Chapter 14 - The Gates That Won't Shut

They descended the stairs and went out from the entrance.

Zombies were naturally there as well.

However, they didn’t only have to be careful about the zombies.

For example, the blood smeared on the floor.

The oily blood was slimy and made it easy to slip on it.

Slipping and falling down would naturally make a sound.

Being concealed until they reached the gate was also important for this mission.

All of them leaned forwards as they walked in order to not make a sound.

The three boys, walking after each other like ducklings after their mother, was pretty funny, but since it was a life and death situation for the people themselves, they were deadly serious.

And then, they reached the gates while continuing to walk in that posture.

Daiki and Seiji laid their hands on the gates and nodded.

Takumi assumed a stance and nodded.

The two put strength into their hands and started to close the gates.

Squeak…

The gates were slowly closing.

And the zombies, brought by the sound, drew near them.

“T-they're coming, Senior!”

Daiki said, flustered, and Takumi gave a very blank look.

Takumi took a deep breath.

As deeply as he could, twice.

“Hah!”

He stuck his right hand toward a zombie.

“Aaaaa…”

The zombie was blown back a few meters.

“Hah! Sei!”

Shouting with fighting spirit, the zombies were blown back one after the other.

“Amazing…”

Even Seiji was shocked.

Takumi knocked the zombies down without a single blur.

The movement was polished and not a single one was wasted as he blew the zombies’ bodies away.

Just like a completed dance performance.

The ultimate arts.

It was so fascinating and perfect that it gave that impression.

However, the number of zombies didn’t decrease. Rather, they were increasing.

“Haven’t you closed it yet!”

Takumi asked in the middle of a herd of zombies.

“Only a little more!”

Daiki answered, panting.

The gates had soon already been half-closed.

If they closed the gates, the zombies’ invasion would definitely be reduced.

However, a problem occurred.

“They came!”

Exactly that.

Zombies didn’t only come from inside the school, but from the road as well.

They couldn’t help but interrupt the work and turn around.

“As I thought, being only three people was an absurd idea!? Bastard!” Seiji tore a zombie’s body with the knife, and aiming at the wound, he kicked it flying.

“Arrrghh!!”

Daiki let out a war cry as well and wielded his metal bat.

He swung and missed a lot, but because of that great physical power, when he hit a zombie’s head, he scored a home run without exception.

“It’ll be bad if it continues like this!”

The zombies shuffled and gathered together.

Like cockroaches.

No matter how many times they knocked them down, more zombies came rushing from somewhere.

He had heard that if you saw one cockroach, there were at least thirty more, but here, it felt like there were over fifty zombies.

Three versus fifty.

Furthermore, they came endlessly.

“Focus on closing the gates!”

Takumi issued the instructions and took out a security buzzer, and threw it into the suburbs.

It pulled the zombies outside the gates.

However, this method put a heavy burden on Takumi to prevent the charge from inside the school.

“Hurry, rugby player!”

Seiji called out.

Seeing Daiki’s physique, he certainly looked more like a rugby player than a basketball player.

It was a well-fitting phrase for him.

“I’m a basketball player!”

While saying that, he put as much strength into his legs as possible to push the gates.

No matter how you looked at it, it was exactly like a rugby player linking their arms and making a scrum against the opponent.

“I closed it!”

After having closed the massive gates, even the light couldn’t shine through.

Confirming that they had locked it with the key, they turned around.

The dead crawled in the space between the gate and the entrance.

The horde of dead placed both hands on the ground, and was avaricious to eat the prey even a little faster.

“Listen, we’ll run as fast as we can. Don’t mind the zombies. Only deal with those absolute necessary.”

Takumi said, and Daiki gave a big nod.

Daiki had been pretty frightened from the beginning, probably because of it depending on him and being conflicted because of that.

Because he gave a nod as big as possible, he might have done so to try to relieve his fear.

Noticing that, Takumi was as calm as possible, and addressed Daiki.

“Are you afraid?”

However, that was all

Still, hearing those words, Daiki made an expression like a lost child finding its mother, or being granted forgiveness after confessing to God, and nodded.

“How do I say this, uh… I got here after being hyped up, right… Hahaha.”

Daiki replied while stroking his head.

It wasn’t like he didn’t understand that he wanted to look good in front of the girl, but when it came to going to a battle of life and death for that reason…

It might be because he was a child.

Takumi was a little astonished, but followed Daiki inside.

However, he didn’t know what was good to say and not.

After worrying for a moment, he calmly said,

“When you think it’s impossible, call me. I’ll do something about it.”

They were careless few words.

But despite that, they entered deep into Daiki’s heart.

(He’s unbelievably cool… Is it that? The man among men!?)

Daiki was deeply moved.