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As the six boy’s enter out of the school, there are less zombies near them then they all expected. With the current state of zombies near them, they all know they can probably run to the shopping district without having to stop to fight off zombies, which was good for them, because then they didn’t have to deal with one of them getting hurt or possibly dying so soon.
“Ah this good! Barely any zombies! Scavenging today will be no problem for the heroes!” Chiaki chants, trying to brighten up the mood. Kanata, Shinobu, and Tetora were staying cheerful enough in this situation, but Mika and Midori were another story. Mika was still depressed about Shu’s death, and Midori really doesn’t want to meet the fact that his family might be dead.
“Come on you two, cheer up! This will go quickly knowing that they’re are barely any zombies here,” Chiaki stopped walking to look at the two boys and almost making Tetora bump into him. Mika giggled, cheering himself up a bit, but Midori was still the same. “That's the spirit Mika! Now, let's keep going!”
As the six boys walked to the shopping district, more and more zombies were appearing as they went on. Luckily on the way there, none of the boys were hurt other than a small bruise on Midori’s leg from tripping on a broken tree branch.
“Okay, now which store should we go to first? Or should we split up into groups?” suggests Tetora.
“I say we stay together just incase we get surrounded by zombies,” says Kanata. “And maybe we should go to the pharmacy first, there must be medical supplies and stuff like that in there.”
“Good idea Kanata! Let’s go everyone! The heroes will save the day for everyone!” Chiaki sprints off to the pharmacy, the rest of the boys following behind him. Once all of the boys catch up to Chiaki, they enter the pharmacy to see the room filled with zombies and three figures fighting off the zombies, one tall figure holding a crowbar with two shorter figures holding shovels right next to the taller one. The figures looked like they were wearing the Yumenosaki uniforms, but they looked very torn up and dirty.
“Hey, is anyone here?” Mika shouts, trying to find out if the figures in the room were living survivors.
“Kagehira?” a familiar voice answered. Mika knew exactly who the voice was, and ran to the figure, pushing a few zombies on the way. Mika jumped into the figure’s arms, stopping the figure from fighting the zombies with the other two. “Kagehira, calm down. We’re safe,”
“Oh it’s Aoba! I was wondering where you were,” states Kanata, walking up to his fellow classmate. While the two boys were talking to Aoba, the two other figures were still fighting off the zombies, not paying attention that Mika and Kanata are now here. “and why weren’t you at school a few days ago?”
“Well, while we were walking to school, Sora made us run off because he was looking for something in a game on his phone. It took us almost three hours until he finally found it, and when we went back, there were a hoard of zombies around the school entrance and we all decided not to go in because we didn’t want to deal with them,” Aoba explains.
“Hey don’t blame me for this! It was rare and I needed it!” Sora exclaims.
“Yeah, you didn’t even get it though,” spat Natsume.
“It wasn’t my fault it ran away!”
“Well other than that, why are you guys here?” questioned Aoba, trying to change the topic so Sora and Natsume don’t get into an argument.
“We came to look for supplies here. Everyone has to stay at the school until this is all over and Eichi decided that we should go out and scavenge for supplies,” answered Kanata. While Kanata, Mika, and Aoba were talking, Chiaki and Tetora decided to help out Sora and Natsume fight the zombies while Shinobu and Midori went to find supplies.
“Oh, and do you think that the three of us can come back to the school with you guys? More and more zombies are coming here each day and it’s starting to become stressful for Sora, Na-” Aoba was cut off from Midori screaming in the back of the pharmacy. Aoba, Chiaki, Mika, and Kanata then ran to the back of the pharmacy to see Midori, staring at his zombified parents in disbelief from what he was seeing. He knew that this was going to happen, but he still stood there, trying to convince himself all of this is some sick dream.
“M-Mom…? D-Dad…?” Midori tries to say, tears flowing down his face. He then feels an intense amount of pain in his arm. He doesn’t even have to look at his arm to know that he was bitten, but the worst part was, he was bitten by his own father
“Midori-kun, I’m sorry but I have to do this…” Shinobu says, tearing up a bit. Shinobu then hits Midori in the head with his shovel as hard as he can, killing him before he could turn into a zombie. He then also hits both of Midori’s parents, making it that there are now no more zombies in the back of the pharmacy. Shinobu then drops his shovel and drops down on his knees crying. Kanata and Chiaki go over to Shinobu, trying to comfort him and make him feel better. Mika and Aoba however, took over Shinobu and Midori’s job of scavenging the back of the pharmacy and started taking the little medicine that was still on the shelves in good condition.
After about five minutes of Mika and Aoba looting the back of the pharmacy and Kanata and Chiaki trying to cheer up Shinobu, the four boys left the room to see the rest of the pharmacy clear of zombies and Natsune, Sora, and Tetora sitting down on the floor, all three of them with a can of soda in their hands.
“Is everything alright?” asks Tetora, concerned about the scream from before. After a few seconds, he noticed that Midori wasn’t with them. “Where’s Midori-kun?”
“Well…”
“He’s dead,” quietly answers Shinobu, starting to tear up again.
“Oh…” sighs Tetora.
“Wait, I heard your conversation about how we should come back to the school with you guys. Can we? It’s basically a zombie festival in here and it’s tiring fighting zombies all the time,” says Sora, trying to change the topic so no one gets more upset than they already are.
“It’s fine with me,” answers Chiaki. No one else opposes the idea of letting them come back to the school, so when they finish scavenging the pharmacy, the three boys will come back to the school with the remaining five boys.
After they all agreed to let Aoba, Sora, and Natsume come back to the school with them, they started to scavenge the rest of the pharmacy, taking all of the supplies that were still in good condition. It didn’t take long though until they’ve taken all of the supplies they needed.
From the scavenge, they got medicine, enough food to last everyone in the school a few days, some water, three baseball bats, two crowbars, five more shovels, a few sleeping bags, and other care products like toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, and soap. Aoba found a star charm from a girl’s jewelry kit and decided to take it as a good charm, while Sora found this bootleg video game lying around on the floor and took it to see if he could try and play it back at the school.
After they took everything they needed from the pharmacy, they all decided to go back to the school, because Shinobu wasn’t feeling well after what happened with Midori. The walk home was a safe trip, but a very silent one as well. No one talked to each other nor even wanted to.
“Koutei-san, we’re back. We also have Aoba, Natsume, and Sora with us!” says Kanata as him and the eight boys enter into the school, going straight to the gym where Eichi, Yuzuru, Tori, Keito, Nazuna, Hajime, Mitsuru, and Tomoya are still sitting.
“Oh good, you’re all safe…. Did Midori…?” Keito didn’t even have to finish his sentence for everyone to know what he was going to say. They all nod at him, making him upset. “... Well, atleast we now know that Aoba, Natsume, and Sora are safe. Do you guys want to stay on the first floor of the school with the remaining students in RYUSEITAI, knights, 2wink, Trickstar, and Valkyire, or do you want to stay on the second floor with the remaining students of UNDEAD, fine, AKATSUKI, and Ra*bits?”
“We’ll stay on the first floor,” answered Natsume right after Keito finished his sentence. He chose the first floor because the other two oddballs we’re on the second floor, and even though he looks up to them, he feels awkward around them because of what happened in the past to the five oddballs.
“Okay then! There should be some spare sleeping bags in the supply closet if you didn’t bring any. Now, lets see what you all brought back,” Eichi took the bags of supplies from Kanata and started looking through them.
“Ah, this is great for now! Good job everyone!” Eichi says, still smiling after all of this.