In a starving household, relatives shove a woman called Mother toward the market to be traded for porridge. Children beg to bury Yadiel—already dead—but Grandma and Aunt Emery demand someone fetch food or they'll eat or even chop him, so the woman is forced to go. The family hustles away. Suddenly perspective shifts: one character remembers being hit by a car while delivering food. The scene ends with a system alert: "Host consciousness detected," and the Group Order System activating, leaving the character's fate unresolved.