Downtown Norfolk, Virginia
In an abandoned convenience store, the water level had gotten close to knee level. Debris, blood and body parts floated on the murky water's surface.
This part of the city felt and looked like a ghost town. Although the Hunters at shore worked hard culling the beasts and attracting most of them away from the city, growls and low chittering could still be heard from some dark alleyways.
Everyone had been evacuated through every available airport.
Any outsider coming here for the first time won't believe anyone could still be alive with such conditions. Unless they listened closely. And picked up the raspy breathing of an A-Rank Esper trying to stay alive.
Leo's back rested against the cold door of the lone refrigerator in the store. One hand clutched his stomach which had a long bloody gash. The other lay on the floor, twitching slightly under the dirty water.
He was alive.
Barely.
