Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 304 - Kato’s Pain of the Dead
Day 333: 11:00 A.M

(Kato’s View)

I slowly open my eyes as the pain in my head gradually fades away. Although the feeling of the pain still lingers a little bit, I am now a little bit good to move again. I slowly move towards my wheelchair and grab a hold of it before putting my body on it with some difficulty.

Once I managed to get into my wheelchair, I slowly move the wheelchair’s wheels to move and went to the window of the new base.

As always, everyone is busy, no one is resting like always but they don’t have the grim outlook in life. I closed my eyes and silently cried before retreating to the edge of my bed.

With most of my limbs amputated, I can no longer fight, can’t do any basic things, and can’t even do basic jack sh*t everyone does without anyone helping.

I am already an insignificant-looking individual in this base. The only thing I can do properly is eaten and sh*t. Nothing is making me use it other than for consuming food anymore. Maybe they are even planning of getting rid of me soon due to my status as a cripple.

As I waited for anything to happen to my daily boring life as a cripple, someone knocked on my door.

”It’s open. Please come in.”

After telling the person to come in, the doorknob turns and the door opened, revealing the person behind the door and knocked earlier is none other than Kyosei. He is pushing a trolley with food on top of it.

”Yo, someone told me you still haven’t taken your breakfast yet. You bastard, did you forgot where is the cafeteria already?” Kyosei glared at me before serving me the food he was carrying from the start.

”I just don’t feel like it going to the cafeteria while in a wheelchair...”Kato said.

”Reasons always Kato? Are you just going to drown in that matter instead of doing your best on what you can do while in that state? Despite being amputated, no one told you to do it right? You need to be strong to live on.”

”And be a heavy burden for everyone?! Alright, alright, I can do that. Let’s go and die!”

Kyosei smacked the back of my head heart g what I just said.

”Idiot bastard, are you sure you want to do it? If that is the case, I won’t think twice about throwing you to the horde of the dead. If not, then go and rest instead. Take your breakfast too. Just because you lost a few limbs doesn’t mean you need to die already. Also, I think you already have a few prosthetics being created at the moment. It won’t be long before you can move again so why not wait for it to arrive? Dying is not an option, better to just persevere a little bit. Stay alive bravely, like how the cheerful Kato always cheers me up in the past even though you are still a f*cking annoying that time,” Kyosei said.

”Ha...you don’t understand Kyosei... I just wanted to be useful, not by being a burden and just waiting here in the base, waiting for the time I would grow old or die in certain circ.u.mstances. I wanted to be able to fight alongside everyone else,” I said to him.

Kyosei sighed and shook his head.

”And what? Try to become a heroic person and now truly die against the dead? You are just making unnecessary decisions that can harm you and everyone else.”

Kyosei stood up from the bed and went to the door. Before leaving, he looked back and seriously looked at me. After doing that, he left me alone and closed the door, leaving me behind.

”Is it even alright for me to continue living like this?” I muttered to myself.

...

Day 333: 4:59 P.M

(Kato’s View)

I open my eyes once again and realized I fell asleep while in my wheelchair. Headache starts to kicks in on my temple and pressing it with my hand barely works. It is just quite painful to be exact that I can barely stay awake.

”Sh*t... This pain isn’t disappearing despite awakening from my sleep. It is just quite painful even for me. But hell with this, who caused my situation worse?!”

I endured the pain and but as time pass by, the pain keeps on seeping deep into my brain which seems to very likely cause some migraine I am experiencing.

”F*ck... I muttered in annoyance. It was painful and I can’t do anything. It barely even helps my case to stop the pain.

I tried to keep myself steady and made sure to keep up and survive the ultimate headache I have been feeling.

Just as I was carefully trying to survive this endless pain in my head, someone appeared before me.

”An infected individual? No... It seems the virus has already circulated to this guy’s body...”

My vision is slowly fading and the only thing that slowly remains is no longer appearing in my eyes.

”Although the way the virus moves in his body is different from the Singularity, he seems like he needed the most care needed. We cannot just ignore his situation.”

And with that, my collapse happened, and everything went black...

...

Day 333: 5:10 P.M

Osaka: Blood Batallion Base

Equipment: Melee: Piyavka Machete, Piyavka Cleaver

Gun: AR15, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

His vitals are also not doing great as they are not showing anything good that tells that he is safe from the danger of whatever was causing him to become like this.

When I visited the infirmary, Miyuki and Cindy are both busy assisting the main doctor while they are operating Kato on whatever is happening to him. I also noticed the floor and walls of the infirmary are also covered in blood that seemed like it sprayed over after it was stabbed or something.

He almost died but survive. Now that he wanted to die, it seems things have turned out differently than what I am expecting.

I stayed there for a while, waiting for the operation that Kato is undergoing right now. 

Around 30 minutes after I arrived, Miyuki went out from the operation room and drink a little bit of water on the table. I was surprised to see Miyuki’s clothes covered in blood though it was like she was taking a bath using blood.

”Miyuki, what happened to Kato? He is fine just a few hours ago. Also, why are you covered in blood?!” I asked Miyuki.

”I don’t know either Kyosei, his case is still bizarre even to us. His body is fine just a while ago and he was resting on the bed we prepared for everyone who collapsed only to find him spraying blood everywhere, drenching us and the whole infirmary. We already tried to stop the blood to flow out from his body to avoid the death of Kato.”

”He is spraying blood?!” I frowned.

”Yes. It was like a fresh wound but wounds don’t have the tendencies to burst out a lot like some sort of faucet to a certain point of the body that will cause it to burst out like water. What is worse is that it frequently appears to cause the worse on Kato’s body as the blood proves very fatal after losing a lot of blood.”

As for me, all I can do is do nothing as I can’t contribute to helping Kato’s pain. He isn’t doing something like this by himself which will cause him to be like this right? Something happened that caused him to be like this. I keep on convincing myself.

Then, I felt a slight tug on my sleeve and saw Eve tugging it. It was a little bit surprising to see her like this as she doesn’t usually act like this. I picked her up on the ground as I notice Byakuya running over in my direction.

”Ha! There you are, Eve! What the heck... did you run so fast? Ha...” Byakuya said as he gasps for air after running.

”I need to tell father about this. It is very important!”

”Something important?” I frowned at Eve.

”Father. The guy named Kato is undergoing a mutation. He is currently infected and the virus in his body is becoming unstable. If not controlled and done right, he will most likely die and might be reborn into a variant of it didn’t work well.”

When I heard it, I felt a little bit troubled. To think Kato’s life is in the line here alongside everyone else.If things failed, he might become a variant...