Chapter 8: Disastrous School Opening

As the first shot was heard across the auditorium, and all the survivors switched their uniforms in unison, the screams of horror echoed over the stage.

My first thought that popped up to adapt to this situation is not even trying to save myself from all the mayhem and chaos that's happening around me, but it is to calm Kasumi-san that 'might' be not used to this type of traumatizing scenery yet.

With this plan already in the making in my head and also just because the help of Analysia, I swiftly grab Kasumi-san's hand and while also contacting Kazuto-san about the fastest escape route from this place.

From the look of his eyes, I knew that both of us has already thought of the same plan at the same time.

"What's this madness?! Is this the 4D film that they're talking about??"

Said someone in the room, clearly panicking, still trying to cope with the situation.

"I don't think the school has enough budget to show us students that you know??"

After hearing this, Kasumi-san starting to panic:

"W-What's happening?? What's even going on he-".

"Shut Kasumi, or I will not hesitate to shoot you on the spot!", orders Kazuto-san, with him closing Kasumi-san's mouth and putting a gun to the side of his head.

"I don't want to be weighed on someone's else's life, my life is already important enough, Understand!", he quickly nods, and Kazuto-san pull his gun and his hand away from Kasumi-san's mouth and his side of a head, until this point, I personally never saw Kazuto-san this mad before.

"𝘐𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘒𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘪-𝘴𝘢𝘯 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦?"

This are the question that runs wild in my mind, thinking about Kazuto-san's unprecedented anger towards Kasumi-san, but before I knew it, just because my mind was so occupied with this single interaction, I failed to notice Analysia's warning about an incoming threat until, suddenly.

𝐉𝐋𝐄𝐁

In an instant, I felt a tense pressure and fiery sensation in my stomach, like the feeling of getting burned, that I only felt when my throat was slit on my way wandering the dormitory two days ago. Both Kasumi and Kazuto-san had a state of horror in their faces and immediately Kazuto-san reflexively pointed a gun to the side of me and shot a couple of rounds with him furiously screaming with his face as red as a beet.

"𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬! 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬! 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬!!!"

"A-Are you...okay, Kiyoko-san?", Kasumi-san says this as his body trembles in fear, trying to grasp what is even going on anymore.

"I-I'm fine, don't worry about it".

I stuttered. With still a sharp sensation lingering on my stomach, blood started to come out from my mouth, like this scene is some sort of horror scene that was pulled out straight from a horror film.

"Kiyoko-san, you are shaking, you're not fine!"

Kazuto-san exclaimed it like an order but in a slow manner as he also tried to calm down the now trembling Kasumi-san.

"Can you do something about it?"

"I-I don't know, but I'm going to try it, getting out of here it's our first and main priority"

I replied to Kazuto in a pleading manner, hoping that they would both listen to me.

Without even any sound coming out from their mouth, Kazuto-san quickly rushed to the nearest exit while Kasumi-san tried to follow his pace while also grabbing my hand as hard as he could possibly do.

Just as I ran behind both of them, I saw a white hair girl, who had a childlike appearance, also ran in the same direction as all three of us have.

But before I can even know what happened to her, I already notice that we're out of the auditorium, and from the looks of things, some other student has also done that as well.

Still limping from the pain that I suffered, I can feel that it started to get worse just because of the running that I do to catch up with both of them, and as soon as I showed some signs of it, Kazuto-san immediately noticed it and started to close the wounds as Kasumi-san get to sit back and see the process unfold.

"This is going to take a while, Kiyoko-san. So just be patient about it".

"I-I kn- Argh! It hurts so bad!", Even though in this moment I'm complaining, I feel that it isn't that bad as the situation with the 'Gas of Death' group, and immediately Analysia started to move and begins to heal the wound from the inside and help assist Kazuto-san's healing ability.

Still healing, Kasumi-san finally spoken a sentence after a whole five minutes of him thinking of his life choices and spend in silence:

"So, where should we stay, with Kiyoko-san like this, I don't know if she can live in alone in the dorm like this", In which, Kazuto-san instantly replied with still a serious voice:

"Don't worry, both you and Kiyoko-san will stay in my house for a while".

This answer confused and shocked Kasumi-san, and after another silence for five seconds, he finally asks:

"Does every student have their own house?".

At first, Kazuto-san doesn't want to answer that question just because it is already obvious enough, but after he saw me opening my mouth to answer Kasumi-san's curiosity, he quickly close my mouth with his hand and whispered: "You don't need to", and answered with annoyed but still keeping his kind voice:

"Yes, every student gets their own house, but if the other students want to breach in, they could and kill the student in that house, but don't worry about that just because I'm going to protect you two".

Just because how complete the answer was, Kasumi-san is out of question and with Kazuto-san carry me like when he carries me when I got knocked out that time, we finally walked to Kazuto-san's house, with me secretly flustered about my inability to do anything at this point.

Reaching Kazuto-san's house, the first thing that he does is open the door, which is obvious, and then he put my lethargic body that has already used up all the energy that my body has left to only healing the wound on a bed, with my eye still blinking slowly from the sign of tiredness and guilt for making him carry me to his own house.

And after my body touched the bed, my mind instantly passed out and doesn't even remember that both Kazuto-san and Kasumi-san were in the middle of talking about the school system, even though that's the case, I can still feel a soft stroke on my head, and a voice telling me to sleep, which works a little bit too well.

𝐓𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲,𝟏𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥,𝟐𝐗𝐗𝐗

Wake up, again absolutely wasted, with the first thing I know that someone is calling me for breakfast, I look at the clock and it's six past halves.

Hastily, I wobbled my way to the kitchen room and dropped to the floor when I opened the door to the kitchen.

Panicked, Kasumi-san tried to help me get up and finally, with a still half-conscious mind, I finally sat on the chair of the breakfast table.

"How's your...never mind", I noticed that Kazuto-san wants to ask me about something but looks like he immediately turned the question down, is it fearing that I'll get upset or something?

But after that, Kasumi-san went on and probably asked the same thing that Kazuto-san was afraid to question me about.

"How's about your ripped clothes, Kiyoko-san?", For a second, Kazuto-san seems a little bit startled by his question but after a second, he continues the question.

"W-Well, I accidentally bought a girl clothes set, do you want me to give it to you, I can send it through a link to your clothes function if you want". When I look at him, all I can see is the soft gaze of care, mixed with uncertainty, but at that time I didn't have time to notice that and just nod to his offer, which instantly made all his anxiety go away.

***

After an awkward moment of silence, all of us finished our breakfast of omelets and I decided to use his bathroom to clean my body and make my mind a little bit refresh.

I excused myself and walked to the bathroom while both of them were still talking to each other.

Maybe both of their conversations haven't finished, and they want to talk about something even deeper, but all I care about at that moment is to take a shower and check my house afterwards.

With my cold gaze, I looked at the shower head, showering me with hot water, with the water streams down my body, giving mild goosebumps every ten seconds.

"It's been a while since I can shower, but this really is peaceful...", I said to myself, while enjoying the serenity of the bathroom.

Finally, I got out of the bathroom, towel still covering my body and I headed towards my temporary room. From the looks of it, both of them are still talking intently without even noticing my presence walking five meters from them.

After then, I got into the room, and wearing my now stomach ripped sweater and white T-Shirt and currently finding the cloth set that Kazuto-san gave me and there, I finally found it.

"Change Clothes:Prize Set".

Instantly, I was wearing, a black choker, a Black strapless bra with a blue jean jacket covering it, all the while my brown skirt change into a blue long jean, shortly after, I rushed out of the room, by slamming the door, surprising both of them with my flustered expression.

"W-What's the meaning of this set!? T-This is too mature you know?", Saying that with a stuttered voice.

"Oh my...", Kazuto said this with the same confused expression as I do.

"T-This is too much you know??", I said in frustration while making my voice louder, with my body visibly shaking in embarrassment.

"I didn't even expect that I would buy this".

"W-What do you mean you didn't expect this, Kazuto-san!?".

"Hey, I never thought someone would ope-".

"You're the one that bought this, right?!", I scream, as I cut his opportunity to speak before he said:

"It's a mystery box, I would never kno-".

"You don't know?? you're the one that bought the- Wait...mystery box?", With me finally stopping to ask the question, I only received a nod.

"I-I hate you!", I quickly stormed up the house before I said thanks for the food and now am walking to my house, stomping on every step. Not even a minute, I noticed that Kazuto-san's house and my house are not even a couple of meters from each other.

"T-This bastard", before I finally let out a sigh and calmed down all my ill willed emotions to him. "𝘐-𝘐 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴, 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮...𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘨, 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘴", I thought to myself before I bring out the keycard to my house.

"𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭, 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴...𝘰𝘩 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘱𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘯𝘰 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦"

And I finally open the door to my house, take a step in, close my eyes while enjoying the air that's circulating inside my house just because the AC and-.

"Master, watch out for an incoming bullet to your left", said Analysia, strangely in her calm voice.

Only by some miracle, that time I felt like tilting my head to the left and missed the bullet before I heard a cracked on the back of my wall followed by a voice screaming:

"𝐃-𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐭!!!"