Summary: Kageyama Tobio, once a zombie and one of thousands of individuals affected by Partially Deceased Syndrome (PDS), arrives back in Tokyo to an assigned apartment because his family refuses to take him in. He’s been subjected to months of rehabilitation and medication by a government that has set an agenda of acceptance and tolerance. However, a cauldron of brutal anti-zombie sentiment exists and is gathering support.

Hinata Shouyou is relieved the fighting is mostly over. He was never fully comfortable killing the zombies, though he’s not convinced the PDS sufferers are safe. Hinata has vowed to keep his zone safe, even as these so called rehabilitated zombies are seeded all over the city.

It’s been years since they’ve seen one another, so neither of them quite know what to do when they find themselves living across the hall from each other. Is this new world big enough for both of them or will the past repeat itself leaving them on opposite sides once more?

Part One - The one where kageyama moves in and hinata freaks out basically
Kageyama is being released to the apartment and his parents don’t want to see him
This includes him meeting with the discharge nurse and getting his contacts and makeup
It also includes one of the others mentioning the prophet, they slip kageyama a card with the website for the undead prophet
Hinata prepares himself to live with pds sufferers
This includes him giving himself a pep talk about how “They aren’t really people anymore, and he doesn’t need to worry about who has risen, he only needs to worry about preventing another rising.”
Kageyama arrives at the apartment building and is met by Sugawara who as it turns out is going to be his on call nurse to help him with acclimation and his meds
Sugawara warns Kageyama that Hinata is also there and doesn’t know he is coming, Sugawara didn’t know until that very day when he received the list of newcomers
He settles into his one bedroom apartment and thinks about the last time he saw Hinata
Cue a flashback to their last match at the spring high of their first year, where they lost against Shiratorizawa. Kageyama tells Hinata he’s going to transfer after one of the coaches comes to talk to him. They have a fight about it because Hinata still isn’t over when Kageyama left him for that training camp.
Sugawara doesn’t get to Hinata before he sees Kageyama in the hall
Hinata is in such a state of shock he can’t speak
Kageyama calls to him, but he turns and goes back into his apartment across the hall, slamming the door with a bang
Kageyama retreats to his own apartment and sinks down against the door in tears, fully aware he’s ruined his makeup and can’t leave again until he fixes it
Flashback to the train accident that killed him. The accident killed over fifty people and injured more. Due to personal reasons, Kageyama’s family didn’t allow the press to release his name, so the team couldn’t have known.
The part ends with Sugawara coming over to give him his shot and they talk about what life was like before the meds, Sugawara trying to give him some insight into what might be going on in Hinata’s head right now.
They can guess what is going on in Hinata’s head but they can’t really know
Kageyama thinks about how he wishes that he and Hinata could have what they once did. He considers how he had feelings for Hinata and that they haven’t really subsided. He thinks he may have a chance this time around.

Part Two - The one where they finally talk to each other
He runs into Hinata and they finally talk, but it’s mostly chit chat and nothing deep. They agree that they can be neighbors without disrupting the peace.
Kageyama looks into the prophet on his computer
Kageyama watches the video and shuts his laptop, finding himself disgusted by the content.
Switch to Hinata’s point of view. Hinata tries to tell himself that the Kageyama he knew is no longer around and he needs to deal with the fact that this is not his Kageyama and he doesn’t have feelings for him.
They run into eachother at the laundromat.
They get to really talking and reminiscing. And Hinata has to admit that it feels just like the old days.
Kageyama talks about what it was like during the rising for him. (We get a clue here that Kageyama was the first to rise.)
Hinata talks about what the rising was like for him.
They end on a really good note. Both left with a really warm feeling of validation.

Part Three - The one where Kageyama finds out what Hinata has been doing and Hinata thinks that Kageyama may be loyal to the prophet.
Kageyama wakes up one morning to find a small baggie of blue oblivion outside his door along with a note card with a place and time written on the back.
He sets it aside with no intention of using it
After his daily shot, Kageyama gets ready to go to the market and hears Hinata talking on his phone in the stairwell.
He listens in as Hinata talks about how he maybe has found the first risen.
Hinata seems to be reluctantly giving details such as the time and place of the rising, which just so happens to be Kageyama’s details.
Kageyama races back to his apartment, feeling scared and confused, and maybe just a little bit heartbroken and betrayed.
Hinata searches Kageyama out, to ask him to dinner, but Kageyama is being cagey and Hinata sees his laptop and the bottle of Blue Oblivion.
They fight and a lot of ugly stuff comes out, not just the current issues, but stuff from their past as well.
When Hinata leaves, Kageyama weeps and as he does so he begins to feel an ache in his chest that he can’t explain. He shouldn’t feel anything, but it is there nonetheless. He wonders if maybe the prophet is right and Blue Oblivion is the only way to be himself. If Hinata doesn’t even care, why should he?
Hinata goes back to his own apartment upset about Kageyama and wondering if maybe his extremist group is right, maybe they really aren’t people. Maybe they aren’t safe at all, especially if Kageyama is considering taking the Blue Oblivion.
He calls his contact back to get the full assignment, and the assignment is really shocking. He has to kill Kageyama. (If I do find the first risen, what do you want me to do?)
Part Four - The one where love overcomes all, even death itself.
Kageyama watches the morning news.
There’s been a zombie attack, extremists following the prophet have take blue oblivion on the train and killed six people. They were not apprehended.
Kageyama pours his blue oblivion down the drain. He knows that’s not the answer to his troubles.
Hinata gets a special dagger in the mail.
He’s supposed to kill Kageyama with it, but he is in shock about it, uncertain.
Kageyama needs closure about his death and new undead life.
He goes to his grave.
Hinata follows him with the dagger hidden in his jacket.
He’s not really planning to kill Kageyama, he’s just moving through shock and not clear on what he plans to do.
Hinata comes up to find Kageyama collapsed over his dug out grave, crying. He admits to himself that he can’t kill him and that he wants to help him
He hugs Kageyama and they start to talk about everything. Kageyama tells Hinata about the blue oblivion and Hinata tells Kageyama about the extremist group.
Kageyama’s chest is aching hard again and his head hurts.
Hinata takes Kageyama back to his apartment so they can keep talking
They talk about the past, past feelings, honest feelings, about how they both loved each other but were too young to recognize it until later
Hinata promises to do everything he can to keep Kageyama safe and Kageyama promises the same thing.
They kiss and Kageyama’s heart begins to beat.
He’s cheeks flush, he’s head no longer hurts, and his skin grows warm. He’s alive again.
They go to Sugawara for help.
Sugawara takes them and their evidence to the police.
The police promise to take down both groups with the information.
Kageyama and Hinata go back home where Kageyama takes a shower and he has real food for dinner with Hinata.
They are together and will be for the rest of their lives because neither of them wants to miss out on a second chance.
The world might still be crazy, but together they’ve just found the real cure to PDS. The future is bright.

Important Terms
PDS/Partially Deceased Syndrome - the name given to the zombies by the government to help separate those that are medicated from those that are not.
Blue Oblivion - a drug being used by the Undead Liberation Army that counteracts the effects of the drug the government is using to control the zombies. It causes the PDS sufferers to return to their baser zombie selves. In effect it makes them dangerous once more.
Undead Liberation Army - The organization run in secret by someone known only as “The Prophet” dedicated to freeing the PDS sufferers from what they consider unjust government controls.