It's an all-out battle outside the house. We can hear a lot of gunshots. The end is near, but it feels like it will be hard to survive this time. After a few minutes, more and more people are nearing the house. We can hear footsteps on the 1st floor of the house where we are hiding, so we ready our guns, prepared to fight.

Then I saw a man ascending the stairs, and I quickly opened fire at him. It injured his body, but it's not enough to kill him. I need to finish him off, but I hesitate for a moment. Before I decide what to do, the injured guy quickly retrieves a pistol from his pocket, almost shooting me. Luckily, Michelle is there and swiftly saves me.

"Hey, hey, what are you doing?!" she's angry but still on guard, shooting back downstairs. It seems the guy is shooting back and hiding downstairs.

"I told you, right? I will leave you if you're worthless! You're supposed to be my shield." Suddenly, a ball is thrown at the stairs—it's a grenade! I quickly pull Michelle to dodge the explosion, and boom!

My ears are ringing because of the grenade. Damn it, this is all my fault. I throw a smoke grenade to hide our presence. We need to hide; it seems Michelle lost consciousness. The guys on the 1st floor seem to be a group too. If this continues, we will be killed by all of them.

We are now hiding inside one of the rooms on the 2nd floor. The guys below seem to be fighting against another group outside the house, giving us time to regroup. I tried to wake up Michelle, but she is still not waking up. I don't know what to do. Maybe she needs CPR?

Well, this is for her sake, so I will do it, but apparently, she wakes up. "What are you doing?" she asks as she wakes up. "Haha, nothing!" I lied. Well, at least she is awake now, what a bad timing.

But let's go back to reality. According to the system, there are 13 people still alive. There's still a considerable number, possibly in groups. One group is on the 1st floor. Gunshots and grenade explosions continue. This makes me more and more scared as time goes by.

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I tried to peek outside the room. I can see a guy walking upstairs slowly; he did not see me, but he is gradually ascending the floor. I tell her about it, but she tells me not to shoot. Just what is her plan?

She is looking at something—a wire? When did she make that? How did she even create that? Then she tells me to peek outside and instructs me to hide when she signals. The guy is now on the 2nd floor but still far from the room.

He sees me, so I quickly signal Michelle. She pulls the wire "Hide!!". I don't know what happened, but I quickly hide, and then an explosion occurs. A lot of explosions. My ears are ringing because of that. This is truly crazy!

The number of survivors goes down to 8. Five people died because of that explosion?! Wow, that's a lot, but the explosion can't hold the house; it starts to crumble after a loud crack. The second floor is falling!

"ahhhhh" My eyes are still blurry it seems minutes have past. I can hear a lot of gunshots outside, but it feels like my ears are still ringing. 'Wake up!! Wake up, you meat shield!!'" I can hear a voice—it's Michelle. My head feels hot; it's bleeding, and my body is heavy with injuries. But I need to stand; I need to help Michelle.

I tried to stand up. I saw Michelle shooting back at someone, then she got hit in the shoulder, so she quickly hides. I went to her, my body still feeling heavy and it's hard to stand back.

"Here, use this," she gave me painkillers and a medkit, which I quickly use. Instead of her healing, she shoots back again. "How about you?" I asked. "Just heal yourself first!!" So I did, healing as fast as possible. I need to help her back.

I saw her getting shot. Damn it, why is this taking so long to heal! Apparently, medkits take a long time to use with the battle ongoing. It feels like minutes of healing, even if it's just seconds.

I am now ready to battle, but she has a severe injury to the body. I am too late. Michelle is shooting against a group, so I shoot back, even though I did not hit anything. It seems 5 people are still alive: 3 on the other side and 2, me and Michelle.

This is it the end game.