Ren sees an apocalyptic city, filled to the brim with zombies and such horrifying huge monsters, but luckily, his dream made him go into spectator mode, which meant that he could see the entire world with his own eyes, an omniscient God.
Ren's body turned white, and he could move and fly freely, and nobody could see him, just like a ghost. He flies around with such speed, as if he's moving at the speed of sound. He tried to figure out what novel or what world he was in, but all it gave him was a state of confusion.
What.. is this?
As Ren's mind fills with endless thoughts, such thoughts that this world, or should I say novel, belongs to a certain someone.
I swear I have seen this somewhere before.
I remember! This is another novel from someone else! That certain someone is..
[ Akita ]
A writing genius that appeared out of nowhere, a writer so complex that their story could shake the whole world with their masterpieces. A modern Shakespeare.
But, even him, could not compare to Asahi-kun.
This is his novel right? [ A Certain Zombie rises again ]
This novel currently has serialized for only 8 chapters, the chapters are a few, but still, the quality never disappoints.
I should find the main character.. There he is!
Tsubasa Hanzou, he's currently in his apartment, wakes up, readying up for his work like usual.
But, today was unusual. He forgot where he placed his wallet.
That wasn't the reason why today was unusual.
He goes outside to pay his rent for the apartment, and when he knocked on the landlord's door, he wasn't responding.
What? Why's he not responding? He used to open the door immediately.
Knock Knock..
"Hey! Landlord-san-"
!!!
"Blood!"
"What in the world happened here?"
Tsubasa went in the landlord's room even deeper, which then led him to the bedroom.
Tsubasa opened the door while hesitating, seeing blood, ripped corpses, a strong smell of rotten flesh, and finally, the zombie landlord standing on the middle of the bed.
As the landlord notices Tsubasa and runs towards him, Tsubasa was hesitant on hurting the landlord, but even then, he has to do it.
The landlord tried to bite Tsubasa, but he dodged the bite, and kicked the landlord away.
"What the hell is wrong with this guy?"
Just then, suddenly, his phone beeped. The sound was familiar. It was the sound of a Rank 1 Threat in Japan. He receives the message from his phone, which then states that the human should stay away from the infected, or simplified, stay away from zombies.
Zombies?! Zombies were real? No way..
Tsubasa runs away from the zombies with pure determination to survive, to not get bitten.
As he gets to the rooftop of a building that seemingly has 3 floors, he's stuck.
There's no way to run.
As a final moment, Tsubasa jumps over the rooftop, with the fall breaking the bones of his legs, and he couldn't do anything as his body ragdolled and hit the floor.
He got eaten alive.
[ Ring! ]
Tsubasa Hanzou, a boxer that got bitten by a zombie, is now roaming around as a normal zombie.
Hmm... This novel was made just recently, so I'll take notes of what events happened here. I think I could make good use of this.
[ Ring! ] [ Ring! ]
Ren wakes up to his dream, he slams his alarm clock so violently that the slam could be heard from just outside his room.
"Damn.. Why do dreams last so short?"
I'll prepare for school, nonetheless.
Ren brushes his teeth, takes a bath, like every other usual day.
After eating breakfast, Ren immediately heads out for school. Which the mom found Ren peculiar since he took his time to go to school.
Ren has been really weird lately. Most of the time, Ren uses his laptop to post more chapters, but he goes in a deep sleep state.
Ren used to be a light sleeper, he would get woken up by the tiniest amount of knocks you could ever manage, but he's not like that anymore.
What happened?
"I'm out, mom!"
"Alright, take care sweetie."
Mom says with a heartfelt smile on her face.
Morning Assembly - 7:00am
In the school lobby, Ren and Fuyumi meet each other, by pure coincidence.
"Hey- Hasegawa!"
"Oh, morning, Chiaki-san."
She started getting closer to me after I confronted her.
As Ren and Fuyumi walks together to their line, talking about some topics, Fuyumi asks quite the peculiar question.
"Hey, Hasegawa, I had a weird dream last night."
Dream? No way... It must be a coincidence.
"What dream did you have, Chiaki-san?"
"I dreamt about someone's novel."
!!!
This shocks Ren, since he also dreamt about someone else's novel, is it really a coincidence?
As persistent heartbeats begins to beat faster, he asks a question that will prove if it's a coincidence or their fate is connected.
"What kind of novel did you dream about?"
Ren says it with a sweat running down his face. He stares at her, with eyes filled to the brim with curiosity.
It was so awkward, that it was eerily similar as an interrogation.
"It was a romance novel, between a guy named Shin and Naomi."
Ren grabs Fuyumi's shoulders, which catches Fuyumi off guard, which Ren asks her,
"Did you remember what events happened in your dream?"
"I did remember. Why though? Are you curious?"
Ren sighs in relief. He responded to Fuyumi about something that genuinely shocked her.
"I also dreamt about a novel by Akita, specifically, [ A Certain Zombie rises again ]."
Fuyumi is actually an anonymous writer, with the pen name [ Akita ].
She has been writing since 2 years ago, and the reason she writes is quite the emotional reason. She vents her emotions by writing, by writing similar traits to herself and her original characters.
She was genuinely flabbergasted, and she had a thought that had her expression look puzzled.
Fuyumi then smiled, because it's getting interesting, and never heard about this happening.
But still, she never took away her focus, and she thought,
Did we.. See each other's novels in our dreams?
Is this real?
"Hasegawa, meet me at the school rooftop at lunch time."
What? Why does she want to see mee at the school rooftop?
Interesting. Very interesting... I like how this is going!