residents of the dead

psycho lovers

As they drove on, the sound of the exploding dynamite combined with the new sounds of gunfire from the Takagi Estate were causing all the zombies to basically ignore the ATV as it drove past them. The group made it off the grounds of the estate and onto a road, specifically the road that the initial wave of zombies attacking the estate had come from. It all seemed to be going well until they came upon the half-open blockade in the road. The school bus that Shidou and his students were in was there, crashed into the side of the blockade that wasn't open, looking pretty dead.

"That's the only way out," said Saeko.

Jin looked at the way Marikawa-sensei was driving, and with the way she was going, there was no way they were going to get through that gap. She was being too cautious, trying not to hit the wall of the blockade on the way past, but the only way was going to get through was if the ATV scraped the walls - the gap was too narrow for anything else.

Takashi seemed to see this, too. "Got it!" he said, jumping to the front of the ATV and pushing Marikawa-sensei away.

"Komuro-kun!" Marikawa-sensei said in shock.

Takashi kept the ATV on a straight forward path. If he was off by even a centimetre, we would crash into the wall and get stuck in the gap. Jin found himself tensing. The adrenaline rushing through this veins by this point was nowhere near enough to take away the nervousness, the feeling that they might not make it through. To immense relief, however, the sound of scraping on the sides of the ATV reached his ears, and though slowed slightly, the vehicle pushed its way through the gap without trouble. Jin felt a grin tug at the corners of his mouth.

Jin briefly noticed a bunch of Shidou's students fleeing the scene, some being eaten by the zombies. With saw no sign of the man himself, though.

Fuck 'em, he thought. They made their beds, now they can fucking lie in them.

"We should be okay now ..." said Saya-san.

"For a while, anyway," Jin said, not even really noticing that he was speaking out loud.

There was a rather awkward silence for quite a while.

"Ah!" Saya said suddenly, as if realising something."Please don't say anything!" Saya said to her loudly. "Please!"

"Oh ..." he said. That's right ... In all the commotion, all the excitement of escaping with their lives. Jin had completely forgotten that Saya had essentially left her parents to their deaths back there. They had practically ordered her to, granted, but he sincerely doubted that made it feel any better. Once again Jin Found himself in a situation with no idea what to do in. He would never have felt sorry if his father had died. Hell, Jin hoped he was dead, as horrible as that sounded. He had no idea what loving a parent was like, so he had no understanding of what Saya was going through in regards to leaving hers behind. He would have felt depressed about it, but not understanding the feelings of others was starting to become a normal occurrence for him.

"Takagi-san!" Kouta said suddenly. "Please keep a tight lookout!"

"Hirano, you ..." Rei started to say in a warning tone.

"Fine!" said Saya. "Fine. Hirano's ... Kouta's right!"

Then things descended into silence again.