School-Live! Realism!

がっこうぐらし! リアリズム！

(Gakkō Gurashi! Riarizumu!)

Chapter 13:- Mental Control

Opening: Zoetrope - Yanagi Nagi

-As Touko and Kurumi were fighting with their weapons, Kurumi was trying to defend the others while Kohta watched the rear and made sure Yuuri and Saya were not hurt-

Kohta: Kai! Takashi! We need to go!

Takashi: Got it! -Takashi ran to the others as he quickly grabbed Saya and carried her as Saya blushed madly and tried struggling but Takashi forced her to stop as he held her as he ran back to the entrance of the university, Kaito was about to carry Yuuri but as he noticed that Kurumi was in a pinch, Kaito then ran up to Kurumi's back, moved her aside lightly and aimed his shotgun at Touko's head and fired, thus causing Touko's whole head to burst from the shot, Kaito quickly turned to Yuuri and Kurumi as he grabbed Yuuri, carried her and ran to the entrance to meet up with the others as Kurumi stayed back for a few seconds to see Touko's dead body, Kurumi then noticed that Touko's head was slowly regenerating, Kurumi turned and ran off quickly. As Kurumi reached the entrance and climbed up the wall, Saeko helped her up the wall as the two then jumped down and landed on top of the Humvee as Takashi then started the engine and got out of the area of the university-

-A few minutes after Kaito's group escaped, the bodies that were lying on the floor and the people that were killed by Kaito and his friends then started moving as their wounds started regenerate as they slowly got up from the ground with their eyes glowing bright green. Moments later after Kaito's group had returned back, Kaito gathered everyone in the living room immediately to discuss about the events in the university-

Rei: W-What do you mean "Rise from the dead"? T-This isn't an actual thing, is it?

Kurumi: It is. I saw it with my own eyes too.

Miki: No way..

Kohta: Apparently there is a way to kill them but it's a little complicated as you need to kill them more than enough times for them to stop regenerating and for them to not have a pulse.

Shizuka: What do you mean by that?

Takashi: They regenerate so fast that they're not considered Humans anymore but in order to stop them from healing, you just need to hurt them in all of their nerve points and eventually, they'll stop regenerating and just die.

Shizuka: T-That's a lot of work..

Kaito: Exactly, which is what we cannot do as well. Too much work for us to do and it'll take us a lot of time and we'll lose a lot of ammunition as well.

Kurumi: Who did you guys kill anyway?

Kaito: The guy who shot at us first when we met him at the entrance, Takashi shot his head but when he started regenerating his head, I shot his heart and then he died.

Yuuri: What if their heart is their weak point?

Saeko: It isn't. I tried that as well, I stabbed one of the girls in the heart but she was still alive.

Yuuri: T-That's impossible..

Miki: So in order to finish them off quickly, you need to shoot their brains out and the heart, thus killing them in an instant.

Kohta: Exactly but it takes a lot of time still, every second counts when you are trying to survive.

Shizuka: How many people were in the university?

Takashi: Around 25-30, we managed to kill one because we were quick but they surrounded us after that. I bet they're out searching for us now..

Rei: W-Why did they attack you anyway? A-And how come they have that sort of ability?

Kurumi: A drug.

Kaito: A drug?

Kurumi: Just like pills but this is something different, I saw Touko's eyes glowing bright green when she regenerated.

Kohta: Now that you mention it, I noticed that whoever I shoot at, their eyes glow bright green. This could another sort of biological weapon just like the pills.

Rei: D-Din't you guys say that there's a pill that grants you invincibility? Did they use those?

Kaito: Doubt it, that pill will instantly kill the host after a few minutes.

Kurumi: Whatever drug it is, we need to get rid of it or people will start abusing it.

Takashi: That's not the only problem, we may possibly die because of our new enemies.

Kaito: Walkers aren't the dangerous enemies on this world, people are. Every time we step onto their territory, we'll either get killed or tricked by them and that includes either one of us but we're a family, we've survived long enough to know that we will never betray each other!

Shizuka: Oh! That's cool!

Miki: Yeah! Very cool!

Yuuri: You looked really cool when you said that, Kai-kun~

Kaito: -He blushed slightly as he scratched his head- I-I was being serious!

Takashi: You were? I thought you were following a line from a movie or something.

-Kurumi then turned and went to her bedroom-

Kaito: Kurumi? Are you all right?

Kurumi: Y-Yeah, I'm just a little tired..

Kaito: R-Right..Well all right, rest well, okay?

Kurumi: Sure, thanks. -As Kurumi was about to take off of her clothes and change into her home clothes, she started to hear a sharp ringing sound in her head as the voice of Haruna singing the song "Ring Around the Rosie" could be heard in Kurumi's head, Kurumi started sweating a little as she was panicking, it was then Kurumi placed her hands in her ears as she was trying to avoid hearing Haruna's voice as Kurumi slowly went mad for a moment and remembered every single detailed of how she killed Haruna and how Haruna attacked her. Kurumi then lost control of herself for a moment as her eyes turned blanked for a moment as she took out her gun and aimed it and her head, Kurumi then quickly bit the wrist on her left hand strongly as her wrist started bleeding and she gained consciousness, Kurumi took a deep breath and tossed the gun onto her bed as she would then walk over to her make up table and took out the small first aid kit and grabbed the bandage and wrapped it around her wrist as she looked at the mirror while she was holding onto her shovel with her right hand, she looked at herself in the mirror as she had the end of her bandage in her mouth as she smiled slightly into the mirror and saw Haruna standing behind her in the mirror, Kurumi then spoke out softly after wrapping her wrist- I'm not like you and I will never be like you..-After Kurumi blinked for a moment and opened her eyes, she looked in the mirror and saw that the image of herself had disappeared with the image of Haruna's bloodied body and headless neck. Kurumi panicked slightly as she was breathing heavily and was sweating at the sight, the image in the mirror was slowly moving its arms up, showing the head of Haruna with no eyes, Kurumi screamed as she smashed the mirror with her shovel strongly. Kaito and everyone else then quickly opened the door and entered the room with their weapons as they panicked-

Kaito: Kurumi!

Rei: What happened?!

Yuuri: K-Kurumi, are you all right?!

Yuki: Kurumi-chan!

Kurumi: I'm fine! Get out!

Takashi: Huh? B-But your mirror and w-what's wrong-

Kurumi: GET OUT! NOW! -She turned her head to everyone as she then glared at them, they got slightly afraid at the sight of Kurumi's angered look as they slowly backed away and closed the door slowly as Kurumi would then look at her hands as she noticed that her vision was getting blurry and the colours that she was seeing was slowly changing to bloody red for a moment, after she closed her eyes and took a deep breath, she opened her eyes and saw clearly as her vision was no longer blurry and the colours were all back to normal- I...I don't want to die yet...

-TO BE CONTINUED-