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The Survivors on Top Floor (III)... [Chapter 51]
🕑 Added 2022-05-25 15:43:56 +0000 UTC“Son, you are finally here!” Kemono exclaimed with a grin as she approached Daichi. As soon as she arrived in front of her son, she tip-toed so that she could reach her son’s lips. Without wasting any more time, she smashed her lips on her son’s. Daichi grinned as he happily returned the kiss. Meanwhile, Kohta simply decided to look away, and to be honest, Yuriko was still feeling really bad so she kind of ignored the mother-son duo.
The two of them finally separated from each other. “I heard about Aoba-san and Tsukomo-san” Daichi said with a sullen look on his face, but that it was an act as he already knew the truth. Well, technically it was still a guess, but Daichi was sure that he was right. He simply wanted to see how his mother is going to react.
Kemono huffed with an annoyed look on her face as she glanced toward Yuriko from the corner of her eyes. “Yes, even after last night’s discussion, they still wanted to look for other survivors” Kemono sighed while shaking her head. Kemono looked really disappointed, but once again, it was just an act. “What do you want to do? Wait for them?” Kemono asked and Daichi immediately glanced toward Yuriko.
“To be honest, I don’t want to stay here. Takagi-san, what do you want to do?” Daichi decided to ask Yuriko for her opinion. After all, the two of them were Yuriko’s friends.
At first, Yuriko didn’t know what to say, but after thinking for a bit she finally made a decision. Yuriko didn’t know if Daichi was going to listen to her or not, but she still decided to give it a try. After all, Daichi asked for her opinion. “Can we wait for a couple of hours?” Yuriko requested in a hopeful tone.
Daichi wanted to refuse the request, but he stopped himself from refusing the woman’s request. First of all, there was a chance that Yuriko might think that Daichi had something to hide. After all, he was the one who set up the teams and everybody knew that Daichi didn’t like Aoba and Tsukomo. Secondly, if he did wait then nobody would be able to blame him that he left them behind.
“Ok… We will wait for two and half hours. If they don’t return by that time then there is nothing I could do…” Daichi said with a serious look on his face and a wide smile bloomed on Yuriko’s face.
“Thank you” Yuriko muttered in a grateful tone. Kohta felt slightly guilty, but he quickly shrugged it off and Daichi didn’t even feel that. He simply gave her an understanding nod before turning toward Kemono.
“Mom, how much food did you collect?” Daichi asked and Kemono had no idea how to answer that, after all, she was simply shoving everything inside the bags without looking. As long it was something edible, she shoved it inside the bag.
So, unable to think of an answer, Kemono simply shrugged dismissively. “No idea. I simply shoved everything inside the bag. There are still a lot of stores, why don’t you give your mom a hand?” Kemono suggested with an innocent look on her face and Daichi simply released a sigh. He shouldn’t have expected anything else, so he allowed himself to be dragged off by his mom. Meanwhile, Kohta asked Yuriko if she could help him, and since Yuriko didn’t have anything better to do, she simply agreed…
~~Meanwhile on the 3rd Floor~~
When Kanae saw the interaction between the newer arrivals and the older group, she quickly realized that all of them were from the same group. If she had any doubts then all of her doubts were washed away when she saw the woman from the older group kiss the boy. After watching the scene Kanae finally reached a decision, and she decided to join their group.
“I have made a decision” Kanae said as she glanced toward her faction members.
“Are you sure, Senpai?” One of the boys from her faction asked with an unsure look on his face.
“Yes, I have made the decision and I am not being reckless, I have thought quite a lot. Did you see how strong that woman was?” Kanae asked as she pointed in the direction of the shop where Kemono entered with Daichi. “She is insanely strong, no matter how much I try I won’t be able to win against her. Did you see that boy? I don’t how strong he is, but I am sure that he is not going to be any weaker than me” Kanae explained and all of her faction members paled after hearing her explanation.
“Really? Are they really stronger than you?” One of the girls asked and Kanae couldn’t help but nod her head.
“There’s even more… I know the girl with the Katana, her name is Saeko Busujima and as expected, she is insanely good with a Katana” Kanae added, with slight awe in her voice. Kanae also used a Katana but she wasn’t anywhere near Saeko Busujima when it came to pure skills. Kanae had seen Saeko in the Kendo tournament and since then Kanae had started to see Saeko as her idol.
“But what about that fire-woman, she killed her own teammates in cold blood?” Another of the boys asked, all of them were delinquents, they were involved in a lot of street fights. So, they knew very well how hard it was to kill someone. After all, they stopped beating anyone when they would start to cry and that woman killed two people while laughing. So, it was obvious that they were afraid.
“Let me handle that. I won’t let anything happen to any of you” Kanae said as looked at all of her faction members. Kanae knew that she could survive on her own, it would be difficult, but not impossible. She was only joining a stronger group for the safety of her faction members. She had grown up with them since she was little. She had already lost 3 members when this shit started, she refused to lose anyone else.
When all of this shit started, two of her group members had turned into Zombies and one of them was bitten by the two who turned. That is how they lost three members at the beginning. Kanae knew that she might be the strongest among these people, but she was simply a frog sitting inside a well. The woman on the ground floor was clearly stronger than her. Kanae knew that by killing Zombies she could become stronger, but instead of doing that she had decided to hide with the rest of her group.
When Kanae started to leave along with her faction, the other factions finally noticed that they were leaving. “Hey, where are you going?” One of the members of the first faction called out.
“We are going to join them” Kanae answered dismissively, she didn’t even bother to wait or look back.
“Of course, you will be going to join them, what else could you expect from a bunch of delinquents!!” One of the other members of the first faction called out haughtily. A couple of members from Kanae’s faction were about to react, but she stopped them from doing that. She did not want to waste her time with the fools, especially when it was a ploy from their side to simply delay her group.
Nabe Murata wasn’t a stupid man, he didn’t like depending upon a bunch of delinquents, but he knew that he did not have any other options. The delinquents were the only ones who were good at combat and they needed a few people to fight if they wanted to remain safe until the Government arrived. Nabe Murata was a family man, and he wanted to avoid getting blood on his hands at any cost, so he asked one of his faction members in the hope of delaying Kanae and her faction, but obviously, it failed.
“Hey, wait!! Take us with you!!” Zaku Samada exclaimed and Kanae didn’t even bother to respond. “Hey! Help us get down and I will pay you money!!” Once again Zaku exclaimed, but this time he wasn’t ignored, instead, he was laughed at. Kanae couldn’t help but laugh at Zaku’s statement, money was completely useless in a world like this…
“Lock this door if you don’t want to die!” Kanae said in a sing-song voice as she opened the steel gate. All of the faction members quickly left through the gate and she was the last one to leave.
“Damn bitch!! Lock the gate, quickly! We can’t let any of those things enter!!” Zaku exclaimed as he rushed toward the gate followed by a couple of members from his faction and Nabe’s faction. Zaku and Nabe wanted to avoid facing a Zombie at any cost as all of them were simply way too afraid of those things. What they did not know is the fact that Kanae had secretly cleared all the floors except the ground floor.
Kanae already knew that the other two factions were banking on her faction. They were simply using her group for their own survival. Kanae knew that there might be a time when it might turn out to be too much for her group. She needed a way to escape along with her group, that is why she had cleared the lower floors without telling the other factions…
‘Hmph!! Cowards!’ Kanae called inside her mind as she continued to head down with her group…
