[Warning: This chapter will feature extreme descriptions of violence.]
Day: 1
Time: 6:00 P.M.
Location: Kirishima High School
Time until Daybreak: 12 Hours Left
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Chie's ears perked up as she heard some unsettling buzzing noises coming from somewhere. She was still studying the dead monster's body when the buzzing sound stopped her.
"Do you guys hear that buzzing sound?" Chie asked, trying to determine if she was not the only one hearing it.
"I also hear it, it sounds close. Stay alert."
Everyone is in alert mode and grabs their own set of weapons that they can use to attack whatever causing the sound is. Aside from that, the other noises happening around the surroundings of the school sounds so unsettling. Screams and explosions seems to occur in quick succession the moment 6 in the evening hits.
"I do not like the situation right now," Chie whispered to herself as she returned to her work. She is almost done with it.
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Okabe and Kyosei quickly head to the rope with the rope ascender as they traverse from the gymnasium to the clock tower. While Okabe is trying his best not to look below, Kyosei has a passing glance at the situation below ground, and seeing all the squirming zombies below makes him a bit uneasy. He wasn't supposed to look at the situation below too much when he noticed a zombie run towards the gymnasium along with the others. That's when Kyosei realized something.
"Don't tell me they are now running?"
The moment they arrived at the opposite building and Okabe was finally safe, Kyosei looked below and he wasn't just seeing things. Zombies are running. Although the lights are off, the bright moon is enough to illuminate the area, and seeing the chaos is enough to make his skin crawl.
The only people left in the gymnasium are the adults and Miyuki. Without wasting any more time, the moment Okabe removed the harness from his body, Kyosei quickly returned to the gymnasium. The faster they are going to finish this, the better. When he returned to the room, both Mr. Leo and Mrs. Haruna were ready. He quickly handed the Harness to Mrs. Haruna and he handed the rope ascender to Mr. Leo.
"Sir, you know how to use this, yes?" Kyosei asked as he handed the rope ascender.
"Of course, before becoming a teacher, I was a construction worker before. I used this many times in the past, there is no way I will not be able to use it," Mr. Leo is very confident in it.
"Alright, here and take this so that it is easy to rappel the rope with Mrs. Haruna. However, can you also carry Miyuki too? I know I am asking a lot but..."
Before he can finish his words, Miyuki's voice can be heard from the outside. Kyosei peeks outside and finds the situation not good.
"Sh*t, sh*t! The whole jig is up! Mr. Leo, Mrs. Haruna, go!" Miyuki shouted as she entered the room. Behind her is Kaze and his group approaching. Most of them wore expressions that did not look good.
"Oy, Prez! What's the meaning of this?! And here I thought you are loyal to our cause!" Kaze grins like a maniac, seemingly looking at Miyuki with lustful eyes.
"No way in hell I will be loyal to your cause, you massive pervert! What the hell did you mean that we girls are just some things that would be used for procreation?! You piece of sh*t!" Miyuki starts to curse at Kaze and although that is the most unusual thing for Miyuki to do, Kyosei is not weirded out of this and just doesn't mind her shouting that, especially if it comes to Kaze himself.
"Accept the truth and the hard truth, Prez! The world is about to end and we, the survivors, should usher in a new era! We can't just let the people die in vain! If you want, you can be my Queen, and together, we will rebuild this world back to the good old days!"
"SUCK THAT IDEOLOGY OF YOURS BACK TO YOUR ARSE!"
Miyuki quickly ran towards the room. Mrs. Haruna and Mr. Leo just finished their preparation as well.
Realizing the situation, Kyosei quickly grabs Miyuki's hand and shoves her to Mr. Leo.
"Sir, forgive me for being disrespectful but use your muscles and carry both of these girls to safety!"
"Kyosei?!" Miyuki was startled by this.
Mr. Leo was also surprised but he quickly recovered and grabbed Miyuki, surprising her. Mrs. Haruna also holds Miyuki, making her unable to move away.
"Mr. Leo?! Mrs. Haruna, what are you doing?! What about Kyosei?!"
Kaze quickly caught up and entered the room, seeing the situation they were in, his eyes went wide in anger.
"What in the hell is going on?!"
Kyosei readied his crowbar and looked at everyone behind him. "GO!"
Mr. Leo nodded and did not hesitate to use the rope ascender to escape the area.
"Get them! Don't let them get away!" Kaze ordered and the students and teachers who were now following Kaze's words who were with him quickly tried to follow the group but Kyosei blocked their way and without hesitation began his attack.
"Pass over me first before you bastards can get to them."
For regular students and delinquents, Kyosei is known for the wild rumors and how he is a dangerous individual, but now that there is no need for repercussions for attacking someone physically, they are unafraid of him and attacked.
"You people are asking for it," Kyosei kicks the first guy who goes near him, and before he bashes his face squarely with the crowbar's hook, tearing off the flesh on his face. The others didn't expect it and stopped their attacks midway when the guy who got attacked by the crowbar started screaming as blood flowed through his face.
"What the hell?!" the others were terrified by the situation and now they are apprehensive. Of course, a teacher quickly tried to use his authority as an adult.
"What in the world are you doing, Kyosei!? Are you trying to get into jail?!"
Kyosei looked at him with a serious stare before Kyosei proceeded to stab the squirming man with his crowbar's chisel end straight to his face, ending his life immediately.
Seeing how Kyosei barely flinched when he did it, the rest of them backed off in fear.
"Going to jail? That's rich coming from you guys who are already establishing their "kingdom" even though humanity hasn't lost."
Looking at the rope, it seems that the trio safely arrived at the opposite building just fine. He can use this rope to escape and get to the opposite building, but he isn't happy that these guys are still alive. Which is why Kyosei has an idea of what to do next.
They are still terrified by his action of killing someone. For Kyosei however, if killing a corrupted individual like them is a sin, then he will gladly become a sinner. If he leaves them alive, these guys will become a potential problem later on. Better eliminate them while the world is now lawless.
"Are you not afraid of God? You have now sinned for killing someone! Even if you die, God will no longer forgive you!" another tried to guilt by using words...which of course had no effect on Kyosei.
"That's fine. After all, it's my job to send you all to Him and repent."
Kaze not liking Kyosei's behavior can no longer hold back. "Enough with the pretense, this guy is no longer sane! Kill him!"
Hearing this shout alone was enough for the men to trigger their response and they started to attack all at once. Kyosei, however, is not someone to be messed with whether in group fights or solo. Pulling out the knife he tucked on his belt, he swung the crowbar to one of the guys near him and pulled him near before stabbing the guy in the chest. Kyosei didn't just do it once, the moment he stabbed the chest one time, he repeated it in quick succession before throwing the lifeless body of the student he killed to the other attackers before proceeding to defend himself from another attack.
Using his crowbar to attack and defend, the situation quickly turned around for them. Kyosei might be alone right now, but his movements are quick and precise. His attacks are not to be messed with as he only uses the knife if he is sure of the kill. The most common points he uses the knife would be on the chest and the jugular. Even big-bodied teenagers are not a problem.
Blood had splattered on his clothes but Kyosei didn't mind. All that was on his mind was to deal with the group as soon as possible.
It didn't take him too long to dispose of all of them, leaving Kaze and the teachers who refused to fight. All those who have attacked him are lying on the floor and are now bathing in their blood.
Kaze slowly backs off as Kyosei slowly approaches them.
"Damn it...damn it!" As much as he likes to flaunt, Kaze is not as threatening as Kyosei. He is the definition of "All bark but no bite" while Kyosei is the exact opposite being "silent but deadly."
As much as Kaze wanted to teach Kyosei a lesson, it seems that the one who will be getting a lesson is them instead. But as Kyosei was about to go and dispatch Kaze, everyone heard the screams behind them from the girls inside the gymnasium. And Kyosei has an idea of what is happening.
With how the zombies seem to start running the moment nighttime hits, the zombies are also enhanced as well, which is not a good thing. And now, Kyosei knew that the place had been breached.
Screams engulfed the place as the zombies flooded through the gap that was made after the zombies destroyed it and quickly attacked everyone.
Kaze panics as he looks around on where to escape when he sees the rope that is still there that was used earlier by Miyuki and the others. Kyosei has been distracted from the situation which he quickly took advantage of by shoving Kyosei to the side and immediately climbing through the rope, no matter how unstable it was without the rope ascender.
Kyosei was surprised but he quickly recovered from the shove and saw Kaze was already halfway through the rope. Looking at the situation, the teachers who are left behind are trying to help the students so they don't notice Kaze ditching them. Seeing this, he grabs the rope tight on the end. Putting the crowbar on his belt and keeping the knife, he looked below the gymnasium and could see the zombies even jumping trying to reach Kaze who was laughing maniacally as he slowly crossed the rope.
Now that he is almost there and the zombies behind him are already in the room, Kyosei cuts the rope with the knife, causing Kaze who was confidently climbing the rope to see himself coming face to face with a wall.
"AAAAAAAHHHHH!"
Because it was a totally unexpected action, Kaze who was holding onto the rope fell as his screams echoed as he fell over. Kyosei who is already in a good position on the rope used it to swing to the clocktower. Using his feet, he used it to land on it while gripping the rope hard, allowing him to remain there.
Beneath the music in his headphones, Kyosei heard a small thud from below followed by screams of anguish and pain as the guy desperately cried for help. However, Kyosei is certain that he is now being mauled by the zombies. If not, he is bound to be, especially after that fall, since he didn't die from that height by some miracle, he likely suffered fractures and multiple broken bones, rendering him from moving further. Doubt he will be able to move again after that.
As for Kyosei, once the guy is gone, the rope is good to use. He quickly started climbing. Above him is everyone ready to cut the rope when Kaze started to scale the rope for himself but seeing that the poor guy fell below, they waited for Kyosei to appear in their vision before they started helping him to climb up by pulling the rope.
The moment Kyosei managed to climb to safety, Miyuki who seemed to be crying hugged him.
"Kyosei! You are safe!"
Kyosei was startled and quickly pushed Miyuki after she hugged him. "Hey, don't hug me. Also, I am in a bloody mess, you would be better off not hugging me with all this sticky stuff on my clothes."
Instead of getting angry, Miyuki only sighed in relief and smiled. "It's fine. You survived and that is all that matters."
The others are also happy with the result and are seemingly at peace about the situation but Kyosei shakes his head.
"It's too early to celebrate. Just now, those zombies have broken through the defenses of the gym and everyone inside is either a zombie now or has been torn apart limb by limb, unable to become a zombie after they have been torn to pieces. The block on the door might not be enough, we should be careful."
While everyone agreed, Kyosei heard a weird buzzing sound. His music in the headphones shouldn't be having any buzzing noises from the sound of it so he removed his headphones for a bit and listened closely and indeed, a buzzing noise can still be heard.
"Is there something in here that is making a buzzing noise?" Kyosei asked.
Souichi shook his head. "I have been looking for that source of the noise ever since we heard it. Still couldn't find it."
Kyosei listened closely this time around. There wasn't any buzzing sound before they came here so what is causing this? It shouldn't be the clock tower itself as the place would shake if it was buzzing like that. It was like some sort of insect buzz. Similar to a mosquito...
"I think...the sound came from above?"
When Kyosei said that, Cindy who quickly looked up immediately pointed above and shouted, "Something is flying over there!"
Following Cindy's voice, everyone looked at the direction and soon spotted a few flying creatures buzzing for quite some time in the dark. There are silhouettes of some flying things that are hiding in the dark.
"Quick, flash it with a flashlight!" Miyuki ordered.
Nanami who was holding the flashlight they found earlier turned it on and put the light on the flying bugs, revealing their true nature.
"What the?! Are those mosquitoes?! What the hell, why are they so big?!"
The mosquitoes seemed to have understood that they were spotted and they quickly went down from flying above them to attack. They look big from afar but they look bigger in person. A mosquito is normally small in size but the mosquitoes they are seeing are about the size of a human head. And their wing flaps is very noisy like there was some machine making the noise itself.
Kyosei readied the crowbar and rallied everyone. "To arms! It doesn't matter if they got big or not, they are still bugs, squish them and get rid of them!"
Souichi is the first to take a move. The moment one of the mosquitoes got really near, he didn't hesitate to swing the bat quickly which caught the mosquito. They are fast when they are small but when they get bigger, their mobility slows down, allowing them to easily catch and squash them.
Thanks to Kyosei's call, everyone managed to get the mosquitoes and killed them all. Chie gathers their little corpses on the ground and although most of them have been squashed from the weapons used to bash them dead, they can still be studied.
"Looks like my work is not done yet," Chie sighed and scratched her head.
"How about the one that looks like a dog, you done with it?" Kyosei asked.
"Thankfully, I did. And yes, just like what you said, Kyosei, this creature does look like a dog, however, upon closer inspection, although the form looks like a dog, the skeletal structure of this monster is none other than a human's.