Day 1(??? View)
The former hallway is now painted in blood. I walked into the expanse of the b.l.o.o.d.y hallway while holding the b.l.o.o.d.y baseball bat in my right hand while in my left hand clutches the house keys covered with blood. Of course, its not my blood but the blood of someone else... or should we say "something" else.
My footsteps are silent, and if anyone noticed, it is pretty similar to how a cat walks. The "crowd" didn"t even notice me approaching and just continue to stand on where they are, completely devoid of life.
I can feel my hair sway as the wind blows but thanks to my old trusty black beanie with a peace logo on it, my hair is not a mess. The music continues to resound in my ears due to my headphones that is shaped like a horn as they have a design that protruded on the side that has a pointy edge and looks similar to a horn in an anime series. The Mp3 player that is a tube like shape one dangles into the horn shaped headphones. If you look at it dangling at first sight, you might mistake it as a pendant in a necklace.
The hot liquid flowing out on my forehead is making my expression looked grim as time pa.s.s by. The wound is not so deep but it was still stinging after being bashed with a metal test tube tray.
I stopped advancing and positioned myself into nearest "person" who is a bit farther from the crowd". Before the "person" can turn around, the hard surface of the baseball bat strikes hard into its rotten face. Of course, my swing is not some half-a.r.s.ed one but a swing filled with force. The "person" who got to be the unfortunate one to deal with the blow ended up with a broken skull, smashed jaw and powdered teeth, causing blood to escape on its head. The dark red blood on the floor turned into a puddle.
The "person" died...
However, I am not afraid to be seen. In fact, it doesn"t matter anymore if you kill or not. Due to my actions earlier, the "crowd" itself looked towards my direction and growls like hungry beasts. Their faces that resembles their former looks are no longer looking presentable but they look hideous and plain disgusting. They stare at me with hungry eyes... if they still have one like hungry wolves spotting a rabbit in a snowy forest. However, those eyes of them don"t give any feeling at all to my own body. I closed my eyes and all of the memory since the very beginning of all the mess pa.s.sed by on my head, leading me to this unsightly situation.
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Earlier, Day 1, 8:00 A.M
Kiris.h.i.+ma High School - 2nd Floor Hallway; New Building
Time before the beginning of the Outbreak: 5 hours left
a.r.s.enal:
Melee: House Keys
Gun: None
***
(??? View)
Somewhere on s.h.i.+nsaibas.h.i.+, Osaka, a prestigious and grand school housing many elite students stood tall and proud for all to see. Students and teachers alike are all proud to attend and be part of the student body and faculty of the school.
Kiris.h.i.+ma High School
A grand building with a huge and beautiful but antique looking clock tower. The school itself houses two buildings both with 4 floors and facilitated with good building facilities and the fourth floor of the first building itself is a place where an elevator to access the grand clock tower is located.
A field that is so expanse that football, marathons, swimming, baseball and any kind of compet.i.tions are sometimes being held here. Also, a stage for students with talents in singing sometimes performs in the field. If these facilities are not enough, the grand auditorium that can house hundreds of thousand people aged for how many decades already is still standing proud.
Of course, the students and teachers themselves cannot be underestimated either. All of the students are considered as talents with very high future that is slowly shaped by the competent teachers that has the ability to do it. This alone is something that can keep the school famous for how many years.
However, that was tarnished. The perfect view of the school is destroyed due to my existence.
From what I can recall, its Monday today and the hallways are always considered crowded with students in the morning. The noisy hallway suddenly fell silent when I stepped into the second floor. Although I wear a blue coat with black s.h.i.+rt inside my coat accompanied with red necktie, and black pants, the aura I make clearly breaks the normality in my persona. My headphones" shape added another layer of fear from the students that terrified the students in the hallway.
"F*ck! The "Little Demon" is here! Don"t look at him or you won"t be able to live until tomorrow!"
...That comment seems exaggerated. I don"t have a killer eyes. I can glare at you all day and you will still be fine.
"Although he is a shorter build of guy, bigger students and thugs are afraid of him! As expected! Small but incredible!"
...You motherf*cker... stop spouting my height. Although I have an average height, that doesn"t mean I am considered as small. I will beat you up if you keep on gossiping.
"I heard that once you offend him, he won"t stop chasing you until the ends of the Earth!"
...Oy, oy, what the heck, I am not a superhero that can continue running to chase a person. I can"t even run for a few meters and you are expecting me to run? I am person who prioritized conserving my energy on battle than for running. Well, f*ck off.
"That second year student is already quite a dangerous fellow. I heard he beat up a lot of the street thugs terrorizing the whole streets nearby and destroyed their hideout alone without any single backup! Being with him, I don"t know if we can still survive if we challenge him to a hand to hand combat!"
...Well, I can"t deny that. It"s true that I beat those ugly b.a.s.t.a.r.ds up. They are the first to annoy and tried to gang me up. As a retaliation, I destroyed their hideout and stripped their leader naked.
The gossips are sometimes unbelievable and quite idiotic sometimes. Only a selected few are considered true. However, gossips are gossips, they can"t fill your stomach. They can instead destroy a life and relations.h.i.+p. But I am used to it. For the two years of attending here, I usually ignored and brush off those rumors. They can go to h.e.l.l if they want, don"t drag me together with you all. Just leave me alone.
These gossips are freaking annoying in the ears. Good thing I have my trusty headphones and Mp3. I raised the volume of my headphones and continued listening to the pleasant music of the anime I watched not too long ago.
The students didn"t loiter around the hallway any longer and compressed on the side. I can feel myself as a VIP just by pa.s.sing into the center. However, this things are not worth to smile out. This is just for convenience, at least, I don"t have to push my way to reach my destination.
It didn"t take me a few minutes to reach my very destination. I stopped into the middle room"s front door. I stare into the nameplate above the door in which a colored II- A is emblazoned into it. I slide the door open and the former rowdy students turned to look into my direction in unison. Geh, I am not handsome, I only have a beauty mark in my left eye but I can"t consider myself handsome. Stop staring at me for f*cking sake.
I stepped inside and of course, I noticed the girl with dark violet colored hair approach. Aside from her pretty face, a noticeable red armband is attached on her left hand with characters emblazoned with the word "President" on it. She was clearly writing in the blackboard earlier, but when she saw me, she immediately stopped writing. Her, approaching me is accompanied with her trademark sweet smile. Of course, that charming sweet smile no longer works for me, in short, I am immune to its effects and grew dumb on it.
"Yo, Kyosei Ichinose! Good morning!" she waved her hands to me as she skips while approaching. Geh, I don"t have the time for this.
I did not bother her and quickly brushed her off without throwing a single look on her face. I have no time to entertain her. I walked past her straight to my seat and stayed in there. I looked into the window and looked into the sky. I feel like my day is ruined again.
"It"s not good to ignore someone who is greeting you, you can"t be rude to others Kyosei," Miyuki pouted.
My face twitch hearing that, I creased my forehead and looked at her. Who among us has no manners? You are disturbing my inner peace! I glared at her before I averted my gaze and returned my focus to the window. However, this Miyuki is pretty persistent. She waved her pretty hands into my face vigorously, trying to catch my attention. I squinted my eyes, luckily for her, I didn"t pop a vein or else I won"t be holding back. I flicked her hand away from my vision.
"Stop being so friendly to me, you"re so annoying," I glared at her.
"But we are frie-" she did not managed to continue it since I cut her sentence off.
"No. We cut ties a long time ago. Stop being so close to me. We are no longer friends, are we clear about that? So scram, President Miyuki Tamehara. You"re ticking me off," I said without considering her feelings.
Miyuki stopped talking and her eyes suddenly get wet a bit. She was on the verge of tears but she holds it back in. She is a strong girl so those things that I said to her is nothing much. She slowly backs off and looks at me with painful look.
"You are not like this back then. I missed the old Kyosei," Miyuki said.
"The old Kyosei is no longer here, what are you waiting for, go away! You are ruining my day," I glared at her.
Miyuki backs off and returned to her seat. I can clearly see that tears slowly fell from her eyes but I don"t really feel like doing any kind of consoling words from her. I stare on the air, thinking what I wanted to do for later.
"Should I cut cla.s.ses huh..."
My annoying cla.s.smates started their daily gossips again.
"That guy is so heartless, if he is not so scary, I have beaten him to death by now." ( Try doing that I would make sure you stay in hospital bed for days)
"Hah, maybe in your dreams! Before you can approach him, your face will be deformed already full of craters!" ( What do you think of me boy, a meteorite?! Also, his face is already full of craters, it didn"t need to be done again)
The gossiping continued. Although they are staying their gazes away, the topic is still mainly about me. I can hear you all you know.
...
Hours pa.s.sed by and before I fell asleep from the boring cla.s.s, its already time for the Physical Education cla.s.s and according to my teacher, we will be using the field. My cla.s.smates excitedly exclaimed their desire to go and play sports. However, I snorted on these behavior. You all are high school students, you all are no longer kids, act on your own age. As the cla.s.s slowly go to the dressing rooms, I took my bag out and sneaked away from the cla.s.s. Its boring to stay here, I shall look for something else to do. I noticed Miyuki looking at me as I move away, however, she seemed to be no longer having the energy to reprimand me as I managed to get farther and farther away from the rest...
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Earlier, Day 1, 10:30 A.M
Kiris.h.i.+ma High School - 1st Floor Hallway; Shoe Rack- Entrance
Time before the beginning of the Outbreak: 2 hours and 30 minutes left
a.r.s.enal:
Melee: House Keys
Gun: None
***
(Kyosei"s View)
The hallways only have a few people around, however, around the entrance, not a single soul is around to accompany me at all. I changed my indoor shoes into my rubber black shoes out. I am ready to go to out when I saw those three figures blocking the gla.s.s door. This person is none other than the Vice President of the school, Kaze Tsukiyama along with his two lackeys whom I labeled to be B1 and B2 in short for Bodyguard 1 and Bodyguard 2. I really hate this four eyes guy who, instead wears a traditional reading gla.s.ses, wears a black sun gla.s.ses which made him look cool to others and looked sh*t to me. Whenever I see this person, I want to beat up this guy to pulp and throw him into the trash whenever I had the chance.
"Where are you going, Little Devil?" Kaze smirked.
I looked at him indifferently and clicks my tongue. My nickname really has some impact to it.
"Its none of your business Dragonfly-eyes," I said to him and tried to squeeze into the s.p.a.ce between them but B1 and B2 tighten the s.p.a.ce, not allowing me to pa.s.s through.
"You are a common troublemaker in this school. If not for your perfect grades, you won"t be here and the princ.i.p.al can finally get rid of you in this school! Miyuki always hangs out with you and I really hate your guts! She is mine you understand? Mine and mine alone. I need to find proof to kick you out of this school soon!" Kaze said.
When I heard something about Miyuki, my eyes dimmed and quickly gave him a hard jab in the stomach with a kick right in his crotch. I did not really destroy his crotch but if I wanted to, I can excert more pressure and his lineage would be forever be sealed on his b.a.l.l.s. He squinted in pain after he received the blow. Of course, I did not leave B1 and B2. I also punched their diaphragm, making them immobile. I glared at Kaze and pointed my hands at him.
"You motherf*cking pervert, stay away from Miyuki or I will be cutting off your lineage forever. She is not your "thing" understand? Now will you excuse me,"I said before walking out of the door, leaving the three guys, grumbling in pain.
Kaze gritted his teeth before he shouted again.
"You! Come...Back! Motherf*cker..." Kaze grumbled.
I raised my left arm and flashed my middle finger before moving away.
...
Earlier, Day 1, 12:00 P.M
Osaka: Convenience store on the roadside near Namba Area
Time before the beginning of the Outbreak: 1 hour left
a.r.s.enal:
Melee: House Keys
Gun: None
***
(Kyosei"s View)
I arrived on a convenience store just near Namba area. Since its lunch time at the moment, only I and the cas.h.i.+er is currently the people in the convenience store. Entering the convenience store, I exchanged glances with the cas.h.i.+er. The cas.h.i.+er nodded and I also nodded in response. Not a single word is exchanged but we understand what we meant.
After that, I head straight to the bread shelves and grab 10 melon breads and moved next to the fridges and grab 2 cans of cola. I was not that hungry so these would do. I headed next to the cas.h.i.+er and put down all of the groceries I am holding. The cas.h.i.+er started to put all of the groceries on a bag.
"1500 yen, already put a small discount on it," the cas.h.i.+er said.
"The f*ck, did the prices started rising again? F*cking capitalists..." I grumbled.
"What can you do? Its now expensive so its no wonder that the grocery you usually buy every day is now expensive. I even added the discount already," the cas.h.i.+er smiled.
I sighed and fetch out my wallet and decided to pay. I looked at the remaining money and sighed again. Looks like I have to destroy a few gangs again and take their b.l.o.o.d.y money or I could go have a proper job for once.
I did not leave the convenience store but stayed put outside and lean on the wall and opened one of the melon bread and the can of cola. This food is my lunch and I am already fine with it. Then, the cas.h.i.+er finished his work there and goes out the convenience store while holding his lunch box.
"No customers?" I asked in a bored tone.
"Its usually as calm as this whenever its lunch time so I can usually take a break easily. But today seems to be very quiet and you are my fourth customer at the moment," the attendant said before looking at my food, "Why not have a proper lunch for one, Kyosei?"
I glared at the guy and grumbled, "Tch, you never change, Kato."
Kato Shunta is a drop out kid in Kiris.h.i.+ma High School as he doesn"t have enough money to pay for the tuition fees. He is living alone on a small dilapidated house and is working part time in this convenience store until the retiree commander of SDF who owns the convenience store took notice of him and decided to adopt him as he has no wife and child. His parents died a long time ago and he is just using the small amount of money left from his mother and father to keep the fees of the school for him. However, lately, he has trouble paying. Although we are the same, I can manage to pay for my school fees due to the money that is coming from the support that I can receive after my parents" deaths.
Unlike Kato who is a kind-hearted guy, I grew up in a lonely side and with the harsh world, my young mind easily matured and decided to live without restraint. Now, look at me, I am a delinquent, always on the street brawls and underground fights to earn money.
"Anyways, I don"t know why you are always ditching cla.s.s again but next time, you shouldn"t do it since failing is a bad thing and besides, Miyuki will go and scold you again..." Kato said. We are both cla.s.smates in elementary until he dropped out last year.
"Hmph, she has no business with what I am doing. She still doesn"t understand much of my life anyway and to make her avoid trouble due to my deeds, having a close relations.h.i.+p with me will just end up a bad thing for her," I said before munching and gobbling the bread in my hands before grabbing another melon bread.
Kato sighed and started eating his lunch. Kato and I were silent until we finished our lunch. I drink all the contents of the last cola before throwing the can into the trash bin. I was about to leave the convenience store when Kato stopped me.
"Kyosei, your phone seems to be ringing," Kato said and pointed on my pocket.
I grab my phone in my pocket and saw a text message. I saw that it was Miyuki"s number who texted me. I never expected that she still had my cellphone number since I thought she had deleted it already after I cut ties with her. I open the mail and read its contents while frowning.
"Kyosei! Help meodnja xalplncabuako jxaak&%$%^"
Although the remaining of the message are gibberish, I can clearly see the "Help me" message. I frowned reading the message. Just what is this message anyway? Why is she asking for help? That is unlikely. I was about to leave and decide to see why she is doing this when a car suddenly crashed on an electric pole and the woman inside the car flew outside. It was a sudden event that I made a step back unconsciously. Even Kato was stunned from event.
However, unlike from what usually happens whenever someone had an accident, it turned out different this time. I wanted to call emergency but the woman who should have died or collapsed on the road stood up with lanky movements. Blood still flows out from her face and body. I did not dare to move near the person. Unlike other people, I tend to never get myself involved on any kind of things like this.
The woman showed her b.l.o.o.d.y face and then I noticed that the woman"s eyes is already gouged out and currently swinging around on where it was supposed to be placed. Half of her face is even mangled that the bone on her face is clearly visible.
"F*ck!" I cursed out seeing her.
The woman suddenly moved towards me and growled with a very deep voice.
"UHHHHHHHH...
The woman lunge at me but due to my reflexes, instead of getting too close to me, I managed to stop her by holding her head and grab both her hands together. I found out that she is so strong like three guys combined together. The jaws of the woman keep snapping back and forth like it was trying to bite me. I struggled a bit before I decided to just stop her for good, and I don"t care anymore what this woman really is. I forced my strength to my hands and grip her head more before I pushed her forward and bash her to the floor repeatedly.
SPLOTCH!
Her head exploded and brain matter suddenly spread out of the road. It was like I squashed a rotten papaya all of a sudden. It was pretty soft that the flesh and the skull of the woman seems to dissolve into liquid and were reduced to a liquefied form.
I shake my hand to take the blood and brain matter that sticks to my hands. I just killed a woman easily. Wait, is killing made that easy? No, I don"t think so.
"Kyosei! Get in! I have a bad feeling about this!" Kato said to me.
Then, right on time, the screams of people started as the people in different areas started panicking.
"What is going on...?"
Little did I know that the greatest tragedy that hit humanity, will start today and I will be witnessing the very beginning of it...
Day 1: 1:00 P.M
Outbreak of the Dead officially starts now...