Afterwards, the teacher announces that Shion will be going to the advanced ecology course, and a two of Shion's fellow students tease him for it.

Shion is one such student and at school with his fellow students, pledging his loyalty to the Holy City of No. In the large walled city of No.6 people laud the distinguishing features as students pledge their loyalty to the city. The chapter begins with young Nezumi walking in a dark cave, holding his wounded shoulder. Yoshi - A work colleague of Shion's who is seen dying from a parasitic wasp.Yamashi - An official of No.6 who rescinds Shion's opportunities.Karan - Shion's Mother who is also banished to Lost Town where she takes up being a baker.Safu - Shion's friend who they have known one another since they were two.Shion - a student of No.6 who loses his status for helping Nezumi when he was twelve, sen four years later.Nezumi - an escaped convict seen at twelve and then sixteen years old.Utterly shocked Shion wonders what on earth is going on in this city. Safu is leaving to study abroad but asks for Shion’s sperm wanting to make love with him.Ī mouse jumps up to Shion’s shoulder and he glimpses Nezumi in the crowd, he then heads home to find his mother, thinking something is going to happen and receives a call from Safu.Ĭhecking in for work, Shion witnesses Yamashi die and rapidly age with a wasp emerging from his neck. He remembers how Yoshi withdrew his acceptance offers and moved Shion and his mother from Kronos to Lost Town. Falling asleep Shion wakes up in the morning to find that Nezumi has left.įour years later, Shion is sixteen and working as a park manager where he notices a walking droid on camera where a deceased person is found in the park, he tells Safu about the nature of this death. Shion stitches his bullet wound and see’s on the news that Nezumi is a wanted fugitive. The intruder holds Shion by the neck yet he offers to bandage his wounds, and Shion does not tell his mother of his presence when she calls. In the city of No.6, student Shion is moved up to higher classes along with Safu.ĭuring a storm on Shion’s twelfth birthday at home he opens the doors then find's someone has entered. A young boy runs through a cave bleeding, resolving to live.

No 6 asano atsuko