Asking for a Fair Trade

Unexpectedly, he thought of an answer.

"Uhh... oh! Ho-how about telling me your past first? Yes! You said that you three came from another world, right? Then what was that place like? Wha-what was it better?"

Witnessing him in such a hurried anxious state, despite not understanding why two women's thoughts still came rushing to be released so as to respond in their own kinds of ways.

"Oh my, are you perhaps embarrassed~? Just tell it to us, my. dear. king."

Dream Zombie simply teased him, trying to stir him out while seemingly waiting for his next reaction, intrigued.

Ha, good for him.

"You want to know our past? Then how about a fair exchange? Surely, we know that Zombie King is now your new name. But what about revealing to us your former human name first? When we make the very first conversation with someone, it is common for us to begin it by saying our names to each other. Haha, we might have been informed by the older ones to only do that if we trust them, yet this 'them' is actually just me and all of my sisters who trusted each other since birth."

Moving on with the first one, the elegant Reaper Zombie just went straight to her objective, attempting to advance her progress a step further since she is determined to reach her improvised "phase 2", ending it with her humor to at least please a certain someone even a little bit.

And talking about this certain someone, after hearing their replies he then raised his head, now facing the ceiling. However, strangely to them but not for him in any way, the next set of actions he did is: making a single slow deep breath; closing his eyes; gradually putting his two hands on his cheeks.

That being said, when all of those details are now being fully presented in him he then opened his mouth and collected his thoughts.

"So basically, you're saying that by telling my name to the three of you means you already gained my trust?"

He reasserted. However, even if the two women have received such an easygoing phrase from him, when he himself is currently looking like a creepy shit, of course, they will inevitably be frightened.

Yet despite having such intensities, the elegant Reaper Zombie eventually regained her composure, making a single gawky cough right after.

"Yes, you are correct. And since yo-"

"OH HELL YEAH! I mean no, I won't say my name at all. Ha! How could I even trust my kidnappers in the first place?!"

Wrong. He is just embarrassed by his own name. What a fraud. Shifting his affirmative response to a harsh denial. Suspicious, indeed.

Well, he just got happy since he got lucky.

Lucky? Aye, he felt as if he was then chosen by fate for being given such a reasonable solution, carefreely imagining himself being in a vast open white space filled with heavenly angels reaching out to him, responding to them by raising his hands, gladly saying while closing his eyes 'I am blessed'.

Although they are not angels but rather the aliens who abducted him, leashing him with an extended rope secured from their hands. Well, at least he does not realize this... yet.

Still, what solution is it then? The legible solution where it is okay to not say his name since he has not trusted them, formed from a condition he had heard from a woman, he meant.

But aye, it is somehow true that he does not trust them... in some cases.

However, why not just do so when it is just by introducing his name? Well, it is, in fact, logical in the highest possible manner that revealing even just his name will be dangerous since, in the first place, the three women are his kidnappers. And he will then merely do so on the endpoint where they finally force him, not having any choice anymore. At least according to him and his one-sided brain.

And even regardless of that, he can just simply lie again, right? Firstly, demanding to find out why he is the chosen one means that he regarded their surreal existence as possibly credible. Thus, as he already "barely" admitted that they are aliens in a humanoid form, including the 53-year-old loli-hag which is impossible in any sense, then why not just fake his identity? After all, the most influential humans inside or outside the country do not even care to overthink his real name, let alone aliens who are still just here for 10 or so days. From what he had recalled, at least.

So why not then? Why? Why yes, since all of the details up above were not even close to the absolute reason he is acting like this. Specifically, overreacting to the point of not thinking sharply enough.

Aye, it is just plain yet unexpected. Because the thing is...

'I don't want my own name, so why would I even want to say it?! Ah! Just thinking about doing it! It's fucking crazy!'

Potato-mentality, indeed. His mind is currently in chaos. Now he understood that he truly is trying to escape hell. However, since he still has some of his senses kept to him he could still find a way to go back to heave-

"Wah~ Mr. Zombie King has two names? I wunna have two names too!"

Speaking of a solution, hearing that he instantly found a solution.

As the weeping Loli-Zombie from chapter 8 became lively again, he as well, became lively... by laughing inside his thoughts, glad to be given such a good interference from the loli-hag.

"Hehe, you want a name? Well then! You're very lucky since I'm so good at naming things!"

Lies. He will just straight-off search on the internet, typing on the search bar "names that mean..." and then rashly chooses the first one that appears. Yet now that he does not have his dear lovely internet, what will he d-

'Who cares about that! Even if I gave them names common for dogs, it still won't change the fact that they will eventually forget about asking my shitty name! Hah, I'm so smart~'

Despite showing his outside surface to them in a prideful yet plausible way with a smile, inside of him hides his true ominous-like grimacing personality. Aye, at least how Narrator views it. Nevertheless, even his family and the countable individuals that know about this side of his think so as well.

However, no matter if he is currently smiling with high-resolution and max brightness, only the child-looking Loli Zombie is fully seeing such a blinding image of light, since the other two women are... already on the far side of his fixed location, seemingly exchanging some whispers to each other while occasionally taking some quick glances at him.

And talking about them, they are the definition of "seriously serious" themselves, for now, at the least.

"You... you're not joking, are you...?"

Dream Zombie whispered as she put her palms on Reaper Zombie's shoulders. They are currently so near to one another while deeply staring right into each other's eyes. So near indeed to the point that they are one step toward tasting each other's lips.

Following that, Reaper Zombie then began her reply with a pensive smile.

"Dream, I know that you are very delighted to hear that, but we need to take this step by step, okay? STEP. BY. STE-"

"Oh my! Of course, we would! Humph, yes yes!"

Knowing that her sister-companion also felt the same way Dream Zombie finally discovered the best path to escape the formerly-inescapable boredom that she had, now releasing her pleasure in a form of shivering from her body and steaming from her blushing face out of the intense stimulation that she is having.

She truly is happy, indeed.

However, going back to the potato-billionaire he sure is not happy in any way.

"There you go again, ignoring the shit out of me!"

So hearing his shout the two women awkwardly coughed and started going back again towards both Loli-Zombie's and his location.

Yet while they are currently walking slowly toward him he then realized that he just made the greatest mistake ever.

'Why did I do that! If they have ignored me they should have forgotten about it already, right? Fuck.'

Boom. What an idiot, indeed. Not because he just noticed that now but because he is greatly wrong. He does not even recognize the possibility of them talking about something that included his name, since they have just completed this topic earlier, and was obviously the one topic that was responsible for halting their conversation, which in all cases, is now true.

Aye, the two women were truly discussing something that includes the word 'naming'.

Speaking of them, as they have come back already Dream Zombie decided to make the first move.

"Let us commence the tra-"

"Sister Dream Zombie and Master, what were you guys talking abowt?"

However, it is not her but her student that initiated a conversation instead, which is, in many cases, a bad start.

And talking about a bad start, Reaper Zombie also thinks that it is a wrong move. But then she planned for this already. She has a method to keep things on the right path since, in the first place, it might be rude for them to see it this way but she and Dream Zombie certainly found her, their one and only innocent and unpredictable little sister Loli-Zombie, very hard to handle. So the two of them have always prepared their minds out, who despite not being born to be geniuses like a specific someone, are definitely not some noobs who do not even work themselves out just to be aware of other possibilities, like how the brain of a certain idiot mostly works.

But still, they are committed to all of these since they believe that what they are doing now is only for the best of their tomorrow.

So when she finished feeling bad for her sister, Reaper Zombie the master then made a serene smile while patting her student's head once again, although now with more elegance than ever.

"My student, you truly want to have a second name, do you not?"

Consciously putting each of those words in her mind the student then confirmed with a nod, staring at her master with sparkles in her eyes.

And so realizing that her student really wants to have a second name Reaper Zombie then shifted her gaze to the silent potato creep in front of them that is currently twisting the insides of his right ear, staring at them with raised eyebrows and wide eyes, slightly annoyed.

"Hah~ what are you staring at? I'll give you names if you want some names... but on one condition."

Boom. Thunder. Unexpected use of the brain. Even Narrator was struck by the sudden unbelievable twist.

"What condition then?"

Yet despite receiving such an aggravated word called "condition" which has a high gravitational pull that can totally revise the possibility of approval into a denial she still did not budge at all, keeping her senses packed together as she continued to wait for further statements. Aye, even Dream Zombie had kept her composure too, only deciding to cross her arms while she seems to be seriously listening to them... although she is not but having wild thoughts inside her mind.

Also, it is not just them but he, the sender, is keeping something packed together as well... though his "something" is actually far greater than theirs since it is his dignity that he is utterly preserving until now. And for him, maintaining a good face from humans means everything. Aye, he even included humanoid aliens since they exactly look just like humans. Potato-protag, indeed.

But however that is, it does not change the fact that their innocent little sister Loli-Zombie is just repeatedly shifting her gaze to the three of them back and forth, still not knowing what is happening.

So now that he has finished enjoying the view of three dogs waiting to be treated to some snacks, which is certainly the most immoral way to compare it, he then smirked.

"Easy. You must release me and leave me alone. That's all."

He declared, not knowing that the vagueness of his phrase will bring him not to salvation, but simply... to ruin.