ChäoS;Child (Chaos;Child)

Is there just something wrong with me?

Founding Day

10 AM Meeting

Aoi?

Hello—

Serika, where are you?

Home.

You haven't left yet?

It's already this late?!

Sorry, I'll leave now.

It's fine. Perfect, actually.

Do you mind meeting at the station?

We're not going to the mall like usual?

Ayaka wants to go to Shibuya.

Is that a problem?

N-No, it's okay.

Okay, I'll get there as fast as I can.

Bye.

She told me never to go to Shibuya.

I woke up after a certain accident,

and I didn't have any identification on me.

No matter what anyone asked me, I couldn't answer.

That's when someone claiming to be a distant relative

showed up and said they'd take me in.

And they told me who I was before the accident.

I was an only child who lived in a prefecture a long way from Tokyo.

In the fall of my second year in high school, my parents died in an accident,

and I was left all alone.

I didn't have enough money left to keep going to the private school I'd been attending,

so I ended up transferring to a cheaper school she suggested.

The day before I was to start at my new school,

on the night of the Shibuya Restoration Festival,

I came to Shibuya for the first time

and was shocked to see how many people there were.

While I was standing there in shock,

I got swept up in the crowd and...

And when I woke up, I was in a hospital bed.

I had a terrible scar on my stomach,

and I'd forgotten everything.

She works in Shibuya,

and she can't leave, she says.

So after I left the hospital, I started to live by myself in Yokohama.

Maybe because it's where the accident took place,

she told me again and again never to come to Shibuya.

But...

Oh, there you are.

Morning!

Morning!

Sorry for the sudden change of plans.

No, it's okay.

So where are we going?

Those people...

You've never seen them before?

You've at least heard of it, right?

Chaos Child Syndrome?

That's it?

Young people who went through hell during the earthquake got that disease, right?

Yup.

But why doesn't it seem to bother anybody?

Well, it does.

But it's not the victims' fault.

And...

Chaos Child Syndrome is a treatable illness. It is not dangerous, nor is it contagious. Slandering patients is a human rights violation and forbidden by law. Let's make an equal society free of discrimination.

It's only in Shibuya where you run into it.

This place is kinda weird.

There's lots of rumors.

Oh, I've heard of them!

Sometimes, the Syndrome patients go missing, right?

Like they're being taken away for experiments.

Experiments?

You read too much manga.

Anyway, you've never heard of this stuff, Serika?

Nope, never.

I see.

You don't read news on the internet, do you?

Hey, want to go take a peek?

At what?

The facility where they keep all the patients.

I know where it is.

Here?

Yeah.

They say that all the patients think they're leading a normal high school life here.

Hekiho Academy

Hekiho Academy?

Serika?

Are you okay?

I-I'm fine.

I just got a little head rush.

But you've been on your feet all along.

You need to rest.

Want to find a place to sit down?

Y-Yeah...

Sorry, I'm going home, okay?

Take care.

Contact us if anything happens, okay?

Y-Yeah, thanks.

Hekiho Academy

Is something the matter?

N-No, it's nothing.

Oh, it's you!

I haven't seen you for a while.

What happened?

Where's your uniform?

This is actually against the rules,

but I'll let it slide.

Did you forget something in the club room?

"Haven't seen me for a while"?

The "club room"?

Did I go here before?

As a student?

No... a patient?

I know this place!

Why am I...

Stop it!

Vice-President, do something about that!

Again? I said to stop.

Look, it's all scraped up.

Get the first aid kit!

Wait, I'm checking the source on this new site.

Hurry up.

Okay.

Who...?

I'm wearing this school's uniform.

Who is that?

Someone tell me! Who is this?

Freesia Offices

Oh my.

And?

I told you not to come to Shibuya, right?

I'm sorry.

But there was something I really wanted to know.

This is me, right?

It has to be.

Have I been to Hekiho before?

What do you think?

What did you feel when you went there?

Did you think you'd been to Hekiho before?

I don't know.

But it's like, um...

It just felt wrong.

I know I've never been there before.

I only heard the name Hekiho Academy for the first time yesterday,

and I'd never heard that it was a facility for keeping Chaos Child Syndrome patients.

But when I was there, it felt like I'd forgotten something,

and it was really bothering me.

Did I have Chaos Child Syndrome?

And that's why I lost my memories?

You're wrong.

Not a single person has ever recovered from Chaos Child Syndrome.

At least as far as the public knows.

The public?

I guess I don't have a choice.

Before I give this to you, let me check one last time.

You want to know, no matter what, right?

Yes.

It's my own past we're talking about.

Yes, it certainly is.

I'm sorry, but I can't tell you anything myself.

I'm actually bending the rules just by saying that I can't tell you anything.

AH Tokyo General Hospital Mio Kunosato

But she'll just have to forgive me for that.

Just go there and talk to her.

That's how it will all begin.

Oh, right.

How is living by yourself? Are you doing okay?

Yes, I suppose so.

Don't use too much money.

I-I'm keeping my allowance and the money I need for living expenses separate.

Oh, you've really got a handle on things, then.

Have you made friends?

Yes, I have.

I see.

Then you're having fun, right?

Yes, I am.

I'm glad.

Take care, then.

Maybe we'll see each other again someday.

Yes, see you later.

AH Tokyo General Hospital Mio Kunosato

AH Tokyo General Hospital

This is it?

This place was all over the news

after the police raided it three months ago, right?

AH Tokyo General Hospital

All the people who were doing bad things were arrested,

and now I've heard it's been reborn as a completely different hospital.

U-Um, excuse me.

AH Tokyo General Hospital Mio Kunosato

She has the Syndrome, right?

Tell me about her, please.

If you're doing research on it, you should know, right?

I can't just share private patient information with outsiders like that.

I might not be an outsider, right?

Why do you want to know so badly?

Why wouldn't I?

Because it's my own past.

Anyone would want to know.

Besides, I felt like I heard a bunch of different voices

in front of the room where I found this photo.

I can't really say why,