Morning never came.
The eclipse remained.
Kaito stood alone in the ruins.
Bodies everywhere.
Silence.
His mother's hand was cold.
He didn't cry.
He couldn't.
Inside him, something moved.
Whispers.
Hundreds of voices screaming in agony.
The shadow he absorbed was still alive inside him.
"You are not human," it hissed in his mind.
Kaito clutched his chest.
"What did you do to me?"
"You devoured me."
He looked at his reflection in broken glass.
Red eyes.
Dark veins crawling across his skin.
The whispers grew louder.
"You are one of us now."
Footsteps approached.
Armored men wearing silver cloaks entered the village.
The Holy Order.
They saw him standing in the middle of corpses.
One of them gasped.
"The mark…"
Their leader drew his blade.
"Kill the Eclipse Child."