Drifting Classroom 7
April 13, 2008
Unfortunately, the flood doesn’t last very long, but somehow it causes mutant mushrooms to sprout and basically ruin most of the rest of their food. Some resort to eating the mushrooms. The official consensus is that everyone should stay far away from them, but you can tell who eats them because they turn into mutants and run away. There’s a wonderful 2-page spread of these children wearing masks (which is a real what-the-hell moment) and attacking the ponytail girl.
The kids begin worshipping a “God,” which happens to be a scavenged bust of Sho’s mom someone found in the art room. This is later destroyed and replaced with a one-eyed mutant statue.
A lot of this volume is just the kids turning into mutants. The other kids try to protect them and talk them out of it, but the mutant kids just can’t be turned back. There’s a wonderful scene at the end of the volume which utilizes the power of friendship to its fullest to try and turn someone back from being a mutant. At the end, the children gather in the gym as their school is attacked by one-eyed mutants, the same mutants the children are morphing into. They come for the stragglers, mostly, but the kids do what they can by fighting them off with spears and whatnot through the windows of the gym.
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