Shuichiin Academy.
Unlike Tokyo Metropolitan Academy which had Shiryu and his group on the first day the zombie pandemic started.
This noble school reserved for the children of the rich and officials didn't have people like them. So, with the background of the school covered in blood and destroyed objects, there were also many zombies that filled every area in the school.
Especially the hallway leading to the student council office, it was filled with students who had been infected with the Rage virus.
Two days had passed.
The few students who were still alive and hiding in certain places in the school were starving.
The students in the student council office were no exception.
*Kwack~*
Such a sound was heard from the stomach of a pink-haired girl with a large black ribbon on her head, she was holding her stomach with a miserable expression.
"Ah... I'm so hungry, I want to eat ramen with extra garlic or fried rice also seems good. How long will it take for the police or rescue team to arrive? I could starve to death..."
Her name is Chika Fujiwara, she is a student council member who serves as the secretary. Not only that, she came from a very influential and wealthy politician family.
"Fujiwara-san, this is the eleventh time you've complained that you're hungry. Stop saying that, your words will make others even hungrier."
That cold yet weak feminine voice came from a girl with black hair and red eyes.
She was also a student council member who served as the vice president of the student council, and her background was not that of Chika. She was the daughter of the Shinomiya family, one of the four largest conglomerate groups (zaibatsu) in Japan that controlled hundreds of trillions of yen in wealth— Kaguya Shinomiya!
"Kaguya-senpai is right. Fujiwara-senpai, please be quiet." A shoulder-length black-haired boy with bangs covering one eye said.
He was the student council treasurer, Yuu Ishigami.
"Ehh?! S-Sorry, but can't help it... It's been two days since we got stuck here. I also want to take a shower, and not use the student council restroom in turn with the boys."
Chika complained.
Ishigami widened his eyes. "What's wrong with taking turns with us? Fujiwara-senpai, don't discriminate against boys like us."
"No, it's just disgusting."
"Disgusting!? You think we don't feel the same way about girls like you?!"
"Huh! Ishigami, you think pretty and cute girls like me and Kaguya-san are disgusting!?"
Ishigami looked so surprised. When starving, he still seemed to have the energy to argue with Chika.
Chika was the same, she was eagerly arguing with Ishigami.
"Ahem!" A coughing voice was heard from the blond boy with sharp eyes, he was the student council president of Shuichiin Academy.
But from Shiryu's point of view, he also had the identity of the protagonist! His name was Miyuki Shirogane.
"You two, calm down. Didn't you hear the voices outside when you raised your voices to each other?"
"Those zombies seem to be sensitive to sound."
Sitting on the U-shaped sofa like the others, he looked at all the student council members with a serious expression.
Chika and Ishigami immediately fell silent.
Fear returned to their faces.
"T-This is true?"
"It's over, our location has been discovered by the zombies outside. We will be eaten and become like..."
Chika stammered.
Ishigami hugged herself, his body trembling.
He had watched several .zombies and because of that, he knew what Shirogane said was probably true.
"For now, we seem to be safe. Otherwise, those zombies would have broken down the student council office door since yesterday and eaten us all."
It was not Shirogane who answered, but Kaguya who looked calm on the surface. Chika, Ishigami and even Shirogane were in awe of her.
However, it was only because Kaguya's acting skills were very good. At least, she always hid her weaknesses from others.
For example, she was actually scared right now and wondered when Hayasaka would pick her up?
She's still alive out there, right?
Hayasaka, come quickly...!
Why haven't you come until now?
Meanwhile Chika and Ishigami were determined to keep their mouths shut and not make noise like before.
And Shirogane? He was thinking hard about how to get out of the student council office and go to the place with everyone especially Kaguya.
After all, she was the girl he liked. But just like in the original work, he wants her to confess to him first.
The same goes for Kaguya. She wanted Shirogane to confess to her first. That was why since a few months ago, they often had psychological battles that the other student council members were unaware of.
Love is war!
Whoever concedes first is the loser!
Shirogane and Kaguya only want to be the winners and refuse to be the losers.
That was why even though they had a crush on each other, they still weren't dating and didn't know that the person they liked liked them too.
"Hm? This..."
"Kaguya-san, Kaguya-san, there's an update again."
"I know Fujiwara-san, you don't need to tell me."
Kaguya and Chika started talking about something that the two boys in the room did not understand.
This was not the first time this had happened.
Ishigami whispered to Shirogane, "President, I'm sure those girls have gone crazy. Look at them, they're again bowing their heads and seem to be staring at something that doesn't exist."
"Um... Ishigami, that's probably how the girls comfort each other in situations like this."
Shirogane thought positively although he also thought Kaguya and Chika's actions looked strange.
"Girls are scary."
Still, Ishigami seemed to have a prejudice against the opposite sex.
Little did they know that right now, Kaguya and Chika were reading a copy of Shiryu's diary!
Each of them had one and knew many things about Shiryu. In fact, they were secretly hoping for his help.
But how?
They couldn't contact him.
Even so, what Shiryu wrote this time made Kaguya and Chika really surprised and happy.
[My group and I have arrived at the Shuichiin Academy. Many of you must be wondering why you came here?]
[Well, let me explain. Last night, I got a quest from my Diary System that told me to rescue a girl with black hair and red eyes who was trapped in the student council office with the other students.]
[As long as I do it successfully, I'll get a reward. But even without that, I will do it.]
[I will save Kaguya Shinomiya and not let her die after the time limit expires.]
"!!!" Two girls in the student council office.
Good news, Shiryu and his group came to their school.
Even better news, he even came to save one of them in particular.
Kaguya was dumbfounded and moved by the actions of a boy she had never even met.
Although she did not know why Shiryu's diary system gave him a mission to save her.
She thanked him and promised to repay his kindness.
If Shirogane knew what Kaguya was thinking, he would probably feel uncomfortable.
"Kaguya-san! Shiryu is coming for—" Chika could not help raising her voice again.
But Kaguya hurriedly silenced her mouth with his hand. "Fujiwara-san, be quiet and don't speak at all. For now, we just need to wait."
"....." Chika.
Isn't that too much?
She shouldn't even speak a word!
"Shiryu?" Shirogane and Ishigami wondered who it was?
Ishigami again whispered, "President, these girls are crazy. They seem to be starting to hallucinate about someone who might come to save us."
"Ishigami, can you shut up too? You think I didn't hear every bad thing you said about us to the president?"
Kaguya raised her pretty face and looked at one of the boys in front of her with a cold gaze.
"Hiik!" Ishigami screamed.
Not only was he prejudiced against the opposite sex, he also seemed to have a fear of Kaguya.
Shirogane smiled wryly, "Shinomiya, I'm sure Ishigami was just joking."
"President, you defend him too often."
"That... that's because he's a junior I personally recruited, I know he doesn't mean any harm at least."
"I see."
Kaguya was a little disappointed, she expected Shirogane to reprimand Ishigami for her. But no, instead he defended him and blamed her.
Normally, she would have no problem with that. She thought Shirogane was very kind to others and that was one of the reasons why she liked him.
But in this situation where a girl needed comfort and security, such as consolation from the person she liked.
Shirogane doesn't give that to her. He gave it to Ishigami instead. Does he like him more than a girl like her?
As the wise men say: Women are more emotional creatures than men.
Currently, Kaguya was thinking of many things that made her favorability towards Shirogane drop a few points.
Seeing Kaguya's expression growing colder, Shirogane suddenly regretted defending Ishigami.
He wanted to say something, but the loud noises coming from outside distracted them.
On the other side.
More precisely in the spacious courtyard of Shuichiin Academy.
The zombies roaming there roared and ran wildly towards a group.
*Bang! Bang! Bang!*
With just a hand covered in a black glove, Shiryu punched several of them with a very fast movement. Each of his targets' heads exploded like watermelons and the blood that sprayed out was blown away by the wind from his fists.
His strength and speed had clearly increased since he used his super ability, Blood Pointer.
He could absorb the zombies' rage and temporarily increase his own strength.
Before the zombies' blood could hit him, he moved like a shadow to change his target and began to brutally beat the zombies around him.
He kills them with a single punch. But sometimes, he also had to throw some of them into the zombies which made it difficult for some of the women in his group.
The women he was referring to were none other than Saya, Kyoko, Shizuka, Ranko, Yui and Nene. As for the rest? Saeko, Rei and Yukana had no trouble.
Of course, each of them at least held weapons such as swords and spears.
*Slash! Slash! Slash!*
With her sword, Saeko slashed at each zombie and dodged each of their attacks skillfully.
There was a smirk on her pretty face, she seemed to enjoy the violence she was doing. Despite trying to hide her expression with her quick movements, Shiryu could still see it clearly.
"Their moves are predictable."
Rei said before swinging her spear again.
After overcoming her fear of zombies, she was the second strongest woman in Shiryu's group.
Yukana was also becoming more and more skillful although her stamina was still quite low, she was panting so hard that sweat soaked her cleavage.
The scene was like fanservice.
But surprisingly, Saya had now changed her weapon. With her genius, she modified a drill in Shiryu's house and turned it into a battery-powered electric drill to shoot at the zombies' heads.
"Hmph! With the weapon I made myself, I can also kill them easily."
Saya shook her twintail hair with one hand, she looked proud and glanced at Shiryu.
She wanted his praise, but he wasn't even glancing at her!
Or rather, he and Saeko had already entered the school building and slaughtered the zombies there.
"Shiryu-kun, do you know the direction to the student council office?" Saeko asked with an expression that had returned to normal.
Shiryu blew off another zombie's head before turning around and saying, "No, maybe we can ask the surviving students or teachers. If we find them of course."
So far, they had only met students and teachers who had been infected with the Rage virus. Remember the principal of Shuichiin Academy in the original work?
He wandered into the courtyard earlier and died at his hands.
Since all the zombies in the hallway they were in were dead, Shiryu used this opportunity to update the contents of his diary.
[My group and I have slaughtered all the zombies in the schoolyard and one of the hallways.]
[Saeko asked me where the student council office where Kaguya is. I have watched the original work/anime series titled "Kaguya-sama: Love Is War". Unfortunately, I still don't know the exact location of that place.]
[Shuichiin Academy is no less spacious than Tokyo Metropolitan Academy. It was inconvenient, but we had to split up into groups.]
Seeing what Shiryu wrote, not only Saeko. Rei and the other women immediately understood.
They split up into groups.
Except for Saeko and Shiryu who decided not to need anyone's company. The other women formed two groups. The first group consisted of Saya, Kyoko, Shizuka and Yui. While the second group contained Rei, Yukana, Ranko and Nene.
Each of them also had a communication device that was not affected by the EMP explosion on the first day of the pandemic.
So, it should be fine, Shiryu thought.
Shortly after, he arrived at the second-year student building on the second floor. There, his attention was caught by an Alpha in the middle of the hallway.
Unlike the other zombies, he was more intelligent and was now seen piling up the corpses of students in front of a girls' locker room.
Shiryu didn't know why he bothered to do that.
"Oi, big guy. What are you doing?"
His voice was loud enough that Alpha and the few zombies around him immediately glanced at him.
Alpha grinned as if he had found new prey and the other zombies growled.
He pointed at Shiryu and immediately, the zombies under his leadership charged at him.
Their movements were more coordinated than the zombies in other areas that didn't have leaders.
"Graaa!"
"Graurr!"
Shiryu realized this and grinned like the Alpha on the other side. He casually tilted his head to avoid the scratch of one of the zombies before kicking his foot and stomping on his head.
In the next second, he punched the heads of two zombies who were planning to bite him from his right and left sides.
Another zombie pounced on him from behind, but he had anticipated that and dodged it. At the same time, he grabbed his collar and threw it at Alpha.
Like a cannonball, the zombie crashed into his massive body and shattered into pieces.
Shiryu felt no guilt, he no longer considered people infected with the Rage virus to be human.
"Gaaaagh!"
That was why when Alpha's vision was disturbed by the blood and flesh of his subordinate.
He used that opportunity to run towards him, he concentrated power into his right hand and clenched his fist.
Under the influence of the Blood Pointer, green light enveloped Shiryu's fist. When Alpha regained his vision, it was too late.
*Boom!!*
His chin was hit by the blow.
Like the protagonist Maken Ki punching his opponent in this situation, the effect of Shiryu's fist created an explosion and made his opponent swallowed by the green light that flew his opponent into the sky.
The alpha died instantly.
Not only did his head explode, the rest of his body was badly damaged.
"This is what's called superpower."
"It has a special effect."
Shiryu was satisfied with the trial he had just conducted.
Now, he was also able to kill an Alpha with a single punch enveloped in spiritual energy.
"Now..."
He glanced at the room blocked by the pile of corpses. Instead of infecting its prey, the Alpha tended to kill them brutally.
Shiryu wondered why he was trying to block or possibly lock the door from the outside.
He threw the corpses in front of the door out the window behind him one by one and then...
"It's also locked from the inside. Excuse me, is anyone inside? I've killed the big guy— I mean zombie-zombie in front of the door."
"It's safe now, you can come out if you want."
If the other party refused, Shiryu would break down the door in front of him to satisfy his curiosity.
After all, there were still two hours before the zombies broke into the student council office according to System-chan's calculations, he still had plenty of time.
"You killed them all including the biggest zombie? So that loud explosion sound earlier..."
A feminine voice was heard.
Surprisingly, Shiryu was familiar with her voice. He had probably heard it somewhere.
"It was me, I hit too hard and punched a hole in the roof."
How could anyone do that?
Are you human?
However, the girl who had been confined inside the girls' locker room was relieved and believed Shiryu's words.
Just like Shiryu, she also had a guess as to who the person who might have saved her was.
*Click!*
The lock opened from the inside and the door was pushed forward.
Shiryu reflexively took a step back and was stunned when he saw a beautiful blonde girl with blue eyes standing in front of him.
Her appearance style reminded him of a gyaru like Yukana, but more than that— he was surprised that he knew her.
This girl was his other future wife!
[Host, are you kidding?]
I'm serious, System-chan.
[You really...]
What?
[Continue.]
Sure, even without you saying it, I'll do it.
Shiryu immediately smiled very kindly at the girl in front of him.