The episode starts with yasumori Nao in the bar reminiscing her past from her early days on the Village. Moments later it moves on to the Shiki, where they have found a new hide out for the night, escaping through the tunnels, moments later, a team of villagers arrives at the local and that’s when madness starts…
Taking advantage of their sleep, the hunters descend on the tunnel and after gathering the courage they start slaughtering the hapless Shiki who have fallen into a deep slumber for the day, one by one, a stake is violently hammered down through their hearts in a bloody display of carnage. The hunters keep moving forward as the Shiki awake and retreat to the deeper parts, only to get pursued and slaughtered, and when they are trapped they decide to retaliate managing to bite some of the pursuers, but they are outnumbered and unarmed thus the hunters have the advantage and dominate every Shiki while some run deeper into the tunnels.
Man has no mercy for the creatures he fears, and in his view, all that poses a threat to his dominance over the weaker creatures must be destroyed, and that applies for Humans themselves, the hunters that fallen prey to the Shiki ambush are killed just like any other Shiki, and their corpses dragged to the outside making no difference…
The shiki that managed to run is trapped in a dead end, and slowly dragged to be killed, all while the Hunters are singing as if to exorcise their demons, and when they run out of stakes, the remaining Shiki, are beaten, dragged to the outside, tied to trees or to the ground, while waiting for the Sun to rise on the Horizon and burn their flesh in a slow agonizing death…
It’s not just some mindless slaughtering, and it has quite an impact with a violence rarely seen before on anime, the music playing through the episode is a haunting melody that serves only to enhance our perception of the fear, and we can almost smell the stench of death…
This episode has little meaning for the plot development, it serves only to show one situation that had only been mentioned in the main story…