Anime Crossover: Post-Apocalyptic Survival, My Stand is the World

Watching the girl with long, straight black hair "report" to Su Chen and then quickly leave with a barely perceptible blush, Senior Shi Yu simply scoffed.

'Hmph, what a little brat, all she does is manipulate people.'

She remained outwardly calm, and even had the leisure to tease the blonde girl with twin ponytails next to her who was biting her lip so hard it was almost bleeding from jealousy.

"Hey, you blond great painter, why do you look like someone just stole your toy?"

"Mind your own business! You scheming old woman!"

Eriri retorted without any politeness.

But deep down, Kasumigaoka Utaha was far from as calm as she appeared.

What a proud person she is!

Are you just going to give up like that?

How can it be!

Since I can't convince everyone on the issue of "seeking stability".

Then...

A glint of cunning and wisdom, like that of a fox, flashed in her beautiful wine-red eyes.

—As long as I can solve the biggest "pain point" in the "stable solution".

Why not just do that?

……

after an hour.

Kasumigaoka Utaha found Eriri, who was drawing in a corner, looking rather withdrawn.

"Hey, you loser."

"What are you planning to do now?!" Eriri looked at her warily.

"Do me a favor," Senior Shiyu said bluntly, "take me to the school's underground parking garage."

"Huh? What are we going there for? It's pitch black, there might be monsters!"

"Stop talking nonsense, just come with me."

Under Utaha-senpai's unquestionable gaze, Eriri reluctantly became the guide in the end.

no way.

Although she disliked this scheming woman, she also knew that this woman's mind was always full of strange but always effective ideas.

Thanks to Eriri's (questionable) familiarity with the terrain as a "local strongman" of Soubu Highlands, the two managed to avoid several wandering monsters and successfully reach the long-sealed underground parking garage.

As soon as you step into the garage, a damp, musty smell mixed with the rusty smell of engine oil hits your nostrils, so heavy it's almost suffocating.

"See! I told you this place was scary..."

Eriri was interrupted by Utaha's eyes, which suddenly lit up, before she could finish speaking.

In the darkness deep inside the garage, a splash of yellow stood out conspicuously. It was an old-fashioned school bus, the words "Zongwu High School" faintly discernible in the beam of a flashlight.

"found it."

Kasumigaoka Utaha's lips curled into a knowing smile.

Next, she found the two former TV station electricians who were repairing the circuits.

"Mr. Takahashi, Mr. Nakamura."

She slapped a rough design she had just drawn in front of the two of them.

"I need you to use the parts from these abandoned cars to help me... modify this car."

……

Noon the next day.

As the survivors inside the stadium were eating lunch meticulously prepared by Yukino Yukinoshita, a muffled yet powerful engine roar suddenly came from outside!

"what sound?"

Everyone tensed up instantly.

Su Chen raised an eyebrow slightly.

This movement...

He slowly stood up and walked to the entrance of the stadium.

Then he saw it.

He witnessed a scene that left him both amused and exasperated.

A yellow "doomsday vehicle" with a "wasteland punk" style was slowly driving up the slope in the distance.

The vehicle was still the same school bus.

But a rough but practical layer of barbed wire had been welded onto its windows.

The front of the car is made of several thick steel plates welded together to form a simple yet visually striking ram!

The entire vehicle exudes a wild aura that screams "Keep out or you'll be killed!"

squeak--

This "modified" doomsday vehicle pulled off a beautiful drift and came to a smooth stop in front of the stadium.

The car door opens.

A breathtakingly long and slender leg, encased in black over-the-knee stockings, stepped out first.

Kasumigaoka Utaha leaned against the car door, tossing her smooth black hair, a languid, captivating smile on her face.

Her gaze swept past all the stunned survivors and finally landed on the long-haired girl with black hair who also looked bewildered.

"Yukoshita-san."

"Now, we have 'vehicles'."

She paused, then asked slowly in a commanding tone, almost like a general:

"—Does the 'safety' issue you're worried about still exist? And with speed also involved, isn't a straight line even better now?"

"What do you think, Ice Queen?"

"..."

Yukino Yukinoshita was completely speechless.

She looked at the apocalyptic vehicle in front of her, which exuded an aura of "unreasonableness," and then at Kasumigaoka Utaha, who seemed to have just stepped out of the "Mad Max" movie set and was radiating an aura of power.

A look of helplessness appeared on her perpetually icy face.

As Su Chen watched this scene, looking at the black-haired senior who was leaning against the car door as if she was about to deliver tofu to Mount Akina, he had only one thought in his mind.

'this…'

Is this a physical version of "DejaVu"?

"You're really something, Ms. Kasumi Shiko."

Chapter Thirty-Four: Su Chen's Verdict

Kasumigaoka Utaha's bizarre strategy was like a bombshell, completely shattering the "public opinion" front that Yukino Yukinoshita had painstakingly built up.

Two completely different voices emerged again inside the stadium.

"We have a car! We'll definitely take the straight route! We can get to Akihabara in two days! What are we waiting for!"

Led by the "radicals," they instantly switched sides and became Kasumigaoka Utaha's most loyal supporters.

There's no way around it; for these energetic young people, the idea of ​​"playing it safe" is just too boring.

Driving a war machine and rampaging through a post-apocalyptic world, that's what you call romantic!

Meanwhile, the "moderate faction," led by several older survivors, remained deeply worried.

"No way! This car is making such a racket, it's practically telling the monster 'we're here'! It's a moving target!"

"Exactly! What if we break down in the city center? We'd be completely helpless then!"

The two sides had a heated argument.

Yukino Yukinoshita remained silent and did not speak.

Kasumigaoka Utaha, still in her victorious posture, leaned against her "doomsday chariot," admiring Yukino's slightly resentful expression.

She enjoyed this feeling.

This feeling of thoroughly defeating the "ice queen" who has always been one step ahead of me with "wisdom" and "action".

In the end, all eyes were once again drawn to the man who was the only one who could make the decision.

……

"Is it all over?"

In the makeshift conference room, Su Chen looked at the two genius girls in front of him, one with an icy expression and the other with a smile on her lips, and spoke calmly.

Neither woman spoke.

"Now that you've finished speaking, let me share my thoughts."

Su Chen stood up and walked to the map hanging on the wall.

He picked up a red marker and drew a third line between Yukino's winding "ring road" and Utaha's straight "central road".

A dotted line that no one expected, winding yet precisely connecting several key nodes.

"We will neither take the ring road nor the central route."

His finger pressed heavily on the small circular markers on the map that represented "stations".

"let's go"

"—Subway line."

"..."

"what?"

Everyone in the conference room was stunned, including Kasumigaoka Utaha, who had always been confident and in control.

"subway?"

She was the first to furrow her beautiful brows and question, "Su Chenjun, are you joking?"

"You think I'm joking?"

"The subway line was completely shut down on the very first day of the apocalypse due to a power system failure!" Senior Shiyu spoke quickly, demonstrating her agile thinking.

"It's pitch black inside, you can't see your hand in front of your face! And the terrain is extremely complex, with so many branching paths it's like a maze! We don't even have an accurate internal structure map!"

“Most importantly!” her tone became extremely solemn, “In that cramped and confined environment, if we encounter a monster, we won’t even have a place to escape! That’s not a shortcut, that’s a ‘grave’!”

Everything she said made sense.

Everyone present nodded subconsciously.

That's right, going into the subway is practically suicide.

After listening to Kasumigaoka Utaha's almost perfect analysis, Su Chen not only did not refute it, but also nodded approvingly.

"You're right, Kasumigaoka-senpai."

"Going into the subway without knowing the details is really no different from suicide."

His approval surprised Shi Yu slightly.

“However,” Su Chen changed the subject, “you, including all of you, have overlooked a crucial issue.”

He picked up his pen and circled Shi Yu's straight "central breakthrough route" heavily on the map.

"This road does look like the fastest. But have you considered the consequences if we drive this 'doomsday vehicle' recklessly through the city center?"

Without waiting for anyone to answer, he asked and answered his own question.