Chapter 0: One shot part 1

   Date: October 22

Time: 5:59 pm

Year: 2022

Location: Fukushima, Japan

Place: Fukushima Elite Academy

Mikato Yuji, a tall high school boy by the height of around 169 cm with a bright brown scruffy hairstyle, pale skin, and spectacles. Was now sitting in the back corner of his classroom as he is now seeing his first-ever girlfriend, Naoki Hamada, being tackled by four zombie boys as her dead eyes staring at him emotionless as her skin began to be decayed showing a sign that she is transforming into a zombie.

With a scarred face, Yuji was now sitting there still shocked and terrified as he continues to watch his girlfriend being bitten by a zombie as he started to shake in fear as he continues to curse at himself for not trying to help her.

' Fuck, fuck, FUCK!? Why, why, WHY MUST EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS?! EVERYTHING WAS FINE UNTIL IT HAD TO HAPPEN. I FINALLY HAD MY VERY OWN GIRLFRIEND ON SUCH A SPECIAL DAY OF MY BIRTHDAY, AND NOW IT HAD TO BE LIKE THIS!!!! WHY? JUST WHY MUST THIS HAPPEN TO ME!!! AM, I HATED BY GOD!?'

As Yuji is still complaining in his mind. His now dead girlfriend is now rising as she had already become a fully transformed zombie as she began wobbly walking toward Yuji who is now being much more terrified as tears appeared in his eyes as he looks straight at his girlfriend and then at the other four male zombies following her.

Yuji: ' I am so sorry guys. I am pretty much a useless guy after all. And as for you Naoki, I am sorry that I was weak and useless. But still... '

Yuji: " At least I can still be with you, as a zombie together."

As Yuji closes his eyes, ready for his zombie friends to bite him and transform him into one of them. Both of his zombie friends were now charging toward him with an inhuman speed as the zombie Naoki open her mouth very wide as she is between 6.1 inches away from Yuji's neck Yuji himself began to remember the time before the whole event had happened.

Time: 8:00 am (7 hours and 59 min ago)

As the sun continues to shine on the peaceful city of Fukushima. But it wasn't for that long as there was a huge crowd at the number around 160, 000 people, marching in protest towards the Fukushima power plant as each of them hold up a sign that either said: " don't waste the ocean" or " Stop ruining nature" and so more.

On the other hand, some locals don't bother to even protest against their government as they all continue their normal routines.

" DAMNIT I AM GOING TO BE LATE!!!!"

A loud yell could be heard around the town as everybody turn their attention to see Yuji Mikato in his school uniform, which is a typical high school uniform but with a brown blazer with a school logo on it, running at full speed with a slice of bread in his mouth as he is now almost late for school that some of the locals said a good morning greeting to him.

" YO, YUJI. BE CAREFUL ON YOUR WAY TO SCHOOL."

" YUJI-KUN, MAKE SURE YOU HAD YOUR LUNCH."

" GOOD MORNING, YUJI ONI-CHAN."

As the other locals continue to say their good morning to Yuji. He then responded.

" THANKS, EVERYONE. AND WISH ME LUCK FOR MY FINAL EX-"

* CLASH*

As Yuji was about to finish his sentence. He clashed against a random wall as he didn't see where he was walking and seeing him being clashed against the wall had given the locals a burst of loud laughter that even the dog and cat laughed at him.

Yuji then stood up and dust himself as he was feeling embarrassed about the scene he had created, and just as he was dusting himself, the sound of his high school bell ranged showed the sign that class is starting and also means that he is late for school.

Time: 12: 39 (Lunchtime)

Here we could now see Yuji, eating his bento by using his right hand to hold the food and bringing it to his mouth, while he uses his left hand to hold an ice pack to ease down the pain on the top of his head because that was his punishment for being late.

And just as he was eating and enjoying each taste of the food in his bento that he brought from a convenience store. He felt two pairs of hands covering his eyes, leaving him confused until he heard a whisper of a girl's voice so close to his right ear.

" Mikato-kun~"

" Eh?"

" Guess who is it? ~"

Confused, Yuji places his hand on the unknown person's hand as he tries to think who it was. And when the moment he touches the person's hands, he at once yells out the person's name.

" H-hamada-san! Is that you?"

" YEP."

Then the person Yuji guessed the name correctly called Hamada, removed her hands from Yuji's eyes to let him look at her.

And there, before Yuji's eyes, stood a pretty and cute girl with blonde ponytail hair, a dark skin colour, and blue eyes.

The girl's name is Naoki Hamada, a seventeen-year-old high school student, and she was Yuji's childhood friend since kindergarten. And her favourite thing to do was to tease Yuji a lot.

" Seriously Hamada-san, stop playing around. You should know that our end-term examination is coming soon. And don't you need to prepare for your dream university entrance exam?"

" Well..."

Hamada then did a two-finger touching as she has shown a pout face as she is trying to come up with some excuses to escape from Yuji's questioning.

But by the safe of luck as Yuji was being tackled down by two boys on the floor.

" YO, YUJI. HAPPY BIRTHDAY."

A party popper popped loudly as a flown of some colourful confetti flew out in the air as what  Yuji see right in front of him, are both of his friends and club member from the photography club that he had joined all together giving him a happy birthday that everybody sings the song together as two of Yuji female Kohai (Junior in Japanese ) approach him with one slice of strawberry cake that has one candle lighted up.

Seeing that everybody saying happy birthday to him caused him to blush a little in embarrassment as many of his classmates sing along.

And when the song ended. Yuji closed his eyes as he starts to make a wish.

And seeing the people he had been close with them celebrating his birthday. Has made his heart feel warm and joyful as he sees them as family.

' I wish everything will always be like this until our time ends. And I hope that we will always be together no matter what might even affect us, but I believe we can survive together.'

Yuji then blew out the candle and everyone cheered.

Time: 3:15 pm (School ends)

The school has ended.

Students from the Fukushima elite academy came out of their academy gates with either exhaustion from the stress of studying or a sigh of relief to go back home.

But for Yuji. He is showing a sight of excitement as he and his friends and senpai (senior) are going to celebrate his birthday by going to karaoke to celebrate it.

But unknown to Yuji, something is going to happen that will forever change his life.

< Somewhere inside the Fukushima nuclear power plant >

Inside the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

A janitor was mopping the floor as he whistles out some tune he remembered from some old song.

But then, a loud sound of many objects falling onto the floor gained his attention.

The janitor looks to his right to face a dark hallway with only one light on.

" Erm, hello? Anyone there?"

Silence only responded to him as he continues looking at the dark hallway.

But suddenly, he felt somebody's presence behind him that he turned around to look behind but only to see a man in a lab coat with an identity card clipped in his right pocket.

" Goddamn it, you nearly scared the heck out of me." The Janitor lightly scolded the man before continuing his work.

But he did not know that the man's body language in the lab coat was rather suspicious and strange as he was walking slowly the sound of his shoes dragging on the floor echoed around the area and got the janitor's attention.

" What? Ya needs something?" Asked the janitor, he turned behind him with an irritated look, but only to have his reaction change as his face became as pale as a ghost.

Because right now, his eyes met the face of the man with lab coat skin colour, was in a colour of what a dead person would look like. And the only last thing he sees is the man's bright red eyes and his monstrous opened-wide mouth with his teeth almost as sharp as a shark.

" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The sound of the screams of the janitor, echoed around both hallways as he screamed in pain and agony until he stopped.

Now the floor has a pool of blood and blood splattered around the floor. There lay the now-dead janitor as his dead body was now left alone as the man in the lab coat wobbly walked away from the body to find its next victim as he makes a moaning, growling, groaning, grunting, and snarling sound as he walks.

But after when the man in the lab coat left. The finger of the dead janitor twitched a little, and then it start to twitch even more and not just his finger, but so his entire body as a sight of his skin started to change the colour of what a decayed body looked like until his whole skin completely changed as he looked just like the man in a lab coat as he stopped moving, until he opens his eyes wide as it shone bright red as he gave out a loud growling and grunting sound out of his dead mouth.

< Meanwhile at one of Fukushima's local karaoke, "best karaoke". >

"Best Karaoke", is one of Fukushima prefecture's popular karaoke pubs among students, adults, and families.

It is also Yuji and his friend's favourite place to hang out for holidays, or after finishing the last paper of their examination.

And it is now being used by Yuji and his friends as they celebrated his birthday together that many start to have manly competition against one another.

Meanwhile, Yuji was in another karaoke booth, conversing with Hamada as both were laughing heartily at a funny story of their childhood times.

" Ha ha ha ha... Man, that was funny." Hamada chuckles lightly as she pours herself another glass of lemon soda.

" Yeah. That was funny" Yuji takes a sip of his cherry soda as he looks at the tv screen that is playing a song with the background showing the land of grass being blown gently by the gentle breeze of the wind.

As Yuji looked at the screen while drinking his soda. He did not notice that Hamada stood up from her seat and then went to the selection song device as she choose one Chinese song called " May River Flows ".

" Are you ready?" Hamada asked as she bring the mic close as prepared to sing.

" U-um, sure." Yuji nervously replied as his thoughts said that he can't believe he is going to hear his childhood friend singing for the first time.

"All right ~. Here I go~."

Hamada closes her eyes and does some breathing exercises before facing the screen as it begins to play the music.

The music for the song began to play as the first musical instrument, the guzheng, and then the erhu, and then the Dizi.

And as each instrument began to play together.

Hamada begin to sing out each phrase of the song as each word she sang, gave out an incredibly beautiful tone.

Many people in the prefecture would say that she sings beautifully like an angel, while others say she sings beautifully like a goddess from the heavens.

But for Yuji. To him, she sings beautifully like an actual person each time she sings the words, he would feel his heart pumping.

And that was the reason he fell in love with her, ever since they were kids.

< Meanwhile, outside of the Karaoke. >

Outside of the best karaoke, there was chaos everywhere in the prefecture.

The fire was spread everywhere on the road and the houses. The sound of car alarms being blared out and countless screams can be heard everywhere in the prefecture's north, south, east, and west.

" AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! HELP ME!"

" WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! MAMA! PAPA!"

" AAAAAAAAARGH!!!!"

Countless screams from both men, women, and children calling for help or calling for their now-dead loved ones. And screaming in pain.

" N-no. T-this is not real. THIS IS NOT REAL."

A man in his late forties. Has his back against the walls of his house with his right-hand gripping his injured left shoulder as his face was covered in nothing but fear and anxiety as approached in front of him. Was a woman crawling towards him as each time she raises her arms, they start to shake a little as it also left scratch marks on the wooden floor.

" D-dear? A-are y-you, a-alright?"

The man asked the woman, who seemed to be his wife, but the woman did not answer. Instead, she glared up at the man with bright red eyes as a stream of blood flowed out of her eyes as she bared her shark-like teeth as she then lunged toward her husband as she opens her mouth very monstrously wide as aimed for his injured left shoulder.

" AAAARRRGGGGHHHHHHH!"

The poor husband screamed in pain and agony as he looked at his now monstrous wife as she chew his torn-off left arm, and he looked at her with tears in his eyes before noticing the skin colour of both his feet and arm beginning to change into a decayed one that the only thing that he could think of, was to be with his wife as his entire face has now been changed into a decayed person. And after the changes in the skin, the man's eyes immediately open as it showing his bright red eyes as well as his now transformed shark-like teeth he starts to growl and groan as his dead body stood on its own as it’s starting to walk out of the man's house and the body sees a male middle schooler trying to search for a place to hide, but to only notice the body and then start to run off as the body began to run after him and as the body lunge itself at the boy as it opens its mouth the same way as to how the man wife did as it starts to devour the poor boy body as it also forces the boy body to be transformed like him.