Eishi’s bck windbreaker remained pristine from snow. His ambient body temperature melts the snow around him. Its intensity can be freely controlled, making him a humanoid heater.
He looked back. The female zombie by her side walked like a real human. Her constantly rolled eyes returned to normal, with her pupils turning pale gray.
Eishi left them several enemies to deal with. Airi, or rather, the mutated zombie she controlled, dealt with them very well. The baseball bat Airi held was stained with red and white brain matter.
One hit, one kill.
Sou-!
He stabbed his longsword on the zombie’s chest. Like before, she is a female. Her figure was notches below that of the [Mental Shock] woman; a bonafide ft-chest.
Her talent greatly compensated for her figure: [Fme Tide (S, First-order)].
‘This is leading me astray…’
“Take her. This zombie’s talent is useful.”
“Mhm.”
Disregarding the mess around them, Airi focused on channeling her strings to the zombie.
Just like that, she gained yet another formidable ‘subordinate’.
Eishi’s wide-area taunt drew most of the zombies out to their position. He did not hesitate to mow them down with steel beams and rifles alike. Killing them with the longsword was effortless, but it took more time.
His marksmanship ensured there would be a headshot with every bullet.
The entire clean-up operation of the residential district took three hours. Eishi single-handedly wiped out thousands of zombies to the point he had to switch rifles due to overheating.
‘I fucking forgot the synthesis table…’
Due to the zergs’ arrival, he developed a sense of urgency. He foolishly forgot about the synthesis table.
‘This shouldn’t happen again…’
Just as he finished collecting the mutated zombie crystals to his spatial backpack, Eishi turned his attention somewhere else.
Along their journey, he picked up several evolution fruits buried in the snow. His [Lucky Eyes] are broken enough to detect these fortunes.
Eishi could remember two green spots inside one of the residential houses.
“Please! Take us with you!”
The sudden appearance of three people disrupted his thoughts. The man and woman hugged Airi’s legs. Beneath them is a young girl.
Their family saw what Eishi and Airi did, not to mention the melted snow outside. As expected, the closer they were to them, the warmer it became.
To survive, they went further. They wanted to beg the girl who came with the man. They did not dare approach Eishi at all. His terrifying might intimidated them.
Akin to a signal, people began coming out of their houses. The number soon amounted to forty. Most of them chose to pester the more vulnerable Airi.
Eishi did not intervene. He watched the panicked Airi from a distance.
One of the men suddenly lunged on her with a knife.
‘He’s still a human, right?! I’ll take her first, and then let him—’
Spt-!
His idiotic thoughts were cut short when Airi smashed his skull with a baseball bat. His head exploded in the most literal sense.
Panic could still be seen in Airi’s eyes along with fighting spirit.
‘No! I won’t become a burden!’
She increasingly felt suffocated by the environment in the vil. Airi and Haruno only left once. Their reactions towards killing zombies and humans were far from ideal. Airi herself felt how useless she was. Aside from house chores, she can’t do anything else.
Housechores can be done by others.
She feared to be repced; to be abandoned.
The man just now acted as her outlet.
Airi’s short stature could not contain her sharp gaze. Everyone backed off instinctively. The ones kneeling and hugging her legs were also terrified.
“I can give you a chance.”
Eishi walked up beside Airi and patted her shoulder. His authoritative voice resounded amidst the zombie corpses and panicked people.
“I will give you a day’s worth of food. Then, work for me. Whoever does not agree, leave now.”
Utter silence… yet nobody left. The mention of food is enough to light their eyes.
“For those who are willing, stand in line.”
The chaotic crowd became organized under Eishi’s lead. Airi looked at him with admiration.
“Wait for me.”
Under their gazes, he broke inside a residence.
The opening of the door’s lock below startled Saya. She was about to move when she felt the surrounding temperature become warmer. A pleasing sensation swept through her very being. The trembling of her body halted.
Click.
Locks stood no chance against Eishi. He opened the door and met the gazes of two beauties.
[Saya Takag
Innate Talent: Genetic Analysis (SS, Unawakened)
Non-exclusive Talent: None
Life Level: Zero-order/Unawakened
Strength: 12
Agility: 13
Constitution: 10
Spirit: 18
[Shizuka Marikawa]
Innate Talent: Augmentation (S, Unawakened)
Non-exclusive Talent: None
Life Level: Zero-order/Unawakened
Strength: 8
Agility: 10
Constitution: 8
Spirit: 10
Their attributes weren’t out of the ordinary.
‘How did they live until now..?’
The next part of their panels decided everything.
[Saya Takag
Appearance: 97
Figure: 99
Temperament: 96
Purity: Intact, Can be bound
Overall Rating: SSS
[Shizuka Marikawa]
Appearance: 98
Figure: 100
Temperament: 96
Purity: Intact, Can be bound
Overall Rating: SSS
His pupils contracted at a certain point.
‘What the fuck…’
Eishi cursed in English. The gring “100” shook the depths of his soul. Airi, who has the NSFW buff, fell short to the blonde woman wrapped in thick yers of quilts.
‘Is this something a human can achieve..?’
Eishi sighed to calm his boiling blood down. His struggles over self-control became more pronounced, to the point he was starting to think with his lower head. He knows it himself that it is the worst quality to have in the apocalypse.
“Come with me.”
His burning gaze had just startled Shizuka when Eishi decred so. Saya, on the other hand, stared at him intently. She bit her lower lip, understanding his words are orders, not a request.
Facing the man who can hurl steel beams weighing hundreds of kilograms and create artificial earthquakes upon nding, they had no other choice.
‘Lecher…’
She kept this comment within her. Saya helped Shizuka undo her quilts, and so did hers. Their abundant figures presented themselves in Eishi’s eyes.
Saya wore a school uniform. Her breasts seemed like it would burst open from her long-sleeved blouse.
Shizuka is deserving of her perfect score in figure. Her doctor’s coat and bck long-sleeves could not hide her big breasts and plump butt.
For his sanity’s sake, Eishi stopped looking at them. This unintentional act was seen by Saya. His attitude aside, Eishi’s appearance is top-notch. She couldn’t believe there was someone who looked that good.
One observed, one stood clumsily, and one removed any tempting thoughts. The three of them came out of the house. Airi was quite surprised to see these two women appear out of nowhere. She decided to ask about it ter upon seeing his serious look.
Just like that, a procession of forty-something people took pce.
*****
Eishi didn’t need to do much. He went to the rich district, grabbed empty vils, distributed some food, and left the survivors alone. He knows himself best. Convincing others is what he can do. Management, he can leave that to others.
He is aware that doing everything by himself takes a lot of time. Scavenging for new supernatural fruits and clearing zombies alone take hours. By having dozens work for him, he saves up time.
Eishi’s resource gain far exceeds his consumption. There is also his 200,000 square meters’ worth of supplies. The ones he stockpiled plus the ones he ransacked on the city pza is enough to feed dozens of people in their lifetime—hundreds of people for decades.
As long as he can exchange them for new variants of supernatural fruits, that would be a profit. Of course, he still had to ensure many details such as loyalty and the likes. That assignment would be left to Haruno who was chair-rotting in the surveilnce room.
The group of four returned to the lively vil. Saya and Shizuka saw the towering walls and were shocked. Ten meters is the equivalent of three-storeys. Only his vil had these towering walls.
‘How did he..?’
Several guesses appeared in Saya’s mind. Each possibility lowered her fighting spirit.
It was Shizuka who was on the gate duty today.
“Hiraoka. These two are..?”
“New talents.”
“O-oh…”
Shizuka-sensei awkwardly nodded. She saw the two women with voluptuous figures. Coupled with Eishi’s reputation “inside” this vil, she was at a loss on what to say.
He accepted his shitty reputation.
Moreover…
‘A way to fix it. I can tell them.’
A pn that would make them willing to be with him. He would no longer be the one doing the initiative, but them.
He gnced at the two newcomers behind him.
‘Should I also add them..?’
*****
“No, no. This is a special model. Its safety…”
Three people rested inside a two-storey residential building. The heater made a loud noise as it ran.
A young man was seen swiftly operating on one gun after another. Another fat man was teaching him, seemingly proficient in handling all sorts of weapons.
“They wouldn’t st long in this cold. Let’s look for them.”
The sole woman of the group spoke. Her long brown hair and generous ‘sizes’ deserved her title as a css beauty. A trace of helplessness appeared in her eyes.
“Mn. Tomorrow.”
The reliable young man’s answer stunned the two of them.
“A-are you sure about that, Takashi? They won’t survive in this weather, even with yers of quilts. Food is also scarce…”
“I know.”
The look on Takashi’s face changed. He, too, was also helpless about it. The breakout in the school took most of their luck. Their original group, which consisted of five people, was cut short to three.
Living in a cssroom for five days was their limit. Their inaction in the next few days was their biggest mistake. Zombies grew stronger. More zombies turned into their mutated variants. Had they risked it all on the first day, their group would have faced less dangers.
“It’s my mistake… and I will never let it happen again.”
The atmosphere inside turned heavy. Takashi’s authority was one thing. He became the leader due to his awakening as an esper.
He was staying on the rooftop when the blood rain started. His exposure did not turn him into a zombie, but rather, awakened his innate talent. He also stepped into the first-order, receiving enhancements in his body.
When it all comes down to it, nobody can stop him.
Between his concern for their safety and the uncertainty of Saya and Shizuka…
The two chose the former.
“We’ll move out tomorrow. Saya mentioned her father leading a shelter. That will be our destination. If we cannot find them in one day, that will be our next destination.”
*****
The dining table in Eishi’s vil is rge. A dozen people can eat at the same time.
Amidst the rich selection and delicious food, everyone was silent.
Eishi sat on the farthest end, with all of the girls dining together.
No matter what, a gathering of nine women, most of which are strangers, is bound to make a freezing atmosphere. Eishi’s reputation is also bound to take a huge hit, with a few concerned about him.
Haruno made eye contact with him. As soon as she nodded, Eishi felt relieved.
‘They aren’t as ungrateful as I thought. Still, they didn’t feel aggrieved by what I did?’
He made Haruno check on their ‘favorabilities’ through her talent. Although Saya and the voluptuous Shizuka never sported any orange light, he wanted to be sure.
After all, the next few moments are crucial to him.
“It’s about time I reveal this one.”
Eishi broke the silence. All of the women’s gaze nded on him.
“One of my superpowers is reted to women.” He paused before continuing, “I can awaken a new superpower every time I sleep with a woman, limited to our first times.”
Many froze upon hearing it, with the exception of Airi, Mahiru, Haruno, and Saeko. They knew what would come next.
“That superpower… is not limited to me alone. Anyone who becomes bound by my superpower will also receive it.”
Their reactions varied.
Yukino looked at him with a complex gaze. Her low presence did not mean she was clueless. Her older sister, Haruno, hinted time and time that there would be benefits in committing herself to Eishi—both body and mind.
She felt it most when they went out. She and Megumi are way behind others in terms of strength. They only moved to two stars after three days. The others are already second-order, as per Eishi’s given resources.
Meanwhile, Megumi stared at him with a bnk look. Her feelings were a mix of embarrassment, shame, and longing.
Eishi risked going into the city pza for her—even if not entirely.
Yet, she could only watch Saeko surpass her. Just as much as she wanted to make a move, the feelings of shame and the standards of the previous society made her hold back.
What frustrated her more was the decadent memories she had of that night. Eishi’s sturdy body id two voluptuous and enticing bodies beneath him. The scent of that night gave her a tinge of guilty pleasure.
In short, she is sexually and mentally frustrated.
‘That’s how it is..?’
Shizuka-sensei, on the other hand, experienced enlightenment. She has known Eishi since a year ago. He wasn’t a pyboy like he was now. With the reason unfolded, she untied a knot in her heart.
That leaves her with one problem:
How should she treat him now?
