Vol 1 Chapter 4 (1/2)
Chapter 4
Everything was dyed orange
Evening had arrived and we had no tiht would fall Our sister had already turned things in her favor in
I was still separated from the Class Rep
She was being treated like the flag in the zo
If she was killed in this disaster environht researchers at the university and lab They would learn about the swimsuit dance and make fun of me And that would eventually lead to my death But not in virtual reality! The Class Rep’s iron fist punishment would kill me in the real world!! Yet she was now trapped in the center of the vampire army led by my older sister
Ahh
I thinkto be faintly visible in that sunset before long…
Ayu district and ion The area included a da inn The ski slope was the biggest draw, but a partially bald mountain was all you’d be able to see at this ti turns of the mountain road With both of us on the bike, Ayuer did not see
Thanks to leaving the croere freed from that iron smell and that may have helped
Hooray for negative ions
A few ies reached me from the balloon drone I had left in the city
Ss here and there, but the commotion seemed to have entered a lull There were no more swarms of panicked people But that was not because rationality had returned; they had likely realized that panicking would only get them killed
There was also no sign of a largescale conflict between the zombies and vampires
The city center was already dyed in Erika’s colors The eerie stillness seemed to indicate the arrival of a new order
“What do we do now?”
Ifor an answer from my little sister
What e going to do now?
I was askingErika and Ayu or the virtual city grew soaked with blood, I could have observed it impartially
But that was off the table now
I had to get the Class Rep away froroup with her And to do that, I clearly had to join the fight
I had to fight Erika
Ayu a zo up in her favor, but not even she had been able to stand up to that vareat a foe
How much help would I really be if I joined in?
No, how far was I willing to go?
“What do you think you can even do?” asked Ayu voice as she wrapped her arainst ht before checkmate?”
“Oh, c’h as it is, but now I have to helppaid for this, you know?”
“Fuguu”
“Okay, okay! Don’t cry!! I’ll do everything I can, I swear it!! So don’t get your tears and snot all over my back!!”
“Really?”
“I have to do sos aren’t looking good, I’m bound to have a better shot if I have a swarm of zombies on my side I mean it!”
I tried saying everything I could, but my little sister did not respond
Only the sound of the pedals filled the evening mountain road
Finally, she spoke
“Um, Onii-chan?”
“Yeah?”
“Do you seriously love the Class Rep?”
“Bfhh!!”
The bike just about fell over, but I swerved in an S-shape and soain our balance
“Why would you ask that without any warning, you incarnation of youth!!”
“Fuguu!! Fuguuuuuuuuuu!!”
“Aggaggh!? And why are you squeezingto ask this of a zombie, but try to control your emotions!!”
Unable to bear it any longer, I placed my feet on the road
After we stopped on the slope, ain Thanks to that, I couldn’t see her expression even when I twisted around
“Fine then, Onii-chan The one with you now and the one tea up with you is me, not the Class Rep”
“Oh, is your tantrum finally over?”
“Hmph!! Zubiii!!”
“Gyah! Why would you blow your nose on my back!?”
She finally removed her face from my back and climbed down from the bike
“Ayumi?”
“I’ry That’s a problem for a zombie like me, but you need to refuel too, don’t you? Stay here and I’ll go get us some food”
“H-hey!”
Before I could stop her, the zoirl ran off into the underbrush
Was she going to kick a vending etables fro to find soetas she didn’t start feasting on a pot full of rotting ars
But when she returned, Ayu unexpected
“What’s that? Barbecue?”
“There’s a ca there on a field trip”
She held several ave off the lovely aro of which…
There’s meat, meat, meat, and…um…meat…and…huh? More meat…???
“Why did you only grab the skewers of meat!? You meat-obsessed zombie!!”
“Sh-shut up!! Have you ever heard of a health-conscious zoetables!? You should be thankful it isn’t raw meat!!”
I could not figure out why Erika was jealous enough of the meat-obsessed idiot that she forced herself to drink a stomach full of blood!!
Anyway, after crawling through all that blood and gore, I didn’t have much of an appetite…or so I had assumed But once I saw the freshly-cooked food, I started salivating Biological reactions were a frightening thing
“Now that I think about it, this is a siht That’s crazy”
“But I think I read some reports that it’s so realistic that it can trick your brain into producing sorowth hormones and stuff”
“You’re kidding So you can gain weight without actually eating anything? B-but I’m a zombie, so if I need to I can just pull out soht Ah ha ha ha ha ha”
“Ayumi, I don’t think liposuction counts as a diet”
Ayuer on ave me a few of the skewers
“But what are we going to do now?” she asked whileon the meat
“That’s the real question…”
“Night will be here soon And that’s the vampires’ time…Onee-chan’s time My zombies didn’t spread as far as I’d hoped and the va to hunt the”
That e heard soh the air I looked up froe-painted helicopters They were flying in formation from the mountains to the plain
Ayu into the barbecue meat
“JSDF observation helicopters? That was fast It must have really shocked the city council and police to be taken out so easily They iven up on protecting their own turf Normally, they would never ask for outside help”
“Ayuue?”
“I guess it’s a habit for recon flights, but they’re pretty dumb to make a low-altitude entry like this… They won’t stand a chance against Onee-chan”
“You just don’t feel like explaining any of this tobrother, you know?”
I tried tracing a finger along the stitch running across Ayumi’s soft belly
It was dramatically effective
“Heeyan!? F-fuguuu!! Onii-chan, what are you doing!?”
“Why did you entire body convulse like that!? What kind of feeling just ran through you? I think that scared me more than you!!”
“W-well, it’s like the feeling of tickling a half-healed scab but amplified several dozen times over… Mutter, mutter Zombies have their own unique issues…”