

When he arrives at the small village bordering Fuji's Saiko Lake, Takashi immediately heads into the heavily forested Jukai when a sudden earthquake occurs and he is knocked out. Upon hearing about the fossilized egg, Takashi sets off to Mount Fuji to find it. Her story airs on a televised news report that is seen by geologist Takashi Ashizawa. Before falling into a coma, the girl babbles about what she saw to a reporter. When one of the eggs start to hatch, she goes into hysterics and flees until she is discovered by a construction crew. A young woman wanders barefoot in the lush Aokigahara (青木ヶ原), also known as the Sea of Trees (樹海 Jukai) region of Mount Fuji, and suddenly falls into a cavern, awakening in an icy cave full of large eggs.
