Chapter 71 - Persistent Guy
For a moment, Riku had no clue as to what had happened.
The monster lost its eyes right in front of him and then the other.
While letting out a cry, the monster waved its claws around at random.
Aside from himself, there should have only been Misa in the overturned car.
However, the attack that had come in that direction had made the monster unable to move.
It was most likely a sniper rather than a gun.
There was only one person in the car that could use a gun.
“Ji…n.”
Riku turned around and saw Jin standing behind him.
His clothes were dyed a deep red.
“Truck Brigade as been annihilated… Damn it.”
“Jin! Blood…!”
“Blood?”
Jin looked down at his body.
And then carelessly,
“Oh, this is ketchup.”
said.
“...Huh?”
“Therefore, ketchup.”
“I said I wanted to eat ketchup, you see, so Jin brought it to me!”
“...Ohh, ketchup, huh… Ahaha…”
“Are there no other members?”
“It seems like it’s only us. Zombies are coming behind us, so let’s hurry and run.”
“Right. Riku, I leave Airi to you. I will take the…”
At that time, one of the zombies was blown away behind them.
It bounced in front of Jin and the others and pieces of meat scattered around.
“Wait, wait, don’t forget me please.”
The person who showed up was Shigeto.
“A very late appearance, huh.”
“The main performer always comes last, right?”
“Hah, how impudent. Shigeto, you will take the supplies as well. We’re withdrawing.”
“Roger.”
Shigeto started putting supplies into his backpack.
“...Jin, what will we do now?”
Riku supported Airi with his shoulder as he asked,
“What will you do?”
“Truck Brigade is annihilated. The correspondence car is destroyed, and we can hardly bring any supplies. Somewhere to go would be…”
“It’s fine.”
“But…”
“Thinking negatively is your bad habit. Nothing will come out of ‘but’ and ‘still’. There are no better suiting words than carving our own path, our own story. If we get our hands on another car, we can just gather more members. We can just gather more supplies. We are going to live. There’s nothing more important than continuing living.”
“Do we have a place to go? Do we wander around?”
Without answering, he looked at the herd of zombies behind them and muttered “Masanari Academy”.
“Hmm? Wait, that’s weird…”
“What’s wrong, Ryou?”
“Truck Brigade isn’t answering. I wonder if something happened.
“I see…I hope they can recover the correspondence.”
“Maybe they’re just too busy at the moment.”
“By the way, who is burning corpses now?”
“Hmm, I wonder who. Daiki? Oh, how cool.”
“What?”
“Look, this magazine. It has a sticker of ‘Aid Union God Vine’.”
“Sticker? Where are you sticking it to?”
“I won’t. I will keep it to myself.”
“Wha, not fair!”
“Hehehehe! First come, first served, little Rei1
As he said that, Ryou started running out of the room.
“Hey, wait!”
Chasing after him, Rei left the room as well.
No one heard the small sound of the groaning of zombies leaking from the radio.
“...Somehooow, I’ve become used to it.”
“To what?”
“Disposing corpses. It smells, it burns, all kinds of things.”
“I don’t want to get used to it, but we have no choice, right?”
“...Senior, what are you reading?”
“Do you mean this? …It’s a novel.”
“Ohh. What genre is it?”
“Uhh, that is… R-romance novel…”
“Senior Miu, so you read those kinds of books, huh. Somehow unexpected.”
“Can I not read these kinds of books?”
“N-no, it’s not that you can’t…”
Daiki was instantly defeated by her menacing look.
If it continued like this, Miu get angry.
Or rather, he felt like it was too late.
Still, Daiki tried to divert the topic.
“Oh, that reminds me! What kind of story is in this book?”
“Story?”
“R-right! I want to know! I very much want to know!”
“...Do you really want to know?”
“Yes!”
“...It is a love affair between a female student who is the class president and a tall and large basketball player.”
“Oh…2”
“B-by coincidence! It was by coincidence! I happened to read this book and it was only then I realized it!”
“I-is that so?”
“Yeah, seriously! Stupid Daiki!”
Saying that, Miu ended up running away.
Daiki was stunned for a while, but then noticed,
“...Huh? first name?3”