Chapter 14: If Our Town Prospers, It Will Die. Decline, Recede Like Plants and Trees

'''Chapter 14: If Our Town Prospers, It Will Die. Decline, Recede Like Plants and Trees (栄えば枯れるわがマチよ. 衰え、退くサキにあるものは. ' Haeba kareru waga Machi yo. Otoroe, shirizoku Saki ni aru mono wa.'') is the fourteenth chapter of the spin-off manga series of Zombie Land Saga, titled “Zombie Land Saga Side Story: The First Zombie”.

Synopsis
The mysterious disappearances of women in Saga continue, only Eikichi and Tae remain in the team and it is their responsibility to discover who is behind this.

Plot
Eikichi and Tae return to the city in search of clues about the disappearances that are happening throughout Saga, both suspecting that the incidents are related to the Spider Sagako that previously destroyed their house and that Saga is witnessing a disaster without precedents.

In search of help they go to Araki, who is a policeman, there they ask him if he knows more about the cases of disappearances, and he kindly answers that the Saga police stations are flooded with cases but whoever is committing them should not human being by the way it moves, since two cases of disappearances occurred in two different places at the same time, so criminal activity is suspected. Despite being aware of the Sagakos, he decides to ignore the issue arguing that no one would believe that and exclaiming that he forgot "that incident". Without the help of Araki, they go in search of the missing relatives to know the last location they know. The locations are at Ureshino Hot Springs, Cape Hado, Karatsu Burger in Nijinomatsubara, and the Karatsu Coast near the Busters' HQ. Upon arriving at their old mansion, Tae checks that the onions with Sagakos inside are in good condition, fortunately, they are, and decide to leave them there without worries, Eikichi also makes them a blanket made from the mansion's curtains, prompting Tae to joke that they are his own children.

With the information collected from the disappearances, Tae begins to realize something, the Sagakos began to show up en masse in places where a lot of people moved or there was a lot of prosperity not only in the present but the potential for prosperity in the future, the disappearances also occurred in these places so it is not a single coincidence. With these data, both go to a place of great prosperity, a tourist place.

The chosen place is the Arita Porcelain Park, where Eikichi cross-dresses as a woman and pretends to be a woman. Tae wanted to be the decoy, but Eikichi strongly opposed her because that would represent a danger to her, even so, she is annoyed at how indecent Eikichi is with the decoy, to which he replies not to worry since it only matters that the decoy looks like a woman. Despite being in a tourist place, no one appears beside a mysterious little girl.

Tae goes to see her and warns her that it is dangerous to be outside at such times. To her surprise, it was never a normal girl. As soon as she gets closer, she is attacked by Magatsuhi, who attempts to kidnap her. Tae manages to dodge the first attack and is saved by Eikichi before the second, only for both of them to fall into a fountain and pass out. Upon waking up, they both find themselves in a mysterious amusement park and find the missing women locked up. They tell them that Hanako and Anna were taken by that child, so Eikichi and Tae go looking for them through the park. They come to a statue of a squirrel where strange music seems to have come from, upon entering they find children's toys in what appears to be a makeshift room. There Tae finds a photo of her parents with the mysterious baby, revealing that the mysterious girl is nothing more and nothing less than the baby her parents were raising. The Giant Spider is just another form of that child.

Characters

 * Saga Sagako Busters
 * Eikichi Hyodo
 * Tae Yamada
 * Araki Aiba
 * Magatsuhi

Locations

 * Saga Prefecture
 * Takeo City
 * Takeo Ureshino Marchen Mura Village Amusement Park
 * Arita City
 * Arita Porcelain Park
 * Karatsu City
 * Franchouchou Mansion
 * Ureshino City
 * Hotel Kasuien

External Link

 * Gaiden Chapter 14 Unofficial English Translation

Trivia

 * It is revealed by a missing person report that this chapter took place in November 1989.

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