"I didn't know you were this much of a sly bastard."

"I am not. I bet everyone in my place would have done that."

"NO THEY WOULDN'T!!"

"Shut it."

It was almost the end of lunch break and I was waiting for the time to pass away but I don't know why she stuck with me. She could have left but she was still sticking around. I thought that she must be suffering something similar to my situation if she smoked at this age. But I decided to keep thoughts to myself when she spoke up exactly what I was thinking.

"Fujima-kun, are you suffering as well?"

"Hmm."

"Thought so. It really hurts, doesn't it?"

"I got used to it."

"Same here."

There was an awkward silence. As I saw flashing lights on the sky again. My eyes went wide when I saw a light which looked like an explosion far away from our school. I turned to look at Sakurano and her expression was even darker than mine. Did someone let out a nuke? What happened? What was that flash? Sweats started forming on my forehead as I saw Sakurano look at me.

"F-Fujima-kun, w-what was that? W-Was that a nuke…?"

I couldn't respond to her. I was feeling terrified as well. With nothing left, I gritted my teeth and grabbed her hand and started running down the stairs. I took a turn and saw my friends as well as the whole student body looking out the window towards the direction of the light with grim expressions on their faces. My instincts were telling me to run but my conscious was telling me otherwise. I was shaking really. It was the first time in my life that I was feeling the emotion, fear.

"Fujima-kun…It's hurting…"

I turned to look that I was holding Sakurano's hands really tight. I let go of it instantly and composed myself. I let out a deep breath and looked out of the window. The light seemed like it was getting brighter and slowly approaching this way. Lunch break was far over, it's just due to this commotion that everything is in chaos. After a few minutes, all the teachers from the staff lounge rushed out and started saying that the school is over for today, head home.

"Fujima-kun, you can head home today. We'll talk about it later."

"Alright."

First let's calm down. Let's analyze from beginning. At first, I saw a light then multiple of them started raining down and soon after we saw an explosive light. Still not sure about what happened but we can assume that we were nuked and more are incoming. I rush towards my class, grab my bag and was about to head away, when my friend stopped me.

"Where are you going, Eiji?"

"Home. I have a bad feeling about this. Get home safe!"

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For a moment, it seemed like Sakurano looked at me with a concerned mien but I decided to ignore it and make haste.

I was running towards my home as I saw the light grew even brighter. My instincts, my fear, my anxiety…it was all turning out to be true. As I approached my home, I saw a scenario never in my wildest dream would I have imagined. I saw a giant monster consuming a man's intestines. Seeing the sight made me want to puke but I was too terrified to react to it. But, what should I do now? My house is right there but there is this monster. My hand was shaking, I was sweating really hard, heart beating really fast. What in the world happened…?

Just at that moment, I saw yet another man come from the corner of the road. From what it seemed like that he was holding a bayonet. He must belong to The Oak Order seeing his demeanor. The Oak Order is the name of the chivalric order of our country. Our country has a mix of 3 chivalric orders consisting of 5 divisions each. You can basically call them the military army of our country. If they have been dispatched then the situation must be infinitely worst on the countryside. The it's not a joke. We might be in serious trouble.

The monster was the real problem here. If I were to take descriptions from anime or video games, it looked exactly like a hobgoblin. It looked like a humanoid with hairy hides of reddish-brown to gray, with bright red-orange faces and long blue-red noses. It has yellowish to dark brown eyes, with yellowed teeth and was wearing either bloody colored black leather. It had a tomahawk lying on the ground beside him, upon seeing the man from the chivalric order charge at him with the bayonet, it picked the tomahawk up and rushed at him too with an intense killing intent and was shouting stridently.

Using this chance, I steeled my beating heart and grasped my shaking hands, and rushed towards my home. As I was running at full speed, the hobgoblin heard my footsteps and turned around to look at me. It freaked me out, I heard from games that monsters or any bestial had great hearing, but I at least thought it would focus on the other man instead of me. I still forced my way forward and instead of rushing towards that other guy it instead rushed towards me.

My face went pale. I froze in the spot watching my incoming death, my hands quaking. Just at that moment I saw that mercenary guy speed up and try to slice him up horizontally from his guts, but the hobgoblin reacted quick and sliced him instead with the tomahawk. The cut was clean. He was sliced into two starting from his brains, going straight to his bottoms. The insides as well as a huge amount of blood splash out and filled the town roads. And as the blood was flowing out, the hobgoblin was laughing and enjoying the taste of human intestines yet again.

The feeling really was disgusting. Watching the sight of a monster eating the insides of a person. It honestly made me want to quit my life. But I suppressed the urge of throwing up and kept a slow pace as I approached my house. I was like few meters away from my house.

I braced myself for the worst and started running at the worst possible moment. It sensed me coming, throwing the body away, he came at me with the tomahawk. For a moment, when I turned to look inside my house through, there was an immense amount of blood. But I forgot the fact that there was a literal monster in front of me out from a fairy tale. He swung his tomahawk at me, I barely dodged it by twisting my lower half and lowering my upper half, and used this chance to get inside my house and locked the door. I knew this wasn't going to be enough to stop it, so I used other furniture like table, sofas to block it and make stronger.

I saw some other people from the chivalric order rush at it too so I guess that should make it stop for a while. I sat down on the floor, breathing heavily and hold my hands to make it stop shaking. The anxiety was too great. Remembering what happened in front of me, I threw up. Puking, reduced my anxiety a bit but it isn't enough.

I need to first gather information about what exactly is happening.

"But even before that—" I stopped mid-sentence because of the thing I was watching before me.

It was horrible almost noxious. The sight in front of me was bloody. Blood everywhere. Stains of bloods of hands which looked like someone was struggling to escape from something. It all lead to my mom's room upstairs. My face went pale yet again. I started sweating and panting heavily. Eyes and hands shaking. My stomach gurgled due to the tension of the situation.

I slowly approached the room. Bit by bit, the blood seemed to grow even fresher. As I reach my mom's room, I see the door slightly open. I gulped my own spit, and gradually open the door.

I opened to see what I feared I would see. The same sight. A goblin eating a person's intestines. I felt very horrified. My face went insipid and I fell to the ground. My teeth gritting and my body shaking. It was my mom. It turned to look at me and my body froze at that moment. Our eyes were locked. It was using its bare hands to gash out the guts out of my mother's body. I threw up again and when I looked at its eyes again...It was laughing at me.

My instincts were telling me to run or else something bad would happen but my conscious was telling me to fucking kill this piece of shit. My mom did nothing wrong. Why is she...why is she...why is she the only one who has to suffer so much...