episode_0027

We entered the school as people cheered.

Every time we walked through the hallways, people opened their windows and doors and gave us thanks and welcome.

It didn’t feel bad when I first received it, but it was quite burdensome to keep receiving it like this.

Well, unlike me, Seulbi was calm as if it was something she had experienced once or twice, and Subin kept shaking his shoulders as if he was in a good mood.

“Ha~. Everyone, aren’t you tired? It is right to express your gratitude and welcome to your benefactors, but for now, take a rest first. Haven’t you been fighting zombies all night? Are you really not tired? Those people, please come to me. There is a lot of work to do, including disposing of corpses and maintaining barricades.”

Slap!

At that time, a middle-aged man called Mr. Choi sighed and started nagging people, as if he couldn’t stand it anymore.

At the same time, people who were sticking their heads out through the windows and doors were disgusted and hid themselves, as if they had heard their mother nagging them.

Still, seeing as no one was uncomfortable, it seemed like the middle-aged teacher, Teacher Choi, was taking on a motherly role at this school.

“It was very noisy. I will apologize on your behalf.”

“It’s okay. It’s nice to be energetic, right? But how many people are there at school now?”

“…Excuse me, but why are you suddenly asking that?”

Teacher Choi gives me a wary look.

Do you think I asked that question because I had ulterior motives?

Well, I thought that might be the case and answered the question honestly.

“You need to know that before you can make a decision. Should I stay here forever or just stay for a while and go somewhere else?”

“Where else?”

“We will have to find out about that too. We’ve always been alone, so we don’t know anything. Honestly, I didn’t even know you guys were at school. I expected there would be people.”

“I see. Thank you for being honest.”

Fortunately, as soon as I finished speaking, as if what I said didn’t sound like a lie, Mr. Choi’s eyes withdrew his suspicions.

After thinking for a while, he soon asked us a favor.

“We can provide you with any information you may be curious about. But before that, why don’t you show us your faces? If possible, I would like you to tell me your personal information as well.”

“Face and personal information? It’s not about what the special ability is or how much material you have?”

I asked, puzzled.

For your information, as you may have already noticed from Teacher Choi’s words, Seulbi, I, and Subin were covering our faces with helmets the whole time.

“Personally, I believe that what is truly important in managing a group is not individual ability but character. And although it is not always true, personality can be guessed to some extent by the face and personal information.”

“…Seulbi, what should we do?”

“Please don’t teach me. If you hand over your personal information to someone else without knowing what kind of ability exists, you never know what might happen.”

“If that’s the case, you don’t have to worry. Only me and the vice principal will know the personal information. And my superpower is an ordinary physical ability, and the vice principal’s superpower is a power specialized for protecting the school, which is called school maintenance, so even if I know personal information, I can’t do anything.”

Teacher Choi carefully broke the doorknobs and signs around him as if to prove his point.

Not long after that,

“Teacher Choi! Stop destroying the school!”

From the other side of the hallway, an elderly man, an assistant principal, came running in with tears in his eyes and quickly fixed the items that Mr. Choi had broken.

“You saw it.”

“…Yes, I saw it. Minsu, I don’t think there will be any problem if you teach me.”

After saying this, Seulbi took off her helmet and shared her personal information.

I immediately did the same, and as a bonus, I also revealed Yerin’s face as she was riding on my back.

Teacher Choi’s face, which had been expressionless ever since they met, collapsed three times in a row: once when he saw Seulbi’s face, once when he heard Seulbi’s occupation, and once when he saw Yerin’s face.

In comparison, when he saw my face or heard my personal information, he didn’t even flinch his eyebrows.

I felt a little humbled.

“Why don’t you take your clothes off?”

“…It’s been a while. Teacher Choi.”

“You!”

Subin, who had been unable to take off his helmet even after Seulbi and I had revealed our faces, finally took it off at Teacher Choi’s urging.

Teacher Choi, who saw Subin’s face revealed like that, reacted more strongly than when he saw Seulbi and Yerin’s faces earlier.

‘Now that I think about it, Soobin is a student at this school.’

If so, it was not strange that the two people were familiar, but even so, such a strong reaction was incomprehensible.

It seems like something happened between the two.

“Well, how have you been?”

“…Yes. Thanks to the help from my older brother and older sister. But can I wear the helmet again?”

“That’s right.”

That was the end of the conversation between the two, and at the same time, an awkward silence fell around them.

Perhaps because the silence was uncomfortable, Teacher Choi slightly increased his walking speed.

After a while, when we arrived at the night shift room, which seemed to be where the security guard was staying.

“You can stay here for a day. We’ll bring you food right away. Well then, I’ll just leave.”

Teacher Choi disappeared down the hallway, leaving only minimal explanation.

“…No, are you leaving without locking the door? There is no point in isolating it like this.”

“Name and color are lifesavers, so it must have been burdensome to go that far. And it’s not like there’s no surveillance at all.”

When I was taken aback, Seulbi said this and pointed somewhere with her chin.

There was a surveillance camera installed there, and given its location, it seemed like it could clearly see who was going in and out of the night shift room.

After calming down a bit from my embarrassment, I went into my night shift room.

‘It’s better than the studio I lived in.’

Small kitchen, bathroom, washing machine, air conditioner, etc.

The sleeping room had everything you needed, and it was quite spacious.

It was cleaned very well, so I felt like I could have a fairly cozy day.

“Brother, older sister. I’m sorry, but can I sleep first? I’ll explain later how I was doing at school.”

Soobin asked in a weak voice.

First, he verbally asked for permission, but when I saw him pass by me and take a seat in the corner of the night room, the answer was decided.

Anyway, what is the explanation?

Did you expect us to ask what happened at school because of the awkward silence earlier?

‘But what should I do with this? ‘I’m not even remotely interested in what kind of school life you had.’

Seulbi seemed to be the same as me, as she snorted slightly without Subin noticing.

“New liquid, new liquid.”

If he had known our reaction, he would have been quite disappointed, but fortunately, Soobin fell asleep not long after he was put in the corner of the night room.

After confirming this with Lara, I took out three bedding from the dresser on one side of the sleeping room, laid them out side by side, and laid Soobin down on the bedding at the end.

Seulbi looked at me quizzically and asked.

“Why are you being so kind? If you think about what you’ve done so far, it wouldn’t be enough to just leave you alone.”

“Yes. That’s just not enough. So, I laid it here.”

After saying that, I laid Yerin, who was carrying her on her back, on the bedding next to Subin.

“…No way, right?”

“That is probably true. Subin, sleep well. While you are sleeping, the person you like will do something terrible right next to you, right where you can grab it if you stretch out your hand.”

What kind of expression will Subin show when he finds out about that fact later?

Just thinking about it gave me a surge of energy.

“Anyway, it’s trash.”

“What’s new?”

“Don’t like it because it’s not a compliment. But is it possible to do something bad? It’s been quite a while since Yerin fell asleep, so it wouldn’t be strange if she woke up right now.”

“If that’s the case, don’t worry. I got something from the supermarket.”

“At the supermarket? Ah, aroma oil and sleeping pills.”

After defeating the mutant zombie (sleeping) at the supermarket, I fed Lara the aroma oil and sleeping pills that I presumed he had taken when he was a human.

Thanks to that,

Slime production: Can produce slime with special effects. (Currently able to produce mucus – digestive fluid, aphrodisiac, oil, sleeping pill)

Lara is now able to create oils specializing in relaxing the mind and muscles and sleeping pills that force the mind to fall asleep.

“Ha~. Yes, do whatever you want. I’ll sleep well. And if you’re going to do it, do it in moderation. Please don’t wake me up by making a fuss.”

Seulbi, who realized that fact too late, sighed and laid down on the remaining bedding.

But is it just my mood that makes her look angry with the blanket covered all over her head?