OPENING SHOT — THE CHURCH BURNS
12:30 AM
The camera pans in from a high crane shot.
Kamikawa Church—once sacred—is now a womb of fire and blood. Rain evaporates as it hits the flames.
Screams echo.
But no one inside is screaming anymore.
INT. CHURCH ALTAR ROOM — CONTINUOUS
Bodies lie across the chapel.
A SWAT team, called too late. Slaughtered. Throats opened with surgical precision.
Blood pours down the altar stairs like wine.
One officer was nailed to a cross. Upside-down. Eyes missing. His tongue left in Kairi's hand.
THE MYSTERY FIGURE — FINAL STEPS INTO THE FLAME
She enters fully now.
No more silhouette.
Still masked—yes. But we see more:
Boots lined with ash from cremated files
A jacket covered in sewn-in scalps—each one labeled with a child's name
A belt of old detective IDs
A voice—cold, youthful, ageless:
"You don't get to choose your monsters anymore."
She walks directly to Huáilán.
"I am what happens
when they let the girls scream too long."
FLASH MEMORY: IDENTITY FRAGMENT – THE CREATION FILE
A fragmented screen:
A Chinese birth certificate: 女代號三號 (Female Subject No. 3)
Date of disappearance: 1988. Shanghai.
File labeled: "Project 孤灯 (Lone Lantern)"
Final notes:
"Subject speaks three languages. Resistant to loyalty conditioning. Capable of memorizing entire case files from age 6."
The screen glitches.
We don't get a name.
Only a codename:
Lantern-3.
CUT BACK – ALTAR ROOM
Kairi tries to crawl away.
But the masked woman grabs her by the hair.
No struggle.
Just inevitability.
She whispers into Kairi's ear:
"Say their names. The ones you buried."
Kairi: "You think you're justice."
???: "No. I'm leftover."
RYOUMA BREAKS FIRST
He lunges—
The mystery figure whirls and slams him into the altar wall.
A rib cracks. Blood pours from his mouth. His gun falls.
"Your hands are filth.
Don't you dare raise them like a savior."
He tries to speak, but he can't breathe.
She turns to Souta.
Souta is shaking—not in fear, but in memory.
She's seen this woman before. In one of Katarina's photographs.
A girl in the background. Face blurry. Eyes… familiar.
FLASH — KATARINA'S FILES — SOUTA'S POV
A redacted folder in her aunt's safe:
"She survived Project Lone Lantern. Never retrieved. Never cleansed. Left behind."
Name: [REDACTED]
Relation: "Irregular Subject"
Emotion: Homicidally stable
FINAL SCENE — OUTSIDE THE CHURCH
Screams echo. Police finally arrive—but see no one left standing.
Just the symbol burned into the side of the building:
"너는 아직 기억하고 있니?"
Do you still remember?
And in the rain, the camera closes in on:
Ryouma, collapsed, clutching his ribs, whispering, "She's still alive…"
Souta, sitting in blood, rocking slightly, Katarina's broken badge clutched in her palm
Huáilán, kneeling… smiling softly
Kairi, unconscious… but not dead
And the masked woman, standing over them all.
Waiting.