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Saya wanders far, looking for the thing the song apparently wants her to find. It takes her through the woods, over the hills, and past the foggy beach where she was born.

After a long while of searching, she stumbles upon a grave. Judging by the tone of the song, this is her destination. But what's so interesting about it?

Saya kneels before the grave, running her fingers over the words inscribed upon it. Apparently, this is where someone by the name of Fermi now lies.

It takes her a minute to realize that the song wouldn't have brought her here if Fermi wasn't significant to her in some way. She thinks, and comes to the conclusion that Fermi was one of her parents, most likely her mother.

Saya sits there in silence for quite a while, paying her respects to her fallen parent, wondering at the same time how long Fermi had been dead before she was born.

She then gets up and turns to leave, but the song didn't die out - it instead gets louder, as if to object to her leaving. Apparently, the identity of her mother is not all it wants her to know.

So she stays for a while more, examining the other memorabilia around the grave. Among other things, she learns that her father went by the name of Moogson and that she had an older sister named Swift.

She makes a mental note to find the remaining members of her family, or at least their graves. Then, she finds something extremely disturbing.

Besides the things that tied her to the rest of her family, there were a number of messages left by mourners that seemed sad about more than just Fermi's death. The reason was flat out stated: Fermi died while pregnant.

Saya tilts her head to one side, before turning back towards the grave. She could have had a little sister or brother, but for whatever reason death took Fermi before she could lay the egg. What a shame....

Or so she thinks before the song plays again, apparently having read her thoughts and trying to correct her. What was she getting wrong here? It wasn't like her mother could deliver an egg beyond the grave. Right?

Something occurs to Saya, and on a whim she looks through the records around the grave. She finds things about her father and sister in addition to her mother, but nowhere did it mention anything about herself. She at first assumes that these records were composed before she was born, but the lack of mention of a second egg seemed very conspicuous.

That's when it hits her. Fermi's second egg did survive her passing, for whatever reason...and she was the creature within that egg. Upon hitting upon this revelation, the song faded out at last. That was indeed what it wanted to tell her.

Saya stands there in stunned disbelief. If her mother was dead before her egg was ever delivered, then what did that make her? A zombie grendel? A ghost?

After some minutes, she finally gives her mother's grave a final wave of farewell before making her way back home, wearing a thoroughly stunned expression all the while.