[We have our weapon . Leave the group and go search for Rei, Takashi and Hisashi . ]
Haven: Erin, are you mad? Why should I leave the group?
[Because you need to accomplish the hidden side mission . Saving Hisashi will allow you get a good amount of rewards in points and ranked rewards . ]
Haven: I get that . . . but I think it would be best if I also stuck to this group . It'll be easier for us to fend off attacks . In addition to that, remember that the plot is slightly altered . We don't know how strong the Runner Zombies and the Evolved ones are .
[Haven . Sigh . Look, I understand your concerns . . . I really do . I'm apart of you . I know you better than any other person in the entire world . I have access to your memories and even your every feeling . ]
Haven: What does that have to do w-
[Look . Just trust me on this, okay? I know what I'm saying is unreasonable but you and I are going to become very powerful through this . ]
Haven: Erin . . . I really hope you know what you're doing . You're the only one that gets to reincarnate with memories . I don't get that .
[I won't let us die, my friend . I don't like dying as well you know . When I reincarnate, my soul has to pass through void energies . That REALLY hurts . Besides, you are the perfect host that I've found . I'm not willing to squander this opportunity for someone who'll believe that he's insane . ]
Haven: Huh . . . you never told me it hurt .
[I can't be giving away all my secrets now, can I? Please, get to it . ]
Haven: Alright . Ill do it .
[Good . ]
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Haven looked toward his group . He didn't know what to say . Yukio had given Jax and him a weapon so they would stick together to survive the coming mission . It felt somewhat wrong to just spit on his generosity . But he had to it .
All in the quest to get stronger .
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Haven: Guys . . . Im-
Yukio: Im leaving . You guys are on your own .
Jax: What?! Why?
Izumi: You . . .
Yukio: Remember, this mission is a test . You survive it, you get on board my team . I've already handed you a freebie . Good luck . You're going to need it .
Izumi: But . . . I-
Yukio: Shut up . Don't think too much .
Jax: If zombies are going to be the main plot line, we'll have a better chance of survival with you . I doubt we'll be able to survive against many of those Running Zombies or even the Evolved ones .
Yukio: I don't care . Like I said, this mission is a test . You either sink or swim . This is not a game . I want reliable comrades who I can trust to watch my back and you all dying will just prove to me that you're useless .
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He smiled . He patted our shoulders and began to walk off .
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Haven: Will we meet up with you again?
Yukio: Heh . That'll depend on you .
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With those final words, he parted ways with, disappearing into the student packed hallways where the students were going into their next classes .
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Jax: This is quite troublesome . He is definitely the strongest person here . Most likely the only one to be able to fight off the Evolved zombies .
Izumi: True . . . we should go . Maybe look for safe spot?
Jax: Might be a good idea but it has to have multiple exits in case we get surrounded . Haven, what do you think?
Haven: Sigh . I think . . . Im leaving .
Jax: What? What do you mean?
Haven: Im leaving . Like Yukio said, were gonna have to prove ourselves to make sure we become strong . Im . . . not really a team player . Im a loner .
Izumi: Are you serious right now? That's a completely stupid thing to do!
Haven: I know, yet I'll still do it . Im sorry but you guys are on your own .
Jax: Haven . . . what's the matter with you? We are in a strange situation with strange variables present . If we aren't careful, we will all perish . When Yukio gave us these swords, he did so so that we would all protect each other and move in a group to ensure survival . Izumi is right, what you're doing is downright the dumbest thing to do .
Haven: You think I don't know that? I do . That's why im doing this .
Izumi: That makes absolutely no sense, are you mental or something?
Haven: I've said enough . Im leaving .
Izumi: Wait! You can't ju-
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Jax pulled her back, to his side . He narrowed his eyes towards Haven . We might have lost all forms of camaraderie with him . Izumi seems more like a follower than a leader so she'll most definitely follow what Jax says .
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Jax: Leave him be . He chose his path .
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With those final words, we moved out of the classroom . I felt bad for leaving them like that but it would be worth it in the end . They needed this opportunity to become stronger . And Haven needed no distractions in our plan to make him stronger .
Our mentality needed to slowly change .
And our first order of business was breaking through limits .
All three of them .
Before long, we had already made our way through the bumbling students running around . Screams started resounding around us as Haven ran his way towards the crosswalks and saw them, Rei, Takashi and Hisashi .
Rei's weapon was stuck into the zombie's chest, it was trying its best to get to her even with the weapon halting its movement . Hisashi, seing this, went behind the zombie and put it into a choke hold to halt it's movements .
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Hisashi: Rei! Pull it out now!
Takashi: Hisashi, get away from him!
Hisashi: Don't worry, I can take him .
Haven: Idiot . Are you planning on becoming a zombie?
Takashi: H-huh? Who're you?
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Without bothering to reply, Haven ran towards Hisashi . He readied his sword and thrusted it's tip into the zombie's eye . Blood splattered everywhere, as the tip exited through the other side of its head, successfully piercing its brain .
The zombie, having its brain destroyed, fell in a heap onto the ground . When the deed was done, Haven removed the sword from its head and kicked its body to the side . He swung his weapon to rid it of the blood .
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Haven: We should go . More of em are bound to come up here soon .
Takashi: Wait! Who are you?
Haven: Im Haven Crest . Who are you guys?
Hisashi: Ah, thanks for the help . Im Hisashi Igou and this is Rei Miyamoto and Takashi Komuro .
Haven: No problem and i guess its nice to meet you but . . . you should be more careful, these guys are zombies . If I hadn't helped you there, the bastard probably would have bit you then you'd have turned into one of them as well .
Rei: These guys really are zombies? My god .
Takashi: Oh man . That's . . . how did this happen? Some virus or pollution or what? From your clothes, you aren't a student of this school are you?
Haven: No im not a student . I climbed over the wall when I heard the screams . Truth is, the stuff here is happening on the outside as well . A lot of people are dying out there .
Hisashi: Are you serious? Damn . The authorities probably aren't likely going to be of much help, are they?
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Haven nodded .
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Haven: Come on, we should get out of here .
Takashi/ Rei/ Hisashi: Right!
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The four of us explored the area a bit more, we came across a few more zombies as we made our way toward the main building . Haven made short work of the zombies, killing them off easily . Rei and Hisashi tried helping here and there but Takashi and Haven seemed capable enough to handle it .
On the way, they witnessed many scenes of people screaming out for help . Haven stopped the others from helping when a group of students were being pushed back by some zombies . The only reason they weren't dead yet was because one of them was using an entire desk as a shield to stop the undead .
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Rei: We should help them! Let me go!
Hisashi: Stop, Rei!
Haven: Hisashi is right, Rei . Look, we cant save them anymore .
Rei: What? Why!
Takashi: Those marks on their arms . Look . They've been infected already .
Rei: No . . .
Hisashi: Please Rei . We need to leave .
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With some persuasion from us, Rei listened and allowed us to lead her away from the students . Along the way, we noticed that there were quite a few more zombies than earlier . Their numbers were multiplying faster than I realized .
And before I knew it, we heard a familiar scream . Or at least, it was familiar to me . That should have been Saya Takagi . Kohta Hirano was out of bullets from his nail gun and a zombie snuck up behind Saya . She would then use a drill to kill the zombie .
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Saya: No! Stay away from me!!
Haven: Shit, come on!
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By the time Haven arrived, he ran into Saeko Busujima and the busty nurse, Shizuka Marikawa . They turned to see Saya Takagi plunging her drill into the zombie's head . Her expression was a mix of horror and panic .
A moment later, Takashi and his cabal caught up to me . Haven sighed in relief . It seemed she would be fine after all . Stuff didn't happen like Side B .
That was fine .
A few groans came from the hallway . Looking around, we noticed a few zombies lumbering towards Saya, likely attracted to her screams . Good thing we made it in time .
Saeko glanced at my weapon with a raise eyebrow but opted not to say anything about it . She pointed at the zombies and spoke .
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Saeko: Ill take the ones on the left . Get the right .
Haven: Sure .
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Haven dashed in, kicking away an undead near Saya before using his sword to slice through its neck . Borrowing the momentum from the strike, he jumped towards the next and pulled its arm that was reaching towards him . Haven then turned around tossing the undead into its ugly friends, successfully tripping all of them, sending them to the ground .
Haven glanced to his left and noticed Saeko's skill with the bokken . She twisted the handle of the wooden sword and smacked it hard against the skulls of the zombies, killing them in a single hit . Haven turned back to his opponents and stabbed through each of their skulls just as they were trying to get up .
We all glanced at each other then relaxed our muscles . Saeko introduced herself and the nurse to me and I told her that I wasn't from the school, explaining that when I saw what was happening inside, I climbed over the wall to look for survivors .
Takashi explained how I arrived just in time to save Hisashi from getting bitten . As the other engaged in their respective conversations, Haven lent up against a pillar . Taking my chance during the quiet time, I initiated a conversation with him .
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[Heh . This is pretty cool huh?]
Haven: Hm? What do you mean?
[Who would you choose, out of any one of them?]
Haven: . . . not sure to be honest . Every single one of them have sexy bodies . The Nurse has to have the biggest tits I have ever seen in my life! Look at them! They're even perky! Like seriously? How is that even possible?
[Haha . This is an anime . Logic doesn't exactly apply here . ]
Haven: True . . . but im still not sure who to pick . I have a sexy nurse, a sexy swordsman, a sexy . . . staff master? What's Rei's role in this again?)
[Eye candy . ]
Haven: Hm . . . anyways, what was I saying? Oh yeah, and a sexy nerd . No, I wasn't talking about Kohta .
[Oh I know what you mean but I honestly doubt you'll be getting any of them . ]
Haven: Way to ruin my self esteem, Erin . Anyways, enough about that, what's our next plan of action?
[The bus . We'll need to escape from the school . Propose the plan . ]
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Haven nodded at my advice . He proceeded to tell the others of what he thought would be a good idea to accomplish at the moment . They agreed for the most part but Saya wanted to know the full scope of the situation .
In the end, they decided to head towards the teacher's lounge . It was the closest location from the area, being an isle down from the trophy cases .
When we entered the room, Takashi closed the door and Hisashi went to shut the blinds in the room in case the zombies noticed movement in the room .
A moment later, Saeko switched on the remote for the T . V .
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Newscaster A: We currently don't truly understand the situation . There are various reports that the dead are . . . rising and attacking people . Government officials have evacuated their premises to take shelter on an aircraft carrier to plan out a counterattack and explain what's been happening . Reports of looting and murder have come in . It seems that criminals have come out in the open while the public is focused on-
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Saya thumbed through various news channels
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Newscaster B: Do Not let them bite you . Their infection will spread into you and you will turn into one of them in mere minutes . Reports indicate it's some sort of virus that is transferred through blood and-
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The news screen emitted static sounds and blanked out . We wouldn't be getting information from there anymore .
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Takagi: Damn! They themselves don't know whats going on . The authorities are useless in this situation .
Saya: Its like the Spanish flu which infected millions and killed much more .
Kohta: What caused it to stop?
Saya: Too many humans died, the flu couldn't spread anymore due to the lack of bodies .
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Kohta walked over to window where Haven was standing and pushed down the blinds slightly . His expression serious .
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Kohta: Except instead of them dying . . . the dead rise up and try to spread the disease .
Shizuka: That's not all . Medical science doesn't seem to correctly apply to them . Bodies should decompose in the heat but with this unknown virus running rampant I fear that their bodies wont even decompose at all .
Saya: How long till they turn into skeletons then?
Shizuka: Hm . . . considering the various weather conditions . . . around a few months? That's not too long!
Saya: You are as dumb as you look .
Haven: We aren't here to start fights Saya . We can't afford to wait that long in here with the amount of zombies around the school . We need a safer base of operations . One where we can find food and shelter .
Hisashi: True . We are going to have to think of a plan and need a place to stay while this blows over . The school isn't a safe place . Im all for Haven's plan right now . It's the best one yet .
Saeko: Agreed . We'll need transport and supplies if were going to get out of this alive . I also want to confirm that my family is alright .
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We ventured out into the hallways where some zombies were milling around, Takashi and I led the force of survivors where we'd clear out the way . Saeko acted as clean up for when any got past us . Kohta was ranged support, attacking the ones furthest from us to thin out the horde .
Soon we came across a group of survivors . An unspoken agreement flashed through our minds and at that moment, we decided to save them .
Haven charged in with a slice from his sword, decapitating the zombie closest to us . Using the momentum, he kicked out towards a zombie, pushing it down and using the opportunity to plunge the sword into its brain .
Saeko came up behind us and slammed her bokken into the heads of the zombies, effectively ending their unlives .
Looking around, Haven noticed that the corpses were fewer in number than what we expected .
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Haven: Erin, why are there so few of them? I could have sworn that there would have been more here .
[Listen, do you hear that?]
Haven: Hear, what . . . ? Are those . . . . ?
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He strained our ears . Odd . . . why is it when we share the same body, I seem to have higher senses than he does? Something that I'll never understand . Soon he heard very, very faint sounds amongst the moaning of the zombies and the shuffling of their feet .
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Haven: Those are . . . gunshots . Did the police arrive or something?
[No . Remember, the nearest police station is quite a ways away from here . Think Haven, besides the police, who would be the most likely candidate to posses a ranged weapon . ]
Haven: . . . Yukio . . . he's killing them . The undead .
[Indeed . He's farming up points for the next mission . I wonder how much he's amassed by now . ]
Haven: Probably up in the hundreds by now .
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In any case, It was better for us in the long run . The more he killed, the less would attack us and hinder us . Farming points using regular zombies was basically a waste of time for us right now . Which is why I need make sure that Haven encounters Runners and Evolved as soon as possible .
If my plan comes to fruition, Haven will be the first person to accomplish the most amazingly unexpected thing in all of the history of God's Dimension .
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[Enough of that, check to see if they are infected . ] I told Haven .
Haven: (Will do) . Hey, was anyone bitten?
Girl A: No, none of us got bitten .
Takashi: Were gonna get out here . Anyone coming?
Girl A: Sure, we'll be happy to leave .
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With this, our group grew bigger by an additional 4 . Making us a group of 11 people . Hurrying down, we made it to the stairs . Unfortunately our way was blocked by the zombies . There was quite the number of them and we weren't confident enough to attempt to pass through without getting swarmed . Now that our group was of a bigger number, we had more members to worry about . Especially considering that 3 of them didn't seem to be able to put up much of a fight .
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Saya: It's fine . They only react to noise . They're blind . We'll be fine if we just be quiet .
Takashi: Are you willing to test that theory?
Saya: W-well . . . we, Kohta and I that is, saw that the zombies don't even seem to react even when we threw some gloves at them . It didn't even see the locker in front it . It just sort of bumped into it over and over again .
Saeko: The point still stands . Are you willing to go down there and test the theory?
Saya: Hmph!
Takashi: Sigh . . . I'll-
Haven: Ill go . Stay here . If anything happens, pick up my sword and race towards the bus .
Takashi: Wait, I think that I should-
Hisashi: No, Takashi . I wont let you go into danger like that .
Saeko: Actually, I think that I should-
Haven: Urgh, shut up . Now your making me hesitate . Relax . I've got it . Just stay here and wait for me to clear the way . If her theory's right, we'll all be fine .
Rei: But . . .
Saeko: I understand . That's enough, he chose his path . Let him be .
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With those words, we went off down the stairs, as carefully as possible to avoid making any unnecessary noise that would attract the zombies . Fortunately we have knowledge of the plot . We wouldn't really be putting ourselves into danger as long as we're quiet .
Haven was still as he could be, watching the zombies lumber pass him aimlessly . One zombie in particular wandered a little too close fro comfort but it passed by without even bumping into Haven so it was all fine .
He glanced at the ground to see if there were any objects that could be used as a distraction . Sure enough, he found a shoe . Picking it up, he threw it towards a shoe locker over on the far side .
It smacked against the metal with a loud thud, attracting the attention of the zombies . Groaning and moaning, they lumbered off towards the shoe, believing it was prey . Haven took the chance to motion the others towards the exit .
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Haven: Alright . It seems we'll have smooth sailing after this part .
[Sigh . You're an idiot . ]
Haven: What? Hey! Why?
[You just jinxed us . ]
Haven: How could I have possibly jin-
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CLANG!
A loud noise reverberated throughout the hall . The echoes seemed to have pass through even the walls of the school, attracting the attention of the zombies towards us .
One of the students we saved seemed to have accidentally knocked his weapon into the stairway beam just as he was descending .
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