A youth story of a passerby at the end of the world

"Do not misunderstand."

His words made Ichinose Honami and Shiranami Chihiro look in his direction.

"I'm about to confess my feelings right now. Ichinose, I've always liked you, please date me."

Ichinose Honami’s eyes widened.

That's for sure, it turns the perfect tense into the present tense, but this is the strategy chosen by Uesugi Genshin.

Even Shiranami Chihiro was surprised.

Perhaps she was shocked because he snatched away what she was about to say.

After hearing Uesugi Genshin's confession, Ichinose Honami was a little at a loss, but she quickly came up with the correct answer.

"sure."

“Huh?” “Huh?”

Well, two simultaneous exclamations rang out at the same moment.

Chihiro Shiranami's words are easy to understand, but Genshin Uesugi did not expect Ichinose to say yes. Wouldn't it be better to use this to express that "I don't have any intention of dating anyone right now, and I will definitely not date anyone no matter who confesses to me."

"Really?" So Uesugi Genshin looked at Ichinose in surprise.

"Yeah." Ichinose Hoba explained with a smile.

"Why did Ichinose-san accept this person's confession?!" Shiranami Chihiro shouted loudly, expressing her incomprehension.

And Uesugi Genshin also nodded in response.

"Pfft." This made Ichinose Hoba unable to hold back her laughter.

She put her fingers on her chin, looked up at the sky, and muttered, "Why?"

"Um, what do you like about Ichinose-san?"

The girl looked at Uesugi Genshin suspiciously, as if she had noticed something, or that Ichinose's original method was indeed very old-fashioned.

Even after improvements, it is not convincing enough.

But Shiranami Chihiro did not run away. Instead, she fell into a trance, as if her confession would be successful if she could prove that what she just did was false.

Refusing to confess is a path that will inevitably hurt the other person.

But Uesugi Genshin didn't have any burden about this, "Ichinose is like an angel."

Then, after about five minutes, the brave girl ran away from the two of them in small steps, with tears in her eyes.

Lily is wrong! Uesugi Genshin looked at her back and mourned in his heart.

"Even though she said everything will be the same as usual starting tomorrow, but... can we really get along like before?"

Ichinose Honami murmured as she looked at the direction Shiranami Chihiro left.

"Then you should be careful tomorrow and don't talk to her on purpose." Uesugi Genshin reminded that generally such timid girls are sensitive, and deliberate behavior may hurt her more deeply.

"Yeah." Ichinose Hoba nodded in understanding, and immediately changed her mood, then looked at him playfully, "So Uesugi-kun, when are you going to dump me?"

"...At least wait for a while." Since Ichinose wanted to avoid hurting the girl, he couldn't break up tomorrow.

Uesugi Genshin slowly stretched and began to walk forward, "Anyway, while I'm still the vice president, you and I will have work handovers from time to time. Otherwise, in her eyes, it's like we're really dating."

"That's right."

When I walked into the atrium, I unexpectedly saw an acquaintance.

Ryuen Sho, wearing a brown coat and holding a sandwich in his mouth, walked towards the two of them.

He did not eat in the cafeteria, but instead took a takeout sandwich, which should have been made by the cooking department using the toast that was not sold out in the morning.

"Hey~, I think I saw a girl running away crying just now." He laughed jokingly, "Did she break up?"

Failed confession and heartbreak are almost the same thing.

However, when Ryuen said this, he was looking at Uesugi Genshin.

He wouldn't think that Shiranami Chihiro was confessing to him, Uesugi Genshin thought.

That’s right, no normal person would think that a girl would confess to another girl.

"Hmm..." Ryuen Sho moved his gaze back and forth between Uesugi Genshin and Ichinose Honami, and finally made a meaningful sound.

It was like I guessed something, but what I thought was slightly opposite to the facts.

"By the way, what did you talk to Shiina yesterday?" Ryuen Sho suddenly mentioned another thing.

Although he didn't know why he mentioned Shiina Hiyori, Uesugi Genshin still said, "I asked the new secretary to bring her into the publicity department, and also asked her to live in the same apartment with Sakura."

Because he was the one who brought Sakura Airi here, he had to take some responsibility, so he went to the scene yesterday when the apartment allocation was discussed. Although he did not expect that Class B, which was clustered together at the time, did not have apartments allocated.

In his eyes, Shiina Hiyori is just a literary girl with poor physical strength. She should not be able to do heavy labor. It would be better for her to just handle clerical work honestly.

The price is that she has to pair up with Sakura Airi. One likes quietness and the other has almost zero social skills. They are a perfect match. At least they can get along peacefully, which is enough.

"Really..." Ryuuen Sho closed his mouth, as if he had nothing else to say.

"Why don't you just go and ask Shiina directly?" Uesugi Genshin shrugged.

"Although she and I were in the same class before, she is no longer under my jurisdiction now." This was at most the last bit of concern as the former boss.

Ryuen Sho stepped forward, and as he passed by Uesugi Genshin, he grinned and teased, "So if you want to make her your own woman, I can't do anything about it, Minister."

“…”Has his reputation reached this point?

Uesugi Genshin turned around speechlessly and looked at Ryuen's leaving back and said, "Don't be late this afternoon."

In response, Long Yuan waved his hand without even turning his head.

Chapter 337: Fight in the Shopping Mall

Don't be late is just a casual remark. In fact, when we arrived at the scene, most people had already arrived, and in the end no one arrived after the assembly time.

A total of three light trucks and one jeep were used in this operation.

The light trucks used by the Executive Department for operations have seats in the back. These vehicles were found in Xingang and can accommodate up to 18 people, but that would be too crowded.

So the arrangement is that two people sit in the front and ten people sit in the back, that is, five people in each row, just right, so that their arms don't touch each other.

I feel like laughing for some reason when I think of Long Yuan being huddled together with the others. However, if that really happens, it must be his team members who help him squeeze out some space so as not to make their boss so embarrassed. After all, the people in Long Yuan's team are all from Class C.

Then Ayanokouji Kiyotaka can also drive. Uesugi Genshin looked at him playing with the steering wheel with gloves on, like... a killer who specializes in causing truck accidents.

"Everyone knows the plan for this operation, right?" Hayasaka Ai, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the Wrangler, was using the radio to reconfirm with the three captains of the other three vehicles.

"Let me repeat, our four teams will enter the shopping mall from four directions, and we will mainly be responsible for clearing out the zombies on the first floor. Well, that being said, the zombies on the upper floors will definitely come down as well."

She paused and solemnly reminded, "Please be careful of falling objects. Please remind your teammates."

Because in some places the zombies on the second and third floors can see living people, and when they can't find a way to come down, according to their peculiar thought processes, they are very likely to jump directly from the upper floors.

It would be best if it died from the fall, but it is also possible that it would only suffer fractures that would slow down its movements, not to mention that if it happened to hit a person or a fellow creature, there is a high probability that nothing would happen to it.

Just as Hayasaka Ai continued her job as her assistant, Amasawa Ichika, who was sitting on the far right side of the back seat, yawned loudly.

"Didn't you come in the morning? Why haven't you gotten enough sleep?" Fenghua Guilongyuan, who was sitting in the middle, looked at Tianze yawning and said with a smile.

She herself was dragged away by the minister to the dojo.

"Well, I'm just adjusting my biological clock recently." Tianze Yixia said cheerfully.

This made Guilongyuan Fenghua roll her eyes, as if she was talking out of tune. However, someone gave a solution: drinking a bottle of wine when you can't sleep will make it easy to fall asleep. This was the suggestion he made to his 17-year-old self.

However, this reminded Guilongyuan Fenghua that the junior next to him seemed... only 14 years old?

Her birthday was in April, and Tianze's seemed to be in June. When they were filling out the application form for admission together yesterday, Guilongyuan Fenghua happened to see it.

"It is said that you are stronger than me, so let me see it this time." Guilongyuan Fenghua started talking about another thing.

"It's just a little bit stronger." Tianze Yixia used his thumb and index finger to gesture the concept of a little bit.

Horikita Suzune, who was sitting on the left side of Guilongin, had no interest in the conversation between the two. She squinted her eyes and looked at the road ahead through the gap in the steel plate outside the front window, while listening to the words of Hayasaka in the passenger seat.

But one thing that concerned her was that among the six people in the car, she seemed to be the only one who obediently wore that cosplay-like protective gear.

The man sitting in the driver's seat only wore a haori on the outside, probably because he didn't want to get his clothes dirty.

Miss Hayasaka, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was wearing a pure black tights-like outfit that looked like a cycling suit, with a yellow raincoat on the outside.

The two people on the right are much bolder. They just come wearing the school's red sportswear. It is obvious that Tianze is not a student of Advanced Development High School, and no one knows where she got this sportswear.

The Kamuro on the left wore elbow and knee pads over his sportswear, and also put on leggings.

So she was the only one who went to receive it and put on this black leather armor.

"..." With mixed feelings, she poked the leather on her chest. It was hard and indeed had sufficient defensive power, yet was not heavy.

Although it is not made specifically for women, I don't feel uncomfortable wearing the smallest size, and there is no obvious feeling of pressure on my chest.

"We're almost there."

Uesugi Genshin, who was sitting in the driver's seat, reminded the people in the car that the journey was originally a right-angle journey and the road was quiet. If they were not afraid of zombies suddenly jumping onto the road, they could arrive in less than five minutes by stepping on the accelerator.

"Ah, I see it." He stood up from his seat and moved forward a little. Tianze Yixia patted the back of the chair in front of him. "It's the place surrounded by gray iron sheets in front, right?"

"Yes." Uesugi Genshin removed the hand on his shoulder and said, "Sit down."

"Good~"

After entering the iron fence, he chose to stop in the open space in front of the shopping mall.

The three light trucks behind also stopped at a distance.

Unlike the members in the light truck who carried their own weapons, the weapons of the people in the back seat of the jeep were placed in the trunk.

Because a baseball bat wrapped with wire and nails takes up some space and may hurt people if you are not careful.

After getting off the car, Uesugi Genshin gestured towards the shopping mall, indicating that Hayama, Hachiman, Ayanokouji and the others should just go about their business.

The general movement routes in the shopping mall were also designed by Hayasaka with reference to the building floor plan, so that everyone can converge together in the end.

The open space seemed empty only with them, and today was cloudy, which prevented the temperature from rising.

It's already mid-May, but as long as there's no direct sunlight, it doesn't feel hot at all. It's the most suitable temperature.

"Let's go now that we're ready." Uesugi Genshin said to the people around the car.

"Yeah." "No problem." "Okay~"

The answers were varied and completely irregular, but they sounded comfortable.

The tone of this operation is to fight in as spacious an area as possible. This is not only for combat safety reasons, but also for the protection of the goods and subsequent cleaning and tidying up.

The bodies that had been piled up outside a few days ago had been taken away and burned by the cleaning team that had arrived, leaving only patches of blood on the ground.

They were going to enter through the main gate, which was why they were not in a hurry and did not need to go around to the other side like other teams.

"I'm in the front." Turning back, Uesugi Genshin assigned the tasks, "Kiryuin is on my right, Amasawa is on my left, Suzune and Kamuro are on the sides and back, and Hayasaka is at the back."

The basic formation is a diamond-shaped stance. Considering that there must be a lot of zombies inside, he does not intend to deliberately train his subordinates, but chooses to go all out in the front.

Among them, Hayasaka stood at the end because she was carrying a communication device. She was responsible for the rear guard and the supplementary command of the team as she had the widest field of vision.

Because there was a power outage, the automatic door did not open when I approached the gate. However, the glass of the door was broken, so it did not hinder entry.

Through two broken glass doors, you can see a bread shop on the left and a bento shop on the right.

The outermost area had been cleaned up in the previous few days. They were lured outside and killed, so there were no zombies here.

When passing by, Horikita Suzune picked up a piece of bread from a wooden shelf and saw through the packaging that it was covered with clumps of white fluff and was completely inedible.

Uesugi Genshin raised his chin to signal Guilongin, so Guilongin Fenghua began to poke the ground hard with a baseball bat, making a banging sound.

It seemed as if there were other sounds, but also as if there weren't.

But the air seemed to freeze, like the prelude to a storm.

As they continued walking forward, the sound continued to ring, trying to lure the zombies in the corner to the spacious middle road and then kill them.

After walking about ten meters further in, I finally heard some footsteps on both sides, as well as a low roar.

“Ah…” “Ah…”

It sounded like a patient with breathing difficulties. When they saw his figure, the figure also saw them and started running.

The first to engage the enemy was Amasawa Ichika. She held the handle of the stick with both hands and swung it hard, hitting a perfect home run that created a splash of blood.