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The late-night parting of a pair of young lovers is interrupted by the cry of a baby - a cry that's accompanied by the appearance of a demon, and the arrival of Makina on the scene. She's none too gentle with the pair, mainly as she has more important things on her mind - the cry is the cry of a shikabane, and she wants it out of the way. Tonight's not going to be the night she does that, though. Meanwhile, Ouri's school is full of talk of a young girl who gave birth but abandoned the child, prompting him to investigate himself. But with the number of deaths linked to this shikabane growing rapidly, it falls to Makina to do some undercover investigating of his own...