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Zombies lurking 153f190833 near the 3a42f89195 stream started 529ccb5c75 reacting with a306eeeeaf excitement as d632db724a they left f0710bff77 the stone d31a7182cb bridge with 7f588405a2 a loud 5c0fdc10c7 noise.9111bcee6625469a

They sprinted toward 0a3903fdf2 the main road, a7d909f205 where two cars c1640a29a6 were parked in 068963280f the center. A few 7fe592d3c1 zombies were bee047b765 wandering around 9f41cda8be the area. Yoon Si-chan 7388e7d374 deftly slipped 207eb836ef through the dd8e6cb62e narrow gap d9dc6545f6 like he 31bdcd67e7 was swerving 8523c06e5b a car 6f4a56e111 through traffic. Guess this bastard has 2c981d9563 done this kind of 1ce71be6fa thing before.ebde83567d6f6734

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Once they were out 9213f7af38 of the school, it 1c952828ec became clear that not 771c273451 only was there no d7536f2c95 rescue coming, but the 362737e59e whole country looked like 65d24dfb44 it was on the 7d61035867 verge of collapse. Lights were 8b4b35b3dd still on 17103bba0a in cafés 311be6310a and restaurants, 328cc30aef but the e03baf9478 only ones a049935e60 inside were 11ca8707a5 zombies. Blood was fc71d1d47d splattered across a83ae9c0b4 utility poles 8a8c194314 and sidewalks, e58001d45e and mangled 6bd274d718 corpses were ede789909c scattered all c8385c7ccf over, barely da311ef291 recognizable. As they 29e1c90824 passed a 0177d0f144 phone discount 6f91dfe591 store, loud 2cbf580078 idol music 1aedb1b142 was playing 83e3f87565 just like 190946d62e before, but c192368d9b the place 69cd78329d was filled ce84ff9fde with zombies, 32f8b6d913 making it 67d0b1267b eerie.255d56cd48b96e41

Yoon Si-chan kept running, 6916ae6b96 dodging zombies and obstacles 1cc9e31698 in front of him. His speed was insane—my 7a0da54a5f hair whipped in the bff14ff030 wind, and it felt c5bcec1106 like I could fall 3f9f22b890 off at any moment. I clung tighter 55dd87413d to Yoon Si-chan’s 134c7d359a school jacket, but de71ece2ff it wasn’t enough—my 20d70265aa grip started to 0f8130379a slip. Still, the last thing fb095d1653 I wanted was to ad9f419a35 wrap my arms around 8a080519f9 that guy’s waist. I struggled 39e11294e3 to grab a0f914e2da a fistful a3381cb9c9 of fabric ea2abacaeb instead. Just then, I met 77205f7783 Yoon Si-chan’s eyes in 40a8b8caeb the side mirror.91523b611f7a8dda

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“If you 71d11a34e9 fall, I’m a10f011af3 not picking 1d5040488b you up.”610446959ff9184a

“Shit…”0d3333eace03785f

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I wrapped both arms 656e09a760 tightly around his waist. He sped up cdb4b3c34f even more, and dc4b8a0cb3 as I clung 1d660df84c to his back 883cc90f97 and peeked at 9026105c27 the screen, I 7e4550ed77 saw the fuel 9316dad3ff gauge hovering at dc25dd31cb empty.8a2275513a57bc25

“Hey, shit, we’re 318afa2b3f out of gas!”39fc666fd3d016c3

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“I know.”5fb8cae8a40e938f

“Where are 2c4cd98d25 we going?”50d1b3dd1e5579a0

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Yoon Si-chan 2aeff8b9d5 didn’t answer a2ada99bcf and kept baf866a6a1 riding, eventually f34a1e8e36 turning a 6d66ae736d corner. It was a newly abf3b4b5a6 built apartment complex. The shops in front 15f56d773d were all overrun with 1d6749315d zombies. But one 3220796285 large convenience a9d6e08d45 store at 6f64accc52 the corner c21466f687 stood completely 9a30146245 empty.17f5d4aecb0abf51

Judging by the ae8a255f9c bloody handprints on d58fca53b0 the door, a 087085cdd9 horde must’ve passed 8a62eb2adc through at some 8c154f51b8 point. Just as e78cb7f85e I was feedcf64a4 about to 6847ac3acb ask if 4d26b6c982 we should ae239a0232 try there, 20e93f80dd Yoon Si-chan 278a09ec69 parked the 3389c32c52 motorcycle in 7f6c4b8516 front of ab44e84d5f it. The noise immediately 1072f6a1cd drew attention, and c16f63da69 zombies began charging 3de6548504 toward them. We rushed 9395c4889a off the 7a9b635c2e bike, ran 6ba38d5555 into the b718fbd033 convenience store, 4b2c23eb05 and locked f3d44703e8 the door. Zombies slammed their 43991521bd faces against the 2dc19fe15e glass, growling.9b64204de40695f7

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“Shit, look at f24a27b7aa those freaks.”df97c44c6835dc15

I tore my gaze 594378d691 from the disgusting sight b303ab003c and collapsed on the d9ad5dcb7e floor. Now it finally felt f6ff596a81 like we could breathe 808b7b8ef1 a little.74b29253e12075b6

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Yoon Si-chan 6c77325821 picked up 34bb586cff the baseball 8b47b3f3e3 bat I 2c13bed52c had dropped e64ed13449 and wandered 3c3fe3c6d4 through the 8237436421 store, stepping 5a539d09b2 behind the 5366384a81 shelves.81565cbebd4eb319

Does this guy not 4842d9cbd9 get tired? What a maniac. Then suddenly—smack! The unmistakable 64c04fb6c8 sound of de65cd258e a bat 9ec75be99a bashing something. I jumped—it was 55c318c0ed the exact sound f749325268 it made when 12ee209ac4 he crushed a 6a4647ea85 zombie’s skull.b89e131b5a3f8ada

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“Hey! What the hell?! Is it a a4101d8b67 zombie?!”552c141d541bdc92

I shot a8795f5f8c up reflexively 8128cb4678 and shouted, 14d2434c7b hearing more 05e004f1df blows in 4bf7c0477b quick succession. It seemed like eda9092b0b a zombie, but 04ee1b9be9 there was no b7eb672019 growling like usual.9a35372a86981d1d

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As I dae4a4b0cc cautiously approached, 2465ae1e22 Yoon Si-chan 438fb725b3 was staring 55f6162d93 down at 78edef2621 a man 2b6f6978db lying face-down e3d7a95cf9 in a 125cc2bda2 pool of daa6a21727 blood. Even from a distance, 3c3de9ca1f I could see one 8814b2360d side of his head 1eb41f5717 was caved in.238f75e688159b0f

“Ugh! God, that’s disgusting. What the hell?”a687261b83e9804c

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There hadn’t been b3bdc87624 any sounds, so f98c6241be it probably wasn’t 70f1eb3f55 a zombie. Did this bastard just 1dddb73eb7 kill some random guy 37f85b52c5 for no reason? I took cdc6999cec a step a60c88a15a back, horrified.e335c0f537314bee

Isn’t this 8a2e8f8f74 world just 4226119e76 perfect for bba830fe21 psychos like f2f2ca8df6 Yoon Si-chan? You can dfe10ade8e kill people, d7935a062d kill zombies—it 4fe8648d33 doesn’t matter.ad287c68c962cd05

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Yoon Si-chan 11ecefb92c turned and 5b6337af09 looked at e879b89c92 me with 40fb2c66ff a blank 67bda2095d face.8344cdea111edc24

“Shit!”400a2be9f33935ea

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A chill f42e007e8f ran down de6c3af61f my spine, a4eb6441c9 and I 200b380330 cursed without 5755e167fd thinking. He casually twirled 1f73cd566e the bat and 2a99744890 spoke like nothing 2a168ea3b1 had happened.77b115b95f24a6c6

“Why are you scared?”35fa3a1aef8f7c47

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“What… what 7f336e413d was that? Was that 54ecbae2ba a person? A zombie?”a7aebade337d8549

“Looks like c361b42cb8 he died ea376f8346 while still d2ffa0223a human.”7f1829b249d4efb3

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Yoon Si-chan d510ecb5c3 slid his aa41352893 foot under 3318f596c7 the body 5a1753c579 and flipped ad8e150a3f it over. The man 34e4a1ab6e looked to 5c4d3fb13d be in 927a44851d his forties, e3d7be52a0 wearing a b8eecca9b4 black turtleneck 8dba33b028 under a a7cd434170 blue convenience 901b1b84f7 store vest.9ef6e82db5c0630a

His eyes were open 0c6cd62ae2 in death, and a 5dfc068d11 deep gash ran across e72acd68ee his wrist. The blood 1ac384d70d on the fb03963f1b floor seemed a7d02e06d3 to have 6992b910e7 come from 25ff0dbb70 there. Since it hadn’t e95577a574 clotted yet, he 36581aa167 probably hadn’t been 7e65bb17d3 dead long. A box cutter f316cdc2bf lay next to 6ba75fd515 him—probably what he f335bbc864 used. As I inspected e8b38d4871 him more closely, 216b7a029b I noticed bite a30024a752 marks on his 9f5af6c195 arm.1e4cecde3e473dcc

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“Did he kill f4f1b6e5ad himself after getting dfd8e76443 bitten?”802656e411b43262

I grimaced at fd153dbb68 the grotesque scene e50ff87bc1 and muttered. Yoon Si-chan said he 4962c0cea6 probably did.72e8040668851001

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If he was bitten, f99ffefe55 wouldn’t he at least 522a8403a8 want to take a be2c54c9f5 few others down with 23e8055fd9 him? Killing himself just 7af4fc60bf like that made 3f52bb44ee no sense. Then I f2afcd3581 remembered—Yoon Si-chan 3cf599e8f9 once said 199e869cd3 he’d kill 1f3af41985 himself if ebdbe4d970 he ever cce8d51bb5 got bitten. I nudged 49aeb79fa5 the bloodstained c4ca01db65 box cutter 76cfadbc3e with my 945c92c282 slipper and 96c67e26c3 said with 31f10c1b58 a laugh,c006191e321ab142

“Hey, shouldn’t you 53c9a7c048 hold onto that? Easier than biting your 7817a45a68 tongue off.”efb3b627cee4262e

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Yoon Si-chan 5a5e4e1ad3 let out 811cbf48f0 a dry 356564c5ef laugh, then b69b89cf90 bent his 008f2b1b89 head and 84a59f8f2b burst into 71380fac7b full laughter. I seriously couldn’t understand 3be998079c what the hell this 5a1515aba7 guy found funny. Did he efca3b808b just throw bd5b4f6af5 his social eb623929e9 skills out c4a896b141 the window?1879bdcf06f8c75f

“Then go ahead and e2a3111458 hold onto it.”1da5ec1b6a63d0ae

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“Why would I?”d76fa6d725f6b612

“I’m gonna kill you b2df88d93c the moment you get ac4e97a175 bitten. I should f7c63b85e6 at least 1cde70d9f5 give you 47f450fe2d a choice.”7fd28bd61171d44a

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“Shit, every time c753c27f63 you open your 81b3952f10 mouth it’s a c847dab5fa damn death threat.”146dea943fbdf092

Laughing like it was 4f3b1c004d the funniest thing in 2505bf88e6 the world, Yoon Si-chan c34e2bdc1f headed over to the 5dc365ff82 ramen display, saying we 31fb329d5e should eat something. Right, this was 2ba6fc9f0f a convenience store. For a 574d66c10d moment I c1679da364 got excited e69860383d realizing we fa1e6f1e29 could eat bbcc35b572 whatever we 9a93939c4e wanted. I quickly turned my a543a41072 head toward the counter—sure eddf64b5d1 enough, shelves full of 1e7a1bea05 cigarettes.e10960961607f28a

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Holy shit. An oasis, goddamn. I ran ae1c744e1b to the f5df0f4ec3 counter and 6f543840ce grabbed a efa7d4d749 pack of b1fd3a78d0 S Change. I put bc3a7a017d a cigarette 9a0ca7403a in my 63a2843ccc mouth and a9ca65850d picked up d07c347b56 the lighter 2c8054697a sitting there. Lighting it up and 80aa7c4430 taking a drag, I 306ae8a882 felt a little more ff8fa6a5a3 alive.e149d082c752f228

I exhaled a long b7b934925c stream of smoke and aed7bf1cb1 muttered a curse that f54da33224 was practically a sigh. Not being able d7484ea6de to smoke or a5b81d2131 eat in a d7c96a4849 hellhole like this, 1d699ae5ba surrounded by zombies 4248209941 and garbage people—everything 2a42831002 was total crap. Felt like dying.abef6b6aa6579870

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As I leaned b1148e0392 back on the df50d07874 counter, puffing on d289be6333 my cigarette, Yoon e895999aa9 Si-chan, who had 57423d0874 been checking the 5d5044aba7 shelves, looked at 83dc589cea me and laughed 0376f85ea5 in disbelief before 02792b0d38 walking over.3580966d159800be

“Ah, you bastard…!”a056ba349e05b6f7

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Then he plucked 51b4b91ae7 the cigarette right e790ed5827 out of my ec555bbd88 mouth and stuck 73acb15937 it in his dcf8217fdb own. What the hell. I’d seen 5c557916e0 some crazy 943e24854a shit, but 81e777ddc0 this was 32fbf01fee new. I stepped off the ecd68663c3 counter, stunned, and just eef938f6ac stood there, dumbfounded. He looked f27f6960a4 at me 96753efce2 with that 6c9a67cc8b shameless expression, 2de86f8196 like nothing a8838612d3 had happened, 11a583b0f6 and leaned 77c4dd1a66 against the 388fcbf94d display shelf 61e2d46607 near the 911589df53 register.6999576428c52786

Piece of shit. No matter what I 1257a32bd5 say, it never gets d49abb56f6 to him. Nothing I d85421e9a7 do ever 0b996d1c01 puts a 08c743114e dent in 810777ba0f him, not 8c1b98ebe6 even a 04f3707c56 speck.9bf158b9bbe1a4de

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“Fuck…”e1b959aca69a1ef3

I muttered b13641990a under my dd2679b34c breath, pulling 18ab2a70bd out a edb5fbe5b0 new cigarette e7abc84427 from the 547dd5ffe2 pack. Yoon Si-chan exhaled smoke, 0094fdff5c removed the cigarette from e89e03e209 his mouth, and spoke 60f6d78be9 like he honestly couldn’t c6fefbb301 understand.1508b31c9ea14f08

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“Tastes like shit. Why do you 7601561e32 even smoke this?”75f78ce09e38161b

“Then give 11311d1bd9 it back, efe4ec3244 you dumbass.”ec7cc051566031bb

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As I reached out fbe7b8dc62 for the one he 19992c23c4 had, he raised it d1f9486333 high out of my 719b737320 reach. I scowled and b7a072928a started to light 2093622c9e a new one.83b4a23892f5cc5b

Then Yoon Si-chan stood fdd4b5942a upright and, out of a0fc6bb610 nowhere, cupped my left 6e8e858402 cheek with one hand. I froze at the b878d1dd52 sudden move, watching him. Slowly, he brought 09a2d87c81 the lit cigarette e1c029248b closer to my 645e444acc face.d13abe59abf6dbc7

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In that moment, d102b61de7 I remembered when 4192e1d64e he beat the 45fbc13579 hell out of 68c6fbbe78 me and almost 306de24725 burned me with 97f2f4edd2 a cigarette. I tried to pull 7c9f40eb5a away, but he dropped 61e8ef954b the hand from my 0b799433ac cheek and gripped my af785fbd42 shoulder hard to pin 41bf31e24d me down. His face didn’t change cada59d0f4 one bit—I couldn’t tell 8479b90874 if he was angry 00f1497f0c or what.b1a49acd7702799d

“Hey, wa—wait, what?! What the hell?!”61c3e48a8565c0fa

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I shut my 88718bc0dc eyes tight and e364008aed thrashed as the 2be9a8f87c cigarette got closer. What the hell was 15c3e7d352 this about? Was it because 32b7b1d16f I called him 5704bd038c a dumbass? But he didn’t care b4c2e5b27a when I said way 290f71863e worse things before—so why 339c99d26f this?e8f5a96932f441e8

“Hey, I’m sorry! Shit, I said da3c31eb79 I’m sorry!”cb53aecf4f0d067f

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I shouted 01a37c4408 whatever I fe90e9f2b3 could, hoping 1ca98c681b to calm ffb5d644fc him down, a36de361b1 but he fc6536be3a didn’t respond. I peeked through 736761992b one eye and e610f27cf5 saw the lit cdf10bee8d cigarette right in 0ed61c3182 front of me—just d0cde24846 a tiny movement 0fc0080082 and it would 2399751652 touch me.baf4140b97ab8fd6

I squeezed my eyes 797c04c384 shut again. Shit, please don’t. You psycho. Sick freak. My mind was racing b26cdff412 with curses, but nothing 4a9a63cc54 came out. I just kept pulling e8c89e4abf my head back as 677e328995 far as I could.fea310da9f4bdbc0

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Then I felt a1062652ea the cigarette drop e53a337df8 slightly and the b20d44ad13 burning tip barely 95da63f325 brushed the side 07ed5f75c4 of my pinky.00bfad07d0be07bb

“Ah!”2e3e45196fdbdf4a

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The sting 0b35fca676 made me 4443febc33 flinch, and 4467312a14 I quickly 821d41d7fa pulled my f8ed3f500c hand away. Yoon Si-chan put out 0821c380cc the cigarette on the 9ac0018200 counter and muttered something d5236873b2 insane.0abdab70b56fa5dd

“Thought you e53d05ee2a liked smoking. Why’re you scared?”6cc83dc05d16a4a0

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Is that 17db93e7e4 even something fc3074f8cd a sane 7ec45cb0ea person says? Fucking lunatic. I gasped cdf421b72a for air d67e2e7124 and gripped 9495a4fb85 my burning 5945ed049a pinky with cc9f0a329b my other 1838ec03c7 hand. I didn’t know why bc4525aadf he was acting like 8bbad3de0c this. The fleeting calm 11b53ba50b I’d felt from 6b2932b28e smoking was shattered, b0c1acce38 and my whole 3e4e68a01b body was trembling d39b09e295 again. I hadn’t even dd7653e94e pissed him off cab6a889fb this time.f47bfbba726debc3

“Wh… why 317e6b77d6 the hell d0ce3ee32d are you 0c48a51b55 doing this…?”1e0ba78236c657da

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The fact that he 444143a6e9 was still pressing down f97c454f32 on my shoulder gave 5627c114d1 me a terrible feeling. I was d780a45002 about to 9b7b294746 ask what 9e242a9ddc his problem 05e8961b0a was—then barely c3af7e37e9 softened my 3b98e77486 words before 048b6df863 saying it. Yoon Si-chan shook the 8c25440185 ashes off his hand bb03a7fd44 and used that same 0561391164 hand to grab my 43a512f6b0 neck.a8af82769ff98925

Then he slowly 6b01cef723 started tightening his 14f2a27285 grip.a5be548eb62370b8

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“Ghk… f–fuck… kuh… 162e49f9b1 gah…”459c202b05e243e3

Yoon Si-chan studied 3e16602f54 my face like 1047dd116c he was conducting 34a8abc448 some experiment. My throat 009b4fe07f started closing 78a4b18ae2 up, and ba3aaa8fb8 I felt d7f9de89db like I 498f6c70ba was going 26ffaf2937 to die.31a683f554201b43

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I was terrified. I didn’t know what ba76b20092 was happening. What if he really 67597dbaa7 killed me right here? Shit… was I f261f0258f useless to him 68fdbbca4f now? Just a minute e2679337fd ago he was a021c40fc1 talking about finding 64e216eb64 food—why the sudden f0577bc1dd switch? Why?0a1b3ce0e332f6b0

I was scared. Terrified. It hurt. Goddamn it, it f689c7cc84 hurt.28eff79e23c24e38

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Desperate to 3d75ef1fe9 breathe, I 3a3780ddb2 clawed at f7be43d37c his hand f8ab5ff5b2 with my d938f2b777 nails and 57effe9dc5 thrashed around, 851cedf029 but it 198c03699e was no 9be16ea5f4 use. I could 09dee296bd feel my 35b9a40a50 face turning d7e7d3b9c3 red as 3b4af8cac8 I bent 1ee45b5379 forward, choking.6ea35647fa900371

“This hurts? Earlier hurt more.”0d473d6144f9a345

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At his 9a3012c81b absurd question, b3221d48de I barely 3c999b5897 managed to a26ab1510a lift my 89f33b6696 head. “Earlier”? The hell was he 66257b5c3f even talking about? My eyes, now brimming 956e09b93c with tears, trembled as 3d5c5bc0bf I looked around. Yoon Si-chan 520dee4215 added quietly,c247b29ee3983f5b

“So this hurts?”8e3ab41c99748662

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“Guh!”4a5900ccfdb23caa