In the laboratory at the hospital.
Yuko was wearing a mask and gloves, she was busy and barely slept all night.
That was because she was researching the body of a woman who had been infected with the Rage virus in front of her.
The woman was already dead, she was one of the zombies Sayo had killed yesterday. But putting that aside—
"This is harder than I thought."
"What? Even Yuko couldn't find a vaccine for this virus."
Sayo was also there, she was serving as Yuko's assistant.
Yuko glanced at her flatly, "You're overestimating me. I'm a doctor trying to find a cure for a disease, not a scientist."
"Isn't that the same thing?" Sayo tilted her head in confusion. "And Yuko, you're also an unrivaled swordsman!"
"....."
Yuko ignored Sayo's adoring gaze, she returned to staring at the corpse in front of her with a serious look.
Sorry Shiryu-kun, I might not be able to find a vaccine to make people immune to this virus.
She read what Shiryu wrote in his diary a moment ago, and knew he too seemed to be searching for a way to end this disaster.
But there was not a single clue.
This virus called Rage was too complicated!
If only she could find the person who created or discovered this virus... That might help.
"Wait, there it is!"
Yuko widened her eyes.
Sayo asked curiously, "What are you excited about, Yuko?"
"Sayo, we have to find the scientist who created or discovered the Rage virus for the first time!"
"Hm... but where can we find that person?"
To Sayo's question, Yuko was silent.
She had no idea.
But Shiryu might have a clue about that!
After all, she remembered he once said he had the ability to see the future. That's why he even knew this disaster would happen.
At the protagonist group's hideout.
"Shit! Shit! Shit...!"
While his group members were eating and drinking.
Takashi walked to the back of the house alone and banged on a tree while cursing.
Anyone who saw him could tell that he was very angry.
The boys who had previously gone to search for food and water supplies with him knew what was going on, they felt that the boy was pitiful.
After all, it was no longer a secret that Takashi had a close relationship with Rei, they were childhood friends.
But instead of dating him, Rei chose Shiryu and seems to have lost her virginity in his hands.
Don't misunderstand, they didn't hear what Shiryu whispered to Takashi.
Boys like them just like to imagine.
And that's only natural. Rei was one of the prettiest girls in their school. Not only beautiful, she had a voluptuous figure with large breasts.
Takashi must be very reluctant for a girl like that to belong to another man.
"Shiryu... Just wait, I'll make you pay..."
He muttered with a hate-filled gaze.
In the room, Yui heard the gossip about Takashi falling victim to NTR because of Shiryu.
She shook her head, and again regretted not going to search for food and water supplies earlier!
If she had, she could have met Shiryu and joined his group.
'Maybe I can go straight to his house?'
Yui remembered about the note Shiryu gave her, she took it out of her skirt pocket.
The distance between her current location and Shiryu's house was quite close.
But how could she go there when there were so many zombies roaming around outside? She dared not go alone.
Should she take some people with her?
Yui's eyes lit up.
The people she was referring to were definitely not Takashi. She was not stupid enough, she could see that the boy did not have a good relationship with Shiryu.
She shifted her gaze to the pretty girls beside her and her dog, Junichi.
First of all...
"Honjou-san, Fujinoki-san, can we talk for a moment?"
Hearing this, Ranko Honjou was the first to answer. "Yui, there's no need to be so serious. You can talk to us directly. Right, Nene?"
Nene Fujinoki nodded and forced herself to act like a gyaru. "R-Right! Yui, what do you want to talk about?"
They were actually from different classes, and had only known each other since yesterday.
Yui chose them just because they were pretty girls like her. Still, she didn't know those two girls were also from the same franchise as her.
She explained about her plan to leave the group and go to Shiryu's house.
Ranko and Nene were stunned.
They were a little surprised, not just because of Yui's idea. But actually, they knew who Shiryu was!
Or rather, each of them had a copy of his diary. Yui didn't know this.
"I'm coming with you. Yui! If I'm not mistaken, my best friend should also be in Shiryu's group."
Ranko agreed easily.
And the best friend she was referring to was Yukana.
"I... Can we also take Junichi -kun?" Nene didn't immediately agree, instead she asked if Junichi could also be invited?
She was actually Junichi's childhood friend and had liked him for a long time.
Yui thought Nene liked her dog, but not like in the past where she might get jealous.
Now she was indifferent about it and replied, "Sure, we can invite hin. After all, we need someone to protect us on the trip and in my opinion, Junichi-kun is rather reliable."
"Then, I agree too!"
Nene was delighted and her slight movement made her large breasts jiggle.
The boys in the room couldn't help but glance at her with lascivious smiles.
Nene felt uncomfortable, she immediately curled up between Ranko and Yui.
Ranko glared at the perverted boys. "What are you guys looking at? Disgusting."
"Ehem! Honjou-san, you misunderstood."
"Y-Yes, we were just looking."
"What's wrong with that?"
Some of the boys were intimidated by her and complained.
Ranko snorted, she was also uncomfortable being in the same room as a group of boys.
At this moment, there was the sound of an object falling. Everyone gasped and wondered what it was?
"Rrraor!!"
Only when a sinister growl was heard did they know what was happening.
A zombie seemed to have entered the abandoned building where they were hiding.
They all immediately peeked at what was happening on the first floor from the second floor. There they actually saw a zombie, but not like the zombies they had seen before.
This zombie was somehow two meters tall, his skin was gray, his hair was falling out and it really resembled a monster.
When his red eyes looked at them, the air seemed to freeze.
"R-Run! We have to run!"
"There's no way we can kill a zombie that big!"
The boys and girls panicked.
"Everyone, calm down! Some of you will try to distract him. At that time, you must escape!"
Protagonist Takashi gave orders like a leader.
Still, only a few of them dared to follow him. Kohta and Junichi were among them.
Takashi wanted to complain, there were more cowards than braves in his group.
He himself was nervous and ventured to attack the large zombie in front of him with his baseball bat.
However, the baseball bat broke when it made contact with his body.
"So hard!"
Takashi was dumbfounded and reacted too late to the counterattack. The zombie slapped him on the head.
The protagonist was instantly thrown to the other side of the room and crashed into the wall.
Blood coming out of Takashi's mouth, he looked at the zombie in front of him with a horrified expression.
In an instant, the weapons used by Kohta and the others were also ineffective. They were beaten until some of their bones were broken.
Screams of pain filled the first floor.
The other students froze, although they wanted to escape, they were too afraid to run towards the exit on the first floor.
Except for Yui, she pulled Ranko and Nene to run past the zombies.
The zombie was watching them.
He was about to chase but Junichi threw a chair at him.
"Hey, where are you looking!?"
"Stupid! Junichi, you should have shut up!"
Takashi scolded the boy.
Actually, he was happy when he thought the zombie would chase the three girls running out.
That way, they would be safe!
Compared to him, Junichi was more of a protagonist.
*Bang!*
Junichi didn't have time to reply to Takashi's words, the zombie in front of him swung his fist at him.
He was again knocked down and fainted with blood soaking his face.
The other students who saw that felt hopeless.
It's over, they will die here!
Just when they including Takashi were thinking that, something surprising happened.
...
"Hah... Hah... Wait, wait a minute! Are we leaving Junichi-kun and the others!?"
Nene was panting, the huge weight on her chest making her running speed very slow.
Yui and Ranko stopped running and glanced back.
The former frowned, "What else can we do!? In this situation, we can only run and maybe get help, Fujinoki-san!"
"B-But..."
Nene hesitated.
What a troublesome girl!
Yui regretted inviting her to go with her, she seemed to be a girl with a love brain.
Does she like Junichi that much and want to die with him?
She looked at Nene as if she was an idiot.
Ranko massaged her forehead, she was a little annoyed and coaxed the girl in front of her. "Nene, there's no point if we go back to that group now. We're just going to die, we should go find Shiryu and ask for his help."
Well said, Honjou-san!
Yui gave a thumbs up in her heart.
Nene nodded, "Alright, let's do that."
Yui and Ranko were relieved.
They were about to run again but just then, they saw something scary behind Nene.
Or rather, the zombie that attacked their group earlier didn't seem to have forgotten them.
He was chasing after them.
"Fujinoki-san, don't look back. Run quickly!"
Yui grabbed Nene's hand and shouted at her to run immediately.
Nene was confused.
Curiosity killed the cat, she looked back and froze. Fear made her legs feel weak, she ran but her speed was slower than before.
Yui was tempted to leave Nene, but she wasn't that evil. She kept pulling her to keep running with her.
The three girls ran on the sidewalk.
Not far behind them, the zombies continued to chase them like crazy. By the way, what happened to Takashi and the rest of his group? Shiryu didn't know.
For now...
"Girls, get down."
The three girls he was referring to looked surprised when they saw him standing not far in front of them.
They obeyed his words and crouched down.
That was because in Shiryu's hand, they saw a lamppost! Shiryu pulled it out of the way with just one hand and threw it at the zombie in front of him.
"Graaaaahhh!"
The zombie was impaled until he was thrown back and fell to the ground.
He screamed in pain.
"Saeko, now!"
Shiryu called out the name of one of the girls in his group.
Saeko immediately ran past him and the three girls. With her katana in hand, she slashed at the zombie's neck.
Her slash was fast and accurate.
The zombie's head was cut off cleanly.
His body that was harder than an ordinary zombie was still unable to withstand the Busujima family's swordsmanship.
"This zombie is stronger than other zombies. Are there more of its kind out there?" Saeko asked as she flicked her katana and made the blood of the zombie on the blade splash onto the asphalt.
Luckily they were still in that place to increase combat experience. Otherwise, Yui and the other two girls would be dead.
"Maybe, that's why we need to get stronger."
Hearing what Shiryu said, Saya and the rest of the group shuddered.
A girl like Saeko probably wouldn't mind being told to fight zombies every day from now on.
But many of them didn't think so!
"Etto... Shiryu-kun, thank you for saving us. We..."
Yui wanted to say something, she walked up to Shiryu.
But just then, the boy she was referring to took out a diary and said, "You're welcome, but before that... let me write first."
"....." Everyone.
Oh, you really work hard at writing diaries.
Even in this situation, Shiryu!
Yui's lips twitched.
[On the way when I was training my future wives— I mean my group members.]
The heroines: Every time you call us your future wives, you do it on purpose, right?
[I happened to see Yui and two familiar girls being chased by a zombie. The zombies had bigger bodies and higher strength than normal zombies.]
[In the original work, I remember zombies with that kind of form were called Alpha. It was another variant of humans infected with the Rage virus.]
[I don't know how they became like that. But the Alphas are not only bigger and stronger, each of them can become the leader of the other zombie herds.]
[Luckily, the Alpha that met my group hasn't created a pack yet.]
[He seems to have reached that form not too long ago and found Yui... Hmm, I remember she was supposed to be one of Takashi's group members.]
[Because she and two heroines from the same franchise as her are here. What happened to Takashi and the others?]
[I'm curious!]
Shiryu closed his diary and glanced back at Yui.
The heroines who had copies of his diary reacted:
There are zombies like that!?
Doesn't that make the situation in this world even scarier?
Still, Shiryu seemed excited to know Takashi and his group were suffering.
Was it just their hallucination?
"Yui, you can explain what happened to you and what your next plan is."
Shiryu said and of course, he also glanced at the two girls beside her.
They were pretty and modified their school uniforms just like Yukana. In other words, Gyaru girls.
Ranko had tanned skin, pale blonde hair, violet eyes and large breasts that were clearly visible because she hadn't buttoned the two buttons of her uniform.
She was hot.
As for Nene? She dyed her hair pink and her breasts are slightly bigger than Ranko's.
Honestly, almost all the heroines in the "Hajimena no Gal" series are like that.
Author made a lot of girls with super big boobs!
"Ranko!"
"Yukana!"
He also remembered that Ranko was Yukana's best friend.
That was why right now, they were happy to see each other.
Ignoring the reunion between them, Shiryu focused on Yui.
"Actually..."
Yui explained what happened earlier to her group.
Shiryu and his group members were surprised. Rei was no exception, but because of her quarrel with Takashi. She was not worried about him.
Her feelings for him had become very cold!
Saya was a little worried, but that was it. She was tsundere, she didn't show her feelings honestly.
"So that's what happened..."
Shiryu held his chin, he didn't immediately say to check on the condition of Takashi and the others.
Why would he do that?
He's not a yasashi protagonist (a protagonist who is too kind to everyone including his enemies).
But—
"S-Shiryu-kun, please help Junichi-kun and the others!"
Nene walked up to him, she was very short and had to raise her head to look at Shiryu's handsome face.
Shiryu didn't change his expression, he couldn't help but glance at Nene's enormous breasts and that was it.
"I don't mind ensuring their condition and even helping Junichi since he's my friend. But the rest? Not long ago, I came into conflict with Takashi."
"So I don't like them very much."
He bluntly said that he disliked Takashi and most of his group members.
What protagonist out there would do the same with him?
He was not being hypocritical.
"This..." Nene did not expect the owner of the diary, Shiryu to be so cold. He seemed to really dislike Takashi.
But that was enough.
"It's fine, as long as you help Junichi-kun. I will be very grateful to you."
"Oh, how will you thank me? By the way, what's your name?"
Don't you know already?
You said I was the heroine of the same franchise as Yui.
That means, Junichi is the protagonist.
Even so, Nene answered. "My name is Nene Fujinoki, I'm a first year student from class 1-B! As for how I can thank you... I-I don't know, you can request anything from me, Shiryu-kun!"
Anyone who heard what she said would think this girl was too innocent, she had no idea how dangerous her words were.
Shiryu smiled, "Okay, let's check how Takashi's group is doing. Yui, lead the way for us."
"Ehh... You agree?" Yui asked while looking at him suspiciously.
"What's with that look? Takashi and the rest of his group are still students from the same school as us. I can't bear to ignore them in this situation."
Shiryu sighed as if he really meant what he said.
However, many of them did not believe him!
He obviously agreed just because Nene promised him!
"Pervert and shameless." Saya snorted and mocked him.
Shiryu pretended not to hear her.
Takashi, wait for us!
We'll come for you soon.
[Host, what Saya said was not wrong.]
System, you're my system, you should side with me.
[...]
System fell silent.
Was it just her feelings or was her host's true nature starting to be revealed?