When Kindness Kills のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 10

"Please, I'm begging you—my camp is only a few miles away. We have more than a dozen elderly people and children waiting there. If we don't have a detonator, once the storm hits, they'd all die!" A ragged-looking man knelt on the ground, begging desperately.Beside him, a boy no more than seven dropped to his knees as well, his eyes rimmed red. "Please, miss… My mom's still in there. I'm a little man; I have to protect her. Just give us one, please…""Iris, give it to him." I hadn't even spoken yet when my best friend, Eliza Pearl, already had tears welling up in her eyes, as if they might spill at any second. "They say a real man never kneels unless he has to—this guy's willing to throw away his pride just to save people. Besides, we've got two detonators anyway… Maybe one would be enough? "Why don't we give him one? It's the apocalypse—if we're all still human, shouldn't we be helping each other?"A few of the teammates around us immediately started to waver."Yeah, Iris… Maybe

I shoved the communicator into my jacket and twisted sharply to the left, moving fast enough to hook out a leg as I went.'Splash!'The entire cup of water went straight into Eliza's face, dripping down onto the deck. She screamed and tumbled awkwardly onto a seat."Eliza! Are you okay?" A few of the male teammates instinctively rushed forward to help her up.Eliza sat on the floor, wiped the water from her face, and tears instantly flooded her eyes. "Iris… if you didn't forgive me, you could've just refused to drink the water. Why did you have to push me?"The way she twisted the truth really was second nature to her.I pulled the communicator—completely intact—from my jacket and gave it a casual shake. "Eliza, choose your words carefully. Everyone here saw it—you slipped and lunged forward on your own."This is the only communicator our entire team has. Even a single drop of water could've destroyed it. You were waving a full cup of water right over it—were you trying to make

"Watch out!"Alec reacted instantly. He grabbed my wrist and yanked me behind him, then snapped out a vicious roundhouse kick that sent the man flying.The man screamed as he staggered backward several steps. But like a completely unhinged madman, he used the momentum of the kick to lunge toward Eliza instead. "If I can't kill her, I'll kill you! It was you phony Samaritans who got my brothers killed!""Help!" Eliza shrieked, terror written all over her face.At that moment, our team's youngest, Jack, was standing right beside her. He instinctively raised his gun to aim. And in the split second the man lunged forward, I saw it with my own eyes—Eliza grabbed him by the shoulder, and shoved him hard in front of her.'Squelch!'The sound of a blade piercing flesh rang out.The dagger that had been aimed at Eliza plunged straight into Jack's chest, sinking in to the hilt. Jack's eyes flew wide open. He stared down at the knife buried in his chest, then slowly turned his head to look

Bowen, who was driving, shouted with sweat pouring down his face. "We have to dump some weight, or we're all dead!"Crouched in the corner, Eliza suddenly brightened, her eyes lighting up.In my previous life, it had happened at this exact moment. Back then, I'd been busy sniping the zombies crawling over the roof and hadn't been watching her. Eliza had pointed at my pack, said it was the heaviest, and personally tossed my communicator, spare batteries, and anti-radiation meds out of the vehicle.When it was discovered later, she'd done nothing but cry and apologize, saying she'd only done it so everyone could survive. Because of that, we'd completely lost contact and had been forced to risk our lives searching for a signal tower—only to die because of her in the end.This time around, she repeated the same old trick right on cue."That bag is the heaviest! It's full of metal junk!" Eliza shouted, pointing straight at my pack. "Throw that one out now, or we're all going to die!"

Alec recoiled as if he'd been electrocuted, taking a sharp step back and flinging her hand away. His voice dripped with undisguised disgust. "If you're worried about infection, go find the team's female medic. Why come to me? I'm the captain, not a doctor—and definitely not someone you can cling to whenever you feel like it."Eliza staggered from the force of it, her arm slamming into the doorframe. She stared at Alec in disbelief. "Captain Kessler, I only trust you—how could you treat me like this? You only ever have eyes for Iris—even back on campus. What's so great about her? She's cold as stone! What does she have that I don't?""You don't come close. Not even the slightest." Alec's face was livid as he cut her off. "Go back to your room. Let it happen again, and you'll regret it."With that, Alec slammed the door shut with a loud bang, nearly hitting Eliza's nose. Outside, muffled sobbing mixed with curses drifted through the hallway, lingering for a long while before finally f