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

"Ah..., here, is a gift. I found it on the roadside yesterday when Hiratsuka-sensei was out."

Uesugi Genshin handed Yukinoshita Yukino a revolver, a Nambu Type 60, an old gun with a capacity of only 5 rounds, but it was completely sufficient as a police gun in Japan where crime was not serious.

"The holster was left in the car. It's a little dirty and I haven't washed it. I'll come back to it later."

Then he took Yukinoshita Yukino's hand, put the pistol in her hand, and taught her to identify it.

"This is the safety. Once you open it, you can pull the trigger. You know how to shoot a gun, right? There are five full bullets in here." As he spoke, he manipulated her hand to open the revolver cylinder, showing the bullets inside, and then closed it again.

"Why give it to me?"

"Huh? Ah..., because it's useless for me to hold it. This gun is for use against people. If I just shoot at zombies randomly on the street, the amount of zombies that will be attracted will be too much for me to even have enough bullets to shoot."

For people like him and Hachiman who are really going to be combatants, revolvers are useless. If you want the real deal, SAT or SIT equipment, you have to go to the headquarters in the central district.

"If I attack you, you can shoot me with this gun."

"......" Yukinoshita Yukino reacted, turned her head and looked at Uesugi Genshin with wide eyes in a daze.

Uesugi Genshin knew very well that because he and Yukinoshita Yukino were the same kind of people, they would be wary of strangers. So in his life, before the zombie crisis, he only had Hachiman as a friend, and that was because he knew what kind of person Hachiman was in advance.

He himself had only talked to Yukinoshita Yukino for an hour in total, and this short period of time together was not enough to see a person's true nature.

"Here you go." Uesugi Genshin smiled.

Yukinoshita Yukino lifted up the revolver which seemed to be quite heavy, looked at it, put it against her chest, and remained silent.

"Still uncomfortable?"

"Well..., it's no different from the previous fever. I feel very heavy, but at this time."

"Take the medicine anyway." Is it only the body that feels heavy? How could that be possible? The whole body must be in pain. Or is it forcing myself?

Yukinoshita Yukino watched the boy take the medicine plate from the table, took out two pills and handed them to her along with a glass of water.

"It will be fine soon. You will feel much better after taking the medicine."

"I..." Yukinoshita Yukino hesitated, wanting to say something but unable to speak.

Her index finger slid across the revolver's trigger and hammer, and her vocal cords made a bitter sound, "I... am I going to die."

There was a sense of despair in her words, and her expression was sad and endearing.

"Hey, hey, hey, I didn't give you a gun to kill yourself."

“…” No reply.

Yukinoshita Yukino would not allow herself to wake up in such an ugly state again, even if it meant dying. This was her pride.

"The situation is not that bad. Maybe it's just the body's stress response. After all, they haven't turned into zombies directly like the previous batch. If it's really bad, then I can't say anything. Let the world be destroyed and mankind die directly."

"What about the rest?"

"I told them to tie their legs in a figure eight shape with their clothes. It's no problem to walk in small steps. If they really turn into zombies, they will lose their balance and fall down."

"You didn't tie me up..."

"The vice president always has to be given preferential treatment."

"Are you pitying me?"

"This is not pity. It's the knight's mercy because you have been working hard these days. This is what you deserve. Don't worry about it." Uesugi Genshin shrugged and said solemnly, "If you really turn into a zombie, I will nail you to death in a coffin and bury you under a cherry tree if I still have time."

"......" Hearing these words, the bitterness that had originally settled in my heart began to flow and swirl, making it an indescribable feeling.

After taking the medicine, Yukinoshita Yukino lay down and covered her head with the quilt. The revolver was thrown aside by her so that she would be out of reach if anything really happened.

"..." Uesugi Genshin picked up the revolver on the bed, lifted up Yukinoshita Yukino's exposed hand, and placed it under her palm.

Her fingers moved slightly and finally rested on the gun.

"Would you like some porridge?"

"I'm not hungry." A sob was heard from under the quilt, the girl's voice was soft and fragile.

At least he got a reply. Uesugi Genshin turned on the keep-warm button on the induction cooker and stared at the steaming porridge.

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When she opened her eyes, it was already night, and Yukinoshita Yukino confirmed that she was still a human being.

I feel much more relaxed and no longer feel uncomfortable. The effect of the medicine is very significant.

What about that person?

She looked around and found Uesugi Genshin sitting on the ground with his head against the bed and sleeping.

Sobu High School is not a boarding school. There are only a few quilts in the school. Almost all students sleep with only their clothes on. She did the same thing in the student union room before. Fortunately, it was not cold in April.

Uesugi Genshin was no exception and was just covered with clothes. He wore a sports suit and a school uniform on top of it. The white shirt and dark jacket were folded together and covered his body.

When I turned my head, I could see the outline of his ears sticking out from his hair because his head was tilted.

The room was unusually quiet. The only sound in the air was the calm breathing of the two people, but if you listened carefully, it seemed as if you could not hear anything.

Yukinoshita Yukino sat up carefully to avoid disturbing the man who had finally fallen asleep. His sleeping position was only moderately comfortable despite being uncomfortable.

There was a pot of porridge keeping warm on the table in the room. The moonlight shone into the room, turning the room silver and covering up the red light emitted by the induction cooker when it was running.

She wasn't hungry because stomach acid wasn't secreted when she was asleep. After all, she was still sick. She thought there was no need to get up. It would be bad to wake him up.

Yukinoshita Yukino shifted her gaze from the pot on the table back to Uesugi Genshin who was leaning on the bed.

"..."

She reached out her hand as if possessed by a ghost and placed the back of her hand on his forehead.

So hot!

This movement awakened the sleeper.

"...Huh? What's wrong? I won't accompany you to the bathroom."

"No, it's nothing."

Tears started flowing again.

Chapter 65: I won't allow it

"Ah! Ah~, Yumiko, Yui, welcome back." Ebina Hina hugged the two of them warmly in an act that was inconsistent with her image.

Miura Yumiko smiled gently, "Well, I'm back."

"Hina too, it feels like we haven't seen each other for a long time." Yuigahama Yui felt that the past three days were unusually long.

"Hayato!"

"Well, Yumiko, welcome back." Hayato Hayama greeted his friend's safe return with his usual sincere smile.

"Ah~, Yumiko is back safely, that's great, that helicopter is really annoying." Tobe Sho said in a lively tone, "If it weren't for Uesugi, I don't know what would have happened. But I didn't expect that guy to be so powerful, he could actually move back and forth among the zombies, and walking on the wall is really amazing."

"Wall walking? What is that?"

"Huh? Don't you know?" Yamato behind Yeshan had a shocked expression, as if you were clearly there.

"So what are you talking about?"

"Hahaha, nothing much, Yumiko, where's the Uesugi?"

"Ah~, Uesugi is coming back on horseback. He's behind us. We can't just leave Wushuang there."

"Wushuang? Ah~, is it about the horse? I saw..."

"Tobe." Hayato Hayama stopped Tobe Sho from continuing, "Then I will go to greet him and thank him properly."

"If you want to thank me, I've already said thank you."

Hayato Hayama shook his head. "It's not just about Yumiko. He also wanted to act as bait without hesitation. We are all indebted to him."

Otherwise, the main entrance would have been surrounded by zombies at that time.

"Really?" She was arguing with Sagami at the time and couldn't get out of the situation. Now it seems that she was also quite funny when she was arguing with Sagami.

People have to go through some things before they can grow.

"Yumiko, just take a rest here. Yukinoshita has allocated this classroom to us."

There are four boys and three girls in the room, which is not too crowded. If they use tables to separate them, everyone can have some space of their own, which is similar to a group training.

Watching Hayato Hayama walk away, Tobe Sho took the lead and suggested, "Why don't we go and take a look too!"

"Huh?" Yumiko Miura questioned his idea of ​​watching the show.

"I've never seen anyone riding a horse before? That's very cool!"

"makes sense!"

"Then go and have a look."

Ooka and Yamato also joined in with great interest. The three boys all wanted to watch the fun, which made Miura Yumiko so angry that she laughed.

"What's there to see?" Yuigahama Yui complained weakly.

"No, no, no, it's rare to see you. Let's go."

In the end, only three boys left. Miura Yumiko politely saw them off as if she was watching monkeys and did not get involved.

"Boys really are a bunch of idiots."

"That's right, Xiaohu and the others! We finally got back here!" This kind of behavior is a bit like the bystanders' leeway, which makes people angry.

"Well, well, it's not that I can't understand the boys' thoughts, even though they are indeed monkeys." Ebina Hina comforted the two dissatisfied people.

Miura Yumiko tapped her nails on the table. "Even Ebina said that!"

"Rather than saying it's watching a play, it's more like envy and admiration. Those stupid boys think Uesugi is handsome, so they want to go and see him. It's actually very similar to promoting an idol. Ah~, admiration is the farthest distance, what a pity, now we can only look forward to going to X8, rotten rotten rotten..."

Before she knew it, Hime Ebina had strayed off topic.

Miura Yumiko was a little confused and asked: "So what are you talking about?"

"Hmm, the explanation is a bit complicated." Ebina Hina took out her phone. In such a short time, someone had uploaded a collection of them on YouTube. It was really amazing. "Look, this is it."

"Ah! Isn't this us?! We were really photographed." Yuigahama Yui said in surprise as she looked at themselves running for their lives from the supermarket.

"It's really terrible, scum." Her life-threatening behavior was filmed and posted online as if it was a joke. Miura Yumiko reached out to turn off the annoying comments and just looked at the screen.

Soon they arrived at the racecourse and separated from Uesugi Genshin temporarily, and then he came over on horseback.

See the moment of riding a horse over hurdles.

"It's really handsome." Yumiko Miura nodded and began to think that it was normal for Tobe and the others to have such thoughts.

There was also a charge on the ancient street, "......ah." Apart from opening his mouth in shock, he had no intention of speaking at all.

He was so nonchalant at the time, but now it turns out to be like this.

The final horseback archery perfectly fits their impression of the traditional heroes who are loved by the Chinese people.

"I see." Miura Yumiko smiled bitterly, "I had no idea. I had no idea..."

"what......"

Until the end, when Tobe Sho and the others came back and it was time to eat lunch, Miura Yumiko still held her chin in her hand and looked at the sky outside the window in silence.

The grouper and kelp tea rice made by the cooking team needs to be picked up from the cafeteria. You can take it away but you have to return it after eating.

The boys just helped the girls to bring everything.

"It tastes good today." Ooka sighed.

The people in the cooking team finally decided to add salt. The seasoning of the previous meals was hard to describe, because they had no experience in cooking for more than a hundred people, so it was inevitable that they were a little unfamiliar with it.

"Yeah, it's not bad, right? Now, what has Yumiko eaten these days? Is it better than this?" Tobe Sho tried to liven up the atmosphere in his own way. His pretentious face seemed to be saying that the food outside must be very bad.

As expected, Miura Yumiko replied, "What I eat is much better than this."

"Hey~, you must be kidding. Who of you cooked?" Because Tobe Xiang knew very well that no one among them could be called a cook.

Hayato-kun might be one, Ebina might be one, but the others are really tough.

"Uesugi's is better than this."

Memories can be beautified. The crab roe that I once ate to death was so greasy, but now I think it is really delicious, although I have almost forgotten its taste.