HERE IS THE 2ND CHAP OF THE HISTORY, THANK YOU FOR THE VIEWS AND REVIEWS
THERE WERE ALSO CHANGES; NOTHING THAT AFFECTS THE HISTORY RIGHT NOW. I ONLY DECIDED TO FOLLOW THE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF THE MANGA.
SOMETHING ELSE, IF SOME OF YOU ARE CURIOUS TO KNOW HOW THE VOICE OF MY CHARACTER WOULD BE, I HAVE DECIDED THAT IT WOULD BE THE VOICE OF HAK OF AKATSUKI NO YONA.
LETS GO.
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"Let the madness begin" Rentaro said to himself and could not help feeling a strange emotion in his chest.
Without hesitation, he rushed towards the two zombies in front of him, but questionably he ran pass the male zombie directing his attention to the zombie girl who was walking only a couple of meters behind the male zombie. Rentaro fearlessly kicked the zombie in the abdomen and due to the force of the blow the creature lost its balance and rolled a few meters back.
"It's not my style to hit women but what the hell, she's already dead and a brain eater" he thought and then heard a groan behind him. He quickly turned his head to meet the other zombie he ran pass a few inches away from him, but he didn't feel fear, otherwise, he smiled a little with his lips even though he didn't notice.
"I'll try out some things on you" Ren said and then pushed the thing away with the tip of his bokken and prepared.
He moved his right hand with which he held his bokken by the handle to his waist, as if he was sheathing it while leaning his body forward a little, he blew some air, concentrating, sharpening his eyes and finally ...
A blow to the shoulder, another to the ribs, one to the hip, another one to the knee and finally one on the neck were the hits that Rentaro gave the zombie with just one hand and his bokken in just one moment; they were fast and strong movements. The zombie thanks to the violence inflicted on him lost his balance while Rentaro only stepped back and adopted a firm defensive pose which was with one hand at the front at the height of his chest with the palm extended while holding his bokken with the other. Rentaro, who still had his attention on the battered zombie, narrowed his eyes when it began to move again with some difficulty and then crawled towards him.
Ren sighed and this time adopted the typical attack pose of kendo with both hands strongly grabbing the sword while holding it in front of his face and without hesitating with his two hands he raised the bokken and landed a strong blow in the head of the apparently yet again dead zombie
"Just as I thought, you have to crush their heads to finish them" he told himself. This was some valuable information; Ren already knew that if he wanted to end them he had to hit them in the head, he had his suspicions, after all a few minutes ago Rei stabbed the heart of professor Wakisaka's zombie and it still moved, the thing only fell defeated when Takashi squashed its head with the bat, but anyways, he had to confirm it and this confirmed it.
Ren finally ended wandering in his thoughts and turned to see how the zombie that he had kicked a few moments ago approaching to him, he quickly adopted his typical attack pose, moving the hand which he held his bokken with to his waist and leaning his body forward a little bit and just as he prepared to finish her he noticed something. That girl, despite her gray skin, blank eyes and expressionless face, he managed to recognize her.
Kosaki Naoko, representative and president of class 3-A, Rentaro's class. She was a kind girl who gave everything so that the classroom was a better place and no one had problems in it. Ren looked at her for a few seconds and then bowed slightly with his head, grateful for how many times she tried to help him despite never asking for help and the many times she encouraged him to be a better student, something that Ren never did but hell… she gave a fuck. The female zombie fell to the ground when Ren with single blow hit her on the head.
He didn't finish her to make her go out of his way, he did it as a sign of gratitude for her kindness and because he was sure that the last thing she wanted was to hurt another person. Ren looked for the last time the body of which was once the representative of his class and then remembered the main priority for him at the moment. Shizuka.
Ren grunted and then started running while being a little annoyed with himself for forgetting about the woman again, he ran down the hallways of the high school having as a destination the infirmary of the school. While running, he encountered several zombies which he avoided by running pass them though there were some of them who he felt that could catch him so he got them out of the way by hitting them with his bokken rapidly. Finally after around thirty seconds of running at maximum speed he could see the infirmary but to his annoyance and concern, three zombies were entering in it. Rentaro ran again, aiming to put an end to those three zombies, not without first noticing that both the door and the windows of the infirmary were shattered, but he paid no attention. He needed to know if Shizuka was okay.
Finally he entered the infirmary after crushing the head of one of the zombies who was at the entrance of it with his bokken, he then visualized the other two zombies but also noticed several zombies defeated on the floor throughout the room and a pair of legs that whore white slippers with black stockings and a long green skirt, but still did not pay attention, the main thing was to end those zombies.
He hit the first on the calf causing him to instantly lose its balance and as it slowly fell, he changed his bokken to his other hand and hit him right in the head before he fell and finally he tore his skull violently with his shoe confirming that he had finished with him. With only one more to finish Ren turned his gaze to the last one standing and with a horizontal blow with his bokken on the head he sent him flying against one of the furnitures of the infirmary. With all the zombies finished he sighed looking at the floor and yet again visualized the pair of legs he had just seen, he slowly lifted his head and finally crossed eyes with her, it was... it was her.
The girl for whom he inexplicably felt worried all this time and hoped she was okay. Dark violet hair but still bright, light blue irises like the sea, a face that radiated beauty and maturity, she was quite tall although Rentaro still was a head a taller than her, she wore the uniform of the preparatory only that unlike many girls, with a lonf skirt covering her knees and also noticed that in his right hand she held a bokken. Rentaro had seen her many times, after all the two were in the same class, they were classmates but still he couldn't remember him interacting with her once. He couldn't even remember her name, but she… she was the one who had...
"Rentaro!" the cry of a woman was heard and Rentaro could not react before two arms curled around his neck and at the same time he felt the soft sensation oof two things pressing on his back.
"Shizuka?" was the only thing that came out of Rentaro's mouth. He could not help but feel a great relief when he confirmed that it was her after seeing a long blond hair not without ignoring the feeling of softness on his back that he had already felt before many times. Rentaro pulled the woman away while turning around and finally he could see her enterely. Long blond hair, beautiful face, stunning body ... yes, it was her. Marikawa Shizuka, the school nurse and a very close person to Rentaro.
"I'm glad you're okay!" said Shizuka, unable to avoid showing happiness and excitement in her voice and face.
"That's my line" said Rentaro. "Of course I'm fine, I know how to defend myself on the other hand you don't even know what karate means."
"Of course I know!" she exclaimed childishly with some discomfort, she then reassured the expression on her face and turned her attention to the violet-haired girl near by them, which Rentaro had completely forgotten about. "Well, Busujima-san saved me and-"
Busujima...? With this last name in mind Rentaro who didn't let Shizuka finish what she was saying, crossed glances with the girl with violet-haired girl who had only abstained to watch the scene.
She protected Shizuka?
"Umm ... I'm Matadara Rentaro it's a pleasure" said the boy reaching out his hand to the girl feeling somehow... nervous? The girl looked at him for a few seconds but then smiled and shook the young man's hand. Rentaro could not avoid swallowing a little when the girl shook his hand, the exact moment she touched him, he felt an electric shock through his body and seeing the face or rather the eyes of the girl who showed an unexpected sparkle for a few seconds, something inside him told him that she felt the same, but after a second he focused again. "You have my gratitude for protecting Shizuka."
"I'm Busujima Saeko, nice to meet you, Matadara-kun, if I remember correctly we are in the same class, right?" Saeko said with a friendly smile. On the other hand Rentaro who was thinking about that last name Busujima again, could not avoid to fight himself to know why he had suddenly smiled after knowing that she remembered that they were in the same class, although Rentaro then returned from his trance to see how the girl's smile disappeared. "But actually the person who you should actually thank is…" and as if she had forgotten something important, the girl quickly turned her gaze towards a boy whom Rentaro hadn't noticed before and neither could recognize, the only thing he knew was that the boy was severely injured and by the marks on his body and torn uniform Rentaro quickly deduced that the boy had been bitten in several places. The boy who was wearing glasses had his gaze absolutely lost and was breathing heavily while leaning his back against some of the furniture in the room.
Without thinking, both Ren and Saeko approached the boy. Ren knelt in front of the boy and touched his shoulder, Saeko did the same only that she actually kneeled beside him and touched the boy's free shoulder. The boy reacted to their touch and looked up at Saeko as he trembled.
"I'm Busujima Saeko, a third year and captain of the kendo club" the girl said introducing herself to the boy, and Ren despite the situation, could not prevent the mention of her being the captain of the kendo club to caught his attention. "Would you tell me your name?"
"Ishii Kazu…" the boy responded weakly as he coughed blood.
"Your courage is worth of admiring Ishii-kun" Saeko said congratulating the boy.
"It's a pleasure Ishii-kun, I am third year, Matadara Rentaro, I deeply appreciate how you protected Marikawa-sensei" this time Ren presented himself. "Ishii-kun, you know what happens to those who are bitten right?" asked Rentaro and the boy only responded by nodding. "Would you want your close ones to see you in that state?" If that's not the case then…" Rentaro paused for a moment and could not avoid feeling sympathy for the boy. "Let me end your suffering right now, I swear it will be quick."
The boy was surprised for a few seconds but then showed a sad smile.
"I would appreciate if you do that" said the boy weakly but with a smile and just as Rentaro got up on his feet, he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Please let me do it" Saeko told him earnestly while touching Ren's shoulder. Ren just looked at her seriously and questionably, then nodded and stepped aside without asking for explanations.
"Wait…" Ren stopped the girl and then turned his attention to the nurse who was staring at the scene in silence and with obvious sadness. "Shizuka… don't you have something to say?"
The woman was a little surprised but then showed a serious face and looked at the bitten boy. "Ishii Kazu-kun, thank you so much for defending me" said the woman bowing, the boy just smiled weakly. Ren enveloped Shizuka into a hug, resting her head on his shoulder to prevent her from seeing what was about to happen.
"I admire your desire to end the suffering of the boy, but I hope you understand why I decided to do it Matadara-kun" said Saeko preparing her bokken; Ren just looked at her as he continued hugging Shizuka, which had begun to sob a little. "After all, one of a woman's main duties is to protect a man's pride"
Ren immediately understood her and nodded as Saeko with a dry blow, killed the boy whose head splashed blood, Rentaro felt how Shizuka tensed when the blow rang and could not do more than caress the woman's head to reassure her. After a few seconds, Rentaro released Shizuka from the embrace which had already calmed down and went to one of the infirmary's beds, took a sheet from it and then returned to where the brave boy's lifeless body was, covering it with the sheet and again bowing his head in gratitude to the boy.
"Ishii Kazu, I will never forget your name" Ren said, he then turned his gaze to Saeko who saw him with neutral face. He nodded to her and she did the same. Without knowing why, the two remained silent staring mutualy at each other until they heard the other door of the infirmary fell to the floor thanks to two new zombies who were already inside the infirmary.
Both he and Saeko prepared. Ren on one side doing as always, "sheathing" his bokken on his waist and Saeko on the other hand taking hers firmly by the handle with both hands. Ren watched as the zombies addressed them and without a word or look they knew what they had to do. He would take the one on the right and the left one on the left was hers. Ren without even realizing it smiled a bit and with a quick blow finished the zombie while Saeko at the same time finished with hers. The two again exchanged stares and stayed like that for a few seconds until Saeko showed a friendly smile.
"We should get out of here" Saeko said.
"Yep, we actually need to, but hold on a sec" Ren said agreeing. "Shizuka, do you have something sharp around?" A knife or something?
Shizuka, who had been in silence for quite some time now answered the boy. "Umm... I have a scalpel, will that work?"
"Perfect" said Ren and Shizuka reached into one of the many drawers of the furniture in the infirmary and took out a scalpel, handed it to Ren wish with the sharp part of the scalpel began to shape the sharpless tip of his bokken with a grimace of discomfort.
"Ren... What are you doing?" asked a confused Shizuka.
"He is sharpening the tip of his bokken so that it would be more effective against those things, right?" Saeko said with a smile before he could answer. Ren shifted his gaze on her and nodded.
"Precisely… not that it pleases me to impair my bokken but well… anything to have a bigger advantage against those zombitches" Ren said annoyed as he concentrated on sharpening the tip of his bokken.
"Zombitches huh?" Saeko laughed a little at the boy's comment and Ren could not help but feel inexplicably proud of being able to make her laugh. After a few seconds, he looked at the tip of his now sharp bokken, he touched it a little and he felt satisfied with it. He nodded to Saeko and Shizuka and with him leading them at the front, they left the infirmary not before Shizuka filled a bag with things that could help like bandages, ointments and that sort of thing.
They started walking down the hallways with Ren walking shoulder to shoulder with Saeko while Shizuka walked behind them.
"The staff room? Such a difficult trip this will be" said Saeko, who pushed a zombie out of their way with her bokken.
"Well, everyone has their car keys there" the nurse explained.
"Well, it's not impossible to get there, let's just be careful" said Ren, who had a zombie in front of him. He clenched his fist punched the zombie in the jaw getting it out of their way.
"Hey, why don't you guys kill them? It should be easy for you two" asked Shizuka curiously.
"Stopping to crush the head of everything we come across would be no different from restricting ourselves from movement at all, we would be surrounded in the blink of an eye" Saeko explained. Ren on the other hand stopped next to a glass door and peered through it causing the other two girls to stop behind him.
"Besides that, if they manage to get a grip on us it would be quite problematic, the bastards are quite strong, they do not feel pain so overforcing their body is not a problem for them, knowing this, bending their ankles or things like that aren't problems for them also" announced Ren grabbing the attention of Saeko and Shizuka, but then smiled somehow sadistically and derisively. "Unless of course… you break their bones."
"Oh, you two are pretty observant," Shizuka said before falling to his knees after tripping over a carpet. Ren just sighed as he looked at her with a little annoyance and disappointment. Saeko on the other hand crouched next to her.
"Here's an observation… you fell," Ren said to the woman.
"I slipped!"
"This clothes are not suitable for running, your movements are limited, excuse me…" Saeko said to the nurse and just before the she could even complain she sore the long skirt that the woman was wearing around the section of the thigh giving more freedom to the legs. Ren smiled mockingly knowing how much Shizuka treasured her clothes, but Saeko was right, now she had more freedom.
"Ah! This is a brand name skirt" the nurse complained.
"Ah… Tell me which do you value more? Your life or your clothing?" Saeko asked the nurse seriously who seemed to hesitate a little before answering.
"Both!" she said.
Saeko looked at her as if she was a little girl and Rentaro only sighed knowing Shizuka well enough and her constant immaturity.
"Let's go" Ren said, and they kept moving until they heard… a loud noise and... gunshots?
"What's that sound?" asked Shizuka.
"It's coming from the staff room" said Saeko.
"C'mon" said Ren and they started jogging until they heard a female scream.
There was no need to say anything before the three of them started running at where the scream came from, they ran for a few moments and Ren felt a great relief when he saw that Takashi and Rei were running in the same corridor as them but in the opposite direction, right in front of them, though… Hisashi was not with them. Ren was expecting this but he could not help but feel a hollow in his chest knowing what had happened perfectly. He shook those thoughts out of his mind as the five turned their attention to a rather crazy scene.
The girl who screamed, Takagi Saya was drilling the head of a zombie while showing an expression of fear that Ren had never seen, near her a boy with a little overweight and glasses was standing there holding a kind of modified nail gun, his eyes then immediately addressed six zombies surrounding these two and they all knew perfectly well what they needed to do.
"Leave us the ones on the right!" Rentaro announced, and everyone quickly agreed. He and Saeko would take care of two zombies each while Takashi and Rei would take care of one each.
Takashi hit one of the zombies with his bat crushing its head, on the other hand Rei nailed her spear through the head of the one on her side. Saeko saw these two with some interest, specially Rei to then direct her attention to the two zombies in front of her and she rapidly finished them with two quick blows to their heads. On the other hand Ren with his attention on the two remaining zombies approached one and kicked him on the leg causing him to fall on his knees, with this already done, he took his bokken with both hands from the handle and then successfully incrusted it in the head of the zombie, he raised his head and visualized the only zombie left. He took his bokken out of the defeated zombie head and launched it like it was an spear and yet again the wooden sword was nailed at the forehead of the thing causing it to fall on his back defeated. He walked to the still nailed bokken into the zombies head, took it by the handle and pulled it out of the thing's forehead. He then smiled satisfied and somehow darkly after seeing how effective his wooden sword was. The now sharpened tip, combined with his strength made killing zombies a little bit easier task. He then turned to see the others, first visualizing Saeko who was looking at him with seriousness but Ren could notice spark in her eyes while looking at him. A few meters away Takashi and Rei crossed eyes with them but in the end they all directed their eyes to Saya who was sitting on the floor in a state of shock, Rei and Shizuka went to check if she was okay, on the other hand Takashi closed a double door that was near them to prevent more zombies from entering.
"I guess you guys know nurse Marikawa, right?" Saeko said, breaking the ice. "I'm Busujima Saeko of 3-A" the girl said.
"I am Komuro Takashi of 2-B" this time Takashi presented himself.
"Busujima-senpai, you are who won the national kendo championship last year, right?" said Rei kindly as she turned her attention to the others present. "I'm Miyamoto Rei from the spear club"
"Umm... I'm Hirano Kohta of 2-B" said the guy with glasses who had been silent all this time while scratching his head somewhat nervous.
"I think that everyone here knows me but I will go with the flow," Ren said jokingly making everyone turn their eyes to him. "I'm Matadara Rentaro of 3-A, I'm glad to see that everyone is okay" said the boy smiling, after all he could not help but smile slightly after seeing how all of his friends were all present in one place all alive. Saeko, Takashi, Rei and Hirano smiled back at him.
"It's nice to meet you guys" Saeko said with a friendly smile. Ren on the other hand looked at her curiously, after hearing the name Busujima again and also after hearing that she won last year's nationals, a second later he could see how Saya stood on her feet and for a moment he thought that she would introduce herself.
"What's with this stupid soft atmosphere?" Saya said in an annoyed tone, causing everyone to turn their attention towards her again. "What do you mean by senpai?" You're the same age as her Miyamoto, remember? You got held back a year" she said sharply, surprising Rei who watched her attentively and annoying a little Rentaro and Takashi who were listening.
"Hey now, Takagi…" Takashi said, trying to figure out what was wrong with her.
"Do not make fun of me!" I'm a genius! "Exclaimed the girl. "I'm smarter than all of you… I… I…" The girl was slowly lowering her head; Saeko approached her and touched her shoulder.
"It's enough" said Saeko causing the girl to lower her head even more and then she saw her reflection in a mirror that was near her. "Look at how dirty I am… I need to tell my mom to get my clothes cleaned…"
Ren and Takashi approached her from behind and looked at her with both concern and sympathy, she noticed this when she saw their reflections in the mirror and could not contain it anymore, she bursted into tears and hugged Saeko who had no problems in comforting her and even got into her knees imitating the pinkhaired. The others saw the scene with sadness and sympathy, on the other hand Ren for the first time since this whole thing started realized how fucked up everything was. He knew perfectly well that it was not only in the school, this was happening in probably the whole city, after all, the one who caused the school to become the hell on earth was a person who came from outside that managed to bite a teacher. Ren looked at Rei who was looking at Saya and could not help himself to think about Hisashi, although neither Takashi or Rei confirmed it, for him it was more than obvious, Hisashi was gone, thought he wanted to know how were his last moments he decided to ask later. Something told him with certainty that Takashi had finished with his suffering just as Ren told him to do. Matadara Rentaro sighed, tired and confused placing his hand on his forehead while squeezing his bokken tightly.
What the fuck was happening?
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