The massacre at the end-of-summer festival in Kamakura comes after Lucy kills the other children in the orphanage, and directly precedes the grisly double murder of Kouta's father and sister. This event would throw aside young Lucy's remaining hopes at living together with humans, at least until she met another, unfortunately, doomed friend. It is also the second instance of Lucy killing other people in a fit of emotion-fueled passion (the first being her lashing out at the bullies of the orphanage), and notable for her slaying an innocent person in the spur of the moment for no other reason than because of their being in the way. Even the murders of individuals inside their homes before this massacre was a mean to an end, something she gave little thought to and could justify with her nee