The Mystery of the Fourth Explosion

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An unfriendly morning, the sky looked cloudy, as if indicating something was going to happen, in a junior high school, at that time the students were working on their mid-term exams. While they were busy working on the questions, it turned out that in class 3-1 (main class), there were already 2 girls who had finished their work. They were Sayaka Natsumi, Sakurai Mitsu, and there were also several female students who asked them including Sakurai and Sayaka's two close friends, Takami Hanabi, and Hyumei Usiaa. While they were busy writing their answers and thinking, suddenly an explosion was heard from behind the school, causing a small vibration, the students were still calm.

A few minutes later, another explosion was heard from the left side of the school, causing another vibration, the students looked alert and ready to save themselves, including the teachers. Then, the third explosion came from the right side of the school, the school residents scattered and ran to the field, with their hearts beating erratically, some were already crying, fainting, and praying. Then, the fourth explosion, came from the front of the school and was the last explosion and was quite strong, causing a strong enough vibration to make the whole school scream hysterically.

However, the four female students looked normal, and were still standing in front of their classroom door, all they had in mind was finishing their exams and going home. However, their goal turned into a dream, when someone walked towards the school gate. At that time the street became quiet, birds flew who knows where, the sky was getting cloudy. Strangely, the person did not look like a human, instead he looked like a scary monster, his skin looked bluish, he also limped, his hands kept moving on their own, and his head was bowed. So that his face was covered by his hair which looked full of dust. When the person got closer, the school guard then approached him. Even though his heart was beating erratically, he still dared.

“Ehm.. Excuse me sir. What happened out there? It’s like this city is uninhabited..” said the school guard, and spoke behind the gate that was still tightly locked. However, there was no answer from the person, suddenly the person jumped and attacked the school guard, he stepped back and fell to the ground, luckily he was blocked by the fairly high gate. And a teacher who was there immediately attacked the unknown person, with a rock, until he bled and fell sprawled in front of the gate. The school residents who watched the incident were immediately hysterical, especially the 4 girls, they immediately became limp, their bodies shaking, their breaths gasping. Then, a vice principal ordered the students to immediately return to their respective classrooms.

“Children.. Immediately return to your respective classrooms, and lock all the doors and windows tightly. Stay there. Now!!!” Shouted the vice principal. Instantly, like a sea of ​​people they all scattered back to their respective classes. They went back into the classroom and were accompanied by their homeroom teacher Hirasawa sensei. Everything was quiet, a few hours later all that could be heard were the terrifying sounds of the monsters (zombies). Hirasawa peeked out the window, he saw dozens of zombies gathering in the middle of the field.

"Shhh.." Hirasawa whispered to his students. Then he peeked again, how shocked he was when one zombie stood right in front of his eyes, luckily there was a window blocking it. He immediately fell down with his heart almost jumping out. "Hhh..Calm down.. Sensei..Hhh..Hh," Sakurai and Sayaka said, even though they were the ones who should be calm with gasping breaths. Suddenly a classmate's cellphone rang quite loudly, and broke the silence immediately the zombies immediately stormed their class. They tried to be quiet and calm, the class next to them was noisy because they were shocked by the cellphone ringing. The zombies turned to the next class.

“Sensei.. Hh how about we stack the tables all the way up and hh.. dismantle the slightly damaged ceiling?” Hana asked, her breath short. Hirasawa just nodded, they worked together and carefully stacked the tables to reach the ceiling, without making a sound. When the roof was successfully dismantled, they went up in an orderly manner and lastly Sakurai followed by Hirasawa. When Hirasawa’s feet were about to go up, several zombies had already entered their class and climbed the tables and then caught Hirasawa’s left leg. Sakurai, who was a student who was considered polite, then showed her true nature. “Sensei..!! Hurry up. Ah come on..Sensei..!! You’re a zombie baka!! Come on sensei go up..” shouted Sakurai while pulling Hirasawa’s hand, and was helped by her friends. Everyone was safe.

At that time one of the zombies climbed onto the tower pole on the right side of their school. Suddenly lightning struck the zombie and it fell to the ground. At that moment the zombies gathered below and immediately ate their friends who had been killed by lightning brutally. It turned out that the next class did the same thing, but they did it with great struggle until finally they were able to climb up, but only 10 children went up with their homeroom teacher. It seemed that there were several classes doing the same thing. Hirasawa approached the homeroom teacher.

"Where are some of your students?" Hirasawa asked, and was answered with a shake of the head, a sign that something bad had happened. The four girls immediately looked down, there was blood everywhere, even on the tables, chairs, windows, and blackboard. They were just silent and stunned in disbelief, bodies were strewn about, the bodies of their friends. Mei who was afraid of things related to blood, could only grip her sleeve, Sayaka and Sakurai, and Hana tried to rub Mei's shoulders. Unknowingly the smell of blood wafted out carried by the wind, nausea attacked them.

After waiting for a few hours, a helicopter came to pick them up. While on the way, Sakurai looked towards his house and saw the entire area around it was destroyed, Sakurai was stunned, he almost fainted but Sayaka patted his shoulder, tears flowed down their cheeks when they saw the same thing as Sakurai. When they arrived at the TNI-AL warship, it turned out that many had been saved. They were then taken to their respective rooms, in one room there were 4 beds available, the 4 girls decided to sleep in one room. When Hana was about to turn the doorknob, a bed rack passed in front of them with 1 victim, a black-haired and green-eyed boy, injured in the left arm. Sayaka squeezed Sakurai's shoulder who was silent, Hana was also stunned, while Mei hid behind Hana.

their room could only be silent and silent suddenly an announcement was heard from the ship's captain who said. "Anyone of you who want to fight in the scary battlefield out there then join us .." and hundreds of them followed the battle training and joined them. For 1 month they were given training. At dinner time, they were approached by a waiter.

"Do you know the child you saw yesterday? He was a soldier's child but unfortunately his father died in battle to save his family, his brother died and his mother also died, it's a shame he .." said the waiter. The 4 girls were silent for a moment. When in the ship's hallway, Sakurai stopped in front of someone's room door.
"What's wrong Saku? What did you see?" asked Sayaka. Sakurai flinched. His two friends looked at them both.
"I .. I .. Ehmm. Ah nothing. Come on I'm sleepy already, oh," said Sakurai.
"Uhn? Strange .." said Sayaka. At 4 am, Sakurai woke up and sat on the edge of the bed.
"Has the child recovered? I wonder what his name is. Oh, stupid, I'll see for myself.." Sakurai said to himself and went to the room of the boy he saw earlier.

"Cleek!!" the sound of the door being locked woke Sayaka up, feeling strange she felt Sakurai's pillow, it turned out that the person was no longer there, she immediately got up and followed Sakurai. From afar she saw Sakurai peeking at the door of the room.
"Ahh what is he doing?" Sayaka thought. Suddenly the door to the room was opened from the inside, a nurse came out from there. "Ah ohhayyou, what are you doing here little girl?" asked Sakurai. Hearing that name Sakurai was a little annoyed.
"Ahm.. Ano.. I want to see hmm the condition of the child.." said Sakurai.
"Oh him.. He's fine. His condition has improved.." said the nurse.
"Ahm. Oh yes arrigattou gozaimasu..” Sakurai said, the nurse just smiled and left Sakurai jumped seeing the boy’s name.

“Hyakuya yuichiro?” Sakurai denied. Then when he turned around Sayaka was already standing behind him.
“Hi. Ohayyou..!!” Sayaka said, playing with her eyebrows.
“Hun? W, what are you doing here?” Sakurai asked.
“Oh nothing. Just saw you jumping around earlier..” Sayaka said.
“What.. It’s rare for you to wake up so early..” Sakurai said changing the subject.
“Hehehe, that’s how it is. Hey don’t change the subject. Huhh?” Sayaka said while nudging Sakurai’s shoulder.

“Shut up, shut up. Pay attention to the guy. Damn it,” Sayaka said. Sakurai just denied it. The next morning, they went back to training, after training Sakurai saw the same boy talking to the troop commander, he approached.
“Please, please let me join this battle..” Yuichiro asked.
“No way. Your hand still hurts. Your father also asked me to take care of you, not to give you trouble..” said the commander.
“Come on. My hand is healed. I also want to be like my father..” said Yuichiro. While swinging his injured hand in front of the commander.

Sakurai then left the child and returned to training. Until finally they went down to the battlefield. (Sayaka: intelligence, Sakurai: medical, Hana: technology, Mei: ambush). They got off in the middle of the city, Hana took out her loudspeaker and played a song. Not long after that all the zombies came out of their nests, at that time they also killed all the zombies in that place some were using guns, swords, arrows. But the longer they fought the more zombies came out of their nests.

"Everyone..!! Retreat!!" Shouted the squad leader. They also retreated from the battle arena and separated because of orders to look for several zombie nests. Report orders from Hana. "The commander said the four of us will look for zombie nests around the beach, after being detected there was 1 hotel that was not too destroyed, there were no zombies, and there were still several rooms that were still good. We were ordered to rest there. And there is one more report that there will be reinforcements for our group. "said Hana.

“Sigh..Separated again. But it’s good that there’s reinforcements..” said Sakurai.
“Good thing we didn’t get separated from the group.” said Sayaka.
“Good, let’s find that hotel, I also want to rest. Besides, it’s already dusk..” said Mei. They went to a hotel near the beach.

The night was getting late, Sayaka stood in front of the cracked window, the moonlight shining on her, Hana and Mei were already fast asleep, Sakurai was still awake. Suddenly the sound of footsteps came up the stairs. Sayaka and Sakurai immediately came to their senses and were ready in front of the door, but Sayaka was still dealing with her bag, who knows where she kept her weapon. The sound became clearer, and stopped right in front of the door, when the door opened Sakurai’s kunai-shaped knife immediately attacked the base of her neck, but the person caught her hand. Sakurai tried to free his hand, Sayaka was still taking care of her bag. Sakurai was pushed back because the person's strength was stronger than his, when he was leaning against the wall a ray of moonlight hit the person's face, the same face he saw in the room.

"Yu.. Yuichiro?" Sakurai denied, the boy let go of his hand.
"So you already know my name huh.." said Yuichiro.
"Calm down we're not bad people.." said another person.
"W..Who are you?" asked Sayaka, while fixing her bag, which she had previously messed up.
"Oh yeah let me introduce myself. My name is Samuru Shigami, a support force from the Stratos Academy.." said the boy named Samuru. "And we.. A support force from the Oichi Academy.. 2 brothers.. Rudi and Riki Tatsuna.." said the 2 children.
"Oahh..Hmm..Who asked?" said Hana and Mei who woke up because of the noise. Sakurai's eyes were seen starting to get dim.
“Hey, take a rest first, let us guard you..” said the 4 boys.

Sakurai, Hana, and Mei nodded, while Sayaka returned to the broken window. Sakurai leaned against the wall and was awake in his sleep, hugging Sayaka’s robe that was entrusted to him. Hana and Mei were already deep in their dreams. Suddenly a strong wind blew, a cold feeling entered the room. Sayaka who was standing in front of the window and not wearing a robe rubbed her palms. Not long after someone put a robe on her shoulders, she thought it was Sakurai.

“Ohm.. Aarrigattou Saku..” said Sayaka when she turned her head, she swiftly slapped Samuru. And looked at Sakurai who was awake, and saw Yuichiro about to put his head on Sakurai’s shoulder.
“Saku!! Hey you insolent man.. Saku!! Wake up!! Oy!” Sayaka shouted breaking the silence, Sakurai woke up and punched Yuichiro.

“Owwh..” they both screamed, when they were hit by Sakurai and Sayaka at the same time.
“What are you doing huh?!” The two girls asked.
“What’s wrong?! There’s a zombie?” the two siblings asked and hit the door that was almost coming off.
“Yes, there’s a zombie who doesn’t know manners here..” Sayaka and Sakurai said, while holding Samuru and Yuichiro’s collars. They all just stared at it.

The sun began to appear, although its rays were still covered by black clouds but its warmth could still be felt. The eight of them moved towards the beach. Looking for food in abandoned shops, changing clothes, reloading, and enjoying the day which was the last day to fight and set foot in their destroyed country. Not long after, Hana received a report. “Zzzthzzshzzzz.. The seventh group of extermination troops, you immediately head to the city park where there is a fairly large mayoral building. Destroy that area and exterminate all the zombies there. According to the detector, most of the creatures nest in that building. If it has been implemented back to the shore there will be a ship that will pick you up. Other areas will be handled by other groups that have been spread out. Don't forget to inject your body with anti-virus drugs as soon as possible. Zzztzzzhhzhhtzzhzz.. "

After that, they immediately headed to the city park and when they arrived there.
"It's so quiet.." Mei said.
"It's obvious. There are only zombies," Sakurai said.
"Let's install it.." Samuru ordered. They started to act, very carefully. Without making the slightest sound. When all the buildings had been installed with bombs, and explosives underground. The eight of them immediately moved away and waited for the seconds, and the command from the guide captain. Hana played a song titled: "Kyou no hi wa sayounara." ("Goodbye, see you next time..")

She played it as loud as possible, her seven friends were already wearing earplugs. Instantly thousands of zombies came out from various directions. The terrible sounds came from the bloodthirsty zombies. When they were looking around, the 4 girls saw several members of their family who had become mindless creatures. Their bodies became numb, the hands that were about to press the red button to detonate the bomb now became limp as if they had no bones, their breaths were short, realizing the condition of the girls, the 4 boys immediately helped them stand up, by holding the girls' hands tightly. They wanted to scream for their mother, father, uncle, aunt, older brother, or younger sibling, who were no longer human. They wanted to hug their family tightly for the last time, but what could they do, everything had happened, soon the place would be destroyed along with the scary creatures.

"Everyone is ready. On the count of three, blow everything up. 1..2.. (in the last song lyrics "Mata au hi made until the day we meet again = see you hopefully there will be another chance..)..3…"

BOOM!!

Instantly everything was destroyed, along with the zombies. Mission accomplished, without a single tear that did not want to come out at all. The 4 girls fell unconscious, but were immediately held by the 4 boys and carried the girls back to the ship. When everyone returned, and the girls had regained consciousness. The 4 boys beside them smiled. The 4 girls immediately cried and hugged the 4 boys who had been beside them. "Arrigatou.. Gozaimasta.. Minna.." said the girls while crying in the arms of the 4 boys.

Future, family, love, hope, and friends were destroyed that very day and now only a few chosen children remain and all the other survivors enter a new era, and a new future, and a new era.

The End