Anime Crossover: Post-Apocalyptic Survival, My Stand is the World

Chapter Two: The Silent Catastrophe

The next day, Zongwu High.

The sun was shining brightly, cherry blossoms were fluttering in the air, and everything seemed the same as usual.

Yesterday's "phone garbled text" incident was like a pebble thrown into a lake, leaving no ripples in anyone's heart except for Su Chen himself.

But Su Chen knew it wasn't an illusion.

Since this morning, the "Innate Qi" within his body, which is part of the "Reverse Rebirth Triple Stage," has been in a highly active state.

This is not a good sign.

This indicates that the external energy of heaven and earth is undergoing an extremely violent and invisible transformation.

"Good morning, Su Chen!"

A vibrant voice came from behind.

Yui Yuigahama, carrying her schoolbag, jogged after him, her pink bun bob bobbing with her movements.

"Good morning." Su Chen nodded, without stopping.

"Um, yesterday, Yukino didn't mean to be so mean to you!" Yui explained somewhat apologetically as she stood beside him. "That's just her personality; she's actually a very nice person!"

"I know," Su Chen replied succinctly.

"Huh? You know?"

"Ah."

Su Chen's calmness left Yui, who had prepared a whole speech, speechless.

The two walked on in silence, the atmosphere somewhat awkward.

As they approached the teaching building, Yui finally couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Um, what exactly did you mean by what you said yesterday?"

Su Chen stopped and glanced at her.

In the sunlight, the girl's eyes sparkled, filled with pure curiosity.

He smiled, but instead of answering directly, he asked a question in return.

"Yuigahama-san, do you believe... in the existence of 'God'?"

This question left Yui completely stunned.

Su Chen didn't wait for her answer and walked straight into the teaching building.

……

Su Chen seemed somewhat distracted throughout the entire day of classes.

His attention was mostly focused on perceiving changes in the "qi" in the outside world.

The frenzied, chaotic energy fluctuations were growing stronger and stronger.

It was like the heavy, damp air that filled the air before a storm.

Yukino Yukinoshita from the Service Club spent the entire day subtly observing him.

Su Chen's incisive analysis yesterday had a huge impact on her. This man seemed to be shrouded in a fog that she could not see through at all.

She even went so far as to investigate the people and events that Su Chen had mentioned.

The result shocked her even more.

Kasumigaoka Utaha, Nanase Haruka... these people actually exist!

Just who is this transfer student?

Yui seemed somewhat absent-minded, her mind replaying Su Chen's question from that morning.

Do you believe in God?

A subtle atmosphere flowed quietly between the three of them.

Until the very moment the bell was about to ring for the end of the last class in the afternoon.

—The anomaly occurred without warning.

Zila...

It was as if the piercing noise of an old-fashioned television losing signal suddenly rang in everyone's minds.

The next second, the classroom lights, the digital clock on the wall, and the cell phone screens that students secretly placed under their desks...

All electronic devices shut down instantly at the same time!

The world was plunged into an eerie darkness and deathly silence.

"Huh? The power's out?"

"What's going on? I was only halfway through the game!"

Inside the classroom, the students were briefly bewildered and agitated.

The teacher tried to calm everyone down, but soon he noticed something was wrong outside the window.

The once clear sky has been completely shrouded by a thick, gray curtain, like static on a television screen.

The city has lost all its sound.

The car horns, the distant noise, the rustling of leaves in the wind—everything vanished.

A chilling, absolute silence descended.

Immediately afterwards, a piercing scream, not belonging to this world, came from the end of the corridor.

Panic exploded instantly, like a virus!

“Ahhhhh——!”

"What the hell is that!"

The student closest to the door scrambled back into the classroom, his face contorted with extreme fear.

All eyes turned to the corridor.

From the shadows at the far end of the teaching building, a distorted, humanoid monster, seemingly made of countless black sludge clumps, slowly crawled out.

It has no eyes, no mouth, only a core emitting an eerie red light, which is faintly visible in its chest.

It silently "looked" at the chaotic classroom, then suddenly pounced on a student who had just fallen at the door!

There were no screams, no chewing sounds.

The student, like a piece of paper smeared with concentrated sulfuric acid, was silently swallowed and dissolved by the clump of black mud.

"vomit……"

　The students who witnessed this scene vomited on the spot.

The rest were gripped by boundless fear, unable to utter a sound.

"Run! Run!"

Someone shouted something, and the whole classroom erupted in chaos.

The students, like headless flies, screamed and cried as they rushed toward the back door, trying to escape this living hell.

Trampling, shoving, and desperate cries—civilization vanished in that moment.

—And in this chaotic apocalyptic scene, there is only one person who is the absolute exception.

Su Chen.

He stood up the moment the anomaly occurred.

His face showed no fear or panic, only a cold calm of "as expected."

He did not run away with the crowd.

His gaze immediately locked onto the long-haired, black-haired girl who was already stiff with fear and pale-faced.

Yukinoshita Yukino.

And beside her, there was the girl with a bun hairstyle, who was crouching on the ground, clutching her head and trembling like a leaf.

Yuigahama Yui.

"Tsk."

Su Chen clicked his tongue and rushed against the flow of people without hesitation.

Hey! What are you spacing out for!

He grabbed Yukino's cold wrist with one hand, and with the other hand he picked up Yui, who was almost fainting from fright, and carried her around the waist.

"Eh?"

Yukino was startled back to her senses by this sudden and forceful action.

The first thing you feel is the warm, dry touch of a man's palm, brimming with undeniable power.

While being held in his arms, Yui smelled a reassuring and refreshing soapy scent.

"If you don't want to die, stick close to me!"

Su Chen's voice was deep and powerful, as if it possessed a strange magic that instantly dispelled some of the fear in their hearts.

Instead of following the main group, he grabbed Yukino, hugged Yui, and rushed to the other side of the classroom—the window.

"This is the third floor!" Yukino exclaimed.

"so what?"

Su Chen didn't even look at her. Relying on the powerful physical abilities and superhuman balance brought by the [Triple Rebirth], he nimbly moved among the messy desks.

A black mud monster that had just crawled in through the window blocked his way.

Su Chen's eyes turned cold. Without slowing down at all, he kicked a nearby iron desk hard towards the monster!

"boom--!"

The heavy desk, accompanied by a whistling wind, struck the monster like a cannonball, sending it flying backward and temporarily halting its movements.

This power, far beyond what ordinary people could imagine, caused Yukino's pupils to contract violently once again.

What kind of monster is this man?

Ignoring her shock, Su Chen carried one person and pulled another to the window.

He spotted a large tree outside the school building below and commanded Yukino, "Hold on tight to me!"

After saying that, he hugged Yui, wrapped his other arm around Yukino's waist, and with a short gasp from the latter, jumped directly out of the third-floor window!

……

The feeling of weightlessness as they fell caused Yukino and Yui to let out suppressed screams at the same time.

But the expected excruciating pain did not come.

While in mid-air, Su Chen precisely adjusted his posture, landing firmly on a thick branch of the tree, thus dissipating most of the impact.

Then, he carried the two of them and landed lightly on the ground.

The entire process was fluid and seamless, demonstrating an almost superhuman level of coordination.

"Are we safe now?" Yui asked, her voice trembling as she peeked out from Su Chen's arms.

However, the sight before them plunged them back into the ice cave.

On the playground, in the shadow of the teaching building, one after another, black mud monsters are being born and crawling out.

Those students and teachers who failed to escape in time are being silently pursued and devoured by them.

The entire Soubu High School has become a silent hunting ground occupied by monsters.

"Let's go to the stadium."

Su Chen's voice remained calm.

He knew very well that in the early stages when the situation was unclear, finding a place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and that might have supplies, was the only option.

He pulled the two, whose legs were almost giving way, and began to walk quickly through the campus.