System Of The Undead Chapter 31: The Camp

Chapter 31: The Camp

"Fuck! I'm starving, what is taking them so long?" Bella complained as the ladies waited for the n to return.

The ti was ticking away but the ladies knew that this was a good ti to bond and get to know each other on a deeper level.

"Say Bella, how did you end up with those guys?" Rachel asked, this was an important question because they didn't know Bella's circumstances but she was hanging out with shady people.

"I'm not proud of what I have done but everything I did, I did to survive. I joined them on my own, they offered protection but I had to carry my weight," Bella said.

"They?" Rachel asked, this implied that there was more than one.

"That is right, Randy and I were sent to scout the area but then we ran into you guys," Bella said. Clentine found this sketchy as she was a cautious individual.

"Yes, they have a camp set up not too far from here," Bella said and this was where Clentine intervened.

"A camp? Why didn't you return to them?" Clentine asked and Bella hesitated for a brief mont before Clentine continued.

"It is a branch, they recruit the worst of the worst but I have heard that they have a main camp elsewhere. A strange man ca every week to cart off the goods that we had gathered." Bella spilled information she had no business spilling but this was her way to show them that she was trustworthy.

"I couldn't return because I abandoned one of my own. The mbers aren't allowed to return alone, this was to prevent people from killing each other." Bella confessed.

"That is smart... If they cannot return without one another then they are forced to have each other's backs on the run. The supplies, how much are we about?" Clentine questioned.

Rachel noticed that Clentine's questions were a lot better than hers as this had turned into sowhat of an interrogation.

"There are a lot of supplies, everything you would need," Bella said but Clentine wasn't interested in the branch.

"Do you know how to get to the main camp?" Clentine asked but Bella shook her head.

"Unfortunately, no one knows. It isn't exactly a wise decision to allow killers and rapists to know where everyone else is," Bella said and it did make sense.

Clentine was surprised by how logical these people were, they recruited killers to do the dirty work so they wouldn't have to do it themselves but there were so many loopholes in this plan.

"Hahaha! You're right," Clentine responded with a faint laugh.

"What was that fake laugh?" Rachel thought and this made distrust Clentine in the process.

"WE ARE BACK!" Sam exclaid as he barged into the room with the bag full to the brim.

He was unaffected by the dead bodies as this was just another day at work for him but Jason was a lot different.

Sam was swiftly surrounded by the girls, each trying to pick their treat as their stomach could easily be the source of the rumbling but luckily for them, Eren Yeager wasn't in their stomach.

Sam dropped them back to the ground and watched them scavenge like cavewon.

He couldn't bla them, they were starved and Jason walked in after a full minute after Sam.

He didn't look happy and simply dropped the bag to the ground.

The girls were so occupied that they didn't notice when he even entered, everyone but Rachel that is, The mont Jason dropped the bag, he went outside.

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Jason stood outside, staring down from the second floor but he felt a light nudge on his shoulder.

"Hey, I brought you sothing," Rachel said as she handed him a bag of chips.

Jason didn't have an appetite because he had just taken a life, he actually murdered a man with these two hands even though it was in self defense but what truly weighed on Jason was the fact that he had murdered an innocent child. At the mont, he didn't think much about it but after having done it, it was a different reality.

He hated the way it made him feel, Jason pride himself in being the only participant in his world and this was why he avoided human interaction as much as possible.

But now he had stained his hand and Jason couldn't help but think that sothing inside him had broken.

"Haha! I'm not hungry, I will eat that later," Jason responded awkwardly and Rachel didn't pressure him into anything.

"I will keep it for you then," Rachel said and Jason expected her to go back inside after this because her objective was done but she instead stood beside him, joining him in looking into the horizon as both rested on the rails that acted as a safety asure to stop people from falling over.

The silence was loud and Jason was visibly uncomfortable with it, he felt like he had to say sothing or she might get the wrong impression about him.

"You don't have to say anything, let's enjoy the silence... Together," Rachel said and Jason felt a huge weight lift off his shoulder.

He briefly rembered Rachel comforting him after that phone call with his brother and now she was doing the sa thing right now.

She saw when he wasn't himself even without him uttering a word and Jason knew he needed to let it out or it might eat him up.

"I-I killed a man today..." Jason said; he looked at his hands, horrified.

"It was nothing like a video ga..." Jason said and all he felt was a gentle hand on his back.

Rachel began stroking it, she knew this was a delicate matter and she only wanted to talk if he needed her to.

"You did what you needed to do to return to us, Jason. As long as you return, any choice you make is the right one," Rachel said and for so reason, these words were enough to keep Jason ground. It offered him a different perspective on things but before he could fall deeper into his thoughts.

The bag of chips was shoved in his face as Jason noticed that Rachel wasn't backing down.

"Now, eat sothing. I can't have you dying on ," Rachel said with a smile, this was the first ti that Jason saw her smile. She looked like a goddess.

"Thank you... Rachel,"