Panel 1:
Kimura Ran opens her apartment door at sunrise to find a Shelmecian delivery driver holding a mysterious black box addressed to her after the night’s supernatural attack. Panel 2:
Close-up of Kimura Ran cautiously allowing the reptilian courier to bring the mysterious package into her apartment despite her exhaustion and missing left hand. Panel 3:
Kimura Ran awkwardly explains that she injured her arm and cannot carry the heavy box herself while the Shelmecian delivery driver waits at her apartment doorway. Panel 4:
A Shelmecian delivery driver places a mysterious black box inside Kimura Ran’s apartment while she watches suspiciously after surviving a supernatural case involving monsters and magic.

Transcript

Panel 1
Ran: Yeah?
Delivery Driver: Miss Kimura? This is for you.

Panel 2
Ran: Fine. Put it there.

Panel 3
Ran: Umm, please. I hurt my arm…
Ran (Narration): Technically true.

Panel 4
Ran (Narration): Box like that?
Ran (Narration cont'd): Yeah… I’m opening it.

Dead shall rise – Chapter 3 page 10

Posted on July 20, 2026 by Maho Noir

This page continues introducing the quieter side of Maho Noir’s worldbuilding. To Ran, a Shelmecian delivery driver showing up at sunrise with a mysterious package is less alarming than the fact that someone knows where she lives. After the night she’s had, that’s saying something.