Chapter 1 (1/2)

I thought it was just an ordinary earthquake at first

Then the desks started to rattle and shake violently, and that et under the desks!”

The lights went out and then everything plunged into darkness The thought that raced through hts went out, it shouldn’t be this dark, because it was daytiht now

The ti reading while bathing in a ray of light that ca position at the left side in the back of the classroole speck of cloud

Even if clouds covered the sun or if there was an eclipse, it shouldn’t be completely dark But there was only pitch-black darkness

Did it suddenly becoht time? But how?

I tried to re-orient oing on

It did not feel safe just staying still, but it wasn’t safe toI could do was to crouch under the desk and wait for this damn earthquake to end

“Tsk…”

I bit ainst this i about I could have just skipped the class and not co like Modern Literature Class Why did I even decide to actually attend?

Ah, I thought it was a good opportunity to read

What was in ement” I planned to read this classic work leisurely this afternoon

Of course, I was still reading it Just a couple of pages ahead would have been a section on “Indifference to Evil” but noasn’t the tiencies like an earthquake, where anything can happen, was a for the reality, too

It was painful to just crouch under the desk in darkness while hoping not to get swept away by everything that was going on I couldn’t help but think that I ht die

I never got to be a so in my life

After livingto be the end? nobody would criticize ry

As if responding tointensified and the desks creaked even more Inside the class that was filled with darkness, shouts and screa It was like the inside of a shi+p being swept up by a storm The entire classroom shook violently as if it had been tossed out into the ocean in a typhoon

If the shaking beca would collapse and everybody would be crushed to death I could only i continued to shake around me

I’ to die While anticipating for death, I could feel a laughter swelling from deep inside

It wasn’t a bravado While I didn’t want to die, I thoughtend for so this in the dark

I really didn’t want to die, but if I died, then at least everything annoying in the world would end

This fear, this anger, this annoyance that was hard to bear, everything would disappear if he died I wouldn’t need to think about annoying things anymore It’ll definitely be comfortable

What do I care about what happens to the world after I die Everything was hilarious when thinking frole

Alright, kill me Let me rest now

Thestopped as if it had never happened in the first place

“Haa…”

I let out a deep sigh I knew so like this would happen

Life was like that People anted to survive with all their ht die for no reason, and those who have no reason to keep on living somehow survive

Of course, I’m the latter

Even though I don’t even have a special reason to keep on living, I keep clinging to life at the thought of death

But so long as I’ It’s already been 132 years since the God died1 There was no salvation in this kind of world

“Are you alright?” “Why’s it so dark? Is soht?”

Several flashes of light peered out from the darkness

Of course, everybody had a convenient source of light called a smartphone

I took outpattern screen and first thing I checked was… there was no signal Calling for help wasn’t an option The school was in nal, did it ed in the earthquake?

Or did the classroonal couldn’t reach? Next, I checked the tione on for so long, had only lasted for 5 minutes

Then the date That was noroku-era that’s so coa No, even if there was a tiuarantee that the sically connected to it

But ere trapped in darkness, so there was a chance that outside httime Time travel was just a joke, but I needed to confirm

I froze after shi+ning the light outside through aI opened the ith scratching sound and reached out with my hand The outside of the as packed with rocks The reason why it was so dark was because the ere blocked by the rocks

Are we trapped in the classroom? This wasn’t some “between rock and a hard place” joke This wasn’t a funny situation I could al of blood

It felt like I was in some Sci-Fi world, but noasn’t the tiantic boulder collide with the school because of the earthquake? If so, the intense shaking that felt as if it was about to bloay the school could be explained

But, wait a lass left intact?

If a gigantic rock had slass would have broken froe if the sills had broken as well

Then did the rocks just sprout froround as result of tectonic activity… No, that’s not quite right

I touched the rock, and it was cool and s tiht, it was a wall made with stone bricks in fashi+on similar to a ruin

“Oi, I can’t turn on the lights What’s going on!”

The student as clicking away at the light switch shouted and interruptedon!” But in the crappy gaives out answers for free I suppose it couldn’t be helped

I turned on ht app and looked around , desks had fallen over and stationery was scattered everywhere Even the lockers had fallen over and were spilling out their contents That must have been the source of the loud noises

Instinctively, I grabbed asupplies that were scattered on the floor Just in case I needed it

I sidestepped the teacher as trying to make sure everybody was safe, and classmates ere at a loss, and carefully treaded around the debris to exit the classroom

I felt like there was light co from the hallway… but lost my words when I saw it It wasn’t the school hallway It was a stone hallway like an RPG dungeon

The as built with stone blocks They were just like the stones I had touched earlier It was s off an atmosphere of a real cave

The faint glow of light I noticed earlier were torches The iron torch holders kept the torches in place

I took one of the torches to take a closer look The end of the stick rapped in soing by the unique s like resin

Who would… old iron tools, brand new torches… None of these would be here without someone around to maintain them

The school hallway turned into so down the tunnel, there were torches at regular intervals I didn’t knoho, but so this area

“shi+njo-kun…”

“Seki, did you come out, too?”

Seki Midori He’s a classmate from the same First Grade, F Class and someone I can say is my only friendHe wore the uniforender-neutral looking face alirl He really was a tidy looking, white skinned and slim bishonen

Seki had long black hair, that al down to his shoulder If I look closer at his eyes, his large pupils looked green under the torch light

But, Midori He couldn’t have had a naot angry every time someone called him by his name

If soirly name…”, he’d probably attack no matter who the opponent was I didn’t care much about ould happen to my face, but Seki’s slender ar

“I saw you go out and followed you, shi+njo-kun!”

“You’ve got keen eyes as usual to spot me in the dark Seki, let’s take a look around for a bit”

I walked down the stone tunnel with Seki

The cold air really eon

There were students fro outside as well I didn’t know any of thenored them and continued on

The First Grade had 6 classes; A, B, C, D, E, F It was divided by scores from entrance exam

In terms of breasts, F was the best, but the class Seki and I were in, Class F, was dead last in terrades

Since h schools in the prefecture, not everyone in Class F was stupid either But there were hierarchies in the school, and Class F was looked down upon

Class F was made up of delinquents (and even half-assed delinquents eren’t really troublerade for some reason, or people ere lazy and didn’t put in any effort like me

Seki had a chronically weak body and didn’t feel so good during the class assignher up classes

If there was soht be best if only Class F was involved However, after checking the stone hallith a torch, all the first grade classes from A to F were present

I hope this didn’t happen to the entire school I wonder what happened to the 2nd year, 3rd year and Staff Room as well

I don’t think the entire school turned into a dungeon If that was the case, the classes would have turned into stone as well and not just the hallways The scale was also too big to be sos froical point-of-view

It would be more natural to think that the classrooeon swapped place via some sort of teleportation Teleportation with ESP Metastasis or transference with ical way to think all of this was caused by ic