A 14-year-old boy wakes up in a small laboratory built in the attic of his house. He has slightly spiky brown hair, he is dressed in a scientist's coat and brown shorts and a green t-shirt, he wears glasses, he was lying on the floor staring at the ceiling, he was dizzy, he was starting again barely his wits. He turns around to get up when he sees a broken vial on the ground near him.
- a broken vial? He asks himself dazedly.
He leans on the glass table that was in the laboratory and manages to get up.
"I remember now, the vial contained a sleeping pill, when it was broken the gas was released and I found myself asleep" he thinks while washing his face with water.
after regaining his senses the boy had taken his phone out of the right pocket of his blouse, the screen of the phone had been cracked, he pressed the start button.
“the screen is cracked because of the impact, I imagine the display must be dead,” he thinks in disgust.
His phone was and As he suspected, the display was broken, the entire lower part had become completely black, only the upper part was working, he was surprised to see that the date had been modified in his phone, he indicated that it was July 3, 2019.
“The date is wrong no matter I can always set it thanks to the calendar, so no need to look at it to find out the date everyone knows what day it is.” it says kurao in heading towards the attic window.
He opens the window curtains, the light had entered the laboratory, this light was different as long as the climate outside did not predict anything good. he looks at the road and finds no one; the town was completely deserted.
“It’s strange that there is no one in the streets on this New Year’s Day... I’m going to take this opportunity to wish Mom a Happy New Year,” he thinks, smiling.
He opens the attic hatch, he puts down the ladder then goes down, he notices that there was no noise in the house, surprised he goes down to the ground floor but finds no one, the door to the house was wide open, he says to himself that his mother was perhaps outside, he leaves the house it is then that he sees wrecks of burned cars and broken windows of houses.
- What exactly happened? He asks himself in a surprising era.
Turning his head to his left, he was suddenly frightened by what he had seen, that he had fallen to the ground, he took off his glasses, wiped them with his blouse and put him back but the thing was still there.
- it's impossible... There can't be 2 moons, everyone had to be outside to talk about it... But where are the people? He asks himself in a terrified voice.
He got up and went around his house but found no one. He was more and more frightened. That's when he started calling his mother, exclaiming "mom!" but no one answered, he was calling his mother. again and again but there remains no response from the latter.
"The climate is strange, there are 2 moons in the sky and finally there is no one... There are only 2 possible explanations: I missed a few and it's a prank from the new year, or it is the advent as it is mentioned in the bible" he wonders while walking.
Kurao had returned to his starting point, it was then that he saw a person, he was relieved, he slowly approached the person who was staring at the ground, his clothes were torn and stained with blood.
- Sir ? Can I help you? he asks politely
But the man did not respond, Kurao was now 1 meter away when the man emitted a strange moan that made the blood run cold as Kurao had shivers throughout his body.
- sir, are you okay? he asks, frightened, trembling from head to toe.
The man raises his head, he emits a shrill cry that Kurao had placed his hands on his ears to block them, the man's face was completely covered in blood, his teeth and eye gland were black while his pupils were white, after seeing him so close, kurao uttered a cry of fear. He had screamed like a princess in distress in fairy tales, he had peed on himself because he was so scared, the man who was his childhood was a zombie, and his cry had only one purpose: his fellow men. They were now 10 kurao had no longer waited he had taken his legs around his neck, he enters his house and closes the main door, he crosses the kitchen and closes the garden door, there was no garage at home, he feared nothing in that regard. He started looking for his mother by calling her, he had already gone to the kitchen, he searched his mother's office but she was not there, he went up the stairs while calling to her but she did not didn't answer, he went into the shower but no one was there. He goes to his mother's room but no one else, he gets up in the hallway.
"There are only two places left, my laboratory and my room... I woke up in my lab I would have noticed if she was there... Only my room remains... Mom I hope that you weren't zombified like the others" kurao said to himself while holding the wrist of his bedroom door.
His heart beating at 100 miles an hour, his frail body was trembling, he started to sweat, he was afraid to open the door. After a minute he finally opened the door.
クローバーの約束
KURO-BA NO YAKUSOKU
⟩⟩⟩⟩⟩ THE PROMISED OF CLOVER ⟨⟨⟨⟨⟨
CHAPTER 01: CLOVER WATCH, MY LUCK CHARM
For as long as I can remember I have had no one else to rely on except my mother. My father was a physicist and he never came home and when he did it was always late. I was 5 years old, at that age you need the love of your parents. I only knew that of my mother. I told myself that if I too became a physicist I would spend more time with my father, at least what I I thought at the time.
I had cut ties with others to concentrate on my studies and my research, I only wanted one thing to become the best, when I was 8 I won my first science competition. The school science competition, only my mother attended my nomination. 2 years later I won the national competition, all the Japanese presses described me as the new Einstein, yet I had not managed to be the center of their attention.
One evening when I couldn't sleep, my mother came to talk to me in my room.
- kurao my darling are you still angry? Asks his mother.
Kurao remains silent as he stares at the sky through his bedroom window.
- I know your father is never there but that doesn't mean he doesn't love us. You know it's not easy to be a physicist, and when you're a university professor, I'm sure your father wanted to attend the second national nomination. His mother said in a soft voice.
- is he the one who sent you? Kurao replies in a cold and distant voice.
- no I'm here of my own free will, your words really hurt your father, he never wanted you to hate him, everything he does is for us... Do you know what he calls you?
Mother's words softened Kurao's heart and he turned his gaze away from the sky.
- no how? he asks her in a curious voice
- My lucky charm! Replied the mother with a smile.
His 3 words were enough to make me cry, after that evening my father never came back he had lost his life in an accident, I had inherited his compass watch (it is a compass at the same time a watch having the same mechanism as a compact the external face is a compass while the inside face is a watch) in this compass my father had engraved his last wish "the promised" the promise that I had made to him, since that day the compass watch (the clover) has become my lucky charm.
Kurao had opened the door to his room, he entered the room calling "mom" he found no one, his room was tidy, he saw his clover (his compass watch) above a chest of drawers, he takes it with his right hand and puts it in the right pocket of his blouse.
"if mom is not here in my room, she must surely be in my laboratory, if she is not there that would mean that she has been zombified and is somewhere outside" he said to himself leaving his room
He stands in front of the ladder that leads to the attic and his laboratory, step by step he climbs the ladder his clover slipping little by little from his pocket, he lifts the trapdoor slightly to watch, he was looking to see feet but without success, he opens the hatch completely and enters the laboratory.
"There's no one there, mom must have left the house, she may still be alive there was surely an evacuation and mom left with them... I doubt it she would have ever abandoned me here unless 'she thought I was already gone' he thinks, trying to reassure himself.
As he reassured himself, he felt a presence, followed by a moan coming from behind him, tears had started to flow by themselves, at this moment Kurao had just understood that his mother had become a zombie and that she was behind him, he was paralyzed he couldn't get away return, the zombie advances towards him.
“Mom has become a zombie, if that happens to everyone, will I be the only survivor? I don’t want to live in a world like that, I might as well end up as a zombie like everyone else,” he thinks in tears
As the zombie opens its arms to immobilize Kurao, the clover falls from its pocket, a voice message begins.
“kurao I know that I wasn't an up to the task father, I'm afraid of having ruined everything and that you see me more as a model, you wanted to work with me and I was just waiting for that, you are so intelligent that I was afraid of shaming you because I did not succeed in revolutionizing science as I thought but I believe in you and in the promise you made to me "to become the greatest physicist and surpass Einstein" I will save you a place near my office while waiting for you to have your diplomas. »
The message had ended , Kurao's gaze was filled with fears, both joys and sadness, as he clenched his fists the zombie was thrown at him.
⟩⟩⟩⟩⟩ TO BE CONTINUED ⟨⟨⟨⟨⟨
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