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"boom!"

The sound of a pistol rang out, and Clift paused for a moment.

The woman at the bottom of the stairs panicked and tried to rush up.

However, Kerry only paused for a moment, then ignored the stinging pain in his body and moved like lightning. The next moment, the zombie that was wandering at the other end of the corridor was directly slammed against the wall by Kerry's sword.

The women were all stunned.

No, shouldn't we ordinary people be looking for an exit, searching for weapons, and running away?

Why do I get the feeling that you're not afraid of these things at all?

Then Kerry kicked open the door to the broadcasting room and saw a little girl cowering under the table.

It was probably because it heard the continuous knocking of the monster that it sent out a distress call.

This kind of superhuman teammate behavior, which is typical of horror movies, was not blamed. The woman Kerry had encountered earlier rushed over and hugged the girl.

"Are you alright? Are you alright? It's good that you're alright."

After talking to the girl for a while, the woman finally turned to look at Kerry.

"Thank you so much."

“Go out from here and follow the marked road to the west. There’s a safe place in the residential area there.”

Just as in Yharnam people were guided to the Otton Chapel, Kerry pointed out the way.

"Um...you...aren't you going? Or are you going to stay here and save more people?"

"neither."

Kerry didn't answer the woman's questions much, but simply escorted her and her students to the relatively safe road he had cleared, and then returned to the school.

Although he didn't know why this thing could still generate electricity, Kerry was planning to use it.

Kerry arrived at the broadcasting station and then mercilessly turned the volume up to the point where an air defense drill was supposed to be conducted, causing the surrounding residents to curse him out.

A piercing buzzing sound came from several loudspeakers on the school's upper floors.

"Om-!"

It not only affected schools, but also extended to several surrounding areas.

Then Kerry turned on his phone, which still had a lot of battery left, randomly selected a song, and fast-forwarded to the part he wanted. He then took out two earplugs from his bag, put them on, and pointed the phone's speaker at the school's loudspeaker.

The female teacher and students, who had just left the school, turned around in confusion at the sudden buzzing sound.

Then a burst of ear-piercing, violent music immediately followed.

"I Am The Storm That Is Approaching!!!"

……

"I want to reclaim my real name!!!"

The frenzied drumbeats, so intense they seemed capable of exhausting ten Shiina Tatsuki-sensei teachers, echoed around the school.

Not just the school, but the entire alternate dimension.

In this place so quiet that the only sounds besides the rain, one's own breathing, and the movement of the corpses, the music sounded like a huge shopping mall promotional advertisement or the sound of square dancing that could be heard several streets away.

The fog that had been obscuring people's vision became completely useless at this moment.

The sound, like a lighthouse piercing through the thick fog at sea, announced its location to every survivor and monster in this dark forest.

"Scared me!"

Startled by the loud noise from not far away, Kazuma shuddered and then turned to look.

"It's Kerry! It's definitely that guy! That guy is telling everyone the location!"

Holding a sickle, Xiangzi stared blankly at the cherry blossoms in the courtyard while guarding the shelter. Suddenly, he turned around.

"Honestly! Why do you always do this without telling us?"

Beside Xiangzi, the girl who had been awake for a while and had been chatting with him but rarely received a reply spoke up, looking rather puzzled.

"Um... what happened?"

"There's a guy there who's planning to lure all the monsters over and then wipe them all out in one fell swoop."

Xiangzi sighed helplessly.

That's just like his style.

Kirito, who had just come out of the basement, also looked delighted.

"Well done, Kerry!"

He strongly supports this approach, as it would significantly reduce the pressure on other survivors if there were more in the area.

However, these were not the only people affected by this commotion.

Yashiro Hisako was holding a book of scriptures from the True Fish Cult and reading it.

The scripture was covered with crazy drawings that looked like graffiti, but for some reason she found that she could actually understand them.

The symbols appear to represent "memory," "resurrection," and "atonement," respectively.

She clearly remembered that this book should belong to her and that no one had ever touched it. She suddenly realized that perhaps it was a symbol she had left behind to prevent herself from forgetting something.

She racked her brains trying to think of something.

“Yes…I…I’m not Yaobi Hisako, I’m not the Guide Girl, I’m…I’m Yaobi…”

She covered her head, the answer about to be revealed.

"I am the approaching storm!!!"

A violent sound instantly flooded her mind.

It was like trying to alkali her brain.

"I...I am...I am..."

"Blood and fire are my family crest!"

The voice came again.

Yao Hisako slammed her hand on the table, stood up, and her expression turned fierce.

"What are they trying to do?!"

She stood up angrily, grabbed a weapon, and, realizing who she was, walked into the rain of blood. The corpses that had previously avoided her bowed respectfully to her.

Meanwhile, Kerry, who knew there was a big event coming up, was holding a bottle of Ramune soda he had found, and flipping through a book he had seen in the school library, a self-published book by a folklorist called "Takeuchi Nobunaga" that he had seen in a promotional poster and that the governor of Aomori Prefecture had supposedly read.