Chapter 8: Tell Me Your True Feelings!

Chapter 8: Tell Me Your True Feelings! (教えて! あなたのホントの気持ち! Oshiete! Anata no Honto no Kimochi!) is the eighth chapter of the spin-off manga series of Zombie Land Saga, titled “Zombie Land Saga Side Story: The First Zombie”.

Synopsis
The group desperately searches for Anna. What happened to her?

Plot
After the failed mission to seal Sagako, the Busters return to the mansion where MJ reproaches them for setting Sagako free. Eikichi doubts that Anna left the group so suddenly since she never said anything about it and on his own he goes looking for her in the city where he eventually finds her hiding in plain sight.

However, Anna wants nothing to do with the Busters now and tries to get away from Eikichi but not before being stopped by him since he knows something is wrong with her.

Already willing to talk, Anna tells Eikichi about her past. Anna's parents and family were elite thieves or phantom thieves and she was the only daughter in the family, there was nothing she couldn't get, a life without problems, what she considered normal was different for others and she herself left that life to find what was "normal" for the rest of the world. Finally escaping, she realized the reality of the world, under those people who lived in prosperity there were people struggling against poverty and without any protection Anna was just another girl on the street, so she took advantage of her family's gifts to survive until she was apprehended by Keiji.

In the interrogation, Keiji talks to Anna about her family and how he could send her to a prosecutor to analyze her case, but instead, he decides to team up with Anna to catch and detect robberies in Tokyo. With Anna's eagle eyesight she could spot places where robberies would occur and report to Higashino to make arrests in exchange for him keeping her identity a secret. But living a life like that has its consequences.

One day, Anna sniffed out a great plan made by a group of thieves and when the day was ready she told Higashino but the operation was so big that he had to call in reinforcements, obviously the criminals didn't see it coming and it was pure chaos, many lives were lost that day, people died because of Anna. With the guilt of her actions haunting her, she ran as far as she could, running and running until she reached Saga, where no one would know of her and she was completely sure that no one would recognize her.

With nothing left to lose now, she worked with the Busters and started a new life, until Higashino showed up and Anna's peace disappeared. Keiji has very cruel ideas and that is why Anna wants to leave the team so as not to cause them problems with him, Eikichi is not willing to let her go and tries to convince her that together with the Busters she will be able to face the problem she has nowadays.

Meanwhile on the beach, Tae and Hanako fight the Eel Sagako but can do little as it regenerates its heads when they cut one off, luckily Eikichi and Anna appear. Anna doesn't hesitate and attacks the Sagako since that is her job and she plans to face her problems rather than run away. With the Sagako down Eikichi can calmly seal it with an onion, Anna proceeds to apologize for having disappeared since without her the group is not the same as it was before, she tells them the problem she currently has with Higashino but not before saying that although she prefers older, Eikichi seems attractive to her.

Meanwhile, Keiji follows the trail of the Sagako he had attacked earlier, shooting it multiple times before it disappears, Sagako's body only resists five bullets, after all.

Characters

 * Saga Sagako Busters
 * Tae Yamada
 * Jofuku
 * Eikichi Hyodo
 * Anna Shuri
 * Hanako Hakase
 * Keiji Higashino
 * Anna's parents (debut)
 * Sagako Demons
 * Spider Egg Sagako
 * Goby Eel Sagako

Locations

 * Tokyo
 * Saga Prefecture
 * Saga Coast
 * Saga Sagako Busters' Mansion

External Link

 * Gaiden Chapter 8 Unofficial English Translation

Trivia

 * When Anna talks about her family, she refers to them as phantom thieves. Which means that they are a person with excellent theatrical and escape skills, as well as stealing for their own pleasure beyond financial gain.

es: Capítulo 8: ¡Dime! ¡Tus verdaderos sentimientos!