Chapter 3

After Jason asked around for Fujimi High School, they finally were in front of the place where the story starts.

It only took them 50 minutes to find it, they have the big amount of 10 minutes to fool around until the actual action start.

They already changed their clothes, now they no longer looked like people who escaped prison anymore.

Jake was dressed in a white shirt and black pants while the other two were dressed in casual wear.

Jake was standing in front of the gate with his hands in his pockets, the three of them were blowing bubble gum nonchalantly.

Jake popped the balloon he was making and said. "We didn't really think this through did we?"

Brad too popped the balloon and it splattered all over his face. "No, we mostly spent our time buying snacks and sweets."

Jason spit the gum he had in his mouth and said. "I told you we should formulate a plan, but Jake was too stubborn and insisted that he'll think of something."

"I'll tell you my amazing plan then:

Firstly, our mission is to kill 100 zombies each, meaning we don't really have to do much.

Second, if we stick closely to the main cast our chances of suffering casualties are practically zero.

Since a story needs their protagonists to go on."

Jason said with a satisfied face. "That's actually a pretty good plan.

But did you think of the others?"

Jake turned to Jason and said. "Others? What others?"

"The other 'players'. It was mentioned that we will all be in the same world.

Do you really think I am the only one who knows the plot of this anime? There are surely others who are already thinking of doing what we are doing, maybe they even met the main cast."

Jake's eyes widened and he said. "I totally forgot about them."

Brad said while chewing gum loudly. "So did I.

We were so focused on the important matters that we forgot the small details."

Jason said with a deadpan face. "It's the total opposite but whatever, what do we do now?"

Jake's face went to its normal calm one and he said. "We'll infiltrate the school, we will pretend to be students here in order to fit in."

Jason looked at his watch and said. "We only have 8 minutes left, are you sure this will work."

Jake smirked and said. "Hmph, who do you take me for.

My plan is flawless."

"Alright."

Jake's face went serious and he said. "If other players pose a threat to us don't hesitate to kill them."

Jason said with a bored face. "Who do you take us for? We were already going to do that."

Brad nodded his head in affirmation.

Jake smirked and said. "You're right, we don't show any mercy to our enemies."

Jake jumped over the two meter gate with ease.

The other two jumped over it too but not as easily as Jake, they had to actually try in order to make that jump flawlessly.

They walked towards one of the exists and stopped right in front of it.

Jake signaled to Jason and Brad to hold a corner.

They each went to their position, they had their backs to the wall and they were watching the perimeter.

This scene looked like something straight out of an action movie. With two people peeping over the corner.

Jake looked through the door's window and saw that no one was inside.

He slowly opened the door and peeked inside searching for any person that would see him.

There was no one.

'Looks like everyone's taking classes right now.'

He signaled them to come here and he entered the high school.

He ran towards the stairs and went to the first floor.

He started walking the corridor searching for a bathroom, before coming here he drank some soda so he really needed to use the bathroom.

The bathroom was clear too.

After he peed he got outside and looked at his two underlings who were waiting for him.

"How much time until the apocalypse breaks out?"

"3 minutes."

"Alright, all we need to do now is wait and meet the main cast.

The real reason why I even bothered to go out of my way to meet them was because there is probably a hidden reward for meeting them.

I would even be brave enough to say that different types of interactions with them may bring us different rewards."

"Makes sense, but to be honest I really wanted to see them to." said Jason.

Jake looked at him with a raised eyebrow and said. "Why?"

"The girls, they are hot. Probably the most beautiful women I will see face to face until now."

Brad looked interested so he said. "Care to elaborate?"

"Well, my personal favorite is Saeko. She is a girl with blue hair and ..."

While they were absorbed in their conversation about hot babes Jake felt that something was wrong.

He could hear the sounds of footsteps from his right but he didn't see anyone.

They were very quiet footsteps too, it was like someone was sneaking around trying to be as quiet as possible.

Jake leaned against the wall and decided to focus on listening to the footsteps.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer and he could even hear the breathing of a person.

*WOOSH*

As the footsteps were literally in front of him he plunged his hand forward.

*GRAB*

His hand grabbed something, it was hair.

"Wha-!?"

The person couldn't get to finish his sentence because Jake plunged his other hand into his neck.

"Oi, look what I caught. There was a little fish spying in on us."

They were confused by what Jake was saying.

Jason came near Jake and put his hand towards the invisible person he was holding slowly.

*TOUCH*

He touched the person's stomach and he retraced his hand backwards.

Brad's and Jason's eyes widened and Jason said. "Is that-?"

Jake interrupted him and said. "Yeah, it's an invisible person.

Judging by the width of his neck I have to say he's very fat. But I managed to grab onto the fat regardless.

Looks like these C-graded skills allow people to even turn invisible."

The guy's skill worn of and they say a naked greasy fat man with an ugly face.

Jake's face scrunched in disgust and he said. "This blob of fat was walking around the school naked all this time, who knows what kind of crimes he did."

The reason why his skill went off was because he was unconscious since his brain didn't get enough oxygen.

Their faces were cold and Jake said. "Should we get rid of him?"

Brad interrupted what Jason was about to say. "I'll take care of him, there's a chance his skill will be mine if I kill him.

And I think that getting that skill will pair well with mine."

Jason said. "He can have it, I don't want to walk around naked."

Jake threw him inside the bathroom and opened one of the doors to a toilet.

"Make sure to do it silently, we don't want the students to hear this. Dispose of the body well too, you can make use of the toilet to do it."

Brad's eyes became even colder and he said. "Understood."

Jake put his hands in his pocket and said while looking at the roof. "This seals it, there are definitely other players like us in this world."

Jason looked back on the closed door of the toilet and said. "Yeah, but that doesn't mean they are strong.

That player we just caught only has the ability to turn invisible but there have to be some kind of limitations, even if there aren't any limitations to that power in a world with people with all kinds of skills just being invisible won't cut it.

And I have a feeling that there are multiple reckless idiots like him that tried these missions in hope of getting another skill.

I'm telling you that some people our ages would risk their life just to see some of the beautiful women from these worlds."

Jake didn't look down but he said. "That's what I don't understand.

Why do something so unnecessary like that?"

He looked down, clenched his fist and raised it upward. "Don't they know that women are attracted by strong and reliable men?

Why chase them when they will naturally come to you?"

Jason smiled and said. "You're right boss, but most of the women from these anime worlds will fall in love with the most pathetic dude imaginable.

The man they usually fall in love somewhat resembles the watchers in some way, they make these ridiculous scenarios that somewhat justify their love for the man but it's still dumb."

Jake looked at him with his eyebrows raised and said. "I didn't know you were this knowledgeable about anime.

And I think I get the gist of what you're saying.

The knight in shining armor comes and saves the princess when she's in need, or something like that."

"That's one of it, but there are even dumber reasons. Some fall in love with these guys just because they're kind, even if they look average."

Jake smirked and said: "I get the feeling that there's some sort of hypocrisy in this kind of setting.

What if an average looking girl with a kind personality were to approach the protagonist?

Would he choose the beautiful girl or the plain one if he had to choose?

I would say from what you explained to me that these protagonists think with their dicks, resulting in them picking the beautiful girl."

Jason snapped his fingers and said. "Ding. Ding. Ding.

You are totally correct!"

Jason looked at his watch and said. "The apocalypse should have started by now. Looks like the zombies will take their time to come here."

"That means we can wait more, check on Brad and see if he's done."

"Alright."

Jason opened the door and disappeared from Jake's peripheral vision.

Jake went to a window and looked outside, there he saw a man trying to walk through the school gate.

"Is that a zombie? Looks like it got here faster than expected.

He's pale as fuck too, don't know the scientific reason behind that but it doesn't really matter does it?"

Jake heard Jason's voice from behind. "What are you looking at?"

Jake said without looking back. "There's a zombie outside the gate, I think the story starts now."

*CHING*

He felt a little pain in his back so he looked backwards, it wasn't Jason at all.

It was a teenager who looked like he was over 15 anyway.

He looked at the thing that fell to the ground and saw the blade of a knife, he looked back at the man's arm and saw him holding a knife with both hands.

*CRASH*

He grabbed him by the head and smashed him into a nearby wall.

The wall had a big hole in it and the guy was bleeding from every hole on his head, even his eyes were no exception.

"With how strong this guy is I wouldn't even need my skill to survive, even his skill at holding a knife sucks. It's probably his first time."

The guy was out cold just from his head being smashed into concrete.

"Boss!"

Jake heard Jason yell so he looked towards the bathroom and saw him getting out of the bathroom together with Brad.

After they saw he was ok they looked at the unconscious teen and said. "What happened?"

"This player has some sort of skill that alters his voice, I was looking out the window at a zombie bashing its head against the gate and I heard Jason's voice.

I didn't look back since I was focused on the zombie and he took advantage of that. Too bad my skin as tough as steel, his blade broke.

Enough about that. Did you get his skill, Brad?"

"Yeah, it requires me to be naked and it only works for an hour a day."

"That's a good one, does anyone like the skill of altering your own voice?"

They both shook their head signaling no.

"Alright then, look at the gate for the zombie while I kill this player."

He went near the kid and formed a spear hand.

He plunged it directly in his heart crushing it.

While he was not exactly dead he might as well be, since he can't go conscious and there's no doctor nearby that could stabilize his situation he's as good as dead.

Brad said. "A man was just bit by a zombie some time ago. Oh now there's a woman that was bit too, they are both in the school perimeter."

Jake took some gloves from his pocket and put them on his hands. "Well, looks like it's time to stop fooling around."