RE : OVER

2 || First Kill

"What are you doing here, Mayu-chan?" Fumihiro stepped forward, looking at Mayu's inflamed ankles with worry, "Does it hurt?"

"It doesn't."

"Uh... . Just a tiny bit, Fumihiro... senpai. You know that my pain threshold is better than anyone." Mayu smiled sweetly, holding the bloody wooden stick by her side. 

That was not a lie. When she was young, she was the subservient type. Even as she matured and had to fight for her life countless times, she tend to not voice out her grievances. Perhaps that was one of the reasons why she survived for so long. The other reason was, after forty years, her mind and mental state were much more tempered than normal humans. 

Her motto was, 'If I can endure it, I will endure it.'

"Ah, I thought that green mucus thing is poisonous." Another student frowned, his face was still pale from the earlier horror, "Everyone seemed to scream bloody murder when they got hit. And... and they... ."

Everyone turned silent at the resurfaced memory, having witnessed their classmates being eaten alive.

"It just stings a bit." Mayu shrugged. She had forgotten the fear she felt in her first life towards these monsters. The Woms' acid would not kill someone and was not even enough to cause a first degree burn. However the substance caused one's brain to register the highest painful feeling.

Fumihiro wiped a blood trail off Mayu's cheeks, "Anyway, won't you stop it with the 'senpai' bit, Mayu-chan? I've told you to just call me by name."

"Well if you insist... . You don't know how I wanted to gag."

Mayu flashed a smile instead, "Sure thing, Fumihiro."

Fumihiro was slightly taken aback. As far as he was concerned, Mayu Saito was always a demure and shy girl. She was more of the submissive type as well. 

But he could tell that Mayu's quick acquiescence to his request, to not call him by 'senpai' suffix, was not because of her usual submissive nature. How did she even think to address him - who was a year older - by just a name? At the very least, he initially thought that she should lovingly call him 'Fumi-kun' or 'Hiro-kun'.

Mayu was a perfect girlfriend, because she was pretty enough but not conceited, unlike the popular girls in the school. Her body was more developed as well, while most of other female students were built like wooden planks. Although she had never let him go all the way to have his fun with her body, she let him touch a little bit here and there. 

She had also promised that she would give her first time to him as his high school graduation present, which was less than six months away. Well at least, before the monsters suddenly appeared, seemingly out of thin air. 

One moment, he was shooting three pointers, drawing admiring gazes from his female classmates. The next moment, some hideous gigantic worms waltzed into the gymnasium and started massacring people.

And now, with Mayu's nonchalant attitude, he became displeased. Did she not know that even amongst the school committee, more worthy girls wanted to be his girlfriend?

Unbeknownst to him, if Mayu could really read his thought, she would swiftly prick his skull with the wooden stick, just to find out if his brain was really inside.

The students looked at each other with wariness, but most of them had regained color on their faces. Some of the boys had even gained a bit of courage to step closer to the dead Woms. Although the students were still somewhat shocked that some of their classmates had been chewed and split apart by those creatures, the Woms were generally clean eaters. In the midst of the dead Woms' bodies and mixture of green mucus and blood marring the gymnasium floor, anyone could hardly see the dead students' bodies anymore.