"Now that we have money... why don't we move to the city...?"

"If I, the only doctor, leave, what will happen to the people in these villages?"

Whenever this question is asked, Renee answers with a wry smile.

Humans are so complicated...

From then on, Qiu stopped infecting others and started helping Renee with other things.

They treated patients together, cooked together, and farmed together.

Generally, wheat harvesting is done by Qiu using a sickle.

Qiu actually finds these things disgusting and tedious, but whenever he sees Renee happy, he feels that these disgusting and tedious things are not so unbearable after all.

That girl's smile is really beautiful...

But he... is the plague god [Qiu] who brings misfortune to mankind.

Even though he intentionally tried not to spread the virus, Ruini, who had been in close contact with him for a long time, still got infected.

Then their roles were reversed; originally, Reni was taking care of Qiu, but now Qiu was taking care of her.

"Put on your mask, or I might infect you."

This is a phrase that Qiu often hears, and every time she hears it, she obediently puts on a mask.

He was just afraid of infecting Renee with his virus.

Renee's illness worsened day by day, and strange thoughts began to creep into Qiu's mind.

Once, when Qiu was about to go to the city to buy medicine, Renee grabbed his hand.

"Take me with you! I don't feel bad at all today!"

And indeed, Renee looked perfectly normal that day, as if she were not sick at all.

So the two of them went into the city together.

Once inside the city, Renee was like a curious child, looking around everywhere, and even bought a lot of desserts that she usually couldn't afford to eat.

While eating, she kept stuffing Qiu into her mouth.

"Hey, let's take a picture! Lots of city people do this, and I want to take one with you too!"

[Qiu] I don't understand. They're just going to buy medicine, why make such a fuss?

"Let's buy the medicine and go back... We're almost out of money at home..."

"Oh, it's just taking a picture, it won't cost much!"

Then she practically dragged him into a 'photo studio,' but why was everyone inside dressed in wedding gowns and suits?

[Autumn] Stunned, he was put on a suit, while Renee also put on a beautiful wedding dress and took his hand to prepare for a photo.

Upon seeing Qiu's puzzled expression, he chuckled.

"That's how everyone takes photos, just take good pictures!"

What a fraud...

With a click, Renee's happy expression was preserved in that black and white photograph.

On her way home after buying the medicine, Renee looked at the photo and loved it so much that she wanted to memorize it.

“Rachel…”

Renee suddenly called out, "Autumn."

"What's wrong……"

He had just turned his head when he felt something soft kiss his face.

Renee released her mouth, her face slightly flushed as she looked at him, "You, you're so handsome...!"

After saying that, he jogged away.

So she likes her own face...

That very night, Renee, who had been full of life, suddenly lay on her bed, barely alive.

Feeling the person on the bed growing weaker and weaker, Qiu felt a pang of panic.

He was at a loss, mimicking how Renee had looked when she first met him, bustling around the pharmacy trying to cure her.

Corinne grasped his hand. "Honestly... I don't know what you'll do without me. Remember, take good care of yourself... Take your medicine when you're sick, and bandage yourself properly when you're injured."

Don't end up like me, dying from illness...

At the end of her words, Renee stuffed the photo into Qiu's arms, and then her hands fell limply to her sides.

He forgot how he spent that night in autumn... He forgot what he felt...

He only remembered a torrential rainstorm that followed that night, during which he killed many people in the city.

There was no particular reason; he simply wanted to kill to vent his emotions.

He enjoys watching others become seriously ill and on the verge of death because of his abilities.

He often saw such scenes in Renee's hospital room.

From then on, he spent every day like this, sneaking into a city and causing the people there to fall seriously ill and die.

If your body is injured or starts to fester, then cut off someone else's body and sew it on.

And that photo that recorded him and Renee was forcibly sewn into his heart.

That way, it will never be lost again...

Never again...

...

Raindrops fell from the sky, and the dark red blood on the ground slowly faded as the rain washed over it.

Autumn's lifeless body curled up, desperately protecting the photograph in its arms.

The rain intensified, and the photos flowed down into the sewers with the water.

Just as it was about to fall, it was caught by a hand.

Aikaren gazed at the two people in the photograph and gently wiped away the last trace of blood with her hand.

He walked up to Qiu's body and placed the photo in his arms.

Goodbye... you lovelorn monster.

After saying that, it spread its wings and left.

In the dim world, only Qiu's body, which had died of natural causes, and that yellowed photograph remained.