Roy's detached and indifferent demeanor confirmed to Saeko Busujima that this terrifying disaster had nothing to do with the peculiar young man in front of her.
Saeko Busujima asked her most pressing question, "What are you doing at the military base?"
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Roy floored the accelerator, and the large truck plowed through the zombies on the road, as he truthfully replied, "I need to borrow their weapons. I'm going to clear out these zombies."
As soon as he said this, Roy's peripheral vision caught a blush flash across Saeko Busujima's beautiful face.
She was excited!
Combining Roy's previous performance in slaying zombies, Saeko Busujima had already vaguely guessed his purpose when he mentioned going to the military base.
After a moment of hesitation, Saeko Busujima slowly said, "Actually, there's always been something bothering me..."
Listening to Saeko Busujima begin to recount her past, Roy, in the driver's seat, twitched the corner of his mouth. "Girl, I'm not interested in your story. Once you take me to the military base, our connection ends."
But Saeko Busujima seemed to have found a kindred spirit, and she continued to speak of her troubles.
When Saeko Busujima was in junior high, she was once assaulted by a perverted stalker on her way home, but she intentionally allowed the stalker to approach her, then used a wooden sword to severely injure him, breaking his leg and shoulder blades.
It was actually excessive self-defense.
However, considering it was a junior high girl fighting a perverted stalker, the police did not pursue charges against Saeko Busujima.
From that moment on, Saeko Busujima realized that she had a strong tendency towards violence. When she struck the perverted stalker, she felt extremely happy and excited. She felt that a unforgivable dark side was hidden within her, and she was unworthy of having a maiden's heart.
How could Roy not know about her experience? He had seen it long ago: when Saeko Busujima separated from Takashi Komuro and the others, she appeared to be experiencing a life-or-death farewell, but in reality, she felt joy inside.
Because she was about to participate in a slaughter!
"What should I do?" Saeko Busujima's face was conflicted. At this moment, she was like a fragile girl. The excitement she felt when she saw Roy rampage through the zombie horde earlier was indescribable.
Believing she had found someone similar to herself was also the reason Saeko Busujima revealed her true feelings.
"Don't ask me, I don't know, what does it have to do with me?!" Roy curled his lip. "What's wrong? Does she expect me to hug her tightly and guide her with gentle words?"
Saeko Busujima's expression darkened.
After several minutes of silence, Roy sighed. He was still too kind. "Acting on your true nature isn't necessarily a bad thing. Just like me, I occasionally do things that others might consider very crazy."
A hint of maniacal laughter hung on Roy's face.
Saeko Busujima's eyes, which had lost their luster, grew brighter and brighter, as if she had found a new life goal.
"We're here!"
Looking up, at the end of the wide road, a dilapidated base gate came into view. It seemed to have experienced a fierce battle, and there were towering walls around it.
Man-made railings blocked the gate. An adult could easily climb over them, but they were sufficient to block zombies.
The two jumped out of the large truck.
Seeing the empty military base ahead, Roy felt his guess was correct. With the military strength of this base, even 100,000 zombies might not be able to break through. Only a virus spread through air or water could silently wipe out a base.
"Something's wrong, it's too quiet."
Roy frowned. Had the America military already withdrawn, or were they all annihilated?
"Those are human corpses, right?" Saeko Busujima pointed to the pile of corpses by the side of the road.
Roy followed her gaze. He initially thought they were zombies, but upon closer inspection, some of the bodies showed no signs of zombification; they were gunshot wounds!
Suddenly, a strong sense of danger came over him. Roy abruptly looked up, towards a tall tower within the military base, about six hundred meters away.
Saeko Busujima followed Roy's gaze, leaning her body slightly. This very action saved her.
Bang!
Suddenly, Roy heard a faint sound. He looked in the direction of the sound, and two meters behind Saeko Busujima, on the ground, a small hole appeared, with dust floating.
Someone was sniping at them, and with a silencer!
Wind Chaser Boots!
Roy's expression changed, and he unhesitatingly activated the special effect of the Wind Chaser Boots. His agility attribute broke through to SSS-level, with strong winds coiling around his legs. He picked up Saeko Busujima and sprinted to the blind spot of the left wall for cover.
Bang!
As Roy rolled over, he casually threw a stone, smashing the surveillance camera on the wall.
At this moment, atop the base tower, a blond, blue-eyed young man, looking through his sniper scope, saw the boy quickly escaping to the blind spot, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.
"That kid, he's pretty fast."
The blond youth said in surprise. That kind of movement didn't seem like an untrained brat.
The tall girl next to him looked older, probably his sister or something, so he wanted to shoot her dead and save the kid to play with for a bit longer, but he misjudged.
"Wayne, stop playing. If you attract those zombies, it'll be a hassle again." A gruff male voice came through the radio.
"Okay~"
The blond youth replied listlessly.
The sudden zombie outbreak had turned most of the soldiers in the base into zombies, leaving only about ten people, but relying on their powerful firepower, they still cleared out all the zombies within the base.
The voice from the radio belonged to the highest-ranking person in the base, Lieutenant Alton.
They were responsible for protecting an old professor who was conducting field research in the island nation, though he felt it was meaningless.
Today was his shift, Wayne Yarvis. He loved to toy with the islanders who came to the base with their families, using his sniper rifle to create challenges for the forensic pathologist.
Anyway, no one would hold him accountable.
In this chaotic, lawless world, he fully displayed his dark side.
...
Under the towering wall.
Roy placed Saeko Busujima on the ground. A bullet had made a small hole in her chest, and blood gushed out like a fountain. Her face was visibly pale.
The sniper had clearly aimed for her heart, but at the crucial moment, she shifted her body, deflecting it slightly.
Saeko Busujima murmured, "Am I going to die?"
"Do you think that's possible?"
Roy replied, pulling out two low-level life potions and feeding them to Saeko Busujima. The bullet piercing her chest was actually a good thing; otherwise, without tools, the bullet couldn't have been removed at all.
The only remaining concern was stopping the bleeding.
A emerald green light emanated from Saeko Busujima's body, and her pale face regained a hint of color. Her mental state improved significantly, and she looked at Roy with surprise.
Roy said, "I will avenge you."
Saeko Busujima drifted off to sleep, a satisfied smile on her lips. The slaughter she couldn't participate in would be completed by Roy on her behalf.