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がんのロマンス
by Luis Luna
Tinge of Cringe Count: 2.5


Chapter 1
Luna-chan felt the gentle winter breeze making her way up her spine. She noticed that the season was getting progressively colder, but she kept pushing through it despite the uniform being rather...unforgiving. Snow had already fallen to the ground, and covered it in a thin blanket. The main path to her school, guarded by two lines of cherry blossom trees across from each other. The buzz of school life had filled the atmosphere, but she felt apprehensive about this Christmas. Just like the last few Christmases, she'll probably spend it alone after a night out with Troian-chan. It was the best that they both could do with this budget, but they learned to make do.

Luna-chan snapped out of her thoughts when her friend Troian-chan snuck up unexpectedly. "Haihai, Troian-chan," Luna-chan mumbles, holding her books tighter. "What have you been up to?" Troian-chan blushes, not bothering to answer the question with words. "Oh. I see." Troian-chan blushed even more, looking away from her friend. "You know, you don't have to be shy about it. Doesn't everyone like Khangpai?"

Troian-chan wanted to burst in front of everyone, but she didn't want to draw any attention to herself. Khangpai wasn't that far away. "Stop..." she punches the now snickering Luna-chan. It wasn't very often that Troian-chan could be brought under such control. "You like him too..." That didn't faze Luna-chan.

"Well, doesn't everyone?" she responds nonchalantly. Troian-chan continues to stare forward.

"You like him more..." Troian-chan mumbles with a slightly gravelly and ominous voice. "You've got the biggest crush on Khangpai in the whole school. B-Baka..." Luna-chan wasn't sure if she wanted to laugh louder or to tell her friend to shut up as well. Khangpai was directly behind both of them.

"What are you all talking about?" a rich, smooth voice overtook the two of them as they freeze, their eyes suddenly snapped wide open. A hand was placed on each of their shoulders. They didn't need to look or process the sound to know who it was.

"U-Uh..." Luna-chan was the first to speak up. "N-Nothing!" Khangpai laughed heartily. It melted their hearts like chocolate in an oven.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Where're we headed?" he looks forward , his hands still on their shoulders. Neither of the girls wanted to move, their minds simply blank with the thought of his presence focused on their existence, a dream they never fathomed would become a reality in the near future. They were both shaking, not because it was cold, but because they were scared, happy and sick all at the same time. "Uh...guys?"

Troian-chan was speechless. "Are you...going to be on tonight?" Luna-chan whispers, nearly inaudible. Khangpai chuckles.

"Sure, why not? See you then!" Khangpai walks off, leaving the two girls frozen in their tracks.

Luna-chan donned her headphones as she fired up her laptop. It was late Friday evening, and her Steam was beginning to wake up from its week-long slumber. She had come home in such a hurry that she still had her uniform on. Khangpai called her first, sending tingles down her spine. Why was HE the one initiating the call? She didn't even get a contact saying that he was going to.

Excited, she realizes that Troian-chan was already on the call. Slightly disappointed, she accepts the invitation. Coughing a bit to test the microphone, the others respond with similar sounds. As they get their desktops ready, Troian-chan says, "What're we gonna be doing?", breaking the minute-long silence.

"I don't know. What do you want to do?" Khangpai responds with his signature response. Both of the girls blushed at his voice. Just then, they see that Aizakku-chan, Luna-chan and Khangpai's close friend, was playing Unturned.

"Unturned?" Luna-chan suggests, not bothering to think of anything else to do.

"Yeah boi," Khangpai opens Unturned, bringing up the notification stating so.

After a few minutes of orienting themselves, they were in Russia. After a while, they all congregated in Moscow. "There's a car coming!" Aizakku-chan tells her friends before getting shot in the head with a sniper.

"God, they're everywhere!" Khangpai remarks. Zombies and players were surrounding them, leaving little room to flee. They all branched off in numerous directions, scattering in what seemed like entirely random paths. "Hey, over here!"

Luna-chan risks a few health points to reach her beloved, finally reaching him. Khangpai and Troian-chan were already at the rendezvous. "I found a quad!" Khangpai gets on first as the driver, and Troian-chan gets behind him, clutching his body tightly. When Luna-chan tried to board it, she found that there wasn't anymore space. The two would have to get away without her. As she looks at her friends in disbelief, her eyes dart back to the incoming hoard of zombies reaching towards them.

Khangpai fires a few more shots of his Colt before driving off. "I'm sorry, Luna! So, so sorry!" She looks at the purple quad with teary eyes. Khangpai was too busy driving over the zombies to look back, but Troian-chan wasn't. She stared Luna-chan down with deviant eyes, knowing exactly what she's done. Smiling, she mouths the words, "He's mine now."

Sadness transmuted to rage, Luna-chan arms her sniper. Using what little bullets remained, she shoots at the increasingly shrinking quad. Eventually, she managed to set it on fire, forcing the two passengers to abandon their ride. "Someone's shooting at us!" Khangpai yells, taking out his knife and clearing up a path of zombies. Troian-chan looks at Luna-chan with equal anger, knowing exactly what the latter has done.

"You bitch..." she mumbles. Troian-chan pops a flare and pitches it right in front of Luna-chan. The zombies chasing Troian-chan had turned around.

"You did not!" Luna-chan replaces her sniper with her Ace and fires a few volleys at the oncoming zombies, and at Troian-chan. Exclaiming in pain, Troian-chan chucks a smoke grenade at the ground.

"Distract them!!" Khangpai yells, struggling to make it to a restaurant. He was too occupied with the task at hand to notice what the two were doing.

"You're getting it now," Troian-chan mumbles as she takes out a golf club. Maintaining her stare, she whacks two zombies reaching for her upside the head. Once she reaches the struggling Luna-chan, she takes a hard swing at her kneecap. Shrieking loudly, Luna-chan tumbles to the ground. She fumbles for her Ace and points it at Troian-chan's head.

"He...is MINE!" she pulls the trigger, but nothing came. It was empty. "...shit." Troian-chan kicks the Ace off of her one hand and beats a few more zombies surrounding them. Now they were isolated.

"You thought you were so clever, huh?" Troian-chan had pulled out another flare, and was taking off its cap. Its bright glow made her face even scarier. She drops the sparkling candle on Luna-chan's chest, walking away nonchalantly.

But Luna-chan wasn't going to give up yet. She takes the flare and drives it to the back of Troian-chan's heel, causing to scream. Troian-chan donkey kicks the stick out of Luna-chan's hand, only causing the latter to smile. The brunette took a hold of Troian-chan's foot, dragging her to the ground. Now they were both prone. One was struggling to escape the other's grasp, who, in turn, was struggling to keep them there.

"Get off me! You'll kill us both!" Luna-chan chuckles.

"Is that not what I'm trying to do?" Troian-chan screams again. Arms and legs were crawling at them, draining their health little by little as they stare at each others' eyes.

"No! Stop!" It wasn't before long that both of their healths had reached zero, losing their hard-earned work and ruining Troian-chan's night.