Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work

When you think about it, it's strange.

The disaster that occurred when a Disaster Management Bureau agent once tried to forcibly load an infected child onto the escape pod.

Acute molting occurs. Ulcers erupt across the entire body, and all vital signs are lost.

Contamination spreads rapidly, resulting in death.

If this were the escape pod attempting to eliminate internal threats, the reaction was far too... deliberate.

It was more like the action of the infection source itself.

Right.

It makes more sense to interpret it as the doing of the 'biohazard-merfolk'.

A punishment dealt to a host that dares to break away from the hive. A retrieval of energy.

But this information was known only to the Disaster Management Bureau agents, while, conversely, more detailed intel about the escape pod was only available to the employees of Daydream Inc...

Fragmented information.

And that's exactly why no one could've reasonably predicted what was happening now.