School-Live! Realism!

がっこうぐらし! リアリズム！

(Gakkō Gurashi! Riarizumu!)

Chapter 1:- Realism

Opening: Dearest Drop - Tadokoro Azusa

"Run! They're coming this way! Ichikawa! Get up! There's no time to-Ahhh!" The sound of a teenage boy getting his limbs torn and eaten apart by the undead was seen by another young teenage boy who was beside the seen, it was during sunset as people were slowly dying from being bitten, scratched and eaten by those who weren't Human anymore.

"Ah, this is what seeing your friends die in front of you is like, huh? Looks like I should apologise to the soldiers of the military for doubting their work but...Is this the same as watching your friend getting shot by someone else? I doubt it, since watching your friend getting eaten alive is more terrifyingly disgusting than seeing him or her getting shot at.." The male thought to himself as he got up quickly and ran out of the dojo with his two katanas that had long blue cloth-like hair hanging from the end of the blade's handle. A dead infected student was slowly walking towards the male and as it reached a certain point, he tried to tackle the male but the boy moved to the side a little and watched the zombie hit its face on the ground as the boy would then lift his left leg high up and then slam his foot onto the skull of the zombie, crushing its brain with his shoe. The boy then quickly ran out of the school building as he was dodging the zombies that were in his path and as soon as he was out of the school grounds, he looked back at the school as he took a few seconds to breathe for a moment, he then turned and quickly ran somewhere else to safety.

-Four months later-

-The same young male appeared before the school entrance and saw the whole front of the school entrance was infested with large groups of the dead, his clean dark blue Japanese school uniform kept him warm in the cold winter as he had worn a long bright blue scarf that he took, he had one brown belt outside of his shirt and another across his body from his right shoulder to his left waist and had another short militia belt with two hand knives on his left thigh. He drew out his two katanas and walked right into the school ground and as the zombies saw and heard him, many charged towards him as he took his time and killed each one of them that came after him. From the inside of the school building, there were four girls who were walking around the hallways as they were heading somewhere together until one of the girls with Beige coloured hair heard the sounds of zombies groaning from afar along with sword slashing, she looked outside to the entrance and saw nothing but could still hear the sounds of swords hitting the dead's rotten bodies from afar-

Miki: Do you guys hear that..?

Kurumi: Hear what?

Miki:..I-It's nothing, it must be my imagination! Ahaha.. -She said as she laughed nervously-

Yuki: Mii-kun is just tired~ You can rest in the club room if you want!

Miki: N-No! I'm fine..I rather not be alone at the moment..

Yuki: Awww~ That's cute!

-The girls went into the library together as Kurumi and Miki stood at the entrance of the library and closed the door as they were guarding the entrance-

Yuuri: Do you have any books that you're interested, Yuki-chan?

Yuki: I don't know~ Maybe something like a fairy tale!

Yuuri: A fairy tale? They might have it here somewhere, let's find it together.

Yuki: Okay!

-Moments later as the girls were done with what they were doing and were about to head back, the girls left the library and as soon as they left, Kurumi was attacked by a young tall male with slightly long and thick brown hair and had dark faded green eyes. The girls panicked at the sight of Kurumi being attacked by the male who had two silver katanas, the male stopped attacking Kurumi and looked at the girls behind Kurumi and noticed a zombie was approaching Yuuri from behind, the male tossed one of his swords up and grabbed it like a spear and then threw it at the zombie that was behind Yuuri and stabbed the zombie right in the head as he saved Yuuri-

Kurumi: Rii-san!

Yuuri: Eek! E-Eh..? H-He saved me..?

Miki: Yuuri-senpai! -She then looked over to the male as her eyes widened at the sight of him- K-Kai-kun..?

Yuuri: Y-You know him?

Kai: Do you have anywhere to hide or something?

Kurumi: Why should we trust you?! You just attacked me?!

Kai: Anyone would have attacked you if they thought you were the undead.

Kurumi: F-Fine! Follow me! Let's go!

-The girls ran but Miki stayed back for a moment as she pulled the sword out of the zombie's head and ran upstairs and followed the others quickly-

Kurumi: Where did you come from anyway?!

Kai: Quiet, the more noise you make, the more you'll attract, I'll answer anything once we are all safe.

Kurumi: So be it.

Miki: Ah!

Yuki: Mii-kun!

Yuuri: Miki-chan!

Miki: L-Let go of me! -One the zombies grabbed onto Miki's leg as had its body on the floor-

Kai: Take the others upstairs, I'll deal with the ones here.

Kurumi: But..

Kai: Go!

Kurumi: Rii-san! Yuki! Let's go!

Yuki: But what about Mii-kun?!

Kurumi: He'll protect her!

Yuki: But I..

Yuuri: We have no choice, Yuki-chan! We have to trust him!

Yuki: R-Right! -The three ran upstairs quickly as Kai jumped down from the stairs and crushed the zombie's arm with his legs as he would then stab its head with his sword, he then noticed a blockade of desks and chairs was blocking the zombies from getting further upstairs and were blocking the stairs-

Miki: K-Kai-kun..

Kai: Are you all right? Are you hurt?

Miki: I-I'm fine, what about you?

Kai: Peachy. Now go.

Miki: Right! -Kai was staring at the blockade that was leading to the basement of the school, he then turned and quickly ran upstairs and followed Miki, he withdrew his sword as he ran upstairs and saw Miki was running rather slowly as she looked exhausted, as Kai was running up the stairs, he quickly carried Miki up with his two hands and princess carried her up to the 3rd floor and as he reached the 3rd floor, he noticed Kurumi and Yuuri were outside of a room and were waiting for the two, they called out to Miki and Kai as the two then entered the club room quickly as Kurumi quickly closed the door while Miki was blushing as she had her arms around Kai's neck as he was still carrying her, he would then set Miki down- T-Thank you for saving me..

Kai: Don't mention it.

Yuuri: T-Thank you so much for saving me too!

Kai: Not at all.

Miki: H-Here, your other sword. -She said as she gave it to Kai as he nodded and took out a cloth from his pocket and wipe the blood off of his swords and withdrew them-

Kurumi: Take a seat.

Kai: Thank you. -He sat down on one of the chairs as Yuuri gave him a cup of water as he thanked her and drank the water-

Kurumi: Is it okay for us to ask you some questions?

Kai: Go ahead.

Kurumi: Who are you? -Kai then pointed to Miki as he was drinking his water-

Miki: H-He's Ichikawa Kaito, my classmate..

Kurumi: C-Classmate?!

Yuki: No wonder he looks so familiar! He's the kendo club's captain!

Kurumi: R-Really?

Kai: Former captain, now that the dojo is gone, I'm no longer a captain, just a survivor.

Miki: Where have you been anyway?

Kai: After the first infection, I ran out of the school to find some supplies and to find some answers, though I did come across a few teachers and some students from this school but they were..

Yuuri: They were..? What?

Kai: They were too afraid to talk to me since I'm the only kid amongst everyone else who would be willing to kill those things out there.

Kurumi: I guess that makes sense, they'd think you're a murderer if you killed your own friends and family who had already turned..

Kai: Though I did get some answers.

Kurumi: Like what?

Kai: I found a cure and I found out the cause of the plague.

Yuuri: Y-You did?!

Miki: W-What is the cause?!

Kai: One of the teachers told me that the cause of the plague was made by the government. They were experimenting on viruses and cells of humans and animals and were trying to combine them both to make a person be "immortal" to death itself except until you'd grow old and die of old age.

Yuki: W-What does that mean? T-That sounds scary.

Kai: The experimentation failed and caused an outbreak, the workers that were working on the project were turned by the experimentation and started attacking everyone one-by-one, which leads to our current situation.

Kurumi: Then what about the cure you mentioned?

Kai: Every building that is connected to governmental secrets have storage compartments filled with food, water, clothes or any materials to survive if there was an outbreak or an earthquake or a tsunami that hit, our private high school is associated with the government anyway and they have stacked up cures in the basement of the school.

Kurumi: Then we can stop this infection!

Kai: No, we can't. I tried.

Kurumi: W-What do you mean: "You tried"?

Kai: I went to an office building with another group to gather up the cures, I was the only one that survived and when I survived, I tried to cure one of the my comrades that had turned and it didn't just cure him, it paralysed his whole body and caused him to explode. Internally.

-From what Kaito has said, Yuuri covered her mouth with her hands as she was shocked from what he said as Yuki covered her ears as she was too afraid to listen any further while the others were also shocked-

Kai: The cure does not work on those who have been infected for too long but it works on the people who had just been bitten or scratched within an hour and the cure will take at least 10 hours to properly get rid of the infection.

Miki: T-Then, that means..

Kai: We can save people but only a few and I'm not sure how many cures are there in the basement.

Kurumi: We should go now and check it out!

Kai: No! We must not rush in like idiots! I assume you are the one who fights here?

Kurumi: Yeah! That's right, what about me?

Kai: You should be protecting your friends from whatever that comes by instead of rushing in like an idiot. Besides, it's getting late and it's not good to search the basement at night.

Miki: K-Kai-kun is right, we should go in the morning.

Kai: No, we shouldn't.

Miki: B-But Kai-kun-!

Kai: Those things are now packed up in groups and are trying to get up here, once they scatter and disperse from their pack, we can move.

Yuuri: W-We don't normally monitor their movements though..

Kai: You should, you'll learn a lot of things if you do.

Kurumi: Oh? You must be really smart for someone who's younger than us.

Kai: I'm a normal person who just trying to do his best to survive and keep everyone else alive.

Yuuri: U-Um..I-Ichikawa-kun?

Kai: Please, just call me "Kai" or "Kaito", My last name is too long for you to call.

Yuuri: A-All right, Kai-kun, will you be staying here with us?

Kai: No, I'll head somewhere else for the night.

Miki: S-Stay here with us! It's dangerous out there!

Yuki: Y-Yeah! You should stay with us!

Kai: I...I hope you two are aware that I am a guy and it's not a good idea to have a guy to sleep next to girls..-From what Kaito said, Miki would blush madly as she pouted slightly while Yuki blushed a little and laughed nervously-

Kurumi: Don't worry, you can stay with us for the night but if you do anything perverted to us, I won't hesitate to smash your head with shovel-kun.

Kai: T-That does sound reassuring.. But I really think I should sleep somewhere else..- -Before he could finish his sentence, Miki tugged onto his sleeves and was looking down as she seemed worried and concerned, she would then look up at Kaito with her teary eyes as she begged him to stay-

Miki: P-Please! Just stay with us for the night!

Kaito: -He got flustered a little as he would then sigh softly- F-Fine, just for the night..

Yuuri: Good thing we have a spare futon~

Kai: By the way, how long have you all been staying here?

Miki: I stayed in for about 3 months.

Kurumi: The rest of us stayed in 4 months.

Kai: How did you all survive for this long?

Yuuri: The school has its own solar cells so we get our power from the day and we use it at night~ There's also food left in most storage areas and we grow our own plants at the roof.

Kai: Ah, the gardening club, huh?

Yuuri: H-How did you know?

Kai: I had a friend who joined the gardening club.

Yuuri: Oh? Maybe I know her.

Kai: Ishiki Haruna.

Yuuri: Hmm~ Ah yes! I do know her! A young cute girl with long brown hair and green eyes like yours. I wonder what happened to her..

Kai: Who knows? The two of us got separated just a few months ago. Knowing her, she's either hiding or walking around the city right now.

Yuuri: What makes you say that?

Kai: She's like twin tails over here, a hothead who is fearless and she knows her way around sword techniques as well since I thought her a few moves.

Yuuri: You two must be close~

Miki: They were! They were inseparable in class! Though Kai-kun was always the quiet one while Ishiki-san likes to tease him.

Kai: Indeed, she was a pain but she's a good girl.

Kurumi: Wait! Did you just call me a hothead?! I'm not a hothead!

Kai: You do look like one, Kurumi-senpai.

Kurumi: -She blushed a little a she was surprised by the fact that he knew who she was- H-How did you know my name?

Kai: You were quite popular when everything was normal and my brother used to talk about you before.

Kurumi: Y-Your brother..? -Her eyes widened as she gasped at the sight of Kaito as she remembered the face of her crush who she had killed on the day of the infection- H-He was your brother?

Kai: Ichikawa Tendou. 3rd year and my older brother.

Kurumi: S-So you are...

Kai: Yes, I am his younger brother. I assume he is dead?

Kurumi:...

Kai: Not a big surprise.

Kurumi: Huh?! What are you saying-

Kai: Tendou-nii was a coward! He deserved death more than anyone else.

Kurumi: H-How can you say that about him-

Kai: Ebisuzawa Kurumi. Do you want to know the dark secret about your former crush?

Kurumi: H-How did you...

Kai: Tendou-nii told me anyway..

Yuuri: L-Let's stop fighting..Okay?

Kurumi: No! I want to hear this! Tell me!

Kai: Every time when he comes home, he would always brag to me about his "fans" and mention your name amongst the group of fans that he loves to brag about. He did say you were the cutest amongst the rest of the girls and he liked you.

Kurumi: H-He liked me..?

Kai: Physically and sexually.

Kurumi: Eh?

Kai: There is a reason why I said that Tendou-nii deserves to be dead. He's a playboy, though you may not see it because you fell for him, any other girl who had no interest in him would definitely see his true face under that disgusting mask of his.

Kurumi: S-So when I..

Kai: You confessed to him, didn't you?

Kurumi:..

Kai: He said "yes"? -Kurumi nodded- But after that confession, he started to hold your hands and such?

Kurumi: Yes..

Kai: Now, after holding hands, what did he want to do to you next?

Kurumi: I-I don't want to talk about it.

Kai: Is that so? So be it, come talk to me whenever you feel like it. I'm heading out for a moment.

Miki: W-Where are you going?!

Kai: To my class.

Miki: But it's..

Kai: I know... It's just to get a grasp on my memories..

Miki: T-Then I'll come too!

Kai: Sure. -As Kai and Miki left, Kurumi fell onto her knees and dropped her shovel as she was too shocked to say anything as Yuuri was worried about Kurumi, she asked Yuki to take care of Kurumi as Yuuri ran out to Kaito-

Yuuri: K-Kai-kun!

Kai: Hmm?

Yuuri: I-I forgot to introduce myself and the other girl, I-i'm Wakasa Yuuri and the other is Takeya Yuki-chan.

Kai: Yuuri-senpai, then?

Yuuri: Y-Yes oh! And I think that what you said back there to Kurumi-chan was a bit too harsh! Why would you tell her all of that?

Kai: It's better to tell someone the truth than to lie to them and have them fall in love with the wrong person. It was the only decision that I can think of for her own sake, though I do feel really bad for her but it's the only way for her to be mentally stronger.

Yuuri: W-What do you mean?

Kai: If she can't accept what I just told her then she can never live with herself and survive in this apocalypse.

Yuuri: I-I guess that makes sense but-

Kai: -He sighed softly as he lifted his hand up slightly- I-I get it, fine.. When I come back, I'll apologise to her.

Yuuri: Really?

Kai: I promise.

Yuuri: Thank you, Kai-kun! -She said with an innocent smile on her face as she smiled up at him as Kai blushed a little from the sight of Yuuri's beautiful smile but he tried to keep his cool as Miki watched as she pouted a little. It was then the two headed to their classroom as Yuuri returned back to the club room-

Miki: All this just for her? I know Kurumi-senpai is pretty and all but-

Kai: W-What are you even implying? Y-Yes, I will admit that she does look rather charming and she is somewhat...Cute, perhaps but I-I did not say all of that to her to show off!

Miki: Yeah yeah! Whatever you say~ Dummy..

Kai: D-Did I say something wrong?

Miki: Hmph!

Kai: Eh?

-TO BE CONTINUED-