Just watched Resident Evil Afterlife not too long ago. Much better than I expected, but was disappointed at some parts. If you haven't watched it and you plan to, then I'm not going to say anything to spoil it, but chances are you'll react the same way as me at some parts. Some of the previews were pretty damn cool though.

Okay, so I don't own Devil May Cry or Highschool of The Dead. And this might be the last time I put this disclaimer since everyone knows that I don't own these two awesome works.

Now onto the chapter!

Chapter 5

Saya's dad, a serious and stern looking man that looked as if he could kill someone with an intense glare stood before a crowd of people on some kind of podium. Beside him was a cage with one of Them in it. "This man's name is Doitetsu Tarou. He has been a friend to me for the last 25 years!" Saya's dad announced to the crowd, who were looking at the cage with fear.

"In attempting to help rescue a junior officer... he was bitten! It was an act of self-sacrifice! This is the most noble thing a person could hope to do! He is no longer human. His life ended when he turned into this abominable thing!" He began to draw out his katana that he kept at his side. "And so, now..."

One of his servants that was with him on stage opened up the cage and moved back. His dead friend lunged out of the cage and right at him. "I will demonstrate my friendship!" he yelled out as he swung down his sword and cleanly sliced off his dead friend's head and arm.

The people watching this up close looked horrified by this action. Saya had closed her eyes while Takashi looked shocked by how this man didn't hesitate at all. Saeko looked impassive, but it was obvious that she was as shocked as Takashi.

The man's head hit the floor of the podium and Saya's father took a step towards it. "Farewell, dear friend!" And with a yell he stomped down on the head, crushing it almost completely as blood flew out. The eyeballs even popped out from the force of the stomp. "This is the kind of thing that makes up our 'here and now'! Great friends, beloved family, and lovers all becoming things. For their own sakes, we must destroy them! If you wish to survive... fight!"

Takashi and the others had watched this with their complete attention, none of them saying a word.

"Katanas aren't efficient enough..." Kohta muttered.

"Don't comment on things you don't know about, Hirano-kun," Saeko calmly said.

"But a japanese sword's blade dulls if it hits bone and after three or four swings, the blade's through," Kohta retorted.

"Listen, following the way of the sword results in a number of things. A warrior's skill, ability with a sword, and finally focus. If these three things are taken to a high enough level, then one can behead any number of people without losing combat strength." Saeko went back to looking at the decapitated body, which the servants were beginning to clean up after.

Saya and Shizuka were watching this as well with their own expressions, Saya still with her eyes closed and Shizuka looking disgusted by the sight. Saya's dad turned to look at them up on the balconey. Saya returned her father's cold look.

"B-but you get blood and grease on it," Kohta said, trying to argue his point still.

"It's the same as cooking," was Saeko's reply. "A good cook will never leave unnecessary grease on a good kitchen knife. That applies to swords as well."

"But- but-" Kohta sputtered out.

"H-hey, Hirano, it's okay..." Takashi reached out to calm Kohta down, but Kohta threw his hand off of him.

"Don't touch me! Don't butt in! You can't even fire a gun properly!" Kohta yelled. He took off before anyone could say anything.

Takashi was more than pissed by his sudden attitude. "What's his problem?" The anger he felt earlier when he chewed out Saya was returning and he'd give an arm and leg to take it out on someone.

"You should understand. You and Hirano-kun are both boys, after all," Saeko reasoned.

"I know that already."

"You're just... no." Saeko seemed to sigh. "I guess you're opposite sides of the same coin."

Saeko left and Saya followed suit, but not before letting out a sigh that suggested that she was feeling annoyed by Takashi. Takashi just really couldn't catch a break from them.

"What's with them?" This earned a laugh from Shizuka.

"What, sensei?"

"I was thinking, I'm really glad I came along with you guys. Even though the world is being overrun by Them, youth is still so wonderful!"

"But when you say it like that..."

Shizuka moved towards the balconey. "You know, Komuro-kun, I... I'm getting my clinical training at the college hospital. Being the temporary school nurse, when I'm dispatched elsewhere, I'll have to make a lot of decisions..." she trailed off.

"This is sudden," Takashi replied.

"Please ask me. Ask me for advice on what you should do. So, things can be how they always were. Please!" Shizuka was barely holding it together.

Takashi understood what she was going through. They all understood what everyone was going through. The world is pretty much at an end with seemingly no sign of things ever returning to normal so whoever is left alive, like them for example, are left to try and cope with this predicament. "I'm sorry sensei. I can't right now."

"Then leave. I want to live how I choose to. So go away."

Takashi was about to do just that when he heard a commotion by the gate. "Hey stop! Who are you?" He looked and saw a few servants by the gate, having shouted out that statement at two people.

"More survivors?" Takashi muttered. However, as the two began to talk to the servants, he caught a better glimpse of them. One was a woman with a whole armory practically strapped to her body. The other one was a tall man with silver hair wearing a red coat. A huge sword was visible on his back.

Takashi shivered unconsciously as he looked at the man. The dream from before came back to him and he found himself looking at the same guy only he was wearing different clothes and his hair style was different. He felt something, like an aura or something like that, coming off of the man, it felt familiar yet Takashi couldn't place it at all.

The gate was opened and the two walked in. The man looked up as they approached the mansion. Takashi shivered again. He felt that things were going to get bad pretty soon. He backed away from the balconey and began to take his leave before anything happened. He passed Rei on his way to the door.

"Isn't there something you can be helping with right now?" she asked him.

"Who are you to scold me?" he said to her sharply.

Alice, who was with Rei, began to cry, but fought to hold in the tears. Takashi mentally berated himself. "Thanks. I'll see if I can think of something." He tried to say that with a smile.

Rei smirked. "No problem."

Takashi walked towards the door, continually telling himself that the man in red didn't mean something bad. He'd have sounded a bit more convincing to himself if he hadn't crushed the doorknob out of fear.

Outside on the ground level, Dante and Lady were being shown around a bit by one of the servants. Dante was tuning out most of what the guy was saying save for the more important bits like where to get food and all. He would take glances towards the mansion.

"So he's in there?" Lady asked him.

Dante nodded. "Yep. Saw him earlier when we got here. Seemed to notice me," Dante said, his usual cocky attitude replaced by a more serious one that he rarely has shown.

Dante was thinking pretty hard right now, something that he doesn't often do. Every time some big bad mess went down, the area affected was never bigger than that of a city. When Temen-ni-gru was raised and demons started appearing, only the city he was in was affected. Mundus starts messing with him, Mallet Island pays the price. Sanctus, whom Dante thought of as a rip off of the pope, went too far with his faith and Fortuna ended up ruined.

But this situation was different. While these zombies were nowhere near as powerful as even the lowest of demons, they were causing a hell of a lot more havoc. From what he and Lady were able to pick up, this thing seems to be going down worldwide. And demons were taking this chance to show up and make things even worse. The appearance of this kid took Dante by surprise too and Dante was never one to believe in coincidence.

"Something big is going to happen soon. I'd bet my left nut on it," Dante said.

"Something wrong?" the servant said, having not understood what was going on as Dante and Lady had spoken in english.

"Nothing, just talking about how screwed up this whole thing is," Dante said in japanese slowly. Taking demon slaying jobs from all over gave him the benefit of learning some different languages although he did have some problems at first. During one of his first jobs here in Japan, he accidently called his client an asswipe when he meant to say Asakura-san. The guy understood that he made a mistake speaking in japanese, but the guy never hired him again afterwards.

"Well, once this little tour of ours is over, I'd think it would be a good idea to confront him before anything else happens," Lady told him.

Dante sighed. "Yeah." Sometimes, it's kinda complicated to be him.

Back inside the mansion, Alice had ran up to Takashi and asked him to talk to Kohta again. Takashi had tried to say that might not work out, but she insisted and took off to get Kohta. "It's the mutiny on the bounty," Takashi remarked to himself after Alice left. He thought back to something his teacher said to the class about a ship called the H.M.S bounty where mutiny arose after the crew stayed in Tahiti for a lengthy period of time.

"Looks like this is another Tahiti," he muttered, wondering just how this seemed to suddenly happen. He knew that things weren't exactly likeable or even tolerable, but still he never expected for them to have sudden arguments like this.

He didn't get very far out the door when Alice came back for him. "Onii-chan! Hurry, come with me!" She grabbed Takashi by the sleeve and tried to pull him. Takashi didn't move at first, but relented and followed her.

"What happened?" he asked.

"It's Kohta-chan! Kohta-chan is in trouble!" Alice responded, seeming rather frantic.

As they continued to move, Takashi could hear voices being shouted. "You don't want to screw with us! Just give them to us already!" a man shouted.

"No!" Takashi recognized Kohta's voice immediately.

He saw Kohta on the ground, carrying a few guns in his arms. Men that he figured were part of the nationalist group that Saya's dad is the leader of surrounded Kohta and they sure didn't look happy. "Hey, c'mon , you know these are tough times. One person shouldn't hoard all those weapons like that. Hand them over to us..."

"No! I'm borrowing these from someone, and besides there's no one here who can use these as well as I can!" Kohta mumbled out. He was practically sweating.

"You little brat, Yoshioka-san asked you nicely so stop being so selfish!" one of them said.

"We only want them to protect everyone here!" another man yelled.

"Hey, he doesn't even care." This prompted the men to try and move in and take the weapons by force.

Takashi was about to move in and help Kohta out, but stopped as a voice filled the air. "What is all this commotion about?" Everyone stopped dead in their tracks. They all turned and saw Saya's dad walking straight towards them and he didn't look happy at all.

"D-don! Th-this punk kid thinks those guns are his own toys," one of the men spouted out.

He stopped a few feet away from Kohta, flanked by his wife. "I am Takagi Souichirou, don of our patriotic organization. Tell me your name, boy!" Souichirou demanded.

Kohta was practically shitting himself, completely intimidated of Saya's dad. "Hi-Hi-Hi-Hirano Kohta, Fujimi High School, second year, class B, number 32!" Kohta said frightened. Takashi felt sorry for him. He was scared of the dad too.

"Do not speak so boldly, Hirano-kun! That I myself had to come here is proof that you have caused a good deal of trouble." Souichirou was serious.

Saya's mother made a move towards her husband. "Dear, this boy is..."

"I know, he is from her class."

"Well then."

Souichirou leveled a stern gaze at Kohta. "Why will you not hand over the guns?"

Kohta shook his head several times. "No! No! Without guns, I... I'll go back to what I was! I'm done with the old me! I thought I'd finally found something I was good at!" he yelled.

"Such as?" Souichirou asked nonchalantly. Kohta couldn't come up with anything immediately and was about to just end up as a sobbing mess when someone spoke up.

"Such as protecting your daughter!" Everyone's ears perked up at that as Takashi walked to Kohta's side.

"K-Ko-Komuro," Kohta said, thankful for his assistance.

"Komuro... I see. I have heard your name. You've known Saya for a long time." Souichirou sized Takashi up.

"Yes sir, but since this all started, Saya's been... your daughter's been under the protection of Hirano here." Souichirou was silent as he took this in.

"Kohta-chan!" Alice came rushing over and hugged Kohta. Not long afterwards Shizuka showed up with Rei in tow.

"Even I can see how much courage he has. Don Takagi," Saeko said, having come as well.

"And I can too, papa!" Saya announced as she walked alongside Saeko. "He may be a freak and a worthless gun otaku, but it's because of him that I'm here. He's one of my companions! He's been protecting me, unlike you, papa!" Saya said without wavering for a second.

However, while this was going on, there was a young man, possibly around the same age as Takashi and the others standing by a wall, talking on a cell phone. His eyes had a deranged look to them. "Yes, that's right. I'm preparing my escape now. I think if we ask them now, they'll let us in. Yes Shidou-sensei!"

And in some other part of the town, was Shidou and the other students that chose to stay with him on the bus. The students were all engaging in a sexual orgy, moaning clearly heard throughout the bus as they acted in accordance to their lust. In the middle of this stood Shidou, a smile on his face as he had listened to his follower. With everything seeming to go according to his plans, Shidou closed his cell phone.

And that's the end of the chapter!

Phew, this took a bit more time to finish up than I thought, but I think it was worth it. Sorry to those that were expecting Dante and Takashi to meet, but don't worry for they will soon!

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