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Tetsu charged at Minoru and he retaliated and charged back, although Hayashi was weaker than him, he was still holding up pretty well, but his head was bleeding and he was feeling dizzy.

"Damn.."

"What's wrong!?"

Minoru pushed Hayashi back. "Where's all that backbone you were showing earlier when you were beating my subordinates? Hahaha!" Minoru laughed as his bloodshot eyes peered into Hayashi's.

"Huah!!"

Hayashi yelled as he pushed Minoru back and started an onslaught of punches, although light, they were faster than Minoru had time to block, each hit landed on his face, and a sudden punch from Hayashi's left launched him to the other side of the room.

"Hayashi-San!"

Fueki exclaimed while holding her own against three of Suzuki's thugs who were having trouble due to her kendo techniques, taking another strike at one of them as two avoided the swing, a loud slap is heard as Feuki's sword was caught with one hand.

"S-Shit..." Fueki cursed as she kept her stance while trying to pull her sword back but the person who grabbed her sword wouldn't budge.

"L-let go!" Fueki strained

"Y'know, you've kinda been a thorn in our side and if you're a thorn in our side, your a thorn in Suzuki's side" They started to chuckle as they threw her to the ground and then tossed her sword as it slid on to the ground.

{I don't have time for this...I need to get to Suzuki..}

Hayashi thought as he saw the wooden blade slide on the ground.

{Perfect! Sorry Fueki, I'm going to borrow this!}

Hayashi ran for the blade and bashed the heads of Fueki's aggressors before throwing the blade at her again all while outmaneuvering Minoru.

"You never gave off the vibe that you were a team player..." He panted while talking to Hayashi.

"The moment I noticed I wasn't fighting alone, I realized something." Hayashi smiled.

"And what would that be? The power of Friendship?" Minoru mocked him.

"Heh..not even close to something as cringy as that...It's That we don't always have to fight...so conventionally!"

Hayashi talked through his heavy breathing and then starts running as fast as possible toward Minoru as he decides to block this attack.

"Ha! Idiot!" Hayashi passed by Minoru and towards the surprised Suzuki.

"W-what are you doing!? Stop him!" Suzuki yelled towards Minoru who was still surprised that Hayashi just passed by him.

"Get back here!"

Minoru gave chase his arm was extended while trying to catch Hayashi but it was too late. Hayashi already had Suzuki in a headlock along with the sharp end of his slingshot, the girl next to him looked mortified, and Hayashi was calm and tired.

"EVERYONE! STOP RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE!" Hayashi shouts startling everyone. He then smiled to himself and started to put on an act.

{"I was never a theater kid, so here goes nothing."}

"Alright everyone, out the lunch room...If you don't, I pierce his neck with it."

He jerked Suzuki's neck as the followers of the student council president were all stationed outside the door as they grabbed the perpetrators and made Takao keep them down on their knees as their hands were tied together with the limited cloth they had.

"You're all scumbags for pulling this kind of stunt...at least have some humanity..you damn animals." The Student Council president ridiculed them as they were each taken away.

"It's all finally over..." Hayashi was glad now that he was exhausted and fainted. He was out of energy and was only hanging in there with the adrenaline pumping through his body as he passed out the last thing he hears is the system notifications and a few voices calling out to him.

-A FEW HOURS LATER-

Hayashi wakes up as he has Saito, Sato, Fueki, and the entire Archery Team sleeping on him as he woke up in the middle of the night, and there was only one person awake aside from himself

"Ugg...What Happened...?"

"Oh your awake, welcome back to the land of the living." The awake archer member waved to him.

"Good to be back" He sarcastically replied.

"You were out like a light, so don't move for a bit." He made small talk with Hayashi

"Got it, have you seen my slingshot and ammo?" Hayashi looked at him as the archer boy finally turned around to reveal his face.

"Been meaning to talk to you about that. Who are you?" The boy interrogated Hayashi

"What does that mean?" Hayashi feigned ignorance of the question

"I'm sorry but I can't simply believe you could take out actual zombies with just a slingshot, a kid's toy."

"And yet I did, is there a problem with that?"

"Yeah, a major one at that, who's going to take a kid, shooting a slingshot seriously" He threw the bag at Hayashi as it had his slingshot as well as his ammo in it among other things.

"Thanks for the tip. I'll keep it in mind" Hayashi did his signature stare as he dared the kid to attack him

"Hm,"

He nodded and left. The words began to resound in his mind then his mind zipped to the images of the fight he had to go through to reclaim the lunch room. He became annoyed to say it but the archery club member was right, he started to look around and noticed that the others weren't gonna wake up as he called on the system.

"System!"

"Ping!" The system window appeared as it displayed his stats, his weapons, armor, ammo, and a level-up screen as Hayashi read it to himself.

"Congratulations...You leveled up...LVL 0>LVL 3...I guess that means I got stronger?"

Hayashi looked at his skills seeing as he got a new one or some of his other skills had also leveled up, going as followed:

[Hunter's Physique]LVL 1>LVL 2

[Eye of the Hunter] LVL 0>LVL 2

[Harvest]LVL 0>LVL 3

[Strong Shot]LVL 0>LVL 4

[Munitions Crafting]LVL 0>LVL 2

[Create Arms]LVL 0>LVL 1

"Not bad...now all my skills got a major upgrade..." Hayashi smiled while looking at the window reading all the bonuses all his skills got, stumbling on three of them that added a new function

"Oh?"

He smiled as he read the new functions. "The [Harvest] Skill will now dismantle anything defeated by the [Hunter], The Inventory Space now has 50 slots instead of 40, The [Munitions Crafting] skill will now add attributes on to anything created with the skill [Munitions Crafting]."

At this moment Hayashi looked at his proficiencies as he saw Ranged Proficiency was level 3 and 1-Handed weapons Proficiency was level 2, noticing the upgrade he performed on his slingshot as now there was only one rubber band instead of seven tied together as he smiled calling on the system.

"System."

"PING!"

The System pops up again, but there was no window asking if he wanted to upgrade a part of his slingshot as last time.

"As I expected...I need materials..so show me the materials?"

Hayashi was still unsure as the system did as he commanded, The system divided the Slingshot into three parts: The band, The frame, and the butt of the slingshot two parts needing a thin metal plate or cloth and rubber to be upgraded. While trying to get up he managed to wake up Okazaki

"Huh..? Your awake?"

She was about to wake the others up before Tetsu stopped her as he put his finger over her lips.

"Shhh...Don't wake them..." Tetsu removes his finger.

"What happened, and how long was I out?"

"Don't you remember? You and Fueki fought Suzuki- and you were out for a day.."

"I remember that but what happened while I was out?"

"Well...Suzuki and his band were all rounded up and tied...and put into the principal's office, you collapsed for a whole day and everyone tried to search your bag for food...however, two people ripped your bag away from them and gave it to Sato before he ran off here to drop it here, he cried for a few moments...are you two close?"

"Sigh, then I need to get up and leave this place.."

"What do you mean? Are you not going to stay here?"

Hayashi nods "Exactly, I'm leaving this place. It seems we aren't welcome here anyway. I also need to gather resources and I can't do that without leaving this place."

"I-" She thought about everything he's been through, as she grits her teeth while holding back her tears. "I respect your decision and I won't stop you."

"Thank you," Hayashi said as he looked at the others as the sun was starting to rise. "Looks like it's time to start the day" Hayashi smiled at Fueki as he woke everyone by trying to get out of bed, the group started to wake up and groaned, each of them looking into Hayashi's eyes and then tackling him making a ruckus in the morning.

"Hayashi-San!" The group loudly exclaimed while hugging him, the weight was too much and he was forced to lie down again.

"ACK! Hahahahaha! Don't crush an injured person!" Hayashi laughed.

"Oh yeah, sorry about that!" Baisho smiled.

"BANG!" The door slammed open.

"Who's making such a loud ruckus, it's only 4:50 in the morning!?"

Akari screamed and then looked at Hayashi before nodding a villainous grin plastered on her face.

"You may continue."

The others seemed to know what was going on however Hayashi was left in the dark.

"What is she talking about? Guys?" Hayashi became frightened as the group grinned and tackled him once again while Akari was looking through the window.

"How wholesome hahaha"

She laughed as she could hear the screams of a struggling Hayashi while the group he saved was flattening him until the sunlight hit Hayashi's hair making it shine in all their eyes as they laughed together.

-A FEW MINUTES LATER-

They all walked out of the room as Akari acted as the leader of the students, keeping them together.

"Alright, As you know, our defenses are still weak but they will suffice! Now we have another issue! We do not lack food, we have plenty in the Lunchroom's freezer! What we lack is proper hygiene we lack electricity! So we will need to fire up the generator!"

The vice president projected her voice as all the students look up at her as Hayashi stepped up to the front.

"I volunteer to" Hayashi spoke before getting cut off

"Request denied!" The student council president spoke

"Why!?" Hayashi glared.

"You're still injured from reclaiming the lunch room, rather I have a better job for you! You will wait for this assignment!"

She glared back returning his hostility.

"Believe me, this is for the best.

She told him this calmly now beginning to issue commands to each of the assembled teams as there were more additional teams that scavenged for resources, The Foraging team as well as another team of specialists, better known as the Production team.

He sighed {I'm trying to leave here, nicely...}

Once all of them dispersed Hayashi and Akari were the only ones left.

"For you, I have an important mission."

"And that mission is?"

"I want you to be our rescue Team, choose who you may"

"I choose to go alone on this first mission" Hayashi smiled taking the opportunity to get out of the school taking out his slingshot and shoving a few modified marbles into his pockets.

"Hey, those must feel annoying in there right?" Akari asked.

"Yeah but the feeling's nothing new." Hayashi shrugged it off.

"I knew you'd say something like that."

the red-haired girl retorted before handing him an item.

"What's this?" He asked before he took it.

"It's an ammo pouch...I found it in the Principal's office...I think he was a part of the military"

She noted for him as he took the item.

"Safe travels to you soldier!" She said to him jokingly as a small smile seemed visible on his face as he went inwards towards the city.

TO BE CONTINUED...