3POV
For a whole second, all sounds vanished—all sounds except for the moaning of the zombies and the heavy breathing of that terrible monster that had sent even Isao, the one they all considered almost a divine spirit, flying aside with a single blow.
That alone made them all stare in shock at the enormous monster with dark, stone-like skin and four arms, from whose mouth disgusting greenish saliva flowed like a waterfall.
The creature wheezed, breathing heavily, paying no attention to the other people, looking only at the destroyed hospital guard booth by the gate, until…
"Anii!" Kotobuki scread, a deathly cry, calling for her beloved brother.
"Isao!" The voices of two people overlapped as they shouted the na at the sa ti. Kyoko looked in confusion at the pink-haired girl, who blushed under her gaze.
The survivors—children, won, and the old man, the father of the two girls—flinched when the creature's head snapped in their direction.
Everyone froze again. But even though ti continued to move, the monster didn't move toward them; instead, it turned its head back toward the ruined booth, letting everyone let out a quiet sigh.
Takashi, Hisashi, Takuzo, and all the other combat-capable people wanted to approach and try to do sothing against this monster.
But... but even Isao couldn't do anything. What could they do to it?
"Get on the bus." Takashi quietly hissed this to everyone still standing by the bus, and also pointed at Kohta, nodding him toward the bus, to which Kohta himself nodded, trembling as he held his nail gun.
Everyone else remained outside, slowly approaching the bus with quiet steps, trying to hit the heads of the dead, who had begun to appear incredibly quickly, as quietly and accurately as possible.
A small portion of them began to erge from different corners of the street, but the larger part... the hole in the hospital wall was a huge damn door that the big guy had opened for its smaller brethren.
"So what do we do?" Hisashi looked at Takashi, striking a dead man in the center of the head, killing it instantly.
"I... I don't know, but I don't want to believe Isao died from that hit." Takashi replied, looking tensely and with slight desperation at the unmoving monster, while killing a dead man that had gotten behind Takuzo.
"He's not dead." Saeko stepped forward, killing several of the dead with two swift slashes. Her voice was full of confidence in her words, not to ntion she was relaxed. "Before the monster managed to hit him, Isao managed to create a shield, which dispersed the damage across the shield itself. Only a small part hit Isao, which is what caused him to be sent flying." She raised her blade toward the big guy, which had begun to wheeze angrily. "Not to ntion, the dead sense sothing in people. If Isao had died, it would have rushed us instantly."
Right after she finished speaking, the rubble trembled, causing the big guy to start moving as well. Clumsily, but sharply, it grabbed one of the passing zombies and, with a roar, threw it with all its might toward the rubble.
The makeshift projectile flew at incredible speed toward the rubble, causing everyone watching to freeze in fear. But the projectile didn't hit the rubble; when only a few ters remained, a tal wall appeared out of thin air, against which the dead man collided, instantly exploding into bloody chunks.
"F-fuck..." Isao erged from under the rubble, tossing a wooden plank aside, making everyone exhale in relief. His voice sounded loud, even over the wheezing and groans of the dead all around. "I'm fucking done playing with death." He slowly raised his finger, pointing at the big guy through the tal wall, which had risen to its full height and begun to bare its teeth, growling loudly.
The defensive tal wall slowly moved aside, opening a space between Isao and the Big Guy, allowing the latter to start moving in bursts toward Isao.
But instead of dodging, running, or using the previously created wall, Isao continued to stand like a statue, pointing his finger at the Big Guy, who was already getting quite close.
An instant, and the entire street flashed with an incredible blue light. The line was branching, not to ntion the color of this thing, which shimred with different tones of blue, an eye-searing brightness that forced everyone to close their eyes.
But it was the sound that followed that deafened them, an incredibly loud crack, which felt like it deafened their ears, and the shockwave of incredibly cold air made them clench their teeth until their gums hurt.
When so people recovered more quickly from this and blinked to drive away the slight blindness, they opened their eyes to see Isao on his knees, and the Big Guy completely encased in Ice, unable to move.
And dozens, if not hundreds, of zombies also stood behind him, encased in the sa ice, making them all stare wide-eyed at the sight.
Among those people was Saeko, who, realizing Isao was exhausted, quickly ran to him.
POV Isao Tsumugi, who definitely can't escape the title of Kami now.
My body ached. Even the 'Steel Man' trait and so others weren't helping cope with the stamina depletion.
Not to ntion my head, which felt like a hole had ford in it, leaking all my ntal strength, or maybe just my brains, because fuck, I was trembling and felt pain not only in my whole body but, for so fucking reason, also in my... head? My mind? My spirit? The hell knows. But literally everything hurt!
And I realized why.
Unlike people from worlds like Naruto, Jujutsu Kaisen, Bleach, and so on, I didn't have internal energy. I had no chakra, no reiatsu, no cursed energy.
Therefore, all my abilities were tied to my stamina. Every ti I use any ability, it gets depleted, and if it weren't for 'Steel Man'...
If not for that, I probably would have died from exhaustion long ago from using my abilities so often.
'Steel Man' made exactly what the trait na implied. My consumption of food, water, need for sleep—all of it was reduced a hundredfold, fundantally changing in terms of endurance. And the 'Strong' and 'Durable' traits helped it out a bit.
And fuck, was I grateful for that, because if not for this combination of circumstances, I would have already died hundreds of tis.
Everything was blurring before my eyes, while my hands rested on the ground, supporting on all fours. I didn't want to collapse completely; I had to maintain at least so Aura Points in front of the people I'd saved.
I felt a warm liquid start to flow down my face, from my nose, and vaguely saw red drops on the ground.
"Ah-h..." Focusing, I tried to stand up, but couldn't. My arms just trembled from the pain, almost making fall face-first onto the ground, but soone caught under the arm, stopping from smashing my fucking face into the dirt.
And this soone gently lifted , helping rise. My legs trembled and I almost fell, but instead, this soone managed to throw my arm over their shoulder and grab by the waist, not letting fall.
My head slowly turned to the right and lowered. I saw Saeko's shining, dark blue eyes, which were looking at with incredible love.
She nodded to and looked forward. I nodded too and looked where she was looking, seeing that bastard encased in a block of ice.
He stood with his arm outstretched toward , mouth open in a roar, but he was a dead man frozen in a chunk of ice, who would definitely die from my ice-thunder, along with a hundred of the dead in the sa ice, standing like statues.
[Encounter and kill an Evolved Zombie]
[Silver Ticket]
[Kill more than one hundred zombies with one blow]
[Silver Ticket]
Damn it! Gacha, are you serious?! C'mon! I'm half-dead right now, what the fuck did you give silver for instead of gold!
My pitiful thoughts received no answer. And I myself was just complaining because I wanted to complain. I understood I got a silver ticket for killing the big guy because that dead man didn't pose a particularly strong danger to , and a hundred dead with one blow didn't impress , because I could have done that with tal blades too.
"Let's go, Isao-kun, you need to rest. You did a good job." Saeko squeezed tighter by the waist, and we turned and walked toward the bus, with a limp, and Saeko with a firm step.
With blurry vision, I saw several people running toward , and as they got closer, I recognized them as Mom, K-imoto, Saya, and Rei, who instantly threw themselves at , hugging from all sides.
"Ah, my baby...!" I felt the left side of my shirt get wet from Mom's tears.
"Anii!" K-imoto pressed against from the middle, squeezing in her arms with joy and relief.
"Isao!" Saya pressed against from the right side, also crying and sobbing with relief.
"Isao-san!" Rei pushed Saeko away, causing her expression to harden, but allowing Rei to embrace .
While I understood why Mom, K-imoto, and Saya were crying, I didn't understand why Rei was crying.
Yes, I was her acquaintance, but enough to cry over ? That was even a little surprising...
"Ow, ow, not too hard... please, everything hurts." My voice was weak and trembled slightly, but I decided not to leave them all without a response and hugged them all back, pulling them all close to .
"S-sorry, son..." Mom raised her head and looked at , while tears continued to flow down her cheeks. Her expression was so... vulnerable, and it made my heart beat, feeling the love.
So I kissed her on the forehead and just hugged her. We stood like that for a while, hugging each other and warming ourselves in the warmth of our embrace, but we needed to move...
Yes, move to a safe place, to the Takagi Estate. I'd already saved everyone I needed to save and picked everyone up, so we'd better get moving there now, since...
I looked up, seeing the sun was already beginning to set, even though it felt like only half an hour had passed. But my senses had deceived .
"Let's get moving..."
"Yes, we should go to the bus, since the boys seem to be getting tired." Saying this, Saeko drew my attention, making look back at Takashi and the other guys.
And right now, they were killing all the dead that approached the bus. So were already showing they were tired, their legs trembling slightly, and their hands almost slipping off their bats.
I looked down into the eyes of those hugging and nodded.
"A-all right, the hug session is over for today. Let's go." Saying this, I moved forward, while they supported .
We slowly moved toward the bus, and as we walked, my gait slowly fird up and beca more confident, and even the pain subsided a bit, allowing to breathe a little easier.
When we reached the bus, Rei and Saya let go of . Only Mom and K-imoto supported and helped get inside.
"You can let go... I'm more or less recovered."
"But, Isao!" Mom was against it, as was K-imoto, who pinched my arm.
"Don't be stupid, Anii. We're not letting you walk on your own until you're properly rested." She looked intently into my eyes, making sigh. After that, I looked around the bus cabin.
Everyone inside was looking at with admiration, and sothing resembling fanaticism. And I realized that... I just couldn't escape their "Kami" label.
Simply because I'm just too fucking strong. Not to ntion that the Gacha really could make a god if I pull sothing that helps beco one. Because of this, I sighed, but accepted it.
"Then let's go to the very back..." They nodded and, holding , walked to the very last row of the bus. They helped sit down. K-imoto wanted to sit with , but I shook my head, because I wasn't planning on sitting, but rather lying down and taking a nap, which they understood without words and left alone.
I closed my eyes, but before falling asleep, I decided to use the tickets.
How many tickets do I have, Gacha?
[ You have 4 Silver and 1 Bronze]
Use the bronze.
[Rough Knuckle]
|Common Ability|
Allows you to slightly augnt your fists with energy, allowing the average man to shatter bricks with their fists. The more energy you expend, the greater the augntation, but it is not very efficient.
An ability that makes my punches much stronger if I put energy into them? More precisely, if I put my stamina into these punches?
Hmm... overall, an interesting ability. Use the other 4 tickets.
[Bloody Imitation]
|Rare Ability|
MHA - Allows you to transform your physical appearance to the blood of soone you have consud at will down to the most minute details. The duration of the disguise is equal to (ml of blood consud x 1 minute).
[Wind Edge]
|Uncommon Ability|
Allows you to cloak any item you are holding with razor-sharp winds to enhance its cutting ability while also allowing you to launch the cloak any ti as a projectile to extend the cutting effect.
[The Straw Hat]
|Trash Item|
One Piece - Holds a lot of sentintal value to a certain sun god but not much material value.
[Golden Shot]
|Common Trait|
Your little swimrs are the strongest in the world, any woman you cum inside of WILL get pregnant, even if they are more barren than the arid desserts your sen does not care.
Hmm, Bloody Imitation. Overall, a disgusting ability with good utility, but a pretty dubious thod of use. No way in hell I'm using this in normal monts, but if a lot depends on it, I'll have to use it.
Woah! Now the second ability is pretty good. And if combined with my ability to create various tal things, it becos incredibly useful and good.
The third was an item, naly the hat that belongs to one guy worthy of respect. As soon as we get sowhere where I can "get" it, I'll do it imdiately and wear it everywhere.
And the very last one... shit, are you serious? This fucking thing... shit... it's a good thing and the guys grabbed several, or even a dozen, packs of condoms of different sizes. The path to unprotected sex is now closed to ... and I loved danger so much...
Mda... not very lucky with that last little thing.
[ You have 10 abilities]
[ 1 free ability slot]
Oh! Now that's good. I imdiately put Wind Edge into the free slot and now I've carelessly drifted off to dreamland...
Yeah... I should... rest...
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