Quick Recap: We meet another girl, but yet learn her name. She is sharing a storage space with a friend who decides to leave her behind and try her luck outside the store room. Yuki, Rii, and Kurumi decide to go on a “field trip.” There, they look for survivors and load up on what supplies they can. As they leave, they meet the girl left behind in the store room and save her. They return to the school with the girl from the store room.
Chapter 13: Welcome
We learn the new girl’s name is Miki. Yuki introduces Miki to Megu-nee, but no one is there. Yuki continues to have a conversation with Megu-nee and then tells Miki that she has to go to class. This leaves Miki confused as whether anything happened at all. Yuki is doing her best to get Miki to join the School Living Club by showing her around the school. However, Miki is still confused as Yuki shows her the dilapidated rooms like nothing is wrong with them. Later, Miki is told by Rii and Kurumi that Yuki is traumatized and sees everything as normal. It is here that we confirm that Megu-nee is dead. Rii and Kurumi ask Miki to play along. The girls welcome Miki to the School-Living Club even though Miki has her reservations and only wants to be a provisional member.
Chapter 14: Field Day
Rii is looking over the numbers. They have to redo them since they have a new member. Miki offers to help. Yuki decides to propose a field day. While the other members placate Yuki, Miki seems like a stick in the mud. She isn’t really understanding the point of the School Living Club. However, she plays along with the field day. While Yuki is out throwing the trash, Rii tries to explain to Miki that Yuki is special, however Miki is being stuck up and accusing Rii and Kurumi as being codependent. Miki doesn’t see how playing along helps Yuki. They are about to get into a heated verbal altercation when Yuki shows back up.
Chapter 15: Question
It is breakfast time, and the girls are talking. Miki says they need to think about the future. Yuki asks Miki if she is going to college or straight to the workforce, and Miki gets upset and asks to be excused. Miki decides to go to the library on her own. There, she gets a book about multiple personalities. When she returns, the other girls in the club are upset she went alone4. Yuki states the club rules, but Miki makes sure to let them know that she isn’t a true member of the School Living Club. That night, Miki studies about multiple personalities. The other girls wake up and Miki decides she wants to go to the bathroom. They once again try to remind her that they don’t travel alone, and Miki reminds them she has made it this far on her own. Yuki decides to go with her. That’s when Miki confronts Yuki and tells her to quit lying about Megu-nee.
Chapter 16: Speak One’s Mind
Miki continues to try to get Yuki to wake up and join reality. Yuki doesn’t break. Miki decides that she is going to climb over the protective wall to prove to Yuki that the world is dangerous and filled with zombies. Yuki pleads with her that she isn’t supposed to climb over the wall, but Miki tries to use that reasoning to explain WHY climbing the wall is dangerous. Miki climbs the wall. Yuki follows. Miki panics and climbs back over the wall with Yuki. Yuki then explains that she is dumb and Rii and Kurumi do their best to take care of her because she is dumb. She apologizes to Miki. Miki finally gives in and realizes that she can’t change Yuki. At her core, Yuki is kind and caring, and in her own way, doing her best to boost morale. In the end, Miki makes the announcement that she wants to become an official member of the School Living Club.
Chapter 17: Doggy
Rii, Kurumi, and Miki talk while Yuki goes away to “school.” Miki compares Yuki to a dog. That’s when Rii and Kurumi tell Miki to not mention dogs around Yuki. Apparently, dogs can be infected as well. One day, Yuki found a dog. Megu-nee saw that it was bitten. She convinced Yuki that it had an owner and that she would take care of the dog. Megu-nee observed the dog and it turned. She took it far away and dumped it. She lied to Yuki and said the owner came and got it. However, the dog returned.
Miki decides she is going to read Megu-nee’s notebook, but she finds a book about personality disorders. It appears Megu-nee was also doing her own research into Yuki’s condition. Just as Miki picks up the book, a staff emergency evacuation manual falls out. Miki begins to read it and it talks about an infection spreading.
Chapter 18: Once Again
Miki takes the manual to Rii and Kurumi. In the manual, it identifies a second basement and a shelter. Kurumi decides she is going to go down to the basement and see if there are any supplies. She decides to go on her own. Rii and Miki talk while Kurumi is gone. Rii is in shock that Megu-nee had knowledge of what could have happened. Rii and Kurumi probably felt lied to. However, Rii makes it clear that Megu-nee was probably doing her best. While down in the basement, Kurumi is confronted by something she wasn’t expecting. A zombified Megu-nee.
THOUGHTS
Can Miki be anymore ungrateful? Ugh. It was hard to stomach. Here, Rii, Yuki, and Kurumi save her from the mall, and all she can do is pick apart Yuki’s trauma. She accuses Yuki of lying and tries to get Yuki to “wake up.” How horrible of her! I don’t like Miki at all. I don’t quite like the idea that she suddenly began to understand Yuki and decided to let it go and officially join the club. Not too happy with that plot twist. I wish they would have kicked her out!
What’s more interesting is the fact that Megu-nee had some kind of knowledge of what was going on. What was that school up to? Now it makes sense why the girls were able to use solar power and grow crops. That school was made for a disaster!
Filthy Casual for Life 
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