So Zombie's are real?

After a while of replaying his confession and interaction with Aoi, he weirdly smiled to himself while pressing his room pillow onto his face. Yuto then reluctantly set his phone down on the bedside table. The screen light was still on for a few minutes before finally turning off, leaving the room TV as the only source of light.

His eyelids slowly grew heavy with each second passing. He shifted his self onto his backside, the little noises from his room TV were a lullaby that put him to sleep... And before he could even realize what was happening, his breathing and air intake slowed down a lot, drastically to be precise, and the sleepiness quietly and naturally pulled him under its grip.

"Hmmm"

"Takkkk"

"Zzzzzz"

After a few hours of deep, intense and sweet sleep, Yuto jumped up, suddenly awakened by a loud noise.

Boom. Boom. Boom...

His red and sleepy eyes were now wide open. His heart was racing, and for a few seconds, he was disoriented. He then sat upright, frozen in the dim lights of the TV screen still playing in the corner of his eyes.

Then, another sound.

Boom. Boom. Boom...

This time it wasn't distant. At all, it was right at his dorm-room door.

Yuto was still sitting on his bed, wiping the sweat that was running down the back of his neck. 

He nervously held his breathing speed for a few seconds, listening as More knocking came again, a lot louder and urgent than the last one, almost frantic.

Slowly, he got up from his bed and walked toward his dorm room entrance door; his every footstep on the wooden floor sounded way too loud in the moment...or so he thought.

Then, upon reaching his dorm room door, he leaned downwards to peer through the small bolt holes.

"…Oh." A quick relief shock ran down his spine. It was just his dorm roommate, "Kuro and Kenji."

He exhaled through his nose and began unlocking the door bolts. But as soon as he opened it up by an inch, the two of them shoved the door very hard, quickly rushing inside and nearly even knocking him off balance.

"Wha...hey!" Yuto shouted out loud in shock as he stumbled backwards, almost falling into his room's trash can, before he quickly regained his stance and balance. "Dude, what the fuck is wrong with you guys?!"

While he was talking the both of them completely ignored him and slammed the door shut behind them; each of their faces was momentarily pale, their breathing also heavy in the moment.

"Yuto...close the door! Quick!" one of them shouted, his voice was raw with panic.

Yuto blinked, still groggy. "It is closed! So chill the fuck out, and tell me what the hell is going on, man?!"

The two of them looked at each other, with nervousness written all over their faces; their eyes kept looking back to the door as if something might burst through it at any given second.

"…Zombie," Kuro bit his lips, murmuring as his voice trembled intensely, and he then pointed to the bolted door.

Yuto frowned, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. "Huh? Kuro speaks up, I can't hear you."

Kuro suddenly shouted, losing control, his voice creaking as he grabbed Yuto by the collar, shaking him twice. "I said there are fucking zombies outside, man!" His eyes were watery, wide and red; tears started running down his face. 

His whole body trembled as he could barely even stand straight.

Yuto stared at him for a few seconds, and both his eyebrows tightened together. "…Zombies?" He blinked twice, and then he let out a small laugh of mockery. "Wait...seriously? Zombies? What do you mean, zombies...are you guys drunk again?"

The other roommate, Kenji's was breathing unevenly, his chest heaving as he tried to speak up. "I saw it, Yuto. I saw it with my own two eyes! My whole Science class, my teacher… they all started biting each other, tearing into their own flesh..."

"Stop," Yuto cut in, his laugh a little louder this time. "You guys are drunk, right? Come on. Zombies? What is this, a prank? You almost gave me a heart attack."

But neither of his roommates laughed. Their faces were completely pale, their eyes were filled with a raw sense of fear Yuto hadn't seen before.

Then, from somewhere outside the hostel, came the sound.

ROAR...

SCREEEEECH... followed by panicked screams of girls echoing in the hostel hallways.

The three of them froze, and more sweat started falling from Yuto's face down to his chest.

Yuto bit down hard on his lower lip, his mind refusing to accept what his roommate, Kuro and Kenji had just told him. 

"It… it can't be. There's absolutely no way it's possible."

Before Kuro and Kenji could stop him, Yuto rushed forward and yanked the door open wide.

"Yuto, don't, wait!" Kenji shouted while Kuro stretched his arm out in desperation, trying to grab Yuto's clothes, but it only ended up brushing against the fabrics before Yuto managed to enter the hallways.

The moment he stepped outside his room, his breathing instantly got caught cut short, as he could not believe what he was seeing.

BLOOD... 

It was completely everywhere. Up, down, right, left. It was painted across the hallway walls like a Roman artwork, flowing across the hallway floors. The metallic, raw and rusty smell filled both of his nose holes, thick and suffocating... 

And then, there was movement. From the far end of the hallway, a female figure was emerging from the shadowy Pillars.

A Female student. Her clothes were torn apart, basically naked and soaked in blood, her own or others. Each of her steps was quite sluggish and lumpy, as if her legs barely remembered how to walk, more like a child.

The cloud briefly parted ways, and the moonlight hit her face as she walked into the hallway, and Yuto's eyes widened in horror. Her skin was unnaturally pale and was covered in blood and bite marks. Her mouth was stretched wide to the point of being considered a crocodile; her teeth were sharp and glistening, dripping red and boiling saliva.

"…No fucking way…" Yuto whispered with both his hands on his head.

Her head jerked up. Both their eyes met. Then instantly she screeched and roared at him.

Instantly, she launched forward, her body was unnaturally fast, her claws of broken nails were scraping against the hallway floor as she sprinted straight at him like a dog off its owner's leash.

"Shit!" Yuto shouted, throwing himself sideways just as she lunged at him in full force, her bloody mouth snapping shut where his throat had been a second ago.

He stumbled backward, his heart hammering like a nail on wood, and his legs began moving before his brain could even catch up.

"Yuto, run!" Kuro and Kenji screamed from inside his dorm room.

And he did. Of course, He did. He ran back down the hallway, blood splashing left, right and center, some under his shoes, the echoing of the zombie's roar chasing after him as he sprinted toward the hostel room door.

"Yuto, hurry!"

The voices of his roommates echoed in his ears. The roars and moaning of the zombie clawed at his back, closing in.

He could feel the air shift behind him, the rush of her inhuman speed closing the gap between them. His survival instincts screamed at him. She's right there...!

"MOVE!" Kenji shouted at the top of his lungs.

Yuto dove forward like a goalkeeper just as the door yanked open. Kuro grabbed him by the arms, dragging him inside instantly. The zombie's clawed hand swiped through the air, barely missing his leg as they slammed the door shut.

BAM!

The impact broke the door frame. The three of them pressed their weight against it as the zombie began slamming into the other side, shrieking, snarling and roaring all at the same time. The wooden doorframe was breaking under the pressure and assault.

"Hold it, hold it, hold it!" Kenji yelled, his voice cracking from his excessive shouting.

"I am holding it!" Yuto shouted back, his own voice trembling with fear.

The zombie outside screamed, a sound so raw and guttural it felt like a lion's roar. The door shuddered again, dust falling from the frame.

"She's… she's gonna break it down!" Kuro whimpered while biting his lips; his eyes widened as tears started dripping.

"Shut up!" Yuto shouted at him, his whole body trembling as he leaned into the door. His heart was pounding so hard he thought it might burst.

BAM! BAM! BAM!

The wooden doorframe splintered, a crack forming near the door handle.

Yuto's breath came out of his mouth in Heavy gasps. His mind was racing really fast. This is real. This is really happening. Zombies… monsters… they're real... How, since, when?
He was thinking about all this in the moment.

And then… silence.

The banging at the door stopped.
The three of them froze for a few minutes, listening intently, not daring to breathe out loud.

Yuto's grip on the door tightened more than usual. His Sweat rolled down his temples.

"…Did she leave?" Kuro whispered.