Chapter 35 – Academy Apocalypse (6)
Push push push!
A nail that never shoots.
Hirano’s ability to accurately kill one with each shot with the skill of a sharpshooter was a gem itself.
However, the downside of these firearms is that they have to be loaded.
Hirano said to Saya when there were only a few shots left.
“Fight Takagi!”
“Why should I do such a thing! My role is to use my head, not my body!”
“The magazine will run out soon!”
“So what! You can refill it soon!”
“But… The one behind you?”
“What? Uh, kyaaaaa!!”
Her screams rang out.
Saya tripped behind her and fell over.
Guys coming towards her like that.
“Do not come… Don’t come closer… !”
But he wasn’t the one to listen to it.
Whoops, open mouth.
I could clearly see the blood and flesh of someone stuck in my teeth.
Saya didn’t stay still, rummaged through her bag and pulled out something that could be used as a weapon.
It was an electric drill.
“I mean don’t come!”
Pooh-!
She put the drill between the foreheads of the approaching guys.
Wiiying, the spinning electric drill pierced the skin and pierced the guy’s head.
Blood splattered everywhere.
“Damn it! Die! Die!”
While she was dealing with the guys, the five people who came to her after hearing her scream hardened their expressions when they saw the scene. Then, neither you nor I moved to deal with the remaining guys.
The one that stood out the most was Seojun.
A head flew through the air each time his model rocked.
Seeing that scene, Kendo club captain Saeko Busujima murmured.
“Amazing…”
She also had enough skills to win the national competition, but she was completely different from that.
Her gaze turned hazy at the graceful swordsmanship that was unmatched in beauty.
After tidying up, Seo-jun looked at the place where he could feel the hot gaze. Then he waved her hand at Saeko, who was clearly looking at him.
Saeko also accepted the greeting with a smile.
“Are you okay?”
“Miyamoto… Whoops.”
After a series of tidying up, Rei and Shizuka approached Saya, who was mentally upset, to comfort her. And Saeko said to Seo-jun, who was watching her.
“You know Marika and the nurse, right? I am Saeko Busujima, Class 3 A. Your performance just now was very impressive.”
“Thank you for taking good care of me. My name is Seojun Lee, an exchange student from Korea. Just call me Jun.”
“Um, Jun. Memorized.”
“You are Busujima-senpai, who won last year’s national competition! I am Miyamoto Rei from the Spear Club!”
“Ah, I’m Kouta Hirano from Class B…”
“This is Komuro Takashi.”
Mum.
After hearing everyone’s names, Saeko replied with a smile.
“I wish you well.”
It was such an attractive smile that Takashi and Hirano’s faces turned red.
Seeing this, Saya groaned.
“What is it, everyone is waiting in vain. What’s the senior Miyamoto is also in the middle of the day, so they’re the same age.”
“Huh? What are you talking about, Takagi?”
“Don’t be stupid! Because I’m a genius! If you put your mind to it, you won’t lose to anyone! I, I… !”
Seo-joon approached her as she screamed in excitement.
Then she fed the chestnuts to her forehead.
“Ah! What are you doing!”
“Calm down. If you shout like that, they will hear you and come.”
“… Suck!”
At Seo-jun’s warning, she shut her mouth.
Then she looked around her with her anxious eyes, but when she realized that she couldn’t see them, she let out a sigh of relief.
“… Something like that I know.”
“Did you scream like that knowingly?”
Food.
Seo-joon smiled and stroked her hair as if to calm her down.
“Enough now. That’s enough. So it’s okay to not pretend to be strong anymore.”
“… Pretending to be strong! I was originally… What.”
Shiver.
Tears running down her cheeks.
It poured like a burst of water everywhere. Seo-joon hugged her carefully and patted her on the back affectionately.
“… Whoops. Whoa!”
Saya cried in Seo-jun’s arms.
Even though they were her bastards for her, they were the same as making her first murder.
Although he is a genius, he was only a student, so such a reaction is natural. And the others, too, knew that she was pretending to be strong, so she only watched with concern.
***
After a while.
Seo-joon and his party entered the teachers’ room.
Then, they blocked the entrance with various objects. Then everyone sighed and sat down to rest.
As if Saya Takagi was much better than before, she washed her face in the sink in the teachers’ room.
After washing her face, she removed her contact lenses and put on her glasses. Hirano, who was about to call her, blushed at her new look.
“What is it, Hirano?”
“No, that… Glasses.”
“I can’t help it because my contact lenses fall off!”
“Mi-sorry!”
Seojun, who was looking at the two of them, said.
“Oh, the glasses look good on you.”
“What, what?”
Saya is taken aback by Seo-jun’s sudden praise.
But then she turned her head away with her flushed face.
“Huh, heh! Even if you praise me like that, nothing comes out?!”
“I didn’t really ask for anything.”
Seojun shrugged.
Seeing her calm expression, she muttered cautiously.
“… Thank you earlier.”
“It was nothing. More than that, Marika and Sensei. So where are the car keys?”
“Oh, it will be in this bag.”
At his question, Shizuka went through her bag.
Saeko, who was watching it, asked.
“Hmm, but is this a car we can all ride?”
“Ah… !”
It didn’t seem like it when I saw the reaction.
Hirano gave his opinion.
“How about a minibus for side trips? There is a key on the wall. It’s still there.”
Then he pointed out her window.
As he said, he saw a parked bus.
“But where are you going to run to?”
“I need to check on my family. Do it in the form of looking around everyone’s house in order of proximity. By rescuing the family if necessary and then finding a safe place.”
“You will find it. The police and the Self-Defense Forces are probably on the move too. There must be a place like an evacuation center like in the case of an earthquake.”
While the party was talking, Seo-jun turned on the TV in search of the remote control.
Beep, the news is flowing.
Ray, who was by Seo-jun’s side, saw it and opened her eyes wide.
“What is this… !”
The eyes of the other party gather at her astonishment.
Seojun immediately raised his voice.
-… No see. The government has announced that it will consider emergency measures against this riot, which is protested from all over the place. However, regarding the security activities of the Self-Defense Forces, there is a strong prudence regardless of party…
I also checked other channels.
A reporter was filming on the spot.
– There are also claims that the damage to local residents has already exceeded 1,000. Declaration of emergency and request for disaster response according to the instructions…
Taang-!!
An audible gunshot cuts off the reporter’s voice.
There was an uproar on the screen.
-It’s firing!! Finally the police opened fire! The situation is unknown, but… Aaaaagh! Oh, help me!
A reporter screaming at the oncoming thugs.
Soon after, the screen switched with noise. The anchor stuttered his words in a cold sweat.
– No, it seems that something went wrong. Ji, from now on, the studio will inform you.
Ray, who was watching TV, screamed.
“Why, why is it only that!”
“You are afraid of confusion.”
“Come now?”
“Because this is the time. Fear begets chaos, and chaos begets order. And when order collapses… How are you going to stand up to those walking corpses? Fear is like an epidemic. Once it starts spreading, there is no way to stop it. And humans who are tainted with fear lose the will to resist. Even if you don’t have to, you don’t know if a human who has lost hope will do anything. If that happens, it’s all over.”
Saya replied, raising her glasses.
Everything she said made sense. Ray also seemed genuine.
‘I don’t mean to call myself a genius for nothing.’
It is difficult for a normal student to think like that.
It’s clear that she has a brilliant brain, as she says she is a genius who lives on her lips.
Well, anyway, the party focused their attention on the TV again.
There, the same situation occurred in the United States, the White House was abandoned, communication with Moscow was lost, the whole city in Beijing was in a sea of fire, and London was relatively safe, but Paris and Rome were said to be looted.
The faces of the companions darken.
It came as a great shock that not only did this happen in Japan, but that the whole world became like this in just a few hours.
Saya, who had been watching the screen silently, opened her mouth.
“This is a pandemic, an infection explosion. It means that the same disease is prevalent all over the world.”
“Is it like influenza?”
“It might be more like the Black Death of the 14th century…”
“At that time, a third of the population of Europe was dead.”
“How did the epidemic stop then?”
“If too many people die, it naturally ends. Because no one gets infected.”
“… But all the dead are moving and attacking.”
“That means there is no reason for the spread to stop.”
At that time, Sazuka said as if she remembered something.
“Ah, it will get hotter from now on, so if your flesh rots and turns into white bones, you might not be able to move.”
“How much will that be?”
“Mmm, in the summer, in about 20 days, some parts will be just bones. A few months in the winter. But it’s not too long ago…”
Saya responded to that.
“I don’t know if it rots or not. A corpse that wanders around and attacks people. It has already gone beyond the realm of medicine. It could be like that forever.”
The atmosphere is triangulated again.
At that moment, Seo-jun stood up and clapped his hands.
“Sleep, stop.”
Gaze directed at him.
Seojun said to them.
“Even if we argue here for no reason, there is no way to know why such a thing happened and there is no way to stop it. Because making a vaccine is only for experts. So let’s put the complexity aside and do what we can for now.”
“… Hmm. Jun is right.”
At Seo-jun’s words, Saeko nodded. In response to her response, Seo-joon continued.
“Let’s start with the first goal. First we have to escape from here. To do that, you need to form a team.”
“Well, after confirming the safety of the family, it is also important where to run away. Anyway, you can’t survive if you wander around at will. As Jun said, we will form a team.”
Everyone in the party agreed with the words of the two strong by force.
“Then, before escaping, let’s assemble information about 〈 and 〉.”
So the party put their heads together and started talking about them one by one.
Hirano Kouta (mild virtue, general virtue)
