Apocalypse: Apparently, I Can See Zombies

"Jin-woo is at fault for bringing that virus to the school and his mother is supposedly involved in spreading that virus, but when it comes down to who to blame it's the people who created the virus in the first place. There's no way they were authorized by the World Health Organization to create something that had the potential to cause a virus deadlier than the Black Plague."

After the youth said that Mai-sun's brows furrowed slightly, but she ultimately remained silent.

"Jeon-sok, you keep attacking Ye-jun and siding with Jin-woo, but if anything, you're the ungrateful one. If Ye-jun hadn't closed that door, would you still be alive?"

The youth whose name was now known to be Jeon-sok, glared at this person and said through gritted teeth.

"Ye-jun closed that door to save himself, and you're an idiot for not seeing that."

"Okay, that's enough!"

A male teacher really couldn't stand back and watch this anymore, so he stepped forward and harshly interrupted this argument.

However, a student from Class 1A asked sarcastically.

"So, after those people come to pick up Mai-sun and Jin-woo, we'll just stay silent and be stranded here?"

The male teacher upon hearing this found his words of retort stuck in his throat. He didn't know what to say to that, and even he thought the situation was a bit unfair.

"If what that boy said was true, and my mother sent people to rescue me, then I can give up my seat to someone and stay here to wait for help like everyone else."

Mai-sun suddenly spoke up at this moment, and upon hearing her words, everyone fell silent. No one wanted to say something and be accused of trying to steal this chance away from Mai-sun. After all, it wasn't her fault that she had a mother that was able to send help.

However, Jin-woo suddenly stepped forward from behind Seong and Seo-joon to speak up for the first time.

"Help is arriving, not just for a few people, but for everyone. I spoke to the Marshal and he's sending the White Tiger armed forces, they should arrive in a few days."n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Upon hearing that help was arriving, all of the students felt happy, and the teachers also released sighs of relief.

Suddenly, the students who had been on the fence about who to trust between Jin-woo and Ye-jun lean towards Jin-woo. Rather than thinking about himself, he spoke to the Marshal to send help for everyone. They were now even more grateful to Jin-woo if that was even possible.

Some of the boys were so full of emotions that they yelled in excitement.

As for the Class 1A students, they had nothing to say. They thought their relationship with Jin-woo had already soured so they instinctively sought out another figurehead to rely on and chose Ye-jun. They were in too deep to back out now.

"Wait, something is weird, why would the Marshal personally speak with Jin-woo and send help for us? We're just random high school students."

Upon hearing this sudden question, the few who heard it realized they had overlooked this fact.

"Could it be because of Jin-woo?"

"His mother was involved in the virus outbreak, so maybe the Marshal thinks he's important enough to send a special rescue team."

This discussion was immaturely broken up due to the teachers finally putting their foot down, but two people still overheard them, and they both glanced at Jin-woo suspiciously.

These two people were Mai-sun and Ye-jun.

After the teachers dismissed the crowd of students, Seo-joon hobbled up to Jin-woo and asked.

"You okay?"

Jin-woo looked up at Seo-joon and with a confused expression on his face, he asked.

"Why did you speak up for me? That's too out of character for an archetypical bully like you."

Seo-joon shrugged his shoulders and said dismissively.

"If Seong was here he would have been the one to stand in front of you. I guess I didn't want him to curse at me from where he was because I stood by while you entirely took the blame."

Hearing this, Jin-woo's lips curved into a sly smile before he said.

"Looks like you care a lot about what Seong thinks of you. But I think if he was here, he would be looking at you with a foolish smile because you're finally acting like less of an asshole."

Seong, who was looking at Seo-joon with an approving smile, stiffened then turned to glare at Jin-woo and punch his shoulder.

"Ah..."

Jin-woo flinched from the punch as it slightly hurt his shoulder. This made Seong freeze before he looked at his hand and then at Jin-woo with a confused expression.

"Jin-woo are you okay?"

Jeon-sok, who had followed Seo-joon asked when he saw Jin-woo's reaction.

Glancing at Seong to tell him he would explain the situation later, Jin-woo shook his head at Seo-joon and Jeon-sok before saying.

"I'm fine, it's just my shoulder aching a bit."

As Jin-woo touched, Seo-joon looked at him silently and then cast a brief glance at the space next to him before casually looking away.

Suddenly, Jeon-sok gritted his teeth and said.

"Jin-woo, you need to be careful of Ye-jun, something is seriously wrong with his head. It feels like he's specifically targeting you for some reason."

Jin-woo's eyes narrowed and he nodded silently, but Seo-joon suddenly added.

"It's not that simple. He is targeting you."

Jin-woo looked at him and furrowed his brows. He also saw Seong next to him stiffen slightly, but he didn't address it but kept his gaze on Seo-joon.

Seo-joon paused for a moment then explained.

"When rumors about your illness started to spread, Seong wanted to meet up at the back of the middle school. However, when I got there, I saw him knelt over Ye-jun throwing fists at him. I managed to pull him off because it seemed like he was going too far, but I'd never seen him so angry. It was slightly unnerving thinking he might have gotten like that because of that bastard.

Ever since then, I've been keeping an eye on him, and because of that, I figured out he's been relentlessly targeting Seong. Since Seong hadn't talked about it when the three of us were together, I didn't think it was anything serious. It was things like textbooks going missing from his locker, or his test papers disappearing from the teacher's desk. Anything to get his grades down."

Upon hearing this, Jin-woo's mood sank, and this time he couldn't help but glance at Seong.

Seong gave Jin-woo a look that said he would talk about it later, but Jin-woo was still upset. Slightly at Seong for not telling him, but mostly at himself for not realizing something like that was happening.

However, what Seo-joon said next almost made him lose it and charge over to Ye-jun to finish what he started.

"However, those small incidents changed when they weren't working. Remember your pills being swapped? I suspect it was him. Also, even though I talked about your illness after returning from suspension I didn't spread it across the school, Seong would have killed me. Maybe that's why he almost beat that bastard to death that day."

Jin-woo remained silent, stirring in his anger, but his eyes soon found Ye-jun among the students of Class 1A who all gathered in a corner of the cafeteria.

Ye-jun seemed to have felt the intense glare on his back as he turned around and met Jin-woo's gaze. However, he indifferently fixed his glasses and then turned back around.