Another student pointed to by Ejie felt a bit fearful, but more joyful, and boarded the mini bus.
Only those he pointed to were allowed on the vehicle.
He wasn't pointing randomly either, but analyzing these people's words, actions, and expressions to select those who would be more obedient and wouldn't cause trouble.
After all, this world would become extremely chaotic with massive casualties, and to make the STC usable in this world, manpower would definitely be needed.
Now, having a few more obedient students to help wasn't bad.
Along the way, they probably couldn't reach Saya Takagi's house immediately - there might be some delays.
And the time he could stay wasn't much, so he couldn't waste time.
So when the time came, he would head straight for the hospital, and these students would serve as helping assistants then.
Speaking of which, couldn't he also invite people from other worlds to help?
On this point, he had inquired with Saeko Busujima, and they analyzed this situation:
Since he had accelerated the cooldown of "Cross-World Invitation" this time, if others used it, they could only specifically invite him - basically only invite him over.
So what if he used it himself?
He might be able to group-invite others to the hell he was in.
"Ah? Me?"
The girl with orange-colored hair who was pointed to seemed somewhat dazed.
Originally, she hadn't held much hope of being selected.
The reason was simple - after joining up with them, she had also been among the more outstanding performers, actively helping deal with living dead on both sides or behind them.
Someone who performed as well as her should normally have been selected first, but even after more than half the mini bus seats had been occupied, she still hadn't been chosen, making her give up hope.
Of course, this kind of active performance wasn't deliberately meant to show off in front of him, but purely to help keep more classmates safe.
From his perspective, he probably didn't care about that at all.
Now, after being pointed to, she felt somewhat surprised and confused.
"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and get on, Miyamoto!"
Saya Takagi, already on the bus, called out the name of the person just selected. This was someone she knew - her classmate and also the childhood friend of a boy she somewhat liked.
She had heard the two had been having conflicts recently, which made Saya Takagi somewhat pleased inside.
But one thing was another - she certainly didn't want Rei Miyamoto to be left behind, so when she was selected, Saya Takagi also breathed a slight sigh of relief and urged her to hurry up with an encouraging tone.
So Takashi Komuro and Hisashi Igou hadn't followed - that didn't necessarily mean something had happened to them.
According to Rei Miyamoto, it was because there were too many living dead, and they had accidentally been separated by panicked classmates, then blocked off by the living dead.
Both sides had agreed to meet at the school parking lot, but only Rei Miyamoto's group had made it.
Actually, after Saya Takagi hadn't returned for two class periods, the two had skipped class to look for her out of concern, which quite moved her.
Now, still not seeing Takashi Komuro, Saya Takagi was somewhat worried, but what could she do?
That mysterious man definitely wouldn't wait, and she couldn't stupidly stay behind to wait for death! She also needed to go home to see her parents and confirm the safety situation her father had mentioned over the phone.
Although her father said there was no problem, without seeing it with her own eyes, she was still somewhat worried - worried that they might have accidentally been infected with the virus.
And this virus really didn't necessarily require biting people to spread.
For this kind of sudden large-scale outbreak, there were definitely other infection methods.
It could be water sources, food, and so on.
"You get on too."
"O-okay!"
Another guy from her class was also selected, leaving Saya Takagi somewhat shocked - it was that fat guy Kohta Hirano.
But it wasn't strange either. This guy was also brave, having somehow gotten a nail gun from somewhere in the school and joined up with Rei Miyamoto's group, fighting their way out.
So being noticed by him as someone useful wasn't surprising.
In any case, Saya Takagi could see that the people selected were all those who seemed very obedient or had some capability.
So with half the people not allowed to board, once these people despaired, they might drag everyone down with a mutual destruction mentality.
Therefore, Saya Takagi could imagine a tragic situation where these people's attempt at mutual destruction would result in all of them being killed by him.
Correction: now seeing even more people gathering here, if they didn't leave quickly, it would get worse.
Of course, with more people gathering here and making more noise, more living dead were also congregating.
Honestly, the fact that so many people were still alive now - Saya Takagi rationally believed this mysterious man deserved significant credit.
Because this guy had killed quite a lot of living dead - over a hundred.
If these hundred-plus living dead hadn't been killed by him and had continued attacking other students, continuously infecting them, probably half of those currently visible survivors would be gone.
"These are keys to other vehicles - drive yourselves if you can."
He suddenly threw out a string of keys, making Saya Takagi pause. He had also brought out other keys from the staff room.
After throwing them out, those students who couldn't board the "ark" were stunned for a moment, then scrambled to fight for the keys he had thrown out.
"Let's go, Teacher Shizuka Marikawa!"
"Ah? Well... okay. Um, this is the gas pedal, this is the brake, this is the clutch."
Teacher Shizuka Marikawa's words made Saya Takagi's forehead develop black lines.
She could tell it wasn't that Teacher Shizuka was intentionally dragging things out, but that she really wasn't familiar with this mini bus. This was very unreliable - they might get into an accident.
However, she could understand that Teacher Shizuka wasn't doing it on purpose. Could he see that too?
Saya Takagi glanced at him. Obviously he didn't care much, or rather, he could also see that Teacher Shizuka was somewhat scatterbrained and found it exasperating.
"Well then, I'm going to start driving. Everyone hold on tight!"
Everyone became nervous.
After Teacher Shizuka took a deep breath, the mini bus was started by her with something like a catapult launch, rushing straight toward the school gate.
"Takashi! Hisashi!"
Rei Miyamoto's words made Saya Takagi pause. Looking out through the window she was pressed against, she indeed saw those two.
Not just the two of them - there was a group of people beside them, including a teacher.
"Shido? They really saved him? Why?!"
Classmate Miyamoto's continued murmur, with her face somewhat twisted showing disgust, made Saya Takagi somewhat understand that Rei Miyamoto's earlier words had been somewhat concealing.
The reason for separating from Takashi Komuro was probably the inability to accept saving this teacher called Shido.
Teacher Koichi Shido - Saya Takagi felt very uncomfortable about this person. Her father had also told her that this person was very good at disguising himself and was a dangerous individual.
As for why Rei Miyamoto would hate Koichi Shido, the genius girl naturally had her speculations.
Rei Miyamoto's father was a police officer investigating Shido's congressman father, so she had heard that Rei Miyamoto's being held back a grade this time might have been Koichi Shido's petty revenge.
Right, held back a grade - otherwise Rei Miyamoto should have been a third-year student by now.
Then Takashi Komuro and the others also quickly disappeared from Saya Takagi's view, making her, who had half-risen, open and close her mouth before sitting back down.
Bang—!
The sudden impact sound also made Saya Takagi jump slightly. The teacher had directly smashed through the school gate while also sending two living dead flying.
Also, since the school wasn't in the city center but near the outskirts, as the school bus drove into the city, fires and black smoke were everywhere, making everyone more clearly recognize that the world they knew had become a thing of the past.
The world was heading toward collapse!
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