Day 1, Part 2

Mangetsu couldn't help but sit there in shock, thinking of his family at home. He knew it would not be good if he tried to go back, but at the same time felt like it was an obligation to go back. He got up and saw Ms. Kishiyama and he gathered up his friends and went up there, "What's the most secure place in this school, ma'am?" Mangetsu coarsely asked as he could not help but fear the current crisis and it's cost. "First, I want you children to grab some food from the lunchroom that could at the least feed twenty people for a couple days" Everyone thought Ms. Kishiyama was calm and collected but Mangetsu could see the fear she had in her eyes and the facial expression that was ready to lose it's composure. Mangetsu grabbed a little bit extra as he had not eaten lunch yet and couldn't help it. Quickly the group of friends along with many other students and teachers hurriedly ran to the one room they felt would be an appropriate place to stay in, the gymnasium. The gymnasium had lots of space and seats where people could sleep on, it did not sound comfortable to some of the students, but they thought it was better than school desks and didn't complain, the gym also only had two entrances to it, which could easily be watched from a distance. Ms. Kishiyama suddenly yelled among the panicked crowd of questions and cries, "EVERYONE SHUT UP!" and the group looked up towards her as she let out a few words, "I'm sad and worried too." She took a deep breath, "But we should take this time to calmly wait this out and call an attendance.. Now I'm going to pass out a paper where everyone will sign their name." Shouta handed her a paper and she signed her name on it as she handed it to the other teachers, "This is so we can keep track of the students and assure your safety during the couple days this is hopefully resolved by the military." The paper eventually came back to Ms. Kishiyama and she counted the names, "29 people total, 25 students and 4 Teachers. Be nice to eachother in the time we have stuck in this school, the only enemy we have right now is whatever that outbreak is, I'm done talking now.." As she finished the group of friends gathered together in one of the parts of the gym and Kentaro spoke up, "We've got to plan for the worst in this kind of situation." Mangetsu looked at Kentaro, "Good to see the glass is half full with you." and sat down on the floor. Mangetsu eyed his phone as he wanted to check in on his parents but decided it was for the best he kept it off. He wondered how long he could stay cooped up like this before he went crazy. Shouta sat by him in an effort to cheer him up in which Mangetsu gave him a, "Fuck off." And Shouta left him alone. Miharu grabbed Shouta by the shoulder and turned him around, "Leave him alone for now, this is how he handles things." And so Shouta nodded in agreement to leave him alone.

Several Hours Later

Mangetsu still sat where he originally was except now with a bag of chips Miharu had left him. It was now 5:37 and absolutely nothing to do. Mangetsu was busy putting things together by himself on the floor so the others decided they should do something to entertain themselves. Iwaji came up with the bright idea that they should sneak home and bring back his new gaming PC and play lots of games, Ayumi slapped him and said, "This is no joke. Stop acting like that." It was evident Ayumi was extremely angry and Yuki pulled her back and whispered into her ear a couple times before Ayumi could finally cool down. During the confusion Kentaro thought this was his moment to shine again, "Exactly! I'm saying to plan for the worst but no ones exactly listening to me here!" Cai then spoke up, "I'm listening bro!" And Kentaro went on, "Mangetsu is busy putting all these pieces together, what if those 'things' break in? We sh-" Takumi then butt in, "But you saw it on the TV, those aren't just things, they were just like us not long ago.." Aya argued with him and said, "But Takumi! Listen to yourself, the keyword here is were, I don't think they can think as they used to anymore.. No sane person would deliberately kill people and cause terror for no good reason!" The only people who disagreed with Aya at this point was Takumi and Miharu. Kentaro then came back to his point, "If they break into this gym, we have GOT to find a way to get out. Now let's look at our options." Kentaro looked around and everyone was silent, "Anyone?" he eyed Shouta particularly seeing as he was the new guy. "Well.. We could try to retake the school, then we could monitor with cameras the school entrances and we would have a kitchen, and the teacher's lounge has more comfortable seating.." As Shouta spoke Kentaro's eyes widened at his realization of the ingenious of Shouta. "Good idea, but the only strong people here would be me and Mangetsu.. I obviously can't go by myself and Mangetsu is.. Y'know." The huddled group looked over and nodded, suddenly Mangetsu got up from where he had been and walked over to the group, "I want to leave tonight."

7:30 PM

Mangetsu ran up to Ms. Kishiyama and asked, "Do you happen to have anything sharp on you, teach?" She looked at Mangetsu and grabbed him by his ear, "What the hell do you think you're doing? Asking for something that can hurt people obviously proves you're not doing something exactly productive." Mangetsu pulled away from her and told her, "I guess the only thing sharp on you is that tongue. I'm leaving tonight whether you like it or not, if you'd like to give me something to defend myself, I'd appreciate it. I don't plan to idly sit here while I don't know the fate of my own parents, it disgusts me." Ms. Kishiyama started to tear up as Mangetsu spoke these words, "You're completely right.. But someone has to watch over these students, and if I don't, who will?" She said looking at the other two teacher who obviously had no teaching capabilities. "I'll come back in a day, and give you an update about the outside world." Ms. Kishiyama grabbed his hand, and have him her switchblade she had kept strapped to her thigh for reasons Mangetsu did not question. "Thanks." And Mangetsu walked back towards the group. "Anyone feel like coming with?" Mangetsu at this point was trying his hardest to be brave when the slightest thing could break his state of mind easily. "I will." a quiet Aria said in the background. Mangetsu did not care for her past faults as he felt this trip would be much better with a companion. "Okay, are you ready?" he said referring to her sanity as she would have to be prepared to endure terrible sights. "Yeah." she told him with a crack in her voice, it was evident she was not ready but he took her regardless and they set off, opening the doors to the world beyond the gymnasium, all Mangetsu and Aria could see was the streets and grass they had walked upon many times. "The only thing missing here is.. life. It's so desolate.. and abandoned." Mangetsu said thinking aloud. They walked along the sidewalk unknowing of how dangerous it actually was. As they had been getting closer to Mangetsu's house, gunshots were heard in the direction of a hospital and both ran for cover in a ditch. A grotesque hand grabbed at Arias left leg to which she screamed and pulled away immediately, a rotting body that had only it's upper half was crawling towards the two and if you looked directly at it, you could see the multiple stabs on it's stomach revealing bugs that were festering inside of its body. Mangetsu smelt the stench it was giving off as they were leaving and was revolted, "Let's hurry to my house.. This is worse than I thought." At this point Mangetsu had checked the time and it was 8:30, it took him a lot longer than usual to get to his house, but he had finally gotten there. He went through the back door as a precaution and asked Aria to keep watch from the back door. She blatantly refused and went inside with him to witness a horrific scene of Mangetsu's parents both dead. Mangetsu sat on the floor and began to bawl, "Why would anyone do this?!" He screamed and cried until he came across a note on the floor that was written in pen shakily. Mangetsu with an unstable voice began to read the note aloud, "To our dear Mangetsu, if you're still alive.. I just want you to be strong, we were weak. If you're looking for the people who shot us.. It's the two of us on the ground. We did not want to suffer in this world to die.. I hope you can forgive us for this, be strong for your weak parents.. please." It was evident the author of this note was in tears as they wrote this and Mangetsu began to bawl again, on the floor were two guns each with a bullet casing near it. "They went well.. Together." Aria said as a way to cheer Mangetsu up, she was tearing up too thinking of how her own parents were doing. "You would never understand.. Leave me alone. We'll go back tomorrow morning.." Mangetsu shakily said with tears streaming down his face. "Alright, let's get some sleep." Mangetsu went to his room he slept in on better days and curled up in a ball in his room, he could not stop bawling.

11:30

Mangetsu had cried himself to sleep and was now not making sound anymore. As Mangetsu was down, Aria took this as a moment to begin writing a note, it read:

Dear Mangetsu, I cannot stay here or at the school, I'll be taking one of those guns your parents have left and I'll leave you one.. I'm sorry this happened to you, but I need to check on my own family and keep them safe, if not.. I'll go alone and learn to survive, goodbye.

Aria had shut the door making lots of noise that Mangetsu could not hear in his deep slumber.

Day 1 End