Alice challenges North to kiss Connor, but North is in for more than she thinks.

Why anyone still liked him after everything he had put them through was beyond him. Perhaps they were used to him being broken. Perhaps by this point, it was simply a character trait. However, he wondered if Tifa would really forgive him this time. Cloud had pushed and pushed, and he knew that at some point, she would stop coming back. Surely, even Tifa Lockhart had her limits.

In the years following the outbreak of the cordyceps epidemic, Joel and Tommy's struggle for survival triggers the slow deterioration of their relationship. Follow them through the years as they flee their hometown, drift through quarantine zones, learn brutality and survival on the open road, and eventually find themselves in a city called Boston.