Chapter 1: Hell on Earth

"I was quite surprised by the appearance of a person, a girl if i'm right, that's seemingly walking towards me.

With that person wearing a blue vest and a red tie, and also has brown braided hair. In which, I'm starting to notice some key details that make me both worry for the safety of that person, and also for my own safety.

"Are you okay?", I asked about that person from far away, making sure that I have a space to run if something bad is gonna happen.

My feelings started to mix with both anxiety and confusion about the situation that I have caught myself in.

***

Silence...Not a single response from the girl that I talked to, with this, I'm getting more and more scared and distressed when she starts to get closer. I asked her again, this time with a more stiff and tense voice. Before that, my feelings told me that I should run before anything bad happens. "Hey...Is there anything that I can help...with?".

Again, no response. What's heard is only the breeze of the evening spring wind, that's covering the pure silentness and eeriness of the road, "𝘚𝘩𝘦'𝘴...𝘉𝘢𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴. 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦", I thought to myself with a fearful expression.

But before I could even take a step and run, the girl hugged me with strong but powerless arms. With my eyes locked on that girl's face. With both frightened and disturbed face, I saw blood, flowing from her head down to her cheek and neck, and also from her mouth, in which the flow combined with those that's from the head.

With my breath getting shorter and my heart beating faster than ever in my life, my eyes shining with fright, and my body was petrified by the things that I just saw. The girl notices this all this sign, and said:

"Run....."

"𝘙𝘶𝘯...? 𝘙𝘶𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵?!", I think inside my head about this statement, "𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵, 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘮? 𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘺?".

With that kind of thoughts running in my mind like the speed of a train, my body doesn't want to move a single inch just because the fear and chaotic state that's currently happening in my mind.

𝐖𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐒𝐇

With something that sounded like an arrow passing by, my mind glance to the thought of: "𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘮 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥", I think in my mind while it is still occupied with the things that I see before, with that, I look at my hand and see.

"𝘉-𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥?!!", My face begins to sweat from the pure horror and potential danger of the situation, whilst the evening spring breeze is getting more and more wilder.

Right beside my hand, lies a soulless corpse that was alive five seconds ago, before the sounds of a presumably fired arrow. "W...What's even...this...?", I said with feelings in disarray and my mind in turmoil, trying to process the things that never even happened to me before.

After that, I drop to a sitting position, seconds before I almost fainted from a series of events that's happening to me in less than a minute, trembling and flabbergasted about the situation that I'm currently in.

With my eyes lit up, this time in fear and dread, I was about to run as fast as possible from the position that I'm in right now, and throw the corpse away, until suddenly, when I looked up.

A menacing shadow, standing over me and the corpse, with the height approximately 183 Cm(6'10 Feet), with the eyes as sharp as a lion, and with a red scarlet hair that's just covering the left side of his forehead and also wearing a red cardigan and a black trousers, staring over me with a calm yet terrifying and expressionless expression.

"Hey, Kei-kun, I have a question, have you ever seen this student before?"

Ask this mysterious individual with a calm voice to some other individual named Kei.

"Hmm, interesting that you ask that, Misao-kun", Said someone, from who knows where, which after processing the voice in my mind, I knew that it sounds like a girl with a slightly more mature voice than mine.

"No, I don't even know that I ever met this girl before".

In which she finally reveals herself to be a girl with a long golden hair, with a strain of golden hair between her eyes, and a blue eyes that's as blue as the ocean, while also put on something that looks like a black trench coat and also a black skirt, stockings and boots in the same colour.

From the looks of things, she's busy playing with an object that looks like a phone with her left hands on her waist.

"I see..." said the boy, reacting to the girl named Kei, "Oh, well, do we also kill her then?".

Hearing this, I quickly got up and tried to run but was stopped by something that sounds familiar.

A loud sound from the wind that's displaced and the large twing from the place where the noise ends, in which, in its place, there's an arrow sticking up from the ground, with the feather tip still moving from the momentum of the bow.

"May I ask, where are you going so fast, girl?"

With that so soft spoken and light voice that sounds like a boy's voice, appear as a girl or that's what I think that she's a girl, from behind the house, with a slim and thin body, seductive blue eyes, a blue long hair with no bangs and all the hair dropped to the side, a soft smile, and staring me with the eye of an eagle.

While also holding a exotic blue bow and in which she's in a stand to shoot.

"If you step anywhere else before Misao-san said you're free, the next thing that this arrow go through is your heart, you know?"

Again, saying it with a soft smile on her face.

After seeing her bow and the stance to shoot the arrow like as she describe it, my body freeze like a stone, not even moving a single muscle, scared that even a single move will cost my whole life.

And also with the train of thoughts that's wondering, if she's a girl or not.

"Sora-kun, you can lower your hostility a bit", Said Misao to the archer that apparently name Sora.

"Misao-san, are you sure about thi-"

"Drop. Your. Hostility", Retorted Misao to Sora's reply. A tense aura that feels as thick as a fog comes out from him, and it makes Sora hesitantly drop his guard, and consequently makes me sweat in fear.

"Sora-kun, I understand that you might be confused as to why we asked you to drop your guard, but you see..."said the girl named Kei, who has always stood on the back of Misao, finally speaking.

"I searched the database that we have and both I and Misao have concluded that she's a new student"

"A new student?" Ask Sora to Kei. "I thought they're coming on the 16th of April?"

"That's what both I and Misao-kun have been wondering about, I know that this girl is the one that will enter this school, but we still don't know why that she's two days early than the actual date", Explained Kei to Sora with a slight faint expression of confusion on her face.

With I laying low and hoping that they forgot about me and also purposefully hearing some maybe semi-useful information, there are three things that I know, so far:

1.The new students come on the 16th of April,which is Monday. Which means I came two days early, because today is the 14th, not the 16th.

2.This three are some dangerous individuals, especially the one with the bow named Sora. If she sees me even move an inch from my place, I'm dead.

3.This school allows killing of the students against each other. I don't understand why yet, but that's all I know for now.

"𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘦-"

"Hey Girl, that I have no idea of your name yet!"

"Y-Yeah, W-What do you need...?". I was caught off guard by Misao's call, which led to my reaction becoming a little bit unprepared and seemed rushed. And the stares that's given off by his face and his teammates somehow makes it worse.

After processing his question, I reached a conclusion.

"What's your name?"

"Do you need my name?

***

Both of us are awkwardly silent, just because we both ask the same question at the same time, just with a different wording.

At that moment, I feel even though Misao's stare seems to subside a little, the other two look like they will kill me at any moment. With that, I quickly want to salvage the mood of this intense standoff and said:

"A-Ahhh, I'm sorry, M-My first name is Izu, Kiyoko Izu, N-Nice to meet you", with that, I'm now just waiting for their reaction, either they're going to kill me or treat me nicel-

"Do you want to join our group?"

With that, my face changed from fear to confusion. What did Misao just say? Join his group?

"If you want to follow us, then I'm going to teach you how to navigate this school, how's that sound? Kiyoko-san?", proceeded Misao as he reached out his hand to me, with a faint smile on his face.

When I look at the other's faces, both of them seem shocked as I did but quickly calmed down. Now I'm starting to wonder.

What is even Misao's power is that even both of them are scared of him.

But before I can even answer that in my mind, a huge uneasy feeling came out of nowhere, like a storm approaching from my back, with the trio noticing this threat as well, they look at the source of the intense aura with a slight glance on it.

Misao pull his hand from my hand reach, stand up, and casually said:

"What a fine evening this is, right Aoki-kun?"

When I tried to look back at the presume threat that maybe I was in, my body feel shooked, my head went dizzy, and I wanted to puke by the effect of a dense and opaque aura that's hiding under the intense black eyes that was covered by the shadow of the black hoodie that I presumed my enemy is wearing.

After that, he is saying something with both Ultra and Infrasonic voice pitch that's at first, a gibberish, but after that, he said one sentence, still in both low and high pitch voice tone, that makes my anxiety and fear level during the meeting with Misao.

Nothing compares to the sentence that he says, and gives my body goosebumps and push me to the edge of tears just from fear alone in the process, which is:

"𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬"