This is the end of my life.
This is what it's like to fall down from a building, huh?
I guess time really does slow down when you're in your final moments. I thought it only works like that in movies for dramatic effect. Or maybe it's just some sort of psychological phenomenon.
I hope it only hurts for an instant.
Just then, I heard the sound of footsteps running at a swift pace.
Huh? How am I seeing this in slow motion?
It was just in an instant, but I saw a boy bounce off towards a tree and caught me in his arms. However, he could not completely control himself mid-air, so he accidentally let go of me and we both rolled down to the ground.
"O-ouch!" I said.
W-what is this tremendous pain? I don't think I had a great landing....
I touched the side of my thigh and noticed a strange reddish patch on it.
I-it hurts!
"I am so sorry. I wasn't able to stick the landing......" the boy said.
He walked in front of me and put his hands together.
Who's this guy supposed to be?
The odd thing I noticed about the boy was that he was wearing a dark blue fedora on his head, with his jet black bangs sticking out from under the hat and unsettlingly mesmerizing indigo eyes.
Since when were hats allowed in the school? And who even wears fedoras nowadays? This guy has questionable fashion sense....
"Wait."
The boy held my thigh and looked at the injury.
"H-hey! Don't touch me so casually!"
"My apologies, milady, but you have a bruise on your thigh. I don't think you'll be able to walk properly at this rate. This means I'll have to carry you."
Did he just call me milady?!
"C-carry me? No way! I'm not letting a guy do that to me!" I said.
RAAAAAAAAHHHHH!
"Tsk, the zombies are coming, I have no choice."
The boy put his hands under my body and lifted me up swiftly.
"H-hey! Put me down! This is sexual harrassment! I can't allow this!"
He then started running forward in a direction away from the zombies.
"Just leave me be, idiot!"
"There's no way I'm leaving a girl behind. You can scold me later."
"Why did you even bother saving me anyway?"
"As a gentleman, it is my duty to save people in trouble. I can't bear to let anyone die within my sight," the boy smiled at me.
As a gentleman? Your duty?
"Drop me down, right now! I'm fine with dying! In fact, you ruined my suicide attempt!"
I tried to struggle and get out of his hold, but he grasped me even tighter and somehow kept me in place.
What's with this guy's strength?
"I won't allow a pretty girl like you to waste her beauty like that."
"Ha? Calling me pretty, huh? Are you just trying to seduce me with your sweet words? I'm not falling for it!"
"No, I'm not trying anything. I'm simply just stating a fact. You're pretty, that's all."
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Gentleman of the Apocalypse
Romance"Men are trash." This was Ori's absolute philosophy in life. Every encounter she's had with them always seems to end in disaster. It was because of them that her life had been filled with despair, to the point that she had become the most unpopular...
