As one of the employees said, we both have to wait here to be taken out until the ones out there are finished, just like the rest of society.
Fujita and I mingled in this crowd, becoming refugees and moving away from the humans wearing Wlynina uniforms with blue ties. Because Fujita's and I'm casual attire, we both look like we're not Wlynina Military School students.
I tried my best so Shiva wouldn't notice my presence here. I was afraid of a guy around Shiva, a guy who hit me and Fujita at that time. If Shiva noticed me, she would automatically come here and make the boy follow her.
Leaning back against this wall, I sighed in pain.
"Ah, ah~ want to sleep."
"I also." Fujita sat down and leaned against the wall, "When will this end?"
I don't know when it will end out there. All I know is the presence of Shiva and her friends here distributing and calming the refugees. And besides Shiva and her friends, I saw...
"Don't worry, we're safe here. Teams 4 and 5 are trying to eradicate the beings. So take it easy. Let's sing like cowboys."
The bald guy spoke into the microphone in his hand, reassuring the public to calm down here.
"That person..."
"Oh~ my horse was lost to a thief. Where is my horse at the moment? I do not know. I want to have another horse, but my heart says no. Oh~ my horse, come back! Oh~..."
He sings and made people close their ears. His voice is uglier than mine. So bad, he had to stop now.
"Captain..." A bespectacled boy approached him.
"Hmph? What is wrong? I'm singing, don't talk to me now, Goday!"
"It's not like that, Captain. But they…" The guy turned around and made the bald guy look at the refugees who had covered their ears.
"Oh~ they are happy with me singing. Okay, I-"
"No, stop it!" The guy took the microphone from the bald man's hand. "Your voice shatters their eardrums. So better, stop it!"
If you look closely, the people wearing the uniforms look like people helping me out at the hospital. I'm too familiar with their faces because I've seen them before.
I can confirm the number of those wearing Wlynina Military School uniforms here. There were 19 of them, including Shiva and the bald boy.
"Why are they here? Why don't they fight the beings out there?"
I'm curious about their presence. Since that car, I haven't seen anyone in the Wlynina Military School uniform fight those beings at all. All I saw was the Cop Squad, including their messy corpses.
Are they assigned here? Or, they simply didn't want to fight those Astral Beings?
While I was thinking that, a boy I knew was walking around looking here and there like he was confused.
"Isn't that Yasir?"
"Where?" Fujita quickly looked around, and I helped him look at Andre. "Oh right, it's Andre."
When Fujita was about to shout for him, I covered his mouth and told him to just approach him instead of having to shout for him.
"Okay." Fujita stood up, walked over, and approached Andre.
He talked to Andre in various gestures, smiled, moved his hands left and right, and turned to me.
When they finished talking, Fujita and Andre walked towards her.
As Fujita walked, he seemed to be smiling and holding back his laughter. When he got here, I asked him:
"Why?"
"You want to know?"
"Hmph?" I saw Andre's face turn red behind Fujita.
"Andre came here because he was panicking, he was the number one here. Pff..." Fujita stifled a laugh as if to make fun of Andre who was behind him. "When you think about it, Astral Being's distance from the dorm is quite far, but he rushed here to save himself."
I almost laughed at that. Andre has a pretty scary face, but his mind doesn't show like that face. His mind was still frightened, it needed to be sharpened not to be frightened by the sudden appearance of Astral Beings.
I stood up with a bit of a stagger, then approached Andre, and patted him on the shoulder.
"Yasir, are you okay?"
"Yes. Luckily I was in a hurry here, so I still had time to save myself."
He had pretty good anticipation. He acted quickly to the room in his room to save himself. I slightly salute him, I will not badmouth him, because I know that his mind is not ready for this.
And it seems, it's not only Andre who is a student of Rookie here, but it's also possible that there are others like him. I can tell from the look on their faces who still look 15-16 years old.
"Good. Saving yourself more is more important. After all, neither you nor I have any weapons against those beings, so this is only natural."
It takes a strong mentality to come face to face with those Astral Beings. If they don't have a strong mentality, they will panic, run away, and look for hiding places to survive. This condition could make them easily killed if they encountered that Astral Being because their brains only responded to run away, not to fight. It's more dangerous, right?
I hope that in school there will be lessons to hone their weak mentality. I hope that they are ready to face Astral Being and eradicate it someday.
When I looked from this distance, behind Andre, I saw Karin Nakano there looking around.
A girl approached her, and they seemed to be talking to each other.
I have a bad feeling about this, so I'd better decide to sit down and lean against the wall again, to mingle with the other refugees. I thought that Karin Nakano was looking for me and wanted to scold me again, controlling my life. This had to be prevented so she didn't see me here.
"Yasir..."
"Hmph?"
"Stay by my side. Block me with your body."
"Why?"
"It's nothing, but you have to obey me."
"Okay."
With Andre's body, I can hide my body from where Karin is.
But I forgot one thing, namely the whereabouts of the 19 people.
When I looked ahead, I saw the bald guy was surprised to see me here. He immediately walked over here.
"Damn, I got caught."
"Oh, aren't you..."
I still owe him a favor. He helped me twice, when he gave me a katana and when he released me from the punishment for being late. Even so, I didn't want him to come here and make Karin or Shiva realize I was here.
But it was too late because he was here before I managed to escape from him. He had quite a long stride, so he made his way faster than I expected.
"You are okay? I heard that you were fighting those Astral Beings out there earlier, is that right?"
"Yes. I was out there last night for dinner. But suddenly, Astral Beings appeared and made me fight against it."
"It is true. So, who brought you here? What from my team?"
"Ah~ that-"
"Akio, you're here apparently."
Hearing that voice, the voice from behind the bald guy, I was shocked and panicked.
When Shiva approached, I turned to face the wall and remained silent.
"Oh, it turns out that there is a Team 2 Captain here. Hello."
"Hello too, Shiva."
"Don't come any closer, don't come near, don't come any closer. I'm just a wall, so don't come any closer."
When my body was pulled, making me face directly towards her, I slowly opened my eyes and saw Shiva was already in front of me.
"Akio, are you okay? Why did you risk your life outside earlier? Do you want to die?"
"Hey, you-" Andre tried to grab Shiva's arm because he looked at me like he was being threatened. But...
Shiva turned to Andre quickly with a sharp look.
"Don't try to hold me, trash!"
Andre was speechless without a single word coming out of his mouth. He was surprised and took a step back while slowly lowering his hand.
Ah~ this is terrible. Shiva was so rude to him, she needed chili in her mouth.
My intention was like that, but I was also scared to see Shiva's face like that. I can't even help Andre with this. I'm sorry, Andre.
"Pffff, pffff. I saw a bird here, where is it now? Pfff, pffff." Fujita whistled and slowly walked away from here. He just ran away, knowing that this condition would get him scolded again.
"Fujitora..."
"Fujita, desu."
Fujita left his friend just like that, the traitor, who did not have high solidarity.
"Akio!"
"Ugh..." I was surprised by Shiva's voice. I didn't dare look at her face, so I had to glance at Andre and the bald guy several times.
"Answer my question earlier!"
"Which question?"
"Why are you risking your life? You should just stay in your room, there's no need to go out."
"Th-That's… because…" I couldn't answer the question, even though the reason was obvious that I was out for dinner out there but suddenly Astral Being appeared. But for some reason, maybe because of this condition that forced me to be nervous, I couldn't answer the question.
"Answer me!" Shiva kept forcing me to answer.
As I scratched my cheek, I saw someone walking over here. That guy was the guy who hit me at that time.
"Shiva, I…" He saw me and stopped his words.
When Shiva turned her head towards him, I looked to my right and realized that I had an opening.
I ran, past Andre who was talking to the bald guy.
"Akio..." Shiva shouted.
But when I ran not far from them, I bumped into someone in front of me, causing me to fall.
"Oh, you're here apparently. I've been looking for you since."
Hearing Karin Nakano's voice in front of me, I realized that I bumped into her.
When I saw her face, I panicked and stood up quickly and ran away from here.
"Damn, this world is not safe for me. Why are so many people hurting me here? Does this world hate me?"
As I was running aimlessly, the woman's voice echoed in my mind again.
"Protect! Protect this world! No matter how much the world hates you, protect this world. Only you and the others can do it. I beg you, protect this world with my power. I'm just a spirit alone, can't fight those demons. I believe you can protect this world from those demons. I hope. I will wait for you here."
The woman's voice was so clear to my ears as if she was whispering to me.
But after a while, my body suddenly weakened, causing me to fall to the floor instantly.
BUUK!!!
"AKIO..." Shiva shouted, running towards me.
"Eh?" Karin panicked and immediately ran towards me after seeing me who had passed out on this floor.