20th Century Boys Vol. 13 (manga)
The Friend is dead. As the news spreads around the world, the members of
the Friends’ executive committee are faced with a dilemma: Is it all
over, or will the events predicted in the New Book of Prophecy still be
carried out? Otcho insists that things are not over at all, and that is
exactly what his old nemesis—Number 13—tells the fractious Friends’
committee, where quite a few members are prepared to call it quits. Soon
thereafter, certain members begin disappearing, one after another.
Also, Otcho relays to Kanna what he learned about her mother, Kiriko. In
2003, Kiriko appeared at Dr. Yamane’s laboratory just as he was
developing his deadliest virus yet. The two lab partners would work in
tandem, with Yamane developing a new virus and Kiriko contributing a
vaccine. But was Dr. Yamane simply being naïve, or did he realize that
he was helping to create the means for the Friends to annihilate 99
percent of the world’s population in the year 2015?!