Chapter 41 of “Sankarea” came out in the June 2013 issue of Bessatsu Shounen Magazine on pages 300 to 322. The Japanese title is “Bakana Hito” and the English second title is “Evolution”.
The story starts right out with the zombie owls attacking Boyle as Darlene screams a meter away. Salvia laughs and sarcastically tells Boyle that it was too bad that Boyle was unwilling to join him. Salvia adds that it doesn't matter because Boyle's last work and the “sample” will provide Salvia with what he needs anyway.
Darlene then yells out, chases off the owls and throws herself on top of Boyle. Boyle asks her if she intends to double suicide with him. Salvia laughs and says that must be what she wants. He then orders Tou off to finish off the two. But Tou chases off the other zombie owls and just perches on Darlene.
Salvia swears and asks Darlene when she re-programmed Tou. Darlene admits to changing the programming in the owls so that they would protect her and Rea and leave them alone. Darlene then turns to Boyle and tries to encourage him to hang on. But Boyle tells her that he can't even move his body a little and that he only has moments left. Boyle then turns to Salvia and tells him that he came back to atone. At this point Salvia realizes that Chihiro and Rea have gotten away.
At that moment Chihiro is in a sample storage room where he is looking for the bottles of zombie drug. He spills a bunch of pills on the ground and pours some oil over them. He then lights a match to the pile which starts burning. This way the fire alarms will go off. While he is doing that Rea is still pondering who Chihiro is and why she can't remember when she met him. Just then a guard comes in, but Chihiro and Rea escape as the fire explodes.
Down below Salvia hears the fire alarms go off and realizes that the sample storage room in on fire and that it will explode and destroy everything. He starts to swear at Boyle again, who comments back that the explosion will be a flashy display. Salvia pushes Rosalie away in anger, leaving Rosalie holding Babu again.
Babu looks at Rosalie and makes his “bafu” noise, and Rosalie responds with curiosity. But then Babu suddenly jumps out of Rosalie's arms and slashes her throat open and her neck halfway off. Salvia screams out his zombie girl's name and starts to swear at the cat. This attracts Babu's attention. Darlene thinks to herself that Babu received the perfected zombie medication. At this point Salvia whistles for the owls to tear Babu to bits, but Babu jumps up and smashes Salvia in his left eye, driving in pieces of broken eyeglass lenses. As Salvia thrashes around, temporarily blinded, the sample tubes drop out of his lab coat pockets and fall to the ground.
Salvia holds his face while he calls out for Rosalie. Rosalie comes over to him and Salvia takes her face in his hands, her head dangling almost off of her slashed neck. Rosalie suddenly pushes Salvia over the railing with her hands and he falls holding on to her torn off head. Rosalie's headless body collapses to the ground while the zombie owls fly down after Salvia into the dark.
Tears start to flow from Darlene's eyes. Boyle comments how, to the end, Salvia was an idiot.
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