SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 29 out, this is Chapter 30 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review other than just simply putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

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Chapter 30: I Thought Of Them As My Brothers

"Eh..." Rin muttered, seeing the groaning walking corpse lumber towards them.

"A ghoul!" Yukio hissed, immediately firing at the undead.

"Just now..." Shiemi gasped. "Did it say something?"

"What happened?" Miwa asked, the rest of the group hurrying over.

"A ghoul?" Suguro asked.

"No," Yukio corrected. "It talked, the chances are high that this is a zombie."

"How are zombies and ghouls different?" Rin asked.

"You're supposed to learn that in class." Suguro deathpanned.

"The way to defeat a ghoul and a zombie slightly differ from each other." Miwa explained. "There exist rare individuals who can talk, and this is a characteristic of zombies. To put it simply, ghouls are fairly easy to defeat in comparison to zombies. Zombies are much more difficult to defeat or even handle."

"Their conditions are different in the first place." Yukio took over. "Ghouls are demons that possess human corpses. Zombies are humans that parasitize the body of humans affected by necrosis."

"Then if we exorcise the parasitic demons, wouldn't we save the hosts?" Rin asked.

"There wasn't a single case where a body in a stage of necrosis this advanced ever regained their humanity." Yukio sighed. "Putting them to rest is the only thing we can do."

"Experiment body: No. 6411." Miwa read the name tag. "What kind of experiment were they conducting?"

"That's strange." Yukio frowned, firing off another round at the stirring zombie. "I was sure that the last bullets pass through the brain."

"Guys!" Shiemi shouted a warning.

"Since when did so many..." Rin was stunned to see a group of zombies corner them.

"Okumura-sensei..." Miwa stammered.

"What's happening..." Yukio was shocked to see the zombie he shot get back to its feet.

"Pentagram Blade!" Ami slashed through the group of zombies with her weapon. "I'll hold them back!" she told the group. "Find the underground entrance. Hurry!" she barked, her blade still poised to strike. "Trinity Blade!" she fired off a delta-shaped energy wave at the advancing zombies.

"This is no good." Suguro warned, the group having converged back in the mall's main hall. "They've surrounded this side, too. There are a lot of them."

"It's no good this way, either." Rin reported.

"I could do it with one shot with my bazooka." Suguro prepared his weapon. "What do you guys think?"

"We'll have to cut our way through." Yukio reminded. "I think that it's best we stop using our firearms. They don't work effectively against them."

"And if it fails to kill them instantly, we'll be swarmed by human torches." Miwa pointed out. "But if we use Okumura's flames, we might be able to turn them into ashes instantly."

"Use me..." Rin trailed.

"Make up your mind already!" Yukio snapped. "There's no choice but to fight! If you hesitate, we might die."

"I really don't want to go all-out on these low-tier soldiers, but I guess I have no choice." Ami muttered. "Equip: Heavenly Wheel!" at her command, a bright flash of light engulfed her as she donned on her Celestial Armour in mid-air. "Infinite Petal!" she summoned a multitude of light swords around her, before flying in to take on the first zombie that had emerged, her light swords then followed closely behind their summoner, taking out the rest of the zombies behind.

"What the hell is this?" Suguro shouted, when the floor opened underneath them as smalled holes opened, leading each member of the group into their respective 'Feeding Rooms'.

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