Summoned

Movie night pt4

"This flashlight is rather strenuous to hold..." Saeko mumbles as passes the small handgun flashlight from one hand to the other.

"Well it 'was' made to be attached to a gun so..." I glanced at the purple-haired samurai as we kept walking down the hallway.

"I know. But I still feel a bit uncomfortable holding a gun. I am a bit nervous that I might pull the trigger by accident. So I do not want to hold it just for the flashlight." Saeko responds.

(With the safety on and the finger off the trigger? Well, you do you I guess.)

"Also, as you can guess, I am more used to using a blade. Holding a gun would mean I would first have to put it away, before I can draw my sword. Or I can drop the gun to the floor?" She then asks as she turns to look at me.

"Yeaa. Don't do that. While your handgun isn't exactly old in terms of model, and new handguns have some safety measures in case you drop them from waist height, it's still a bet you'd rather not take." I shrug slightly as I keep walking, the hallway slowly becoming brighter as we were closing in to its end.

Since we, or more correctly I. Fired the ever-living crap out of that horde. We decided to check the front of the cinema, just in case the noise had caused more corpses to gather outside...

"If the front is already overrun, what is your plan?" Saeko asks as she covers her eyes slightly because of the increasing brightness.

"For starters? Go to the empty cinema room, the non-smelly one. We can think of what to do there without worrying about being noisy. There's no way this place has only one entrance. And we still need to check the final hallway." I respond as we close into the end of the hallway.

The moment we walked into the main room, I looked at the door. Which was still closed. The problem was that there seemed to be an increase in corpses visible through the door's central broken glass frame, numerous hands waving about through the broken part of the door...

"Well, the doors are still closed..." I blink a couple of times as I look at the ricketing barricade.

"Should we reinforce it?" Saeko whispers.

"Yea. Grab some of the ropes that connect the short pylons in front of the foodstuff counter. I'll see if I can bring some stuff to add to the barricade from the lounge area." I nod and start heading towards the lounge area.

(Hmm, we could use a table to block the broken glass part of the door. And more couches are obviously good.)

I nod to myself and start pushing another couch towards the barricade.

"Is the door going to hold?" Saya asks through the earbud.

"The door looks rather sturdy, and the barricade did not get any worse for wear. If it breaks, then ask your father to send in people. For now, we're good." I respond as I finish pushing the couch. The corpses getting a bit more, agitated from the sound of the grinding couch.

"What do I do with the rope?" Saeko then asks as she runs up to me.

"Uhh, we can tie the door handles a second time, and pass a second pylon through the handles. Though, all these hands might be a problem...Huh...wait." I run back to the lounge, and grab a table.

While walking back over to the barricade with it, I look towards the ceiling.

"Hmm, nothing to tie it to. But, I should be able to use it to manually to block the hands while you work on the door." I stop next to Saeko as I keep speaking, then turn to face the door.

"Let's see..." I then hold the table like a lance, with the flat, wooden side, aiming towards the door. And then start moving forward, until a couple of hands actually grabbed the edges of the table. But that's all they actually did, as they did not try to pull, or push. Which, ended with a couple of cracked fingers, seeing as I essentially plugged the hole with the table...