Chương 107: Time Goes On

Kouta then begins a narrative of events in the world. Four months after Lucy's death, the World Health Organization forbade any human births due to the outbreak of births of horned children who would kill Humans as they grew older. Arakawa developed the vaccine needed to prevent these births but seemed unhappy with the fame and recognition she once craved so badly. Between the people killed by the horned children, and the lack of new human births, humankind faced extinction before the widespread inoculations of the vaccine, but once they were in place, the birth ban would be lifted soon, albeit with Earth's population decreased by a large number for some time to come.