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

When I turned around, I saw that Uesugi Genshin and Hikigaya Hachiman had already left the classroom door.

A vein popped out on Hiratsuka Shizuka's temple.

"What Tanaka!" He instantly realized something was wrong.

"I'm going to be out for a while. You guys can study on your own first." She chased after him vigorously.

Looking to the right side of the corridor, he and his partner had already reached the stairs, and in the blink of an eye, the clothes had disappeared at the top of the stairs.

"..."

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"Hey, what do you want from me?"

"Hey, I didn't expect you knew it was me looking for you." Uesugi Genshin grabbed Hikigaya Hachiman with one hand and ran forward, while looking back and teasing.

"......Nonsense." Hikigaya Hachiman was a little helpless.

"Well...it's a very troublesome matter." His tone returned to normal, even a little depressed.

"..."

what......

Hikigaya Hachiman noticed that the smile on Uesugi Genshin's face just now seemed a bit forced, or rather, a sneer filled with mockery.

He quickened his pace so that Uesugi Genshin would pull less forcefully.

Anyway, just follow along.

The two went down to the first floor, ran past the column, ran out of the teaching building and ran towards the school gate.

"Ahhhhhhh!!!" a scream rang out at the right time.

The two of them took a quick look and saw two people entangled together at the school gate.

A stranger was lying on top of the security guard, and the two of them were hugging each other tightly. If it weren't for the screams, the scene would have been quite beautiful.

Because the outsider was biting the security guard's neck!

"What is this!" Hikigaya Hachiman stopped and looked at the scene in the distance with some surprise.

"It's very strange, right?" Uesugi Genshin said beside him.

The two of them just watched, and it would be better to say that the students had no obligation or responsibility to intervene with the "mob".

If he really was a thug who entered the school.

After all, no one would bite someone's neck during a fight.

"Ahhhh..." The screams in the distance did not travel very far and perhaps did not attract enough attention from people in the building.

The man twitched on the ground as the security guard fought back in pain.

The security guard couldn't breathe and collapsed to the ground, looking at the man in front of him in horror, his hand covering his neck from which blood was gushing out, and the blood soaked half of his clothes.

He covered his neck and tried to breathe in pain, but after a few seconds, he began to twist and convulse.

"What is this..." Hikigaya Hachiman beside him obviously also noticed that something was wrong.

Uesugi Genshin smiled and said, "Don't you think this looks like a zombie?"

A pair of hands interrupted their conversation.

"You two!!" Behind him was Shizuka Hiratsuka, who had already chased out.

"Isn't there something wrong with Mr. Tanaka?"

"Why did I see two students skipping classes?!" There was anger in his voice.

"Hiratsuka-sensei." Uesugi Genshin calmly pointed forward, "Zombies."

"What zombies?" Shizuka Hiratsuka still stared at the two students in front of her.

Uesugi Genshin ignored him and turned around to look at the security guard who had already stood up.

"Hey!"

Ignoring him, Uesugi Genshin narrowed his eyes and began to think.

The outsider with no damage or obvious wounds was probably the original infected person.

The virus is currently in its mass reproduction period and should not have been completely transformed. The body is still resisting the virus's invasion in vain, so is the performance so unsatisfactory?

This security guard, ah, there was a pool of blood on the ground, probably because his blood vessels were torn.

In other words, will injuries that cause death accelerate the virus's erosion?

Ah, I'm so sorry, but it's too late to save him.

"What is this?" Shizuya Hiratsuka, who had already fallen silent, asked in a low voice.

"Zombies, zombies." Uesugi Genshin replied indifferently, and turned to look at Hachiman beside him. "What do you think?"

"Are they really zombies? Anyway... let's confirm it first." No matter how much Hikigaya Hachiman didn't believe it in his heart, after all, this was the first time he felt the weirdness of this world, so he might as well confirm it first, with his hands, with his eyes, and with himself.

The three looked at the two people in the distance. The other person who fell to the ground also stood up leisurely, and then staggered towards the three of them with the security guard.

As Uesugi Genshin was taking a step forward, his shoulder was grabbed.

"Hey, zombies, wouldn't it be bad if we come into contact with them so rashly?"

Shizuka Hiratsuka didn't believe it at all, but she recalled the zombie movies she had seen before, and out of her identity and responsibility as a teacher, she still pulled her student back.

Aren't zombies dangerous creatures that can be infected and turned into zombies if you just scratch them?

"I'm still in charge here." They all understood the implication of Shizuka Hiratsuka's words.

The force on his shoulders increased, trying to pull him behind him.

Uesugi Genshin has great faith in the martial arts of teacher Shizuka Hiratsuka. She is probably the strongest person in Sobu High School besides himself.

She has long black hair and is a quiet beauty. She comes from a powerful family and loves smoking and drinking, reading hot-blooded comics and going for drives. She is a typical leftover woman in her thirties. Because she is very "masculine", it is self-evident why she has failed in blind dates many times.

But she treated her students very well, and she did not give up even on the autistic Hachiman Hikigaya. Later, in Hachiman's mind, she became a "big sister" that he respected and was very close to, and a very good teacher.

So she stood up at this time. No matter whether it was a zombie or not, it should be her who stood up, not her students.

The two zombies in the distance are almost within sight.

The three of them could see their appearance clearly.

The mouth opened unconsciously, revealing yellow teeth, and the ferocious eyes were not looking at them at all.

"It's really a zombie, right?" Uesugi Genshin confirmed again.

Hikigaya Hachiman responded: "It certainly seems to be the case."

"Zombies aren't considered human, right?"

"What do you want to say?" Hikigaya Hachiman was a little confused, but still replied, "Zombies are not human."

"Huh." Uesugi Genshin took a deep breath, "Teacher Hiratsuka, you should step back."

"Hey." Hiratsuka Shizuka shouted in a low voice, "What are you talking about?"

"I'm talking." Uesugi Genshin turned his head and smiled.

Suddenly he broke free from Hiratsuka Shizuka's hand and rushed forward.

In a blink of an eye, he came in front of a zombie. The zombie's face was very close to him. He pressed one hand on its forehead and then slammed it to the ground with a dull sound.

He stood up and spun around to kick down the other zombie who was running towards him. In the blink of an eye, both zombies were knocked to the ground.

"Ah..." Shizuka Hiratsuka stared blankly at Uesugi Genshin breaking the limbs of two zombies.

"......" This guy...

Hikigaya Hachiman was also surprised, as if he had gotten to know this person all over again, a friend who was supposed to be an ordinary Sobu High School student.

"Okay." Uesugi Genshin frowned and let go of the zombie's hand.

He just wanted to dislocate the joint at first, but... when he actually started to do it, he found that the zombie's body was abnormal.

Strength that exceeds that of an average person, and "hard" muscles.

Uesugi Genshin could only blame it on the virus, but dislocation was far from enough.

He was afraid that the dislocated bones would be corrected back into place by the pulling of the muscles.

"You, where did you learn all this?" Shizuka Hiratsuka wanted to figure out when his students became so violent.

What a cruel move!

She looked at the zombies wriggling on the ground like earthworms and couldn't help muttering.

"Edo, ah, Tokyo, training hall?" Uesugi Genshin muttered to deal with Hiratsuka Shizuka's question while squatting down and observing the zombies in front of him.

"Training hall? Are you trying to tell me that you learned the Shinto Munen-ryu?" Hikigaya Hachiman squatted down next to him.

There was a great man in history who learned this style of kendo, one of the three great men of the Meiji Restoration—Katsura Kogoro of Choshu Domain, so he happened to know it.

"I forgot you studied liberal arts as well." Uesugi Genshin clicked his tongue. "I studied a little, but not to the level of Menkyo Kaiden."

Hey Hey hey?

Hikigaya Hachiman suppressed his inner complaints and retracted his glance, "How persistent."

Although the two zombies in front of them had broken limbs, they were still twisting on the ground and trying to get close to them.

"Isn't the word 'persistence' a bit problematic? He wants to eat you."

Uesugi Genshin kicked the zombie on the left on the head, kicking him back a little.

"It really is a zombie." Shizuka Hiratsuka calmly stepped on the zombie's back with her front foot, placed her hand on the heart on the back, and concluded, "The heart is no longer beating."

Look at these zombies, they opened their mouths unconsciously and looked like they were biting something, just because they were so close to them.

"So what should we do next?" asked Uesugi Genshin.

"Should we break their necks, hit them with a rock, or just leave them alone?"

"This..." Hiratsuka Shizuka was speechless for a moment.

No matter which one it is, there are some problems, right?

At least at this stage.

"Let's just leave it alone for now. At least they can't bite anyone in this situation."

Its hands and feet were broken and it was just struggling on the ground. Its face was so hideous that if it could bite someone, it would only be because someone was stupid enough to get too close.

"So what should we do next?" Hikigaya Hachiman turned and looked towards the teaching building.

"Always check on the students' situation first." Hiratsuka Shizuka replied.

"This zombie is unharmed, which means it was not infected by a bite." Uesugi Genshin said, pointing at the outsider.

"The first batch of zombies?" Hikigaya Hachiman thought.

"I saw a living woman yesterday. She was in a car accident and turned into a zombie," Uesugi Genshin continued.

"That means the virus must have already been lurking in the human body."

Hikigaya Hachiman and Hiratsuka Shizuka became nervous instantly. After all, they couldn't be sure whether the virus was lurking in their bodies.

"Let's go back first." Shizuka Hiratsuka took out a cigarette from the pocket of her white coat. With a shake of her hand, a cigarette popped out of the cigarette box. She put her mouth close to it and held it, then lit it with a lighter.

"First look at the specific situation of the students in the classroom, and then make a judgment."

Uesugi Genshin and Hikigaya Hachiman looked at each other and then stood up.

The three of them walked towards the teaching building, leaving the two squirming zombies where they were.

Chapter 7: Chaos

As soon as Uesugi Genshin, Hikigaya Hachiman and Hiratsuka Shizuka arrived at the door of the teaching building, they heard screams coming from a classroom inside the building, interrupting the orderly teaching.

"Hurry up." Shizuka Hiratsuka urged, taking the lead in quickening her pace.

Uesugi Genshin and Hikigaya Hachiman followed her and discussed