Suddenly, Kiryu frowned, and the bus’s speed noticeably slowed down.
“What’s wrong?”
Yukino raised an eyebrow slightly, keenly sensing his abnormality.
“Someone has set up spike strips on the road ahead.
Looks like they want to block the way.” Kiryu replied in a low voice.
After upgrading Sixth Sense to Intuition, he gained short-term future sight.
Occasionally, he would receive visions of future events detrimental to himself.
At this moment, in the vision, on the highway one kilometer ahead, several cars seemed to have run out of gas and had stopped.
Some figures wearing student uniforms appeared among the traffic.
A few individuals seemed to be holding weapons.
What concerned Kiryu even more was the leader, surrounded by a group of students.
It was a man in a black suit, wearing black-rimmed glasses, with a somewhat gentle-looking face.
‘Shido Koichi?’
‘The famous villain from Highschool of the Dead?’
Ever since Busujima Saeko, the heroine of that classic apocalypse anime, appeared in the real world, unable to rest easy, Kiryu had correspondingly expanded his investigation.
Although the mixed-anime world did not feature Fujimi Academy, Shido Koichi still worked as a teacher at some school in a neighboring city.
He was still the son of a local assemblyman; that fact hadn’t changed.
Now, Shido Koichi and his group had set up spike strips on the highway to block the road.
Kiryu, with preconceptions, naturally didn’t think the other had any good intentions.
SCREECH…
The school bus slowly stopped in front of the line of cars.
Koichi’s eyes behind his glasses lit up slightly.
A well-disguised smile curled at the corner of his mouth.
He strode forward with a few of his students.
“Friend in the bus, my name is Shido Koichi.
I’m the teacher of these students and the leader of this team…
Could I ask you to come out for a chat?”
“You deliberately set up spike strips here?
It must be more than just a chat, right?” Kiryu sneered, unwilling to engage in insincere pleasantries with such a character.
He opened the door and jumped out directly.
We had no choice, you see.”
In the moment the door closed, Koichi suddenly activated his detection item, And keenly noticed that there weren’t many people inside the bus.
That meant this young man was likely the leader of this group hiding in the bus.
‘It seems my luck is pretty good.’ The spectacled young man smiled gently and continued, “This student, as you can see, our convoy broke down halfway…
If it’s convenient for you, could you give some of our people a ride?”
“It’s not convenient.”
Kiryu retorted with a smile, completely not giving the suit-wearing man any respect.
“You!”
Some students in the crowd, seeing Koichi humiliated, Turned red with anger and surrounded them with threatening expressions.
“Kid, I advise you to behave!”
“Your school bus clearly still has plenty of gas…
If you know what’s good for you, cooperate, hand over the bus, and obediently give us your ‘Newcomer Gifts’ too, so we don’t have to take them by force!”
Their words meant they couldn’t even be bothered to pretend anymore.
Relying on their numerical advantage, the other side was clearly confident.
With Koichi’s tacit approval, the group of students holding melee weapons began moving forward with ill intent, silently surrounding the bus.
If some got on, others would inevitably be left behind.
Kiryu didn’t think Koichi’s group would be kind enough to let his people stay on the bus.
“Oh, Sato-kun, your words are too harsh and domineering.”
“We are all game players, unlucky enough to be trapped in this apocalypse world.
We should help each other, not threaten other students so fiercely.”
With someone playing the bad cop, naturally someone else played the good cop.
Koichi pushed up his black-rimmed glasses, pretending to sternly rebuke the previous speaker, Then put on his “good teacher” face and said softly, “This student, my students were just anxious and spoke without thinking.
Please don’t take offense.”
“It’s almost dark.
If we stay on the highway like this, both our groups will be in trouble…”
“As long as you let us on the bus, we can protect your team…
To be honest, I happen to have an item that can detect numbers of people.
Your team should have only four people, right?”
Hearing this, the student group behind him grew even more dissatisfied, completely blocking the school bus.
‘Only four people, yet occupying such a large bus, what a waste!’
Don’t miss it.”
Koichi smiled smugly, feeling the time was about right.
Relying on his excellent brainwashing skills, he had long conned the student group on his side into becoming devoted followers, and he was the sole leader of this Shido Cult.
Koichi had the “Newcomer Gifts” that his students had actively offered up.
Although he had used many during the escape, he should still have no problem taking down this wet-behind-the-ears kid.
Now, the other side had been put in a bind by his group…
Anyone with half a brain would obediently lower their heads and choose to protect themselves, after all, it’s not worth provoking over fifty people on his side.
“…”
From beginning to end, Kiryu remained silent.
His expression was calm, his eyes like an ancient well, his hand lightly resting on Kuji Kanesada, seemingly earnestly considering the other’s proposal.
‘Hmph, it seems this brat is too stubborn!’
As time trickled by, Koichi gradually lost patience.
His face slowly turned into undisguised gloom, a cold smile curling at the corner of his mouth.
A light grey concealed wrist-crossbow silently fell from his wrist.
[Item Name: Silent Wrist-Crossbow]
[Quality: Crude]
[Effect]: A wrist-crossbow coated with venom.
Fires silently, with no wind-up time.
[Note: Hehe, this is a poison-coated arrow, ya know!]
“Fool.”
Kiryu shook his head.
The other party thought he was hiding well, but in Kiryu’s eyes, his flaws were numerous.
“Hmm, what?”
Koichi was taken aback, looking up in confusion.
‘Was this kid really scared stupid by us?’
‘Why was he talking nonsense?’
The next moment, the young man suddenly kicked the wrist-crossbow from his hand, and without any warning, drew his blade.
The movement was smooth and swift, viciously plunging it into the man’s heart.