Vol 1 Chapter 9 (2/2)

It was not the sa” the human population

That was the hu a step toward the undead side

It was a desire to join them

No

It was because those pure words had been ignorant of everything involved that they had reached those girls’ worn-down hearts

They had reached their hearts and re

“Ridiculous, isn’t it? Those words knew nothing of the world’s pain and suffering! But they still saved us!! We illing to give up on anything and ere fine with breaking our fangs or throwing away our wings We just wanted to ain!! We wanted to become the wonderful person he saw us as!!”

“But at the same time, anted to become the kind of undead that could iain!! A endary hero? We wanted to show him the ultimate Archenemy that could flick all of those aside with ease!!”

Finally

When I heard that, I felt like a mystery had been solved

And I don’t ht Cross I un this fight when they usually got along so well?

If a zombie and vampire went all out, which one would win?

It should have been a casual comment in my phone conversation with the Class Rep It should have been an idle question

But it had been a decisive stateentle and soft place

So there had been no stopping them

The disaster environital farce with a little ame But they would settle it here Those sisters who shared everything illing to devour each other’s flesh and blood to keep the title of the 1 undead for herself

They did not want to give it up

That was the humanity inside those Archenemies’ hearts

“…Maxwell”

“Sure”

“Using any privileges you can, is there any way of ending the simulation here?”

“There is not Your privileges have been rewritten, so ades are temporarily unusable And as Areater privileges than the others That reduces the risk of a single user possessing all privileges, but at the same time…”

“Things tend to get stuck in the status quo So none of us can stop it”

“It all comes down to whether the zoin once that is settled in some fashi+on”

Of course it would

We wouldn’t be trapped in this virtual world forever If one of my sisters died as they rolled around and tore at each other’s flesh and blood, ould be safely returned to the real world That would probably happen in another five or ten minutes

But I didn’t want that

Even if it wasn’t logical, I just couldn’t accept this

If the undead devoured each other and either the va That was the best o with it no matter how cruel it was

That sounded like the Bright Cross’s reasoning, so I wanted to vomit It was no different than Level 4’s colosseum

This battle had begun with Erika and Ayumi’s selfish desires

They had forcedwith it

So…

I would make sure it was my selfish desire that ended it!!

The intent of the simulation didn’t matter

I would tear down that pre-established harmony

I didn’t want this

I understood how they felt

But that wasn’t the sas

What could beto kill each other and wouldn’t stop until one of the in a pool of blood, anyone would want to stop it

I was here

I could affect this It was possible I could change so

Even if it was as trivial as a breeze rustling the leaves in a tree

I couldn’t just watch on without doing anything How could I!? I had to reflexively tell the! Isn’t that what family is for!?

I knew Ayue forward and then later start to nervously wonder if she should have done that She liked sunbathing despite being a zo all the fads, and she would co with her She was incredibly athletic and lovedher body, but she worried on her own that it wouldn’t be fair to join a team when she was an Archenemy!!

And I knew Erika would readily pout her lips despite how mature she looked She was a vale roach crawled out from behind a dresser or cabinet She needed to drink fresh blood, but she still loved eating a normal meal while we all sat around the table And she was s, but on her career planning forht up wrote that her dream for the future was to become a lovely wife!!

I knew them

I truly knew them

They were not throay characters from an RPG or FPS They weren’t monsters created only to be defeated by sole, and work to reach for happiness! I knew they were their own people with their own personalities!!!!!!

So

I only had a split-second opening

As Erika tried to get on top, she used her leg to kick Ayu In that instant, they planned to charge right back at each other before they could even catch their breath

If I was going to end everything and interfere, it had to be there!!

“Wha-…ah!?”

“Satori-kun!!”

They cried out in surprise, but it was too late

I heard so torn

They had opened their et each other’s throats, but those jaws and fangs mercilessly rushed toward me instead

The zombie and the vampire both bit me at the same moment

There was no saving ht not have to watch h up blood and tear their organs apart

I had eliminated that possibility

It was a small difference, but I had to fill it

Even if it was one piece at a time

That was the only way to reach the impossibly distant stars

“Ah, ahh, ahhh”

“It can’t be Is this flavor…ugh…Satori-kun’s…?”

Honestly

Why were they freaking out now?

I had been forced to watch this the entire time Even if it was only virtual, I had been forced to see both of the to kill each other all this time

It was time they felt even an instant of that pain

It was tiht me

As they stepped back in confusion, I reached out to theainst my bloody neck

I wasn’t going to let them escape after all this

I wasn’t going to die for no reason

I would settle this once and for all

But in a way they had never expected!!

“Erika, Ayu”

“Wh-what are you-…?”

“A battle between a zombie and a vampire isn’t about a physical brawl It’s a battle of infection, right? Isn’t that why you needed a sirab at each other’s hair…?”

I tried to say ht in

I couldn’t die yet

I couldn’t let go of my consciousness until I had said this

“So your final battle needs to be one of infection, right? Since there are no o for bench on a smaller scale”

“Onii-chan, do you mean…?”

“A zo to you, it’s hard to turn a zombie into a vampire or vice-versa But if both of you bite a normal person at the same time, which one will infect the victim’s body first? Which will take control? Which will becoe? At the very least, it soundsthan the kind of brawl you could have in the real world…”

My

My vision was falling into darkness

Mixing theether had apparently been a bad idea I had never had my blood sucked by a vampire or been bitten by a zombie, but this had to have been worse than a normal reaction

“Onii-chan! Wait, Onii-chan! Why are you going pale!? Why aren’t your eyesproperly!?”

“U-urp…! I let ht it would be this painful to see up close!!”

You morons

But I was glad The fact that they went pale here was proof that they were “human” They had caused pandemonium inside the simulator, but there was more to them than that

“…”

At any rate, this settled things

But hoould it turn out?

Which did I think would win? After being bitten by both a vampire and a zombie, which did I think would rule me?

No, that wasn’t quite the right question

Which did I hope would win?

“I think Erika in and I will become a vampire”

“I think Ayumi in and I will become a zombie”

[Pick Up] Response to the Automatically Transmitted Results [Net Files]

Public Kukyou 1st High School

The zoan here

The situation was detected by the Weather Spheres and by the intelligence team’s drone

But the central tearessed while we planned to snatch away the zombies and vampires and cover up the situation without the

Harbor Shopping District

As it was daytie The infection spread froh school

A few blocks around the shopping district were consumed

The Bright Cross was split on how to respond

The central tearound activity wanted to prioritize a cover up, but the intelligence tea people In the na secrecy, the central tearound and a portion of the aboveground intelligence teaht Cross

The va information in secret

At this point, they had at least sent spies to the city council, police stations, and broadcast stations It is also esti with an Upior that canthe day, but our net has yet to catch it

With the va the es, the panic has spread Animals and plants not from the zoo have also been seen infected

The va north

The runaway portion of the intelligence team seems to have used a tour bus to pick up normal citizens, but they were attacked by the zombies and wiped out

The police stations, city council, and the city’s other important institutions are overrun with vae has also spread within the unofficial shelters where the norathered in theatres and stadiu the upper hand The devastating dah the Bright Cross as well

After athis proble only Kukyou City’s own forces assistance from the JSDF and other external forces has been requested

Central Business District

The JSDF answered our request and sent a unit of helicopters into Kukyou City (on the pretext of responding to a natural disaster)

But the varavity of the situation, the JSDF has given up on saving the Bright Cross and nore fro the entire city

Definite flaws in the Bright Cross’s chain of co

The central tea ience tea faith in the more disobedient

Kukyou Dam

The zombies have attacked Kukyou Dam

To preserve the secret hidden in the reservoir lake, ence team and response team were sent out, but the dam was still destroyed

Not only does this expose the botto of the entire city will cause problems later The various doors cannot be opened due to the water pressure, so we are trapped inside

Harbor Shopping District (Flooded)

The chain of coer function as an organization

We are only given sihted resistance or evacuation missions and they are simply a waste of time

Meanwhile, the va the the day

Central Business District (Flooded)

The sporadic fighting between the zoht Cross cannot head out to confirm

The zombies had already flooded the city and now the vaend of the Varcolaci’s lunar eclipse to create a false asteroid strike which has annihilated the central business district Kukyou City has entirely ceased to function as a city The JSDF has temporarily withdrawn and pulled back their line of defense It was discovered the vaotiator attempted to contact her, but she refused to speak

Public Kukyou University Hospital

After the flooding sealed the doors and the false asteroid strike outside, the Bright Cross’s opinions are split over whether we should hole up here or head outside

The one door we can open is the one in the elevated hospital, but a zombie has attacked there The zoht Cross member still in the hospital and unlocked the door that way

The surface group in that hospital was annihilated in the second false asteroid strike

The zoround Tunnel Network 228D, so the Bright Cross has lost our only exit

The response team and cleanup team attempted a final resistance but were defeated

Bright Cross Disaster Prevention Foundation Underground Activities Facility

The invasion of the zombie and vampire could not be stopped

The infection has spread deep into the facility and all functions as an organization have ceased

Summary

The report from the Maxwell Civilian Cooperative Disaster Environiven a secrecy classification of S

The provided data is incredibly useful, but great care must be taken in how it is used If anyone treats this treasure trove of data as ridiculous excess, they ence to take part in this project

The most valuable information is the tiht Kukyou City to ruin and how pathetically reactionary every one of our actions was

Let me put it simply

If this exact scenario occurred in reality, ould be helpless with our current equipment and the number of victims would be the same

The Weather Spheres distributed throughout the city, the Underground Tunnel Network creating a retrieval infrastructure, the heavily-armed response team meant to use those tunnels, and the Level 1-4 disposal rooless This could not be more obvious by the fact that the Archeneround base at the end

We must reform our system ASAP

Also, weany hasty action in response to this If we take any forceful measures driven by anxiety or fear, ill leave holes open for the vampires and zombies to attack and I do not even want to think how many people they will turn into their pawns We must also be very cautious hoe handle Amatsu Satori, the boy ns the simulator This was only a virtual field reproduced by physics calculations on a machine build by an amateur with no help from a university and with no educational history, so it has almost no credibility No matter what he announces to the world, we can silence hi it a simulation based on erroneous calculations, but we could also dispose of the boy for co into contact with these secrets But if we rush to do so, it wouldwithout a plan could easily provide a short-ter-term defeat

This has also increased the possibility that ould ultimately fail if we attempted to seal off this land like the penal colony it once was Do not forget that a single mistake could lead an entire nation to ruin after they asked the Bright Cross for protection

Although that could change if we could establish a new order

Make sure you do not crush that slight re

We will conquer all “disasters”

And we are well aware that “they” exceed hu

-Bright Cross Disaster Prevention Foundation Central Team