168 This is just a sneak Peek for Outbreak Chronicles (1/2)
Day 1
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The former hallway is now painted in blood. I walked into the expanse of the bloody hallway while holding the bloody 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 pass 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-arsed 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 passed by on my head, leading me to this unsightly situation.
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Earlier, Day 1, 8:00 A.M
Kirishima High School - 2nd Floor Hallway; New Building
Time before the beginning of the Outbreak: 5 hours left
Arsenal:
Melee: House Keys
Gun: None
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Somewhere on Shinsaibashi, 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.
Kirishima 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 competitions 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 shirt 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 bastards 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 relationship. 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 hell 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 passing 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 classes huh...'
My annoying classmates 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.
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Hours passed by and before I fell asleep from the boring class, its already time for the Physical Education class and according to my teacher, we will be using the field. My classmates 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 class slowly go to the dressing rooms, I took my bag out and sneaked away from the class. 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
Kirishima High School - 1st Floor Hallway; Shoe Rack- Entrance