A youth story of a passerby at the end of the world

"Someone was banging on the door outside and shouting for help."

"and then?"

"Then there was no sound." Yuigahama Yui looked very uneasy. After hearing the noise, they immediately ran up without making any decision on their own.

I didn't have the courage or self-awareness to move to the window to look.

Uesugi Genshin put down the knife in his hand and walked out the door.

"How about it? Do you want it?" Yumiko Miura was waiting outside the door and said worriedly.

"You are too kind." His attitude towards Miura Yumiko changed a little. He usually looked hesitant at this time.

"But!" She heard the hidden meaning in his words and felt a little uncomfortable.

"Let's go to the rooftop and take a look." He suggested first, then ran over.

When they reached the top of the supermarket, the evening breeze brushed across their cheeks, a warm and gentle breeze, and combined with the setting sun in the distant sky, it was an unimaginable peaceful scene.

When I walked to the edge and looked down, I realized that the world had not changed at all. The open space in front of the main entrance of the supermarket was as densely packed as an ant nest.

One place was very conspicuous, with groups of zombies swarming together, as if they were gnawing on something. The same was true in the distance, all the way to the road.

"Ah..." Yumiko Miura sighed silently.

"The outcome was already decided from the moment he screamed for help in panic." Uesugi Genshin didn't say anything else and started walking along the edge. After turning around, he didn't find anything else unusual.

"That's too much." Yumiko Miura was not talking about him, but about them.

If so many zombies hadn't been attracted, they could still have been saved. There's no point in talking about this now.

"Don't worry about it. We need to live well." Uesugi Genshin turned and walked downstairs. Dinner was not ready yet.

Yumiko Miura stood on the roof for a while, looking at the group of zombies in the distance and the fugitives who stood up again after they dispersed.

"Yumiko..." Yuigahama Yui held her cold right hand with both hands from behind.

"Let's go down too, Yui." She shook her head and pulled Yui with her backhand.

When we returned to the lounge, dinner was ready.

The seafood has not been completely eaten yet. There is the crab roe steamed egg with the crab shell as the container, the garlic sauce is the garlic oysters he made himself, and the grilled squid, no, it should be more accurately called pan-fried squid.

The tenderloin was cut into strips and marinated and fried into crispy meat, and the beef brisket was stewed with tomatoes. I even took out a can of tomato paste to make it taste stronger.

"Wow~, it's all meat again." After exclaiming with joy, Yuigahama Yui then complained.

"Isn't this a dish?" Uesugi Genshin picked up the salad made with a special vinegar based on olive oil.

"Isn't this the only dish?" He pulled open a stool and sat on it without any hesitation. He picked up the chopsticks and said, "I'm ready to eat." Then he picked up a piece of tender stewed beef brisket and placed it on the rice.

"Eat more meat." This is a true saying.

"Haha, don't you like eating meat?" Yumiko Miura joked as if she was talking to her friends at school.

"If you say you like it, you must like it. I do prefer eating meat." The crispy pork sprinkled with cumin looked very appetizing.

But upon closer inspection, the steamed egg was overcooked, the oysters had shrunk, the squid was a little cold so its original flavor was highlighted, the crispy pork didn't have any particularly outstanding oil, fortunately there was cumin to suppress it, and the beef brisket was acceptable, but the soup was a little dry.

"..."

Sure enough, multi-threaded operations are like this.

It's still too much for one person, but I don't want to waste food. If I use a few more pots, I won't be able to take care of them all.

The people opposite were enjoying their meal very much and did not notice any sensitive reaction from the chef's own picky taste buds.

"Delicious!" Yuigahama Yui praised loudly.

"Ah, you will definitely be able to find a wife in the future, just with this trick." Miura Yumiko praised generously.

"I don't think I'll ever find a wife."

"Humph, with your gloomy look now, how can you ever find a girlfriend in the future?"

"No, no, no, I already have a good female friend, and she definitely has a crush on me."

"Really?! Who is it?" Yuigahama Yui widened her eyes with a gossipy expression like a high school girl talking about love.

"Hey~, what a surprise, there is actually someone in school who likes you."

"No, not from our school."

"Oh, that's not surprising, that's not surprising."

"who is it?"

Uesugi Genshin took out his phone, flipped through it, and then handed it to them, "The author of this novel."

"Love metronome? Never heard of it."

"Ah! I've read this book, it's pretty good. The girls on both sides are very cute, but the hesitation of the male protagonist is very confusing."

"Hey~" Yumiko Miura instantly knew that this book must be a love story about a triangle relationship, which is indeed the type that Yui likes to read.

"So this is Xiao Xuan's girlfriend. She's amazing."

"No..., not a girlfriend yet."

"Hey~" Miura Yumiko's subtle tone made people angry, "Isn't that the end?"

"Don't worry, it's absolutely fine. What's wrong with just taking it slow?"

"You're slow to warm up..." Yumiko Miura hasn't realized the auspiciousness of this topic yet.

"Yes, because I know for sure that she does like me, there's nothing wrong with that. So there's nothing wrong with waiting a little longer."

“…” Someone’s defense was broken.

Chapter 53: Helicopter

"Thank you very much, Mr. Hiratsuka." After getting off the bus, the student council president of Kaihin High School, Tamazawa, went straight to Shizuka Hiratsuka, who had just gotten off the bus and was in charge of driving.

"You're welcome." Hiratsuka Shizuka smiled as carefree as usual.

If something happens on the road, it will be a different story.

"And you too, this boy." Not knowing how to address him, he just called him that. He looked at Hikigaya Hachiman who was standing next to him and staring at the special building in a daze and said.

"Yeah." Hikigaya Hachiman responded casually. He had no intention of getting to know the student council president.

He and Mr. Hiratsuka were doing everything along the way, including being the bait to lure away the zombies, and he was the only one who did it.

Even if they didn't cause any trouble, they didn't have any effect, so it wasn't worth him saying anything more about it.

In short, they are not partners, so just leave them to the snow to do voluntary labor.

He looked at the piles of tables stacked in front of the school gate. The working group members were working hard today. They moved the unused tables and chairs outside. The original intention was to build a wall, but the streets were not very safe now, so further action was temporarily shelved.

He and Ye Shan were the only two official members of the "outing group" that was not recognized, so naturally they didn't have to participate in such miscellaneous tasks. Which one was easier, fighting zombies or cleaning toilets? Even he was a little confused. It was all because of that guy. There was originally someone who could go out with him...

"Eh? Hikigaya?"

The unexpected voice brought back his memories, the dark history of high school that he didn't want to see anything about.

"Eh~, I miss you so much. I never thought that person was you."

A beautiful young girl came over, with short brown hair that reached her shoulders and eyes of the same color. She was wearing a dark blue Haibin High School uniform jacket with a light green lining, and a red tie.

"Ah, um."

"Ah~, I had no idea. I didn't expect you to be so brave, Hikigaya." The straightforward compliment made Tamazawa next to him raise his eyebrows uneasily.

"So, it turns out that Mr. Orimoto knows this person." Yusheng looked at the man's dead fish eyes again, and after confirming with his eyes, he found out that he was his suspected love rival.

But Hikigaya Hachiman didn't take the compliment seriously at all. He had already graduated from failure. This was just one of the girls' tricks and like Si Guoyi, it had no real meaning.

But... Kaori Orimoto, the only girl in junior high school who would talk to him, and the person he once confessed to.

Then the next day, the news spread throughout the class that Hikigaya confessed to Orimoto and that Orimoto was so pitiful. Ugh... Thinking about it now, my heart aches, even though the wound has already healed.

In other words, the girl in front of him was the one who once made him sad.

"Yes, I know him. He is my middle school classmate."

Childhood sweetheart?! A word suddenly popped up in Yusheng's mind: archenemy.

"Oh~, Hikigaya confessed to me." She said it without any hesitation, as if she didn't take it to heart at all.

But the words spoken stung someone again.

He knew, he had known it for a long time! She was the type who spoke without restraint, which might be seen as bold and talkative in the eyes of some boys.

but......

Yu Sheng looked at him with relief and sympathy. He didn't expect that this person was not an enemy.

Hey! Don't look this way.

"But it's great to have Hikigaya here. To be honest, I was very uneasy before. When Hikigaya came, I thought: Wow~ I'm so lucky, all thanks to Hikigaya."

Yu Sheng's gaze next to him changed again, and he looked at him with a scrutinizing look.

This made him smack his lips, "No..., nothing."

"Hey, Komachi is worried about you." The voice of Saki Kawasaki next to her really helped a lot.

Saki Kawasaki walked over and spoke to Hikigaya Hachiman, as if she had come specifically to deliver a message, but she stood next to him.

"Eh? Girlfriend?" Kaori Orimoto tilted her head.

The two people on the other side answered at the same time: "No."

"Ah, I think so too. How could Hikigaya have a girlfriend? It's so funny." She laughed out loud as if she was telling a joke.

"Well......"

"Who are you?" Saki Kawasaki asked angrily to Kaori Orimoto in front of her.

"I'm Kaori Orimoto, and I'm Hikigaya's middle school classmate."

"I see. I'm Saki Kawasaki, the woman who was saved by this man. Is this how you treat your savior?"

"Huh? Ah..." Kaori Orimoto, who had never been spoken to harshly before, was stunned.

"He is much better than you know. What's so funny about you making fun of him? Can you stop judging him based on appearances?" Saki Kawasaki put her hands on her hips and pointed at Hachiman Hikigaya.

"Compared to your bunch of wimpy boys, he is the one who truly saved you. Can you please have some basic respect? If you can't even do that, then leave. You are not welcome here."

"You are not the student council president here, are you?" Tamazawa was a little frightened when he heard this, and looked at Shizuka Hiratsuka worriedly. She was smoking quietly beside him, but her silence made him even more worried.

The noises between them had already been noticed by the people around them, and even when Saki Kawasaki said this, everyone started discussing it cautiously.

As for what I'm talking about...

"No."

Yusheng was obviously relieved, and then tried to smooth things over by saying, "We didn't mean that."

As he spoke, his hands moved left and right as if he was turning a wheel.

"I'm fine." Hikigaya Hachiman said.

"Let's go." He turned and walked towards the special building.

"Hmph." Saki Kawasaki glared at them with disdain, then left with the person involved. After all, she was just delivering a message to Komachi.

Komachi was really worried when she found out that her brother and Hiratsuka-sensei were going out together. She sent a message afterwards and said that she had told him about it. But what was going on? She should have told her sister about important things in person!

Hikigaya Hachiman vaguely guessed Komachi's feelings. After all, they were siblings who grew up together, but he was worried about Mr. Hiratsuka.

"That's it."

Kaori Orimoto stood there, watching Hikigaya Hachiman's back as he left, standing silently, and finally smiled bitterly as if relieved.

"Are you the student council president of Seaside High School?" The real student council president, Yukinoshita Yukino, came.

"Yes." This made Yu Sheng, who was a little embarrassed, feel relieved instantly.

"Since you are staying here, then you should obey the orders of our student union, is that ok? This is not a negotiation."

"Okay, okay." Yu Sheng, who had just escaped a disaster, encountered another lioness.