I watched here with shocked eyes, multiple emotions are coming throughout my head. How? When?
"I was bit when we were escaping from the zombies before we got here" she said
"w-what about your child..?" I asked, I can't think of anything else to say.
"that's why I'm here, please do me one last favor. Please take care of my child, make him strong enough to protect himself. Please.. I beg you.." she cried, I tried to comfort her.
"I will but please don't die here.." I said foolishly
"I would want that but I don't have choice. I don't want to put you in anymore danger." she smiled.
(How can you smile at times like this..) I closed my eyes and decide. This mother is sacrificing herself for us I don't have any choice but to accept.. But I don't want her child to feel sad about this.
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"Okay, I'll take care of him please leave it to me." I said
I then run and whilst I was running I heard a small thank you. A tear escaped my eyes but I brushed them off. I went to look for the kid.
"Kid? Where are you?" I yelled not too loud, then I heard a small sniffle.
"kid?" I went to where I heard the noise. He was on the carriage to the left, I went up to him as he wipe his tears off.
"Hey.. I know this hurts so much to you, and I've been there too" i said looking down trying not to cry
"... Your mom died too?" he asked, he sounded as if nothing happened.
"well not a mom but a... Dad"I said hesitantly
"Oh..you must be very sad then" he said avoiding eye contact.
"Yeah, I WAS sad but not anymore, you wanna know why?" I ask smiling, he nods and I closed my eyes.
"my father always told me Life goes on... Whether you choose to move on and take a chance in the unknown. Or stay behind, locked in the past, thinking of what could've been." I said remembering all his teachings.
He stares at me blank but sad eyes,he looked at me with silence.
"... Let's go" he said
"huh?"
"We can't stay to the past like your father said, right? My mom also wouldn't want that so let's go" he said avoiding eye contact. He's really a strong kid, I smiled softly.
"from now on I'll be taking care of you, I know I can't exactly give you the experience as to what your mother give you but I'll try." I said l, he looked at me then bows
"I'm in your care!" he said blankly but I can see him smile.
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I can't believe we managed to get this far, well at least we're safe for now. We ran as fast as we could from the train station, but of course it's not so easy as to what you think; multiple obstacles went on our way. I looked at kotta to see if he's fine and yeah he is fine.
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"Hey, may I know your name?"
"I thought my mom told you? It's kotta asui"
"Oh, do you mind if I call you kotta?"
he shook his head.
"well then I'm haoya wakamono,just call me haoya"I smiled
"isn't haoya means mother but shortened?"
wow, this kid is smarter than I thought.
"yeah, I don't know why my dad gave me that even though I'm a boy" I said awkwardly.
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we're currently making our way carefully out of the station, I looked up the stairs as we go up hoping that there's no disaster; and as expected there's zombies in our way. I looked around and saw a supermarket.
(we could get foods there, since we don't have any recourses right now it's better to be ready than not)
I looked down on kotta and he seems to be not afraid at all.
(He's not just smart but also brave, huh?)
"Hey kotta, can you fight?" I ask, he looked at me with confused look on his face. I peeked ones again and looked around, looking for certain things and there it is. I grabbed it fairly quickly to not take any unnecessary attentions and gave it to kotta.
"Are planning to..?" he asked knowing what's coming next
"yes" I said with full confidence
"... I'll trust you" He said unsure
"okay so what we're going to do is..."
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I readied myself and checked on kotta.
(I can do this)I opened the phone,which doesn't have a password, and opened the music app.
(wow they have a good music taste)
I played the song as loud as I could and throw it to the umbrella connected at the table,With that all zombies came running after it. Surprisingly the movies were right, I looked at kotta as he handed me an umbrella. Seeing not all of the zombies have full attention to the noises they saw us running to the supermarket and as expected they ran after us. We got in a back to back position and points the umbrella at the zombies, We stabbed them as deeper as we could but it won't stop moving. I know kotta can't take it for long so I thought of a plan b, I give him the signal and we opened our umbrella making the zombies fall. Taking this as an opportunity we ran towards the market and closed the doors,we sat down catching our breaths. Well that was a lot tiring than what I expected,I stand up looking around to see if there's no zombies anywhere and supprisingly there isn't.
(I kind of expected one but I guess we're lucky)
I picked up some food and asked kotta if he wants some.
"A biscuit would be enough" he said, and so I picked up most of the biscuit since I'm not sure what flavor he goes with. We ate in peace and kotta had fallen asleep.
(seems like he's pretty tired) I took off my sweater and covered kotta with it, I stand up and went to the staff room.
(This would help) I thought while smirking.