast was busy eating a pale woman, as it looked at the three who had just witnessed it, but it continued feasting on the corpse.
- Shiro looked shocked, seeing the pale body of a woman being eaten by a beast.
ZAKI : "Rest in peace, beautiful young lady."
- He puts his hands together in a prayer.
- Amuro takes out his katana from the sword-bag he's wearing before walking towards the beast and silcing it's head off.
SHIRO : "That's it…?"
- He curiously asked.
AMURO : "This is an investigation; we have to clean up the area and identify the woman as well."
- Amuro professionally said after waving his katana onto the ground to scrape off the green blood.
ZAKI :Sigh "I expected more from today…"
- He sighed, looking disappointed as the investigation was already almost over.
SHIRO : "If that's all… then why is it considered a danger-zone?"
- He wonders, as Amuro seemed to make this a big deal last night when he told Shiro about the mission.
- Amuro looked around. He saw a trail of blood coming from a truck container that led to the dead body that the beast was feasting on.
AMURO : "Investigate that container."
- He points at the truck container.
AMURO : "I'll try identifying the woman."
- He kneeled beside the corpse of a woman who had a massive bite taken of by the beast, and the beast was beginning to melt into ashes.
SHIRO : "Hmph."
- He began to walk over to the nearby container.
- Shiro grabbed onto the container's door handles, but it wouldn't budge when he pulled on it.
- He looked back at Zaki and Amuro.
SHIRO : "He's a hothead, and he's a weirdo who believes in human auras and senses."
SHIRO :Sigh "I expected more from a 'danger-zone', I guess he was just exaggerating things."
- Suddenly, he hears rumbling coming from the inside of the container, as if something or someone was still in it. He leans onto the door, placing his ear against it, trying to hear it better.
SHIRO : "Is anyone still in there…?"
- He continued to pull the container's doors until he fell over onto the ground as it opened. Seeing more beasts within it.
SHIRO : "Shit…"
…
Amuro was inspecting the woman's pale face while Zaki was eating a lollipop, while his back leaning against the walls of the abandoned warehouse.
ZAKI :Sigh "I expected A LOT more today."
- He sighed, looking upwards at the sun.
AMURO : "I like this better than fighting a horde of beasts."
- Amuro said as he moved the woman's brown hair to the side to see the face better.
Suddenly, they hear the ground around them shake. Amuro looked shocked as he looked at the ground, and Zaki looked around them to see Shiro running towards them with a horde of at least 10 beasts chasing him, all of them covered in humans' blood and resembling the same looks of the beast Amuro had just killed earlier, but they're all in different colors.
SHIRO : "RUN! THERE'S MORE OF THEM!"
- He yelled as he ran.
ZAKI : "Speak of the devil."
- Zaki spoke with a smirk.
- Amuro stood up as he drew out his katana from his sword-bag again.
AMURO :Sigh "Now I get why it's a danger zone."
Shiro kept running, but he suddenly tripped over a small rock, causing him to fall over.
SHIRO : "NO!"
All the beasts then jumped towards him and began to feast on him. Taking apart all of his limbs, biting off his torso, and butchering him alive.
SHIRO : "ARGH..!"
- Shiro screams in agony, his body couldn't handle all the pain.
Zaki and Amuro witness Shiro's body being butchered in front of them.
ZAKI : "Christ.."
- He covers his mouth, watching the horror.
- Amuro's eyes widen.
AMURO : "Holy shit."
All the beasts covered him, as they all feast onto Shiro's body. It was brutal. Blood splattered everywhere around them, and the beasts were covered in his blood.
The two watched the butchering of Shiro's body, neither of them doing anything to stop it. It went on for quite a while.
AMURO : "Shouldn't he transform by now?"
- He asked calmly, but his eyes were still wide.
ZAKI : "I hope."
- Zaki shakily said. He was nervous, not knowing if what Shiro had said about his activation was true.
Shiro's body only kept getting feasted on, as it only had his torso and his head left. His limbs were taken off and eaten by the other beasts, while others were feasting on his torso.
…
…
"Love me again, Shiro. Please don't fall for Yoriha, I love you more than she ever will."
…
…
Suddenly, one of the beasts that was covered by Shiro's blood was feasting on Shiro's arm; it got struck by a crimson spike with gold veins through its head as its body dropped onto the ground.
Zaki and Amuro witnessed this, as it left them both scratching their heads.
AMURO & ZAKI : "Huh…?"
On the horde of beasts, feasting and butchering Shiro's body, one who was about to take a bite off Shiro's head from the front, got pierced through its head with Shiro's spikes.
Shiro grunts as he takes off the spike attached to his arms from the beast's head that was about to take a bite of his head. All the other beasts jumped backwards and stops feasting on him, realizing what Shiro really is.
BEAST1 : "IT'S NOT HUMAN!"
BEAST2 : "IT'S NOT HUMAN!"
BEAST3 : "IT'S NOT HUMAN!"
BEAST4 : "IT'S NOT HUMAN!"
BEAST5 : "IT'S NOT HUMAN!"
BEAST6 : "IT'S NOT HUMAN!"
BEAST7 : "IT'S NOT HUMAN!"
BEAST8 : "IT'S NOT HUMAN!"
BEAST9 : "IT'S NOT HUMAN!"
Shiro can now hear the beasts' words.
Shiro stood up; his limbs had regrown, his clothes covered in blood. His face had crimson horns coming out of his eyes that spiraled upwards to his head, and each of his arms had a crimson spike with gold veins. Shiro had a more mature and lean body, with his jawline being more refined.
SHIRO : "HA?! I WAS DELICIOUS, WASN'T I?! COME ON! KEEP EATING MY BODY!"
- He yelled with an insane and crazed voice.
Zaki and Amuro watched Shiro transform into his beast form. He looked completely different.
ZAKI : "Woah! So this is what your form is!"
- Zaki was amused, filled with excitement as he watched Shiro in action.- Amuro was speechless, seeing Shiro in a more mature and lean body.
BEAST1 : "RUN TO THE TOWN!"
BEAST2 : "RUN TO THE TOWN!"
BEAST3 : "RUN TO THE TOWN!"
BEAST4 : "RUN TO THE TOWN!"
BEAST5 : "RUN TO THE TOWN!"
BEAST6: "RUN TO THE TOWN!"
BEAST7 : "RUN TO THE TOWN!"
BEAST8 : "RUN TO THE TOWN!"
BEAST9 : "RUN TO THE TOWN!"
All the 9 beasts began to run out of the abandoned warehouse's land, as they all passed by Shiro.
SHIRO : "HEY! WE'RE NOT OVER HERE!"
ZAKI : "Where are they going?"
- He asked.
SHIRO : "They said they're going to the town!"
- He yelled.
ZAKI : "Wait a minute, You can talk to them..?!"
- He exclaimed, his eyes were shining from the surprises of Shiro's ability.
SHIRO : "Uh.. Sorta!"
- He yelled back, scratching his head.
AMURO : "Enough talking! They're going to take more lives in the town!"
- Amuro was angry, as he yelled at both of them for talking at a moment like this.
ZAKI : "Right! Good call, Amuro!"
- He puts up a thumbs-up to Amuro.
— Chapter 14, End : Katori's Beast Wave PT.1