Chapter 5

This chatterbox with pink hair was Takagi Saya, another of Takashi's childhood friends. They'd been classmates since kindergarten, and Saya had harbored feelings for him since then.

Sadly, over all these years, Takashi only ever had eyes for Rei, completely oblivious to Saya's crush.

When Saya learned Takashi had been dumped, she wanted to cheer him up in her own way and help him move past the breakup.

But our male lead was hopelessly dense when it came to emotions and never picked up on Saya's intentions.

Hearing Saya's words, Takashi kept staring ahead with that melancholic look, his mind consumed with why Rei had dumped him. Without turning to face the girl offering her unique brand of concern, he said,

"Takagi, aren't you skipping class right now too?"

"I'm a genius with a 300 IQ, so it's fine if I miss a class or two," Saya replied, adjusting her glasses and pointing at Takashi's profile with a matter-of-fact tone. "Totally different from a certain Komuro who barely scraped by with luck on exams!"

Hearing Saya mock his academics, Takashi snapped back in an irritated tone,

"Look, Takagi, why are you always picking on me?"

Saya had come over to comfort Takashi, but this blockhead didn't see her intentions at all.

Since she arrived, he hadn't even glanced at her!

So, Saya immediately let her sharp tongue loose,

"Because I hate idiots, especially idiots who won't admit they're idiots. At least if I point out where you're dumb, it might knock some of that stupidity out of you…"

As Saya rambled on, she noticed Takashi's attention wasn't on her at all.

Feeling ignored, the girl bit her lip, muttering under her breath,

"Baka!"

Seeing Takashi still wouldn't acknowledge her, Saya lowered her head in frustration and walked off, tossing one last barb over her shoulder, "Hmph, what's there to mope about? Just got dumped by your childhood sweetheart, that's all!"

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After leaving the infuriating blockhead behind, Saya returned to the classroom.

As she sat down, she noticed Lin Feng beside her, staring out the window with a grave expression.

"It's finally here!"

Lin Feng's ear twitched. With his enhanced body, his senses were sharper than an average person's.

He could already hear the "bang bang" of someone slamming their body against the school's iron gate.

The dead body crisis was about to erupt on campus!

Bang bang bang!

At the school gate, a man in a black suit kept ramming his head into the iron bars.

The noise quickly drew the attention of the school's teachers.

"What's that guy doing? Suspicious character?"

A chubby male teacher eyed the man crashing into the gate and barked sternly, "Who are you? Stop causing trouble at our school!"

Beside him, Teacher Teshima rolled up his sleeves, brimming with confidence, and said, "No need to waste words on him. Leave this kind of guy to me!"

Teacher Teshima grabbed the suited man by the collar, shaking him smugly.

But just as he was showing off his strength,

something bizarre happened!

The man, with a vacant stare, suddenly seized Teshima's wrist, opened his mouth wide, and bit down on his forearm.

"Ahhh!"

With a chunk of flesh torn off, Teacher Teshima collapsed, rolling on the ground. Within half a minute, he went still, lying flat as if dead.

"Ahh, Teacher Teshima… d-dead!?"

The chubby teacher stammered in shock, "How… how could he die just from a bite to the arm!?"

As the teachers prepared to call for help, Teacher Teshima rose from the ground again. But something was off—his posture was eerie, his neck tilted at a 60-degree angle, and he let out guttural "urgh urgh urgh" sounds as he shuffled toward the others.

"Teacher Teshima, are you okay?" the chubby teacher asked, stepping forward with concern. "We all thought you were done for—glad you're fine…"

Before he could finish, Teacher Teshima lunged, sinking his teeth into the chubby teacher's neck.

Blood sprayed from the wound, splattering the ground.

"Ah… ah!…" The horrific scene terrified the other teachers.

As they tried to pull the biting Teshima away, the chubby teacher began making strange noises too. Then he grabbed a nearby teacher and started gnawing on them!

From the rooftop, Takashi, who'd been taking in the view, witnessed this bizarre scene and stumbled back in fear.

The teachers were… eating each other?

What the hell was going on? After Teacher Teshima was bitten by the suited man from outside, he bit the chubby teacher. Then, moments later, the chubby teacher went berserk, tearing into the others like he was possessed.

In no time, the school gate turned into a living hell, with teachers devouring students' flesh everywhere.

Once Takashi calmed down from his brief panic, he realized he was the first to spot this horror show!

And Miyamoto Rei was still in the classroom, oblivious to it all.

If he saved Rei, she'd surely… surely thank him and come back to his side!

Seeing more students and teachers join the biting frenzy below, Takashi quickened his pace, racing toward the classroom.

He had to be a hero and save Rei before those crazed teachers and students reached the room!

That way, Rei would finally understand his feelings.

With that thought, an excited Takashi shoved the classroom door open with force.

Bang!

The loud noise drew everyone's attention. For a moment, the teacher and classmates all turned to look at Komuro Takashi in the doorway.

"Komuro Takashi! You don't care about your studies and skip class—that's one thing. Now you're disrupting everyone else's lesson!"

The speaker was a middle-aged male teacher. Takashi was a habitual skipper, so the teacher had no patience for him barging in.

The classmates, too, stared at Takashi like he was some weirdo. Boys and girls alike had no fondness for the aloof loner.

Yet, under everyone's gaze, Komuro Takashi marched straight toward Rei.

"Rei, bad news—we've got to go!" He reached her desk, grabbed her arm with force, and yanked her up.

"Komuro, what are you doing!?"

Rei had been studying at her seat when Komuro Takashi roughly pulled her up. She was already fed up with this childhood friend.

"Someone got killed at the gate—come with me, quick!" Komuro Takashi said, tugging her arm toward the door.

"What are you even talking about?" Rei snapped, wrenching her arm free. She'd already cut ties with Komuro Takashi.

Sure, as a kid, she'd liked him, but growing up, once the rose-tinted glasses came off, she saw him for what he was: stiff, dull, and lost in his own world.

Her repeating a year was because of Shidou Koichi, but Takashi thought she'd done it to stay with him at school.

She'd had enough of this dense childhood friend.

Now he was interrupting her class again. Miyamoto Rei, annoyed, shoved Takashi away as he leaned in.

Pushed back by Rei, Takashi got angry too.

He hated when things slipped out of his control. Raising his voice, he shouted, "Stop talking nonsense and just do what I say!"

Why wouldn't Rei listen to him? The world outside had gone insane, and if they wasted more time, those lunatics would storm in, and they'd lose their chance to escape!

So he raised his right hand high, ready to teach the disobedient Rei a lesson.

As his wind-whistling palm swung toward Rei's cheek, Lin Feng, who'd been waiting, grabbed it mid-air.

"No matter the situation, hitting a girl is never right!" Lin Feng said, gripping his wrist tightly.

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T/N— LMAO The first thing this guy did was drug an innocent teacher by the way. Peak chinese chad protagonist T-T

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