32 Clean-up

Evidently I HAVE to write this: People, my dear readers. THERE WILL BE NO WORLD TRAVELING. EVER. FINITE.

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The next day came in peacefully, but Ryo knew that peace was nothing but a fleeting thought in an apocalypse. Zombies, people and who knew what could come later. As such, he had to work hard. The first thing he had to do was clear the surrounding area, making sure everything was safe. He still had that quest to finish, after all.

After finally being able to wake Yuriko and Saeko up, Ryo had breakfast with everyone and left through the main door. It was currently 8 AM, and he could see the Yamada mother and son duo running in between ten other people, with Kouta at the back trying to keep up. It was the group that chose to fight. They were currently undergoing a routine given by Hiratsuka from the time she was still training. Ryo didn't want to give his own routine because it was... less human.

Stopping for a while to watch them training, he couldn't help but smirk. He needed to raid a gym soon, because there was only so much trainin without equipment could take you. Unless you did calisthenics... like he used to. Wanting to keep his body at top shape, he decided to accompany them with his own training. After all, he hadn't done any training in almost 10 days.

When people saw Ryo taking off his cape and his shirt, they couldn't help but gawk at his body. After all, he was perfectly built. Right in front of them, Ryo did a handstand and, in said position, began doing push-ups. He felt them easier to do than before he died, something he concluded had to do with his stats being higher.

The morning passed like that, with people taking glances at him and the others training. At some point Miku, Saeko and Rei had joined him, something he really appreciated. After all, the sight of three beauties training was something memorable. What no one noticed though, was a young girl with pinkish brown hair staring at Ryo's figure while blushing. They had a light meal around 12 and, by 1 PM, Ryo was preparing to leave the Estate.

"Yuriko, Saya, since you two still have to teach the Yamada duo, you won't be coming with us" Ryo said, much to the girls' sadness. "On the other hand, we will be back before the sun fully sets"

After giving a short kiss to both Saya and Yuriko, which made the former freeze on the spot, Ryo left the Estate followed by Miku, Shizuka, Saeko, Rei and Hiratsuka. Rei had taken a spear from the weapons that were kept inside the Estate, which didn't surprise anyone since the girl used to be a part of the Sojutsu Club.

They didn't take the bus with them, since there was no need to. They would only be moving in the surrounding area of the Estate, clearing small groups of zombies until they could expand the perimeter a bit.

"By the way, why are you coming, Rei? You never wanted to kill the undead" Ryo asked while looking at the girl walking with a spear in hand. she looked at him with a troubled looked and simply told them the truth. "I don't want to stay because I am unable to accept reality. I want to fight by your side"

He just smiled warmly and patted her head, a habit he had developped whenever one of the girls seemed to be troubled. "Just don't force yourself too much"

*

In an open street, a young man was severing the heads of the undead with minimum effort. He was moving around them with ease while he twisted his Fauchard slightly, each movement to either left and right going through at least three heads. He had been at it for two hours already, slowly moving further away from the area he was in before.

Close to him, nor further than a few meters, were five girl. Mimicking his actions and cutting through the undead was a purple haired girl with a katana. If anyone were to see her movement, they would realize she knew how to wield the weapon perfectly. Second to her were a brown haired girl and a black haired woman, both mercilessly ripping through their heads. One with a spear and the other with fist weapons. The last two were a blonde bimbo and a girl with pale, reddish brown hair. The formed was smacking their heads left and right, clearly lacking the finesse of the rest, while the latter simple dashed through them while skillfully dodging movements.

Two hours after leaving the Estate, they were still tirelessly killing zombies. Ryo, who was paying attention to the girls, realized that the movement of Shizuka and Miku were getting sluggish, so he decided that it was more than enough and that they could take a rest. A few minutes later, once the group of zombies they had found was no longer existent, they entered one of the nearby houses.

"How many did you count, dear?" Saeko asked Ryo as she sat by his side and leaned on his shoulder, not caring about the other girls present. Shizuka sat by his other side and hugged his arm between her breasts, clearly insinuating how much attention she wanted from him. Rei, seeing no better option, grabbed a chair and sat behind him, resting her head on his back. Miku, clearly taken aback by the lack of space, humped and sat on his lap. Ryo was completely overlwhelmed.

"Sixty something" he said, trying his best to ignore all the sexual stimuli he was being attacked with. "There weren't that many in the area, after all"

The only person in the room who wasn't part of the inmoral whoring, as she wanted to referr to it, was Hiratsuka. She was fuming in anger and frustration, but most of all, jealousy. She also wanted to be part of it. She wanted to be with him. But she was too prideful to admit it. As such, she ended up frustrated, jealous and angry. The worst part was that she wanted to get angry at him, but just couldn't. After all, Ryo wasn't to blame, they had decided to all chase after him.

Half an hour of teasing and banter later, they decided to continue their hunt.

*

To Ryo, the time he spent with the girls was the most important. After all, he needed to know each of them and their liked and disliked. Even their behavior was important. How they moved when fighting, how they thought, their experiences. Ryo wanted to know all of it, and in exchange he would bare all of himself for them.

As such, he made sure to pay attention to each of them when they were killing zombies. He realized that Shizuka, in spite of being kind of an airhead and a total clutz, had a serious side to herself and a lot of determination to do her best. Saeko he already knew most about, but he had come to the realization that she liked to slash towards her right more than her left, which was useless information but a quirk of hers he now knew about.

Rei was very good with the spear and faced her doubts about killing the undead bravely, falling behind in numbers only to Saeko and himself. Hiratsuka was agile and flexible because of her experience and training, but she also was very aggressive and used a lot of strength in her punches. Knowing the reason why she was like that, Ryo decided to not make her angry at him if possible.

The last one was Miku. Unlike Shizuka, who clearly didn't have an ounce of skill when moving, Miku was graceful in a strange way. It was like her movement were made to get attention, something Ryo realized was indeed the case when she literally admitted that she was putting on a show for him.

Like that, they kept killing undead.

*

After six hours of being outside, Ryo decided it was time to go back. They had done a whole lap outside of the perimeter of the Estate. He asked Hiratsuka about her estimations and, so long as they kept at it for at least two more days, they would be able to expand the preimeter's radius about 3 kilometers. Ryo, now that he was talking to her, remembered that he said he would look for a cute nickname for her.

"Ok, then we'll keept at it two more days, Kitsu" Ryo said with a smirk. Since Hiratsuka smoked just as much as he did and most of their conversations, she decided to give her a nickname based on that. Kitsuen, which meant smoking, could be turned into Kitsune and, as a cute nickname, Kitsu. Hiratsuka's reaction was priceless. "W-What did y-you just call me?"

"Kitsu" he said once again. "After all, we smoke together a lot and it's cute right?"

For the first time he met her, Ryo saw Hiratsuka blushing. He felt extremely amused seeing the prideful, adult woman looking like a girl that had been caught doing something bad, but he couldn't help but enjoy the sight. After all, she was the one he had talked to the most before reaching the Estate. After that they slowly began talking less because they were both busy. Him doing things to keep everything in order and Hiratsuka... being jealous of the other girls.

"O-Only you can call me, that, you heard m..." realizing she was about to yell, Ryo put a hand on hermouth and shushed her. "Ok, that's just between you and me"

She nodded and, when he let go of her, he could swear he heard the cutest voice he had ever heard from her.

"You big dummy..."

'Is this really the agressive Hiratsuka I know?' he questioned himself when he saw her acting all meek and docile. He was surprised, but at the same time happy that her mood was finally better. Behind him, the other girls were also smiling.

As they all made small conversation, they reached the Estate once again. Surprisingly, the first one to jump on Ryo wasn't Yuriko, but Shouko. The hug was quick and tender.

"Welcome back, Ryo" she signed to him with a happy smile on her face. Ryo smiled warmly seeing the innocent and angelic girl. "I'm back, Shouko"

After greeting everyone, Ryo heard something shocking.

"Guys! There is a m-monster behind the Estate!"

Ryo definitely didn't have time to rest.

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Guys I leave this here as to what Ryo's clothes look like actually. Also: The cape is me being chuuni, but it looks cool so it stays there.

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