Chapter 34 (2/2)

The footsteps are getting closer and closer.

Breathing becomes rough.

Her heart beating really hard.

Suddenly, footsteps stopped nearby.

In a moment of silence.

Two arms extended from the top of the counter, grabbed the head of the nurse.

「AAAAAAAAAH!」

Her scream rises up.

The woman’s arm wrapped around the nurse, without going through it, dragging up. Sounds like chewing the meat, a splash of blood splashed on the floor in front of her. The nurse flapped her legs and resisted, but in a movement that seemed to cramp out of them.

In that scene at the front, Makiura was not able to move.

As though escaping from reality, thought floats.

People are being eaten in front of her eyes.

(Ah….)

Where in the world such a nightmare like this begin with?

(Please,…… G.o.d, please,……)

In front of her eyes the nurse’s foot was severely cramped only once and then hung down deeply.

Blood falling from the thigh jumps to the floor.

Sounds like the drop of water.

At that moment, one strain broke.

Her heart became blank.

Her body moved without permission.

She picked up the equipment that was nearby and hit it with the power of whole body at the back of the woman who was s.n.a.t.c.hing to the nurse on the counter. The woman’s head collapsed with a disgusting feeling of collapse of the skull. She bounced back with her body, and stopped moving.

The female body which didn’t move any more is slipping down slowly outside the counter.

「Haa… haa…」

While holding a rough breath, let down the trembling arm.

The muscle stiffened up was screaming.

The eyes of the nurse left at the counter are looking up at the ceiling in emptiness. The neck was bitten and the bones were visible. Overflowing blood flowing down, making a pool of blood on the floor.

Thoughts will not return.

There is only an aggressive survival instinct.

She still feel something’s moving.

Migrating around the counter with fluffy footsteps, Makiura found it.

An object that is small and stuffy beside the dead body of a fallen woman.

It was connected to the end of the string of meat, extending from the hem of the hospital arrival.

Her brain becomes heated.

There is no reason or reason.

It is said that this is coming out of such things.

Just that existence is unforgivable.

Under the swinging arm, soft objects collapsed and crushed,

Something broke in her mind as a result of that feeling.

After jumping up from the back of the chair, she did not know where she was, Makiura was stunned for a while.

Cluttered goods are lined up in a small room that was originally used as an office.

It is a room of the city hall.

Because it was close to the hot water supply room, Makiura renovated it here as a medical office.

Breathe slowly and leave her back in the chair.

Nauseousness and headache are terrible, but they are usual. It will subside.

In the room where the heating went out, the limbs were cold.

When she saw the clock, it was seven in the morning. She has not had enough to be mindful. She leave the reading testament open. But the sleepiness has already blown off.

The body is heavy due to fatigue, the brain is dull due to lack of sleep.

However, in the back of the cranium, tension that could not be unraveled from that day continued all the time. She can not even remember when was the last time she slept peacefully.

Slowly thought leads her.

That mother was a zombie.

When not killing, one was killed.

But.

That baby…..

Was he still alive or dead…?

Suddenly the door was knocked.

「Sensei, are you awake?」

「Yes. Come in.」

It was a woman who was a members.h.i.+p group who came in.

「Good morning. Sorry for disturbing」

「Nah, What happened?」

「There is a person who says that the amount of food to be delivered is small… I will not be convinced by any means.」 「Tanagi-san try to convincing, but he does not withdraw.」

「I’ll go immediately.」

When Makiura stood up, the woman showed a relieved look.

「Maybe because of the helicopter is behind schedule, make them irritated.」

「Well….」

Two days have already pa.s.sed since the scheduled date of rescue by the SDF.

The communication team in charge of communication said that the helicopter’s failure and the request for rescue from the nearby place continue, and it seems that the transportation is not convenient. If she can afford, she will be able to make it head soon ….

(It looks rough today…)

Makiura was feeling depressed and continued after the woman.

The meeting of each leader is held every morning in the city hall at 8:00 am.

On that occasion, Vice Chairman Makiura sat in the upper seat. Next is a secretary.

It is Chairman and Mizuhas.h.i.+, a former high school teacher, who will progress. In a look like a gentleman in her 50’s, the relaxed way of speaking helped to relieve the atmosphere, but today it has not been as effective as it is today.

The leader of the goods team says with a bitter voice.

「There is a water tank in a park, so water is still okay. The problem is food. Originally it was stockpile for disaster, although I could not afford it, consumption is increasing」

In that word, depressed air flows.

「People increased quite a lot…」

「There were about two quarrels just yesterday. There are more small troubles. People who newly evacuated are not very cooperative.」

Some people nod to the word of the guard leader.

「There are voices saying that acceptance of new evacuees was premature」

It is said that voice, but it is the opinion of the speaker himself.

「Well, that’s…」

Mizuhas.h.i.+, the president, answers as if he had any trouble. Its att.i.tude that seems to be bothering to deal with it is probably due to this position.

Makiura had listened to those words silently while dropping his eyes on the table.

When it was decided that the rescue of the SDF will come, it is Makura who said to call the whole city. At that time, it was unanimously adopted.

Danger such as infected people and incentives of zombies was considered, but no one thought that rescue would be delayed.

Makiura thinks absentmindedly.

A flow of the refuge escaping to a city office is cut off already. It is approximately 40 people altogether. It wouldn’t increase any more.

Among them, there is no image of her father.

Together, Makiura admitted that.

She cannot look at that back anymore.

Makiura has taken a breath.

「When the rescue was done as scheduled, they became leaving behind. The schedule went crazy, but the rescue was not canceled. People who can help should help.」

In the words, the speaker a short while ago felt sorry for disappointment.

A young woman of a bob-cut begins to talk nervously.

「Hey… Because the SDF’s person also said that he will come soon if he can secure a helicopter.」

s.h.i.+ratani, the leader of the communication team, was originally a human being who worked at the welfare section of this city office. Although it is a newcomer of the first year entering, there is a place which can not be relied on, but it is a power in guidance and arrangement etc. in the city hall.

Makiura nodded and continued words.

「How much is the remainder food?」

「If we saving a lot, maybe about a week…」

「Should we go find supply again…?」

Starting with the word of a man, her remarks jumped one after another.

「What do you do when you get into something like before. Six people were also sacrificed」

「Anyway, if food runs out, I will starve to death.」

「A rescue will come in one week? It is dangerous.」

There were some convenience stores in some blocks of this city hall, and when the zombies began to disappear from the street, they were raising foods while looking at little by little.

However, the convenience store also became empty, crossed the bridge and headed further away, but n.o.body returned at that time.

Although the men’s debate continued for a while, no conclusion is made and they gradually calm down.

Everyone turned their eyes on her.

To their silent request, Makiura opens her mouth.

「Let’s wait for the rescue until the last minute.」

Men nod at the word.

It was almost a crane’s voice.

It was Makiura who ordered the barricades to the zombies that summarizes the people who ran away to the city hall and pushes them outside and made the division of roles for each group. The city hall has a shelter management manual in the event of a disaster, which was helpful.

The expert doctor puts on a mask.

As reliable, unwavering existence.

The appearance of white coat gives authority there.

It was her father’s mask that Makiura was suffering, frightening crowds.

The interior is not changed at all from other people who are frightened by the abnormal situation.

(If it is father, he would do it this way……)

That thought moved Makiura that was in extreme condition.

However, she also felt her own power shortage at the same time.

Her father can do better. He can make the environment become stable.

Besides, she was afraid to make a sacrifice by herself making a wrong decision.

Even being sitting on this upper seat, Makiura seems out of place.

At the conference in the morning when I worked at a university hospital, the end was also the last wall. Earlier in the occupational physician’s age, yelling at a senior doctor was a daily routine. As a doctor it is only a girl.

When preparing this steering committee, she was also promoted to the position of the president, but she declared that she would concentrate on the work of the relief team. Fortunately Mizuhas.h.i.+ came up as a character person, taking over as a miscellaneous affair.

How long will such a thing continue…

Secretly, Makiura sighed.

In the vicinity of the medical office, there is a room that gathered particularly bad people. Enter the room with heating, Makiura starts each round, one by one.

However, there are not many things you can do. Take hands and get sick and just have a conversation about today’s body condition. Even so, she found a patient very relieved.

Eventually, she went to a girl who was sleeping.

「Fujino-san, good morning」

after the voice, the girl raises her face.

With slightly blurred eyes,

「……Good morning」

Slowly answer.

Looking at the expression, Makiura gathers eyebrows with inner heart.

(She must be tired….)

She seemed much more exhausted than their first met.

(The boys are also in a stable state. Is there something she worried about? )

The boy, who was sleeping next to the girl, opened his eyelids and looked at Makiura, smiling a little.

Makiura crouched near and smiled. While watching the appearance of the foot,

「Is your stomach hurt today?」

「Un」

「How about the foot?」

「……It is still painful.」

「I see. It will be better soon.」

「Un」

Makiura stood up and told the girl.

「Does Takasaki take good care of you?」

「…..Yes.」

The girl said in small voice.

In the bluntness of the reaction, it scratches her neck with inner pressure.

(If I meet my boyfriend in this situation, it seems to be more uplifting…..)

In the back of the park, she think of a story heard from a man named Takemura. He protected the girl temporarily, but her met with my boyfriend and joined it. It should have been such a story.

The man named Takemura remains impressive.

It was in the medical office that we first met. He was looking at the sharp eyes to observe this from the injured boy and behind the girl who seems to be anxious.

He was quite self-indulgent, he was a different man somewhere in the air.

In the atmosphere, it was marked as a caution person at first.

However, she refreshed her impression by seeing the child’s burial site. He stood in front of the tomb and stood still and its appearance was quite quiet.

Although it smells dangerous, it probably will not harm people without meaninglessly. Makiura felt that way.

「Because Takemura-san also left it up to you. If there is anything I could help, please say. 」

The girl suddenly raised her head.

「Did you talk to Takemura-san?」

「Eh? Yes. We did talk to each other」

Makiura squirmed into the reaction like a fire.

A girl looked down and kept quiet again.

Soon, she began to talk.

「A-no… when you see Takemura-san, can you tell him, that I said I apologized. When it is until now and feels that I am sorry」

「I do not mind, but why don’t told him yourself?」

「I can’t do it. It’s already useless.」

The girl covered her face with one hand,

「Before I came here… Takemura-san saved my life. But, I, was confused, saying terrible things ….about my younger brother, I did not protect them ….but, I forgot that, because I was in love, that’s why I’m disgusting…. I was despised of such abandonment… It was foolish. Even though I only caused a trouble, and yet….」

The second half was a tearful tone of voice.

「Besides, that was something I had to do… I force on Takemura-san …even though Takemura-san was not supposed to do that kind of thing…」

In that word, she suppose it was about her brother’s burial,

「…It’s not your fault. You were also nursing of Takas.h.i.+. How about going on a visit him later?」

「Eh?」

The girl looks up at her curiously.

While Makiura feels puzzled,

「……Aren’t you mean a grave?…..The one of the boy that Takemura-san buried in the back park.」

The girl’s eyes are widely spread.

「Grave of…, Ma-kun」

「….Yes. Isn’t it?」

The girl is stunned and shakes her head as loosely.

「That’s not it…. What I wanted to say is that I should be the one who killed him instead, but I could not kill him.」

Makiura was frozen in the word.

Suddenly behind her, the door was opened.

With a boy with him, Atsus.h.i.+ Takasaki was coming in.

Makiura stood up quickly and said to a girl by a low voice.

「Since I will do an alternative nurse later, won’t you tell me a little in the medical office?」

The girl stared at her in a strange way.

Makiura said gently.

「I am worried about you.」

The girl was blank for a while, but nodded slowly.

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