Chapter 1 Outbreak of the Dead (1/2)
”The world is in chaos, and in the midst of chaos, fear rises that consumes even the strongest person”
-Unknown
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The bloody hallway stretches out and a boy is holding a baseball bat covered with blood on his left hand and on his right hand clutches the house keys which he uses as a weapon. Like the baseball bat, the house keys are covered with blood. His footsteps are silent like a cat. The ”crowd” didn't even notice him slowly approaching and just continue on standing doing nothing. His bonnet is keeping his shaggy hair from swaying. His headphones that resembles a pair of horns holds the dangling portable mp3 player that swings every time hewalks. The grim look on his face remains and the blood from the wound on his forehead trickles down like water flowing down from the roof.
He stopped advancing and stopped nearby on the ”person” who is the farthest from the ”crowd”. Before the ” person” can react, the hard surface of the baseball bat landed on its rotten face. The strong swing he used to hit the ”person” is very noticeable as the ”person's” face is barely recognizable as it got crushed on his swing. The ”person” sprawled on the floor lifelessly and blood flows from the broken face and forms a puddle. The noise triggered the ”crowd” and turns in unison to the source of the sound like some sort of hungry beast. Their salivas flows out from their mouth and reveals the bloody and crooked teeth as they saw the boy. As the ”crowd” rushes towards him, he closes his eyes and the memory from earlier flashed back which leads to his situation....
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Earlier, Day 1: 8:00 A.M.
Kirishima High School - 2nd Floor Hallway
5 hours before the Outbreak
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The busy and noisy hallway fall silent all of a sudden as a familiar boy wearing the black bonnet and a pair of horns which is his headphones that he keeps on wearing everywhere he go. His presence terrifies the students in the hallway.
”F*ck! The ”little demon” is here already! Don't look at him or you won't be able to live until tomorrow!”
”I heard he singlehandedly beat up the whole gang and he didn't even have a single backup! What a terrifying existence....”
As the gossips of the studentscontinues to loom over, the boy didn't mind them at all. He is used to that kind of gossips and just ignores them, hell, they are just annoying and wished they would leave him alone. He maximize the volume of the song to avoid hearing those gossips they throw to him. He stares at the students gathered in the hallway and as they see him, the students dispersed like fishes. The boy hopes that his stare can make them all disappear but those are mere fantasies of him. He arrive the classroom II- A and stops on the door. He slides the door open and all his classmates look on the door and immediately stops from doing anything and look away. He didn't mind it at all, instead he find it good for him to avoid annoying people flocking on him.
As he goes inside, the girl with a red armband which has a written word ”President” on it is writing on the board who is the assigned person in charge of cleaning the room approached him nonchalantly with a smile on her face.
”Yo, Kyosei, good morning!” She waved on the him but the boy named Kyosei didn't even throw a look at her and ignore her as he goes straight to his chair near the window. The girl pouted but still followed him and continues her conversation to him.
”Its not good to ignore someone who is greeting you, you can't be rude!” the girl said to him pouting.
The boy with the bonnet and horned headphone creased his forehead and look at her sharply before he looks away and stares blankly outside the window. The girl didn't give up and waves her hands to the face of Kyosei vigorously. The boy squinted his eyes, lowers the volume of his mp3 and flicks her hand away.
”Stop being so friendly to me, you're so annoying,” Kyosei said and glares at the girl.
”But we are frie-”
”No. Stop being so close to me. We are not friends, are we clear about that? So scram, President Miyuki Tamehara. You're ticking me off,” Kyosei said without considering anything at her feelings.
The girl named Miyuki felt like she was stabbed in her heart and felt an invisible pain on her chest. She slowly backs off and looks on him longingly.
”You are not like this back then,” Miyuki said.
”I have changed. So shut up and scram away,” Kyosei wave his hand to get rid of her.
Miyuki continues walking and quietly sits on her chair. She was really hurt by his words and she felt crying hard. Kyosei, on the other hand, just stares off to space and his classmates started murmuring and gossiping again.
”That guy is so heartless, if he isn't so scary, I have beaten him to death by now,” one of his classmate said.
”Hah, maybe in your dreams! Maybe before you can approach him, your face will be deformed already full of craters.”
Hours passed by and the bell rings loudly throughout the school. Their homeroom teacher gets inside and takes the attendance. His mind wanders and before he know it, it's already time for Physical Education and they will use the field. His classmates excitedly exclaims their desire to go out and play sports. But for Kyosei, it is a big pain in the arse and totally troublesome for him. As his classmates proceeds to go out, hetook his bag and goes to the opposite direction his classmates are going. Miyuki saw him separates from the class and helplessly watches him go.
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Earlier, Day 1: 10:30 A.M.
Kirishima High School, 1st floor hallway; Shoe rack-entrance
2 hours and 30 minutes left before the outbreak