Chapter 42 – Academy Apocalypse (13)
“Well, it’s definitely worse than during the day.”
Saeko, who was looking around through binoculars, murmured.
When Seojun is having a good time with Ray.
Hirano, Takashi, and Saeko gathered on the veranda due to the commotion outside. A man hunting them with a shotgun tries to give them a dropped bullet, but soon becomes prey.
“Damn it, that’s too cruel…”
Clap.
As Takashi tries to aim the gun he is holding, Hirano stops him.
“Komuro!”
“Why?”
“What do you plan on shooting?”
“That’s obvious! Shoot them… !”
Saeko cut him off.
“Have you forgotten? They respond to sound, Komuro-kun.”
“… Kut.”
Takashi clenched his fists in resentment.
Saeko leaned over and added her words as if admonishing him.
“… And the living see the light and us and come in droves. Unlike them.”
Click.
Saeko turned off the lights in her room.
A pitch-black darkness settled around them. She had her say.
“Besides, of course, we don’t have the power to save all the survivors. They have to survive on their own. Just like we do.”
After saying that, Saeko handed her the binoculars she had.
“So take a good look. And get used to it Already this world has turned into a world where just being a man can’t survive.”
“… I thought Busujima-senpai had a slightly different idea.”
“Hmm, don’t get me wrong, Komuro-kun. I’m just saying that the reality is. I don’t like it.”
“… I’m sorry for speaking casually.”
“It’s okay. It’s only been a day, so it’s not strange to have such thoughts.”
Having said that, Saeko went inside the building and Takashi sat down to use her binoculars.
Hirano, who was next to him, gave a warning.
“When you look outside, do not be exposed. Because there is nothing good to see.”
“Okay.”
Swoop.
He looked around with his binoculars.
Those who are being eaten, those who flee.
Death tag was going on all over the place. Takashi bit his lip slightly at the terrible sight. Then, suddenly, I found a person who stood out.
“… Girl?”
It was the figure of a girl running away, led by her father’s hand.
***
“Dad, what about Mom?”
The girl asked.
The girl’s father corrected his expression and said.
“I can meet my mother later. Now, come here.”
I’m sorry.
He entered the yard of a private house.
When I came in, I closed the yard door that had been opened so that it would not open. He walked over to the lighted porch and knocked.
“Please! Let me in! They are running away with the child!”
No answer came.
Clearly, not being heard even though the light is on means pretending not to be there.
He knocked once and told me to open it.
Then a voice came from inside.
“No! Find another place!”
“Please! I don’t care what happens, please baby! Even my daughter!”
No answer came back.
His daughter called to him with a worried look.
“Dad?”
“… I can’t help it.”
He raised the monkey spanner he was holding.
“Open it! If you don’t open it, I’ll smash this door!! Don’t destroy me now!!”
“Wait a minute! Okay! I’ll open the door now, don’t break it!”
The bluff worked.
The man who had no intention of breaking it in the first place had a bright expression on his face.
Profit.
Front door open.
He thanked them for opening up.
“Thank you! I live thanks to… Uh?”
Hot pain.
Looking down, he saw a kitchen knife fixed to a rolling pin stabbing him in the chest. He was stabbed so hard that his clothes were soaked with blood on the other side as well.
Inside, the extended family looked at him with apologetic faces.
“I’m sorry… I’m really sorry… !”
Weapon recovered.
Whoops, the front door was shut tight.
The man fell behind him, clutching his chest.
“Dad! Dad!”
“Dad is fine… So, hide quickly. So that no one can find… Hide somewhere…”
The light in the eyes of the man who was talking to her while stroking her daughter’s hair soon goes out.
The daughter cried out as she grabbed her father, who had gone completely silent.
“Dad? Dad?! No! Hate it! I’ll be with you daddy! I will always be with my dad!! Whoa!!”
And the guys were drawn to the sound and came towards the girl.
Takashi, who had been watching the scene from the beginning, gritted his teeth.
“Shit… !!”
I wanted to go get it.
However, she remembered what Saeko had said earlier.
What if he steps out here and causes damage to his teammates?
He had no choice but to close his eyes tightly so as not to see the disaster that was about to happen.
It was then.
A voice came from the side.
“Rock On!”
Taang-!!!
Hirano’s muzzle spewed fire.
And the head of one of the guys who tried to pounce on the girl exploded.
“It’s a one-shot headshot with a gun from someone who hasn’t even fired a test shot… I am also a genius at this. Well, the distance is less than 100 meters.”
Taang! Taang!
Those who tried to attack the girl are knocked down one after another by Hirano’s shot.
Seeing Hirano like that, Takashi smiled lightly and called out to him.
“Hirano.”
“Why?”
“Didn’t you say you wouldn’t shoot? You say you leave others alone in order to survive?”
“You’re a little girl! Will you save it? I will fire support from here!”
“… Okay!”
Takashi immediately grabbed his weapon and went down.
At that time, he ran into Seo-joon who opened the door and came out.
“Is something going on?”
“Oh, I’m going to find the girl.”
“A girl?”
Hmm.
Seojun touched his chin for a moment.
To that, Takashi briefly explained the circumstances. Seo-joon, who had listened, shook his head willingly.
“Well, it will be fine. Would you rather go alone than that?”
“Uh. It’s less than 100 meters away.”
“It’s good to ask, but that’s conceit. I’d rather go.”
Takashi thought for a moment.
Then, he nodded his head.
Because he seemed so much more likely than he was going to be.
“Okay. Then I’ll keep it here.”
“Where is the location?”
“The yard of the lighted house about 100 meters east of here.”
“Okay.”
Seojun drew his sword.
It was his time from now on.
When he arrived at the front door, Saeko, who was guarding him, patted him on the shoulder.
“I pray for your safe return. I will protect this place no matter what, so feel free to go.”
Seojun nodded and came out.
***
“Let’s check the location first.”
Seo-joon gave strength to his legs.
And he just jumped up. He climbed on top of a wall about two meters high, and landed on the roof with one more spur.
He looked up on the roof in the direction Takashi had pointed out and raised his eyesight.
‘Over there.’
Looks like a girl
He jumped right from roof to roof and ran towards the girl.
And Hirano, who was watching him, opened his mouth wide.
“… Are you really human?”
Arriving at the place he was aiming for in less than a minute, Seo-joon immediately cut down the ones left in the yard and then approached the girl who was trembling in the corner.
There was a puppy next to the girl. As if trying to protect the girl.
“You held up well. Were you very scared? You will be fine now.”
“Oh, thank you…”
Seojun, who stroked his head as if to reassure him, looked around.
Outside the yard, there were guys gathering. The number seemed to be well over a hundred. Due to the nature of being attracted by sound, it seemed that all the guys in the vicinity were gathered.
‘Seeing how things have turned out, I can’t trust the guys in this house, so I’ll have to run away with them.’
It would be much quicker and safer to ride on the roof than to use walking.
Just when Seo-jun was about to act, the girl pulled on his collar.
“Brother… Dad passed away…”
“… Hmm.”
Seo-joon, who had heard the situation roughly, took a white clothes hanging in the yard with a bitter expression and covered the girl’s father’s face.
Then he held out the flower he had picked.
“He died trying to protect you. He is a wonderful father.”
Tears well in the girl’s eyes.
She grabbed the flower that Seo-jun held out and carefully placed it on the body of her father who had fallen.
“Black. Dad… Ahhh! Wow!”
Seo-joon clung to him and kept stroking the crying girl’s head.
Until the crying stops.
“Are you calm?”
“… Huh.”
“Then let’s go to a safe place. Because it is too dangerous here.”
“… How are you going to run away? There are a lot of them on the road.”
“Simple. You can fly in the sky.”
“… Sky?”
A girl shaking her head.
It didn’t take long to understand what that meant.
“Wow! Awesome!”
“Aren’t you scared?”
“Huh! I’m not scared at all!”
Seo-joon jumped on her roof with the girl in his arms.
In Seo-jun’s arms, the girl smiled like a child, as if her sadness had gone a little.
And that’s how the girl’s rescue operation came to an end.
