Apocalypse: Apparently, I Can See Zombies

Chapter 58- A Riled-up Horde

"How so?"

Jin-woo asked.

"Well, for example, schizophrenia can develop in various ways, but outside of the 'scientifically proven' ways and the ones that don't fit your situation, there are three main ones I want to focus on for you. Either you develop it through genetics, through severe trauma, or naturally due to some complications in the brain, or a chemical imbalance.

For you it was believed that it developed naturally after ruling out the first two and because of your sleep terrors when you were younger."

Jin-woo hearing this said.

"Mom said for the first six months after I was born, I didn't cry. It even got to the point that she and Dad would think I was dead if not for them seeing me breathe. However, after I turned six months old, I cried every day at midnight on the dot up until I turned six.

It was at that time Mom began working with Aunt Madelyn and was able to afford to take me to an expert, who diagnosed me with sleep terrors and prescribed sleep medication."

Jin-woo lowered his head after saying this.

Seong patted his back and said.

"Yeah, that's right. First, you were diagnosed with sleep terrors, and then a year after that you were diagnosed with schizophrenia. I also met you around that time when we were in Elementary School."

Jin-woo smiled when he heard that, and so did Seong, but he soon continued.

"When I interviewed those experts, they all said the same thing, that sleep and schizophrenia are deeply connected, though the exact connections are still being studied. So, because of this, I asked if having sleep terrors at a young age can be a sign of early development of schizophrenia. The answers I got for this question were all confident yes.

However, after explaining that I have a friend who had sleep terrors since they were six months old every day at exactly midnight until they were six, I then asked them if this might have been a strong indication of schizophrenia developing early on.

But after a brief pause, instead of answering yes or no, they would ask if I was just making stuff up because sleep terrors that happened so early and lasted for that long while at a time so specific was unprecedented in the medical field. I even had some directly hang up on me, ha-ha."

Seong chuckled in amusement at that last sentence. However, Jin-woo looked over with a complicated expression on his face. That one sentence was merely a snippet of what Seong had gone through while trying to help him. Plus, he was sure it wasn't easy to get those professionals to be interviewed by a random high schooler in South Korea.

Seong seemed to know what Jin-woo was thinking and he simply shrugged while saying.

"It wasn't difficult, I just had to flex some of my smarts at the right people to make them see I'm an up-and-coming prodigy while saying that I want to learn from the current greats, and I might also come under them in the future."

"..."

"..."

Jin-woo and Seong both started laughing but they soon stopped and glanced at each other, their eyes mirroring each other's skepticism.

Hesitating, Jin-woo asked.

"You don't think that's really the case, right?"

"I... I don't know."

As the two youths were grappling with the possibility of the existence of a God, the second bell signaling the start of the session after lunch suddenly rang out.

Jin-woo glanced at the speaker in the right corner at the back of the room and said.

"I'm worried this noise will set off the zombies. I might have to go to the fourth floor and tell everyone that help is coming."

A difficult expression appeared on Jin-woo's face as he contemplated going through with this. However, a cacophony of noise suddenly drifted in from the slightly open windows that show part of the football field outside.

Seong and Jin-woo both jumped up and rushed towards a window. They then saw a horde of zombies spilling out onto the football field and spreading out in every direction.

With one look at these students in uniforms, they could tell they were second years from the west wing.

However, what made the two start to panic slightly was that many of these zombies were heading in the direction of the gymnasium.

Class 1A was to the far right of the east wing as opposed to the gymnasium, which was to the left, so they were unable to see the gymnasium to understand why the zombies were heading in that direction.

However, they felt like it couldn't be anything good.

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*FD=Final Destination