It has been several months since the entire world has fallen down for Kaede Akamatsu. A strange virus was spread around, it didn’t take long for zombies to rise from the corpses, nobody had barely gotten the time to react before the world fell into chaos. Now only ruins remain of the society that everyone was used to.

Kaede was a part of a survival camp of most of her old classmates from Hope’s Peak Academy, they all worked together to keep each other alive, hoping to see a better future in this post-apocalyptic world. She was able to put her leading skills to good use and keep morale up high, but Kaede had been quite useless when it came to anything survival related. Kaede could barely hold a gun without shaking, let alone shoot it at a zombie, which felt too much like shooting a human, so she was always kept inside Hope’s Peak Camp.

However, when Kaede had been offered to be let out scavenging one day, she was excited and given a burst of optimism, wanting to prove herself that she was fit for surviving in this broken world. Kaede took some supplies, and Kokichi Ouma with her, before leaving Hope’s Peak Camp to scavenge.

It had been months since Kaede and Kokichi had left, and they never returned back to camp. They had gotten lost in the middle of nowhere, they’ve travelled for miles without finding anything that could possibly lead them back. It was the middle of summer when Kaede had left, now it was winter and snow was starting to settle, their clothing barely kept them warm, and Kokichi had to recently use his checkered scarf as his bandage. Survival was tough to say the least, Kaede and Kokichi had to deal with their fair share of zombies, hostile survivors, and injuries.

It was currently midday, Kaede and Kokichi had found a destroyed store after a few uneventful hours of wandering. Almost all of the contents have already been taken as expected, but underneath piles of debris, Kaede was able to find something. Two red scarves, and in great condition too, she immediately snatched them up and went back over to where Kokichi was still searching.

“Hey, I know this is nothing like your old scarf... but we can get through this.” Kaede spoke with hope in her voice as she draped the red scarf over Kokichi’s shoulders and around his neck, just like she had done for herself with the other scarf.