[READER'S VIEWPOINT – Extra in Highschool of the Dead]
Name: Nach Smith
Progress: Act.5 (Page 3/34)
"Tokonosu Tower, this is JX089. We are ready for take-off."
A large commercial plane carrying more than 400 passengers was about to take off at Tokonosu offshore airport.
As the co-pilot entered the cockpit, he informed the captain about the inspection of the passengers: none of them were infected, injured, or sick.
Although the captain heard the co-pilot's report, his mind was on something else—or to be exact, mourning his loss.
"...They're already dead," said the captain, and the co-pilot immediately understood what he meant. After all, he himself was grieving.
"Nobody picked up when I called."
"JX089, this is Tokonosu Tower. Stand by on runway 34; we have a... problem."
The problem was the multiple undead lurking on the runway, which might cause the plane to slide during take-off as it ran over them. But it wasn't like the airport didn't have a way to deal with the undead.
—Bang!—
Multiple shots were fired by the sniper on top of the airport's main building, each one accurately landing a headshot and eliminating all the undead.
As the maintenance crew rushed to clear the corpses off the runway, the sniper and her partner spotter finally had time to take a breath.
"Phew..." The sniper sighed as she stood up, stretched her body by spreading her arms wide, then proceeded to massage her ample soft breasts under her bulletproof vest through her jacket.
"...What are you doing?" said the spotter, enjoying the view he was intently watching.
"I wasn't able to get any sleep this morning, so I was starting to feel numb."
To make herself more comfortable, the sniper took off her vest and unzipped her jacket, exposing that she was wearing only a sports bra under her uniform—giving an erotic sight for the spotter to enjoy.
"I can give you a massage if you like."
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I'm definitely gonna give you a massage...
"Sensei..."
Rei's anxious voice brought Nach's thoughts back from watching the scene of Rika Minami—Shizuka's friend—and her partner Tajima, through the holographic screen of Reader's Viewpoint flashing in the corner of his vision.
His attention shifted back to the reason they had stopped the van in the first place—or rather, why they were hiding, which gave him a bit of time to check the key event currently happening in the story.
As for the reason they were hiding at the corner of the street behind a building, it was because of all the rage and chaos happening in the middle of the road toward Tokonosu Bridge.
Flames were rising from inside the buildings on both sides of the street, not to mention the burning cars and motorcycles blocking the road. Adding to that, more than a dozen men were rampaging in the middle of the street, beating up the undead with madness all over their faces.
Their craze screams could be heard far across the street, which at least warned Nach and Rei of the chaos ahead. And it only took a single look for them to know that those madmen wouldn't let them pass peacefully.
Regardless of the danger, they didn't have a choice if they wanted to reach Onbetsu Bridge without taking a detour—and there was also the possibility that the other routes were blocked too, either by rampaging survivors or swarming undead.
"Hide in the back seat for now, Rei."
Rei understood what Nach meant: her presence would only make the men more aggressive if they saw her, for reasons she already knew and had experienced.
As soon as Rei moved from the passenger seat to the back, beside the camping bag with her makeshift spear and revolver ready in both hands, Nach stepped on the accelerator, sharply turned, and drove toward the chaos ahead.
Like they expected, the instant the madmen saw the van approaching, they all gathered and blocked the road.
One of the two men who had firearms—a hunting shotgun—aimed at Nach—Bang!—but it was Nach who fired first with his revolver, putting a hole through the front window of the van and hitting the man in the chest, making him fall bleeding to the ground.
As they drove past the group of madmen, Nach hit the brakes and pulled the handbrake while turning the wheel, making the van drift 180 degrees before stopping in front of the barricade of burning cars and motorcycles—now facing all the madmen still charging at them.
—Bang!—
Nach fired another shot while still sitting in the driver's seat—this time shooting the last man holding a rifle and putting a hole through his stomach.
He then stepped out of the van, holding his axe in his right hand, and in his left, brandishing his now-empty revolver—bluffing that he could still shoot the madmen who had stopped their charge but were still glaring at him murderously.
"That gun is empty, isn't it?" said a topless bald man who looked like a yakuza with tattoos all over his body. He flashed a confident grin as he continued to charge at Nach, brandishing his katana.
"It's still a ranged weapon, idiot," Nach said as he threw the revolver straight into the man's face, knocking him out with a broken and bleeding nose.
Now that they had confirmed their opponent no longer had a gun, all the madmen resumed their charge, turning the fight into close-quarter combat.
A butcher reached Nach first, swinging a large cleaver to chop him like fresh meat. But Nach easily dodged, sidestepping as he spun the axe in his hand to build momentum—allowing him to cleanly chop the butcher's hand off without making a full-power swing.
"ARGH—!"
The butcher screamed in pain and agony, only to be silenced when Nach hit him in the face with the blunt side of the axe and knocked him out.
A man wielding a golf club came next, but Nach didn't drag out the fight. He confidently walked forward and swung his axe, breaking the man's face with the blunt side.
Fearing that the next one who challenged the large muscular blond foreigner would suffer the same—or probably even worse—fate than the first two, one of the madmen rushed to grab the rifle of his fallen comrade—Bang!—only to fall to the ground as a bullet hit him in the neck.
The shot came from Rei, who had stepped out of the van intending to scare the madmen with her gun, but ended up firing a shot upon seeing one of them rushing toward the rifle.
Now that's a character development, Nach thought as he looked at Rei, who kept a cold and blank expression while aiming the revolver steadily with her right hand.
Whether shooting the man in the neck was intentional or an accident, the remaining madmen all ran away for their lives.
"You can go back inside the van, Rei," Nach said, seeing Rei trembling again as soon as their enemies disappeared from sight.
As Rei returned to the van, Nach proceeded to gather their loot: a katana, a cleaver, a golf club, and the hunting shotgun and rifle, even picking up the empty revolver before shoving everything into the back of the van.
He then dragged aside two burning motorcycles to open a path wide enough for the van to pass through, drove backward, and performed another 180-degree reverse turn before driving away—leaving the injured madmen to either die on their own or be devoured by the approaching undead.