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This world is really damned. The life of people is the same as the pebbles at the side of the road. What? Why? How did this happen? Just a moment ago, we were in a peaceful environment without this kind of violence. How was our world turned upside down in just a moment?
Right now, I am looking at one of my friends. Even though I have feelings of dissatisfaction toward him for everything that had happened, he is still my best friend. How can this be?
I still remember what happened before this carnage. There's no way I can forget about it because it left a really big impression on me.
At that time I skipped a class and hung around the stairs outside. In that time I lamented on the past that happened before this. I do not know what the reason was that suddenly I remembered the past, but it really left a bad aftertaste.
When I was hanging around, one of my childhood friends came to reprimand me. I really hope that she just takes care of herself. It really is not good to delve into someone else's problem.
The moment all of this happened began after that. It was right after she left me to mope around. Some guy was hitting the gate like he was trying to get into the school. A few teachers saw this and moved toward gate to see what happen and this is the start where it all began.
Tejima-sensei tried to stop him and resorted to the means of violence by holding the collar of that person across the gate, and then that person bit the teacher hand. All the teachers surrounding tried to stop the bleeding, but no one able to do anything. Tejima-sensei stopped moving after that.
Seeing it like that, I felt a really bad premonition, especially when I saw that the moment Tejima-sensei moved again. That was the moment that this nightmare began, and the moment that we were also plunged into this never-ending nightmare.
The massacre began, and seeing that, I began to run from there. At that time I grouped up with my other childhood friend and also my friend. Rather than run to the gate, we went to the rooftop as that place was situated higher and more secure than this place right now.
This was because of the single announcement that made people panic and begin to run so that they would be able to get out of here as fast as possible, running toward the staircase and to the gate. A lot of people must have died during that time, for they had been kicked by the stampede of people when they slipped.
My friend had been bitten on the way to the rooftop. Now, at this moment, I decided to do it. All of these feelings that bottled up inside me felt like they would burst out, the moment I saw that he turned into them. All of these feelings that I had right now, I will let them be buried with you as to respect you, my friend. My friend Igou Hisashi.
"Ahhh….."
The first life that I had taken in this world was the life of my friend. World, how can you be this cruel to me? He is also the boyfriend of my childhood friend, Miyamoto Rei.
Then both of us, me and Rei, moved from the rooftop and met more fellow survivors. The others were also students with the addition of one female nurse of our school that is called Fujimi Academy. The other student names are Busujima Saeko, Takagi Saya, Hirano Kohta, and the only adult here also the school nurse, Marikawa Shizuka. I also introduced myself to everyone here as Komuro Takashi.
POV (update) Komuro Takashi
After all of us grouped up, we moved to relocate ourselves to the staff room. Here at this place, we took a breather for a while. During this time we discussed how to move out from this place, and then we decided to use the transport that the school owned, which is a minibus.
Done with the discussion, we moved out in the direction that the minibus was located. We assumed the formation with me and Busujima-senpai at the front, while Hirano, Rei, Saya, and Marikawa-sensei followed behind. We armed ourselves differently with me using a bat, Busujima-senpai using the wooden blade, Hirano using a makeshift gun with a compressor together with the nails as bullets, and Rei using a makeshift spear from the broom.
During the move out, we met a few students that survived the outbreak, and right now all of us were hiding behind a shoe rack. We stopped here to test the theory that Saya said, that they react to sound.
As no one wanted to volunteer themselves, I felt like it was my job to go. Walking to the center where the zombies were moving around by slowly moving there so as not to make any sound. It was confirmed. Saya's theory was confirmed that they do react to sound, as they did not attack me when I walked past them. This was then made more true as I used the shoe that was lying around and threw it to the side where it was the opposite direction of us, and they moved toward that direction.
We took that chance to move out through the front door, but something happened during that time. One of the weapons that was used by our group accidentally hit the front door, and the sound of it echoed throughout the surrounding.
"RUN!!!!"
The moment I shouted that, all of us ran in the direction of where the minibus was located. The distance was farther than I thought it to be. Usually it only took a minute for us to get there, but now, with so many of them here, it took a few more minutes to reach and that can be said to be a dead trap in itself.
With me and Busujima-senpai as the vanguard while Hirano and Rei dealt with the ones that strayed from blocking the path, we moved straight to the car park, clearing all of them in front of us, in the meantime while creating a path straight through the car park where the minibus was located. When we reached the minibus, all of us hurriedly entered it.
Some of us did not manage to reach the minibus and were eaten by them. We could not do anything for the ones that had been attacked far away from us and the ones that got infected because we know that the moment they take a bite into you, it is sure that you will become them.
Unlike the moment before this, when I needed a lot of energy to swing the bat and hit them, now the energy consumed to hit them reduced, and my body felt like it became stronger than before. Is this because we killed a lot of them?
Nothing can be found right now, so I must push it aside to make a route here.
During the time that all of the others entered the bus, we who were able to fight stood at the door and Hirano secured the perimeter from the window using his makeshift gun.
Sometime after all of us got into the minibus, me and Busujima-senpai retreat into the bus. The moment that the door began to close, there was a group of people that came in our direction.
Seeing that there were still some people coming toward us, we got off and stood guard at the door again. When that group of people got on the bus—minus one person that stumbled and was eaten by them. The same as before, it was too late to save him, and I could only look at him being attacked by them without being able to put up a fight.
After all of them entered the bus and followed by both of us, Morikawa-sensei sped up to the front, crashing all of them that were blocking the route to the gate. Seeing that scene, I felt like all of this really felt surreal.
Looking to the side where Busujima-senpai was placed, I saw that senpai was looking at the school with a sharp eye. It was like she was looking for something there. Then she began to look to the front again. Did she miss the school or was there something that she left there?
Mowing every one of them that blocked the route, Morikawa-sensei controlled the bus really splendidly and then the bus crashed into the gate. It caused the gate to open wide, making the door of the gate bend.
After we got out of there, I asked Busujima-senpai what was on my mind.
"Busujima-senpai, is there something that you want to find at school?"
"Um… it's not that I want to find something, but a moment before the bus began to move out, I thought that someone was looking at us for a moment."
"It must be someone still trapped in there. I hope they can get out of there. Even we forced ourselves beyond the usual to get out of here."
"Yes… you were right. But it also must be my imagination. We already made too much noise before, it's weird if there is no one who came to us with that. So, it must be my imagination."
This is the start of the day when every day has become a long day that we have to survive here.