Unexpected meeting

"Wa… what the hell … "

I coughed lightly but I felt my entire hurt like hell.

"Why my entire body so hurt. Where am I?" Dazed, I tried to reach my arm out but I couldn't. The feeling of terrible pain made me not to try it again.

"The roof. Why I see the roof here?" fully aware, I opened my eyes widely.

"No. It can't be." I looked left and right. I could see both my hands were bandaging bonus my legs too. Now I looked not different from mummy.

"Cough. Cough. My lungs. So hurt."

"Alice. Where are you?" I roared out loud.

Immediately, a sound replied back.

"I'm here brother."

"Alice. Where are we now?"

"We're in a house on mountain. That's what that old woman said."

"I'm on mountain. No. Who is that old woman you said."

"She is the one dragging you from the bank to here. You and I were floating on river at that time."

"Right." recalling those words, I now remembered. When zombies were approaching me and Alice, I jumped off the bridge to escape the surrounded.

If I'm not wrong, I made a proper shape to land but something stuck on my face at that time. In instinction, I used my hand to take it off but forgetting that I need to maintain one pose. As a result, my whole body impacted the surface of water. Back to the moment, I was laying on bed due to my stupid instinction. Stone bed. My back was killing me.

"I regret now. I thought it would be cool to jump at that height."

"Now I understand what is burying yourself."

Nonetheless, I tried to stand back up. It seemed very hard for me. My legs were also broken a little bit but not too bad. I can still stand.

I limped towards the door but being held back by Alice.

"Brother. You are still injury. You need to rest."

"Rest. That'll be later. I have thing that must do." I dragged my heavily body with each step.

"Brother. She said that if you want to find your friend, wait her."

"How did she know that? My radio. Where is that?"

"That. She took it with her."

"..."

"Never mind, I will wait her. It's not wrong to rest a little bit."

I turned back to the bed and laying on it. I meditated to kill the time.

"Oh man. I love meditated."

I was doing this until the sky gradually turned yellow. The old woman came back.

"I have been waiting for you. I appreciate you if you return my radio."

"Your radio. It's broken the moment I took it."

"Broken." now I remembered this. At that height, the radio will surely suffer some damage and now it was sunk into water.

"Fine. Wait a minute. How do you know that I have friends?"

"Radio. Before it was completely broken. I heard some words speaking through it. It seems like your friend met some dangerous situation."

"Dangerous. Why you mention it now."

"Patient. You must be loner before. Right."

"Loner. Nope."

"Youngster. Don't lie to this old woman. I have seen many people like you before."

"Maybe a little bit."

"Right. You are still young. Why don't we eat and we talk about this." the old woman made her way to the so called kitchen. It's too crude to call it kitchen.

"Fine."

I watched her and Alice cooking together.

It was loving scene at this time when human's moral degenerated.

"Have a nice meat, everyone. Itadakimasu"

"Itadakimasu." I imitated her action. Alice did the same like me.

"So first question. Who are you?"

"Don't be hurry like that. Let's eat first then talk later."

After thinking for a while, I accepted. Alice ate delicious food while I'm just staring it. Wondering is this food poisonous but if I don't eat it, it will be a rude manner. While in case it was poisonous, I will be another bad ending for me.

"It wasn't poisonous. You put a lot of guard here. Just relax for a while."

'Relax. I can't relax in this kind of world where zombies wandering around and I have just f*cked the entire military base up. It's too stressful for me.'

Looking others people eating, I decided to eat. I bit a meat. Turning out, it's indeed delicious.

'No reaction so far. Good.'

I just focused on eating until Alice's already done her meal.

"Alice. Go to sleep first. Brother will talk something to this kind grandma."

"Okay"

Hearing the door slammed, I asked her.

"Return the first question. Who are you?"

"Who am I? Do you know that is absurd question?"

"I know but I felt that you are not a normal person. You are hiding something right."

"And what is that be? First, just address me as Sakatou. I want to ask you this so long. Why that little girl keeps calling you brother while you are female."

"Trauma problem. It's a long story. Skip this."

I felt that was a fake name but ignoring it. Real name or fake name doesn't matter to me. What I want to know is her identity.

"Next question."

"Wait. You are hasty. Let me ask you."

I just stared for a while then nodded.

"Who are you?"

"I'm a highschool student knowing a little bit about survival."

"Your performance speaks differently. You seems not scared to them very much."

"Whew, you are wrong. I'm really scared when facing them. It's just my fear expressing in other way which means fighting back."

"You are too abnormal to be a high school student."

"I know."

'As if I will tell you that I'm a reborn or something like that.'

"My turn. What is your real identity?"

She's just staring at me then smiling.

"Youngster. If I tell this, can you do a favor for this grandma."

"Fine. It doesn't matter how hard is it. I will do it."

"Your answer surely entertains this old soul. Then first, I will introduce my career first."

"My job. No. Previous job is scientist."

"Okay."

"My major is gene and virus."

"Hmm. So you are smart."

"Yes. Very smart is another matter but sadly I got fired even though I contributed too much to science."

"I know that feeling but I still don't understand how did this make me feel that you are not a normal person."

"That's right. Because I know the original of disease."

"Okay. That's intrigued me now."

"This virus was first discovered at North Pole. The global warming make ice berg melt a little bit. Then it revealed a dead body."

"Dead body of what"

"Dead body of dinosaur"

"Crap. Why there is a dead dinosaur in ice berg after billions year?"

"I don't know. Not my major so I don't care. Anyway, scientists assume the virus came from Jurassic period,"

"Time where dinosaur exist, right."

"Yes. The unknown virus was discovered by company not government."

"By the way, the head of discover is a billionaire. He is from Japan and I don't know his name since I don't care him. After retrieving that virus back to land, he arranges this to all his lab all over the world while Japan is center."

"So you say that he is the one who causes this." I asked.

"Not really. It was from someone of executives. Even he got angry when he heard that there is a traitor in his organization."

"That is the reason why this outbreak couldn't contain since this is a well plan to exterminate human. I assume."

"So how did you know this?"

"I was one of executives."

"Okay. Then why you got fired."

"I got framed, okay. That is why I told you that one of executives did this."

"Hem, why you tell me this." I stared at her vigilantly.

"Youngster, I saw you escape military chasing. Of course, I have high hope on you."

"You're seeing me." I held my face.

"Yes, and also your jump at 50m height. You are strong enough to keep your life. Your performance's not bad at all"

"Well, that is because I don't have no choice. But my body suffers damage that's hard to fight now. Even though I want to fight, my body say no to me."

"I have developed syringe that can help you. Do you want to try it?"

"What kind of syringe that can make bone recover fast? But still, I'm not trusting you."

"Come on, youngster. Even I said my fake name, you still believe it"

"Are you some kind of celebrity?"

"You don't know. Youngster this day. Don't show respect to person who achieve Nobel Prize"

"Fine. Who are you again?"

"My name is Marie Curie." she said.

"Hold up. Something's wrong. I think Marie Curie die because of radiation." I was very confused now. Even I can't keep my stoic face.

"You. Impudent." She stood up preparing to leave.

"Wait. I believe you now." her action made me believe that her word is genuine.

"That's right. Now go to the base."

"Right. Ouch." I followed her. The pain of bone annoyed me.

When I arrived, I saw a chair with chain.

"Don't tell you will bind with that."

"Of course. The drug is still developing. It may have some side effect." she said with evil smile.

"Suddenly, I feel a chill on my back."

"I want it succeed. After all, I need you to kill a certain person for me. And you need to recover fast. Deal" I gave a hand shake.

"The world is crazy. Of course, I accept your offer." I accepted hand shaking.