...
*huff* *huff* *huff*
Are they still chasing after me?...
Shit!
I hold the bag of food tightly as I held my breath to hide from the thugs chasing after me.
I am in an alleyway right now with three exits.
*ting* *ting* *tinnnnnnnnnng*
!!!
A metal small tin rolled and bounced over the cracks in the floor to my side.
They are here!!
...
...
"Tch. Where did that brat go? Dare spill this milo on me and run away!" Says the biggest thug at the front.
Bitch! You are the one who walked into me while I was drinking it!!
Tch! I need to get back home quickly so that we can celebrate the new year before 12 am-midnight comes...
I take the tin can and throw it in another direction.
!!
"Over there?!"
Once they are distracted, I immediately flee.
"Shit! He's over there!!"
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*huff* *huff*
I think I lost them.
I check my watch.
It's 11 pm?! I won't make it in time!!
I continue to run towards my house. It's dark and cold. The winter still hasn't calmed down yet and Christmas just passed.
I... Yeah... I can't make it...
I decided to rest on a bench as I'm already breathless and I don't want to collapse.
I'm the world's dumbest person ever... I forgot to bring out a pair of gloves with me because I thought that this errand will be quick, now my hand feels numb from the cold. Tch... I'm so unlucky to run into those thugs.
I check my watch, it's 1 minute away from midnight.
I sigh as I watch the second hand slowly tick its way to 12.
Once it reaches 12...
!!?
W-What was that? I felt something... Like an impact...
I check my watch again, it has stopped ticking.
I then check my phone, there is no signal anymore.
"What?" I mumble.
*AUUUGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*
I hear a piercing shriek suddenly, it's near!?
What...is that? I have never heard that before...
And this street...
I look around.
There is no one around and it's very quiet but I have this incredibly bad feeling.
... I should hurry home... But...
That noise from just now...
I know curiosity killed the cat but that scream doesn't seem to belong to a human...
I follow the direction of the noise through the bush and climb over a fence.
Slowly, I can hear something...
Squishy sounds? No, eating sounds...
...
...
!!!!!!
W-What is that?...
I walk through the bush to find a mutilated corpse being devoured by some sort of creature.
It senses me and looks in my direction before I fell back to the floor in shock.
Shit! Shit! What is that? What the fuck is that?!
This creature resembles a human... But its skin looks completely white and has cracks in it. its head is completely replaced with an enormous amount of eyeballs and one giant jaw is inserted in the middle and... And... Its hands are long as hell.
It starts to walk in my direction and I get up before starting to run.
!!!!
It chases and throws its long arm at me and I barely manage to dodge it.
The arm pierced through a tree beside me and explodes.
!!!
It self-destructed??
I look back.
No, its hand are growing back even though it clearly exploded in front of me just now.
*BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!*
Something in a distance exploded as I can see the debris of the explosion crashing into buildings and streets.
Once I got near the cliff path, I manage to escape from that monster and the disaster becomes more clear.
I can hear the screams and see blood, explosions, fire and more...
!!!
What the hell...
There is one gigantic creature floating in the sky directly above the city. It just floats there, not doing anything but I don't want to know what it is capable of doing.
That thing floating at the top...
It looks like a black lump of meat with a human face in the middle.
Oh my goodness...
This...
What the hell is going on?
My house is along the mountains and is around 15 kilometres away from the city, Takayama... At Kokufucho Urisu...
*BOOOOM!!!*
Wait... That direction! No!
I immediately run in the direction of my home.
Even after seeing people being attacked nearby and asking for help, I paid no attention. The only thing on my mind is my family's safety.
...
!!!
No no no...
I can see the fire emitting from my house.
The door is busted open, it looks like something forced the door open. The wooden door also has several scratches.
Ignoring the burning flame, I push my way through the thick smoke to see...
!!!
No...
Although it is dark, the fire illuminated the house and I can see it clearly.
My parents are being eaten alive by a giant creature. It has a very thin body like a stick and a huge head which a sharp jaw.
I can hear the bones crushing...
My sibling's mutilated bodies are on the floor.
I don't even know who this amputated limb belongs to...
I...
I...
I just froze there and kept staring.
The creature turns around, all bloody and holding my father's head. He sees me and drops my father head before smiling widely.
!!!
...
I...
This scene is too familiar. As an anime fan, I have watched too many horror shows to know what will happen if I don't move and escape now.
But... My legs won't move...
Ah, I now know how it feels. I always get very infuriated when characters in horror animes just froze there and... Not do anything, like they are awaiting their death and not resisting.
I see now... Why do they freeze... It's fear.
Ha...ha...ha...haha...
The creature walks towards me.
The flame behind me burns but it doesn't even bother me at this point.
...
The damn creature stands in front of me, its smile is getting even wider.
I return the smile.
"Go to hell..." I simply muttered.
I have lost my mind at this point. Nothing matters anymore. The world is about to end anyway...
The creature reveals its sharp limbs like a needle and pierces through me.
...
I look down and can see blood staining my shirt and the creature's limb.
...
Shortly after, I cough out blood and can feel my leg losing its energy.
So this is how I die huh...
Hah... What a joke... If this is an anime... I would be nothing but a background character dying for entertainment...
I soon lose consciousness and falls to the ground.
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?
...
What?...
I'm... Still alive?...
I look around, the sky is still dark. There is a piercing pain in my chest but I am not dying from it... What?
Did it miss my organs? Even so, bacterial should have invaded my body at this point and I would have died from blood loss too.
I wipe the blood on my mouth away.
...
The sight of my family's corpse... Looks like that creature left without devouring my family's corpse entirely...
The flame has stopped too and I can see the soot everywhere.
Wasn't I burnt too?
...
I take out my phone, it's still working with a battery of 48%.
I take a photo of my back and look.
!!!
It is filled with soot. My back is black in colour but I feel no sign of burn injuries. Is my sense of pain messed up now? I tried pinching myself to confirm the theory, looks like my sense of pain is still working.
...
I can still see the flames and smoke. The screams and explosions have been quietened down. I see a helicopter fly past the area, a muscular arm with a drill tip instantly appears out of nowhere which I assume belongs to one of the monsters and pierces through the helicopter, the helicopter then explodes and crashes into the ground.
...
I don't even care at this point... Why am I still alive?
I do enjoy Apocalypse stories... But don't enjoy being in one. Especially when I don't have any prior knowledge of the apocalypse and have absolutely no skills to survive. I don't even know basic survival skills and you are telling me to survive in an Apocalypse? Haha... Don't joke with me.
Hmm? Who's laughing?
...
Oh, it's me... I'm laughing...
I can't stop myself from laughing, I'm going insane. Of course, I would... I am a normal human after all.
...
My vision is blurry and I feel suffocated.
What did I do to deserve this?
I sat down and stare at my family's decomposing corpse.
For hours, I don't know how long, I just continue sitting there like a mad person.
Or... I guess I already am one.
Until...
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Congratulations, you humans, have received a blessing from the creator of the universe and has been granted the power of a player!!
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...
Some sort of holographic panel appears in front of me.
What?
...
Am I dreaming?
Something at that moment suddenly enters my head and I received weird pieces of knowledge...
Using this weird knowledge that seems very foreign in my head, I think of summoning something like a panel and a status panel did pop up in front of me.
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Hp:100/100
Lvl:1
Title: none
Exp:0/100 to next level
Atk: 10
Def: 5
Spd: 20
Luck: 10
Critical rate: 1%
Life steal: 0%
Penetration: 0%
Magic knowledge: 0%
Mana: 0%
Skills:
None
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What the...heck?