Apocalypse: Apparently, I Can See Zombies

Chapter 43- Careless

"Shit, they were chasing after that kid who left, but now they've turned to us! Damn it, hurry barricade the door!"

The youth was frantic, and he grabbed one of the long benches in the cafeteria before trying to haul it over to the door.

"Stop, what are you doing?!"

The only adult in the cafeteria was a middle-aged man. With an apron around his waist and a mesh hat, he came storming over with a stern expression.

"Mr. we have to-"

The youth tried explaining the dire situation to the middle-aged man, but he was cut off.

"Enough, are you in on his prank? Don't you kids have anything better to do?"

BANG!

Another loud noise came from the door. The middle-aged man glanced at it and then walked over. Looking through the remaining window at the scene outside, he was suddenly met face-to-face with a snarling zombie.

The middle-aged man frightened by the sudden jump scare leapt back. This also caused the students in the cafeteria to hurriedly retreat in response.

However, after his initial fear, the middle-aged man glared at the female student out of anger and embarrassment.

"What is that makeup? Just what are you kids doing out there!"

The middle-aged man then reached toward the door's somewhat large bolt about to open it.

"No, wait!"

The youth cried out, but the middle-aged man had already made up his mind to go out and give these pranksters a good... taste of his blood.

However, just as the middle-aged man placed his hand against the door bolt to wrench it open, an object came sailing across the room to hit the back of his head.

THUD!

"Fu-Who threw that?"

'Since it's like that then it's no wonder it hasn't spread to the east wing yet. Well, I'm not sure, but at the very least they haven't reached the bottom floors.'

Jin-woo thought this to himself as he continued to check the name tags on the desks for teacher Park's desk. He concluded that he still had time to reach his classroom and even make it back to the gymnasium before the virus spread to the entire school, but he would have to hurry.

Suddenly, Jin-woo saw the standing nameplate 'Teacher Park' on the desk in front of him and he directly checked the bottom-most drawer among the ones to the side.

Click.

The drawer Jin-woo thought would be locked, was unexpectedly open. Perhaps, whatever Seo-joon wanted him to find was in the other drawers? He just jumped the gun and thought it would likely be in a locked bottom drawer.

However, as Jin-woo was about to close the drawer to check the two above it, he caught a glimpse of something beneath some clutters of papers in the drawer. With just that glimpse Jin-woo knew what it was.

Reaching into the drawer, Jin-woo shifted the papers to reveal a small black revolver gun. It was inside a metal gun holder but from the handle and parts visible, he could easily tell that the gun was a model 60 from the Smith and Wesson company. Why was he able to confidently identify the gun with such little details? Because these were the guns used by the police.

'But why was it here?'

Jin-woo wasn't surprised teacher Park had this gun. He knew that his father and Teacher Park had a history of being in the army together, but while his father moved up Teacher Park 'voluntarily' left to become a P.E. teacher.

No, what he was surprised about was that he would actually bring it to school and keep it in an open drawer. And though teacher Park might have been in the army and was technically allowed to own a gun, there were regulations on the type of gun he was allowed to have, and a gun designated for the police wasn't one of them.

Well, Jin-woo wasn't sure, he hadn't been as enthusiastic about guns to study their models and rules on owning them as he once was in the past.

However, he would still criticize this idiot for carelessly leaving it here for someone to easily access it. But, as Jin-woo was doing so in his mind, he turned over the gun holder and suddenly saw a keyhole on the other side.

"...."

"Fuck."

Perhaps he was the careless one.

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*Zom-100 is a zombie manga/anime.

*Suneung is the entrance exams high schoolers in South Korea take for entering college CSAT. For those familiar with South Korea, it's that really important exam that have almost all of the country on 'lockdown per se' when students take it.