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This chapter would explain why the timeline of the characters 'point of view are scrambled.

Index: regular font for law's p.o.v. may it be mental or verbal. Those enclosed in parenthesis are law's too.

Italicized are for luffy's p.o.v.

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Chapter 3

Law's P.O.V.

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I half walked and half stalked toward the direction of my own apartment carrying a bag of food and water on my left hand and the nodachi on my right. I didn't live that far from the hospital but I tried to dodge at most the busy areas of the city, which made my route longer than it is supposed to be. Aside from the haphazardly abandoned cars, I took notice of the establishments that I passed by, some were either looted or wrecked.

I wonder when did all of this happen…

I still retorted in hiding as much as possible because even though I had my kikoku, the name which I bestowed upon my sword. I'm still fully aware by the fact that I can only hit one or two at a time during an encounter. It would best not to take any chances and run directly into a crowd of those 'things'.

But,

Even though it has its disadvantages in terms of range , it was still close to near perfection when it comes to efficiency, I gave it a little swish a while ago and AH～ I can still hear the blade whistling sharply as it slices through the sound barrier cutting through those damned monsters' flesh like cold butter. It was truly a sight to behold.

The sun was already at the horizon, ready to set any moment soon, I can already see the tinted glass doors of my apartment complex from where I stood, it wasn't much I guess but it was home. I live on the third floor of the building, now the problem is finding where my spare key is. I looked behind my shoulders before entering the building, making sure that I wasn't followed and closed the double glass doors before looking for a pole to slip through the handles, the inside of the building was as quiet as the outside, papers, plastic bags were strewn around the ground and there was even a cup of half finished coffee on the coffee table by the lounge.

I didn't give it much thought a while ago but it feels like I missed a lot during the time that I was unconscious. I checked over the reception desk and flipped through their stuff, pornographic magazines and steamy novels greeted me in one drawer, office supplies in the other and when I'm sure that the final one contains the keys to the building, I pulled it open and frowned when nothing was inside.

Of course! The employee might have brought the keys with him when they evacuated! I could already feel my blood slightly boiling. Just when I thought I can finally be in the solace of my own home…

I glanced outside the window and saw that the orange skies were now in a shade of violet with a few streaks of red, the street lamps were already on and I can make out some figures loitering across the street. I guess I have no choice but to crash in a different room.

I walked on the sides of the stairs by the wall with my heart beginning to pound abnormally loud in my chest. Even if I lived here for a few months now and have been used to walk at night alone, everything feels so scary when you know that the creatures you found in movies are real and is only hiding beyond the corner, waiting for the right time to attack.

I reached the second floor and stayed still for a few seconds, I can't make out anything beyond the darkness, my free hand crawled along the walls groping for the switch. I flicked it with my finger and prepared myself for the worse to come.

"…"

The lights flickered one by one, illuminating several doors which were left half opened. I have never been in the second floor of this building as I prefer to use the elevator when going to my unit. The layout was the same as above, a considerably wide corridor with 4 doors on each side, carpeted flooring except for that trail of blood over there, no windows and no decorations.

I walked to the nearest door and opened it widely, peeking inside the unit's living room and kitchen before slipping in when I didn't find any signs of intrusions, in fact all the windows were already boarded with planks of wood and the place was rather neat, not a single object out of place.

With my hands still wrapped around my weapon, I locked the door and immediately went to the three bedrooms and bathrooms looking for any creatures, both living and the dead that might have randomly wandered in. My eyes then darted towards one of the bedside table, there was a picture of three men, a blonde and two ravenettes, all wearing funny looking ponchos and fake moustaches grinning widely in front of the camera. They must've been the family who lived here, they look like they were brothers. I placed it back to where it was originally placed and laid on the bed with the blue comforter.

I opened my eyes again and I didn't realized that I had already fallen asleep on one of the beds, I was planning on eating first then shower and then start gathering for information but my body was obviously tired from the constant running and lack of food. I sighed to myself before dragging my sleepy ass into the bathroom. Oh well, might as well take a long and relaxing warm shower as my body couldn't stand being dirty with monster guts anymore.

Refreshed, I walked to the kitchen still butt naked and opened the refrigerator door, letting the cold breeze hit my trafalgar junior. I did that once when I was younger maybe around 8 or 9? Haha, I Sure got a good scolding from my mother.

But now, I guess I don't have to conform to the rules of the society if the society only comprises of me.

"Would you look at that!" I unconsciously uttered.

The fridge was still filled with food. It's either the owners of this apartment really likes meat that much or they just recently went to the grocery only to find everyone else fleeing for their lives.

With the knowledge that I have an abundant stock of food I returned to one of the bedrooms, the one which looks like an adult owns it then started putting on some random clothes that fits me. In the end I settled for a dark blue v-neck shirt from the other room and black cargo pants that ends just below my knees. I also found a pair of combat boots below the bed with the orange comforter and a shoulder strap for my sword. I'm lucky that the tenants were men, it would be quite inconvenient if it was otherwise *ehem and my dress shoes aren't exactly the most comfortable thing to wear if you're running constantly away from flesh eating creatures.

I went to back to the kitchen and fixed myself a quite sumptuous dinner of biscuits and gravy partnered with ready- to- fry chicken, placing the still piping hot food on the table, there was something on it that I didn't notice when I came in. It was rectangular in shape and it was black in color with many holes in the front, I forgot what it was but I heard it was used by reporters a few decades ago, I decided I'll get back to it after eating.

More than full and satisfied, I bought the box-like device to one of the bedrooms, the one which the youngest of the three owns, remembering it has a computer― only to find it locked. I did my best in guessing for random numbers such as 5656 or words like assluvah_22 but it only got me nowhere. Maybe one last try.

I-l-u-v-m-e-a-t. I typed in as wild guess, and you know what? it fucking logged in. Unbelievable! I'm quite used to weird passwords and trashy e-mail addresses but meat? Seriously, Do normal people do that? The window prompted me to the desktop screen and I can see that there were some games installed as well as research materials, he's probably a student. Nothing was out of the ordinary except for the date and time at the bottom right of the screen.

It reads 2064/6/28. Today is a friday, it should be a 26. I shrugged it off and opened the internet― it was still working. I typed in 'grandline city news today' at the search query bar. Scrolling down I read the headlines.

"Gas price hike, angers consumers!"

"Starlet, caught in a scandal with bodyguard!"

I scrolled down further and skimmed through the headlines to which none pertains about any incident and ended up broadening my search but still got no solid answers. I guess everyone did not expect this to happen and didn't know what was coming. Or… it could be the government had kept everything under wraps. They were pretty capable of doing just that. Finding it useless to continue, I turned my attention instead on the rectangular box which was compact and fits right on my palm. The front and the back had nothing but the side had a few buttons on them.

"Eject" 'Play' 'Stop' 'Forward' and 'Back' was written on each of the buttons. I googled the words 'old media instruments' and found out that it was a portable tape recorder. I followed the instructions and back tracked the whole thing first making the device emit a 'whizzing' sound. It says here that the tape must be rewinded first to get to the first part then that's the time I can hear its contents. When it quieted down I pressed play and waited for the recording to start.

Testing… testing….

My eyebrows rose a little at the voice, it was a male's voice though it was a little squeaky and childlike, he must be the youngest of the three brothers. I paused the tape, made myself a pot of glorious coffee and settled on a beanie bag by the living room. I pressed the play button again.

June 26 ,2064. 11:23 a.m

Hello! my name is luffy, I'm using this cassette as a diary to share my experience to anyone out there who stumbles upon this, especially to my brothers ace and sabo.

Everything started early this morning for me when we saw a news reporter got attacked by a "dead man" on live television, my best friends usopp and chopper quickly left for home to get their things, usopp insisted that we have to escape before it's too late and told me to pack my things up. He suspects its a zombie apocalypse. Though he has got a valid point I think he was way over reacting over the whole situation.

( I immediately sat upright, finally! Someone with answers !)

Click…

12:10 p.m. I'm done packing my things, I left the t.v. on to know what was happening, I didn't know until now that there were many people who shares the same ideas as usopp, some even started looting stores and some were already trying to escape. I need to warn everyone in my apartment building.

"Ready lu?"

" Let's go Luffy!"

" Just a minute! I forgot my boshi!"

Click…

12:37 p.m. We got out of the apartment complex humiliated, I tried telling my neighbors that a zombie apocalypse was coming but they didn't believe me ! Someone even laughed at me and said I was probably high on drugs or something.

But I was telling the truth!

(You were right, guess who's laughing now?)

"Shit! Usopp! I forgot the food!"

"Forget about the food! We need to go!"

"Tsk! Fine… oh is this thing still on? Shishishi, sorry!"

Click…

1:33 p.m. We are now on the road with a new friend, his name is zoro, he's a policeman. We found him on the streets shouting for help and when I asked him what happened, he said his boss suddenly attacked him and as a result, he accidentally ran his car into a wall a few blocks away and needs a lift to the hospital.

Usopp asked him right away if he saw any bite marks on his boss, he quickly said yes. For those of you who doesn't know, those who gets bitten turns to zombies as well. So don't ever get bitten okay!?

(Bite marks? Is that how they pass whatever disease their carrying?)

We explained to mister policeman our theory that a zombie virus might have made its way here in grandline and asked him to leave with us while we still can, he was very skeptical at leaving his injured boss but in the end he said yes.

"Baka! You forced me to!"

"But you saw what happened to your boss!"

"And if he dies?"

"He's already dead!"

"What if he isn't?"

"Then he is already good as dead! trust me…"

Click…

2:45 p.m. We are still on the road, the traffic was horrible! There was a very long of vehicles in front of us. There seems to be a commotion by the highway out of town.

"Hey usopp! Why aren't we moving?"

" I don't have any idea… there seems to be a checkpoint… yeah, something like that…"

" What? What is it for? I didn't get any calls from the police station that there's gonna be a checkpoint in this part of the city!"

" We already told you, there's an impending zombie apocalypse!"

" Uhm… usopp, I don't really think that's th…"

"ATTENTION CITIZENS!"

"Shhhh! There's an announcement!"

"Everyone! Please turn your vehicles around and return to your own homes, no one is allowed to get past this point. I repeat, please turn your vehicles around and go back to your respective homes. This city is under quarantine as imposed by the national armed forces of grandline."

"NO! I have to leave this city, my,my aunt is sick and I-I'm leaving to bring her medicines! Please!" Someone shouted from one of the vehicles, he was quite far from a distance but we can hear him shouting to one of the soldiers.

"Sir! Please don't step out of your vehicle! No one is allowed to leave the city premises unless authorized."

"I don't care about your fucking quarantine o-or authorization! I want to go out !"

"Sir! Please go back to your car!"

"No!"

"Sir this is your last warning! One more step and we'll have to use force!"

"FUCK YOU"

Brrrt! Brrt! ( Are those gun shots that I am hearing?)

"Shit! They shot him! Oh fuck!"

"Anyone who tries get off their cars will be shot dead! This is your last warning, turn back your vehicles NOW!"

(Did they just killed someone who is trying to leave?)

"Usopp! Quick! turn around now!"

'Okay! okay! I'm on it!"

Click…

It's already 5: 22 p.m. We are now inside my apartment unit. The ride home was hell! Everyone was shaken by what happened at the border. The roads have turned into a race track after that, good thing usopp was a very good driver. We encountered some zombies already walking amongst the living, some were bitten on the spot still unaware of what is happening, while others were trying to fight them but ended up as lunch. They don't know that to kill them permanently you have to shoot them in the head or any way to sever the spine from the head, it is the brain which controls them, atleast that's what usopp "the greatest zombie killer in new world" says.

(The brain? Is that so…?)

"Lu! Help me board up the windows!'

"Okay! Just give me a few minutes!"

I paused the recorder, So it was a zombie outbreak. I let out a sigh, this was far more worse than I thought, the dead rising to life that is! That shit was just from movies and games and just works of fiction. Good thing this luffy kid was smart enough to record something like this, atleast it helped. I took a huge sip from my mug. I then pressed play again.

Click…

6:16 p.m (What? That was a few minutes before I came here… can it be true?)

We are done boarding the windows with wood, and took it among us to come up a new plan. All the city borders are probably blocked with checkpoints by now plus the risk of running into zombies only adds up to the chances of getting killed on the way out of the city. We are at loss here, no one amongst us are familiar with the whole city's layout. Apparently zoro's sense of direction was as dumb as a rock.

Hey!"

"Shishishi sorry!"

Anyways, our plan comprises of zoro and me fighting up close while usopp will take charge of scouting and sniping, chopper here will overlook our medical needs. So far, we have a few ideas of where to go but we don't have any reassurance that we―

"DAMN IT!"

"Who's that?"

"I don't know, it's coming from the alleyway! Chopper can you see anything from there? "

"It's a woman! She's being attacked!"

"What?"

I heard faint footsteps, maybe the group gathered around the window, I can hear murmurings but it was barely audible. I thought the recording stopped, but then I heard luffy-ya shouted.

"Hey lady! Are you okay? HEY!Damn it! She fainted! I'll go get her!"

"Lu! Wait! It isn't safe to go outside!"

"It's okay! I'll manage! Zoro! Can you please back me up?"

"Tsk! Fine!

The recording went on without a sound, just a few footsteps and some inaudible murmurings here and there, it must've been usopp-ya and chopper-ya. As every minute drags by I'm starting to get worried for luffy-ya's safety, now don't get me wrong! My only concern is that, if he gets bitten then it only means that the recordings would stop. I can safely assume that if he dies, I would not have any more answers.

They're back! I heard the door swing open.

"Lu? Was she bitten?"

"No, Chopper ? What should we do?"

"I'm not sure but put her on the couch for the mean time a-and bring some water! Yes, water! It's probably from shock…"

"Oh! I left this running! Uhm hi! I guess who ever is listening must've heard what happened. We found a woman being attacked by an infected, luckily she managed to kill it! Uhm… she's now unconscious time right now 6:35 p.m.

Click…

6:35! so today was really the 28th! Was I unconscious the whole time? What the hell happened to me…Fuck! I just want to rip my hair right now! I rubbed my temples with my fingers, this is getting me nowhere, my head feels like exploding any moment soon. As soon as a question was answered another one comes up.

" I-I went to the hospital, saw bepo munching on fucking doughnuts, shachi called me for an emergency surgery, after surgery I-I none". I muttered again and again trying to dig in deeper inside my brain. "14 stitches to the arm and―" like the missing puzzle found, I felt something connected "― The patient turned violent and attacked us!" I remembered my head was aching during that time when I woke up… Could it be I got knocked out? After all, I'm the nearest one to the patient. If that's the case then, I'm really lucky that I didn't get killed or worse turn into one of those mindless creatures.

With yet another sigh I pressed that play button. I've missed out a lot of things in the past few days and luffy-ys here is probably my best chance of finding out the truth.

7:58 p.m. The lady in red that we saved awhile ago is already awake. She said that she didn't know about the news, though she heard the siren, she really thought it was just malfunctioning. Oh! By the way her name is Nami, I already said that right? Anyways, she works at a club not too far away from here and the guy was following her till she was cornered. They're coming up with a plan with usopp and zoro, tuns out she knows a lot about travelling. I think we should look for other survivors out well...

Click…

6:33 a.m. we agreed on doing shifts, guarding my small apartment. Thankfully, nothing came up except, zoro noticed that the zombies were more aware at night, like their senses were double. We will leave later in the morning when he sun is up and look for other survivors, we're going to the mall to scavenge for supplies too. I'll leave a cassette on our next destination. Ace, sabo and anyone who finds this. If i don't make it… or if you see me as one of them. Please… don't hesitate to kill me. Thanks!

Good luck…

Click…

My eyes widened at the statement. This boy, he was quite something. When everyone was already worrying about their own ass he's still thinking of others. Somehow, my faith in humanity was restored. I hope they makes it out.

I have decided, I'll wait for the sun to rise and go to the mall. Whatever happened to me in the past few days should be forgotten.

I HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO THE FUTURE.

To be continued…

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