7

"Kwaaaaat?!"

Perhaps she still had the strength to scream, but when she screamed for the world to go away, I quickly covered her mouth.

Then, because she moved too quickly, she lost her footing and her center of gravity shifted toward her.

Those thin arms and legs she wouldn't be able to support the weight of my strong physique of her.

Naturally, my body tilted and fell onto the bed.

And I fell on top of her.

First of all, I did what I wanted and blocked her mouth.

This situation, with the weak woman being pressed down on top of her body her, and even covering her her mouth her her, could have been misunderstood in a bad way.

She cried, her eyes moistening.

It's been a while since I met a survivor, so I need to leave a positive impression in my mind. We can't allow bad feelings to remain because of this misunderstanding.

"Shh… ! Be quiet. I don't know what the zombies outside will do when they hear your screams. Got it?"

Just looking at the fact that they gave me a beneficial gift called a status window, it doesn't seem strange to zombies if they receive any benefits.

Rather than a benefit, it means that a variant may be born that has great power that my current self can never handle, or that has skin so thick that my current self can never injure it.

It's like villains becoming stronger following the main character becoming stronger.

So there is nothing wrong with being careful.

Did he understand my earnest heart his?

"…"

He nodded with his eyes still full of water.

Only then did I drop her hand that was covering her mouth her her her.

A liquid that appeared to be saliva was glistening on her palm.

As soon as her hand her her fell and her mouth she she was free, she thought she would scream again, but luckily she did not.

I was so embarrassed by the sudden situation that I just carefully crawled under me and escaped, panting.

But that didn't last long and he sat down on the floor again and looked up at me blankly.

In order not to provoke them for no reason, I did nothing and waited quietly.

Her eyes begin to look at me little by little.

I held my breath as I looked at the thick books and boxes wrapped like protective gear around each area at the highest risk of being bitten, such as my arms, legs, and back, so I wouldn't have to worry about getting bitten by a zombie. I flinched when I saw the sashimi knife in her right hand. I dropped it.

Afterwards, joy appeared on her face that she was not a zombie but a living person just like herself.

"Person, person…"

In a space filled with only her silence for a while, she opened her mouth first, breaking the silence that was short but felt very long.

Just like I did, I was tired of seeing people turned into zombies, but I couldn't believe it had been so long since I had seen the soft skin without a single wound, let alone rotten skin, bright eyes, and intelligent behavior, and tears were streaming down my white cheeks. I got off.

They were tears filled with joy, not sadness.

"Anyone alive but me…"

Even if she was watching or continuing to watch, she continued to look at me without blinking, fearing that if she took her eyes off me even for a moment, I would disappear like a mirage. I looked.

Soon, the eyes closed and reopened on their own due to lack of moisture.

Nevertheless, I was standing there.

Only then did she accept reality and with difficulty she got up from her seat and approached me with unsteady steps.

And straight away.

Whisper.

He was held in my arms.

Even though he was devastated, his beautiful appearance still did not fade, and even though he was thin enough to make his bones look faint, a woman with a curved body suddenly fell into his arms. As a man, he couldn't help but think dark thoughts.

But that's only for a moment.

Only two or three weeks have passed since the zombie apocalypse broke out, but even that time was nothing but a time of despair and no hope for this woman. She buried her face in her chest and immediately burst into tears. The dark feelings that had slowly bloomed flew away in an instant.

How could such a weak woman be crying and thinking bad thoughts?

She smiled bitterly, and as she cried in my arms, I gently stroked her crumbly hair and held her in my arms until she stopped crying.

"Ugh… Black… !"

I don't know why, but I feel like I'm going to cry.

*

I don't know how much time has passed.

As she stopped crying, I saw her her cute her ears her her gradually turning red.

She came to her senses late and seemed to feel ashamed that she had cried bitterly in the arms of a strange man.

"… "

He was willing to give me his arms as much as he wanted, but he glanced up at me as if he did not need my arms anymore, and then quickly ran away and widened the distance.

We resolved the misunderstanding, but the huge wall of awkwardness that followed completely separated us.

I hesitate. I felt like I was going to burst out laughing at the cute sight of her fidgeting, but I held it back and opened my mouth.

"Are you okay now?"

"… ?!"

The words were lightly thrown at her in an attempt to break down the wall in the middle, but she started and flinched.

Maybe it's because I haven't seen him in a long time.

Or maybe it's because I'm naturally like this.

Every action seemed very cute.

"If it's okay, I can give you more."

When I opened my arms and hugged her again and jokingly told her that she could cry, her face which was already red, became even redder.

"No need for blood!"

Even when I thought about why I did that, I couldn't understand it, so I felt ashamed of my actions and shouted.

It was really disappointing.

The time when I longed for the warmth of people was already gone and I thought it would never come again, but when I actually felt the warmth of people, a warm feeling that could not be expressed in words tightened my heart.

So it's safe to say that a little bit of my greed came out.

I felt somewhat lonely when I rejected it so strongly.

"Well, how did you get in here…?"

From her perspective her, it would be completely incomprehensible.

This was on the 4th floor, and the entrance was tightly closed.

So, even if there was a way out, it was a natural reaction since it was a structure where you could never get in unless you opened it from the inside.

"Just… Well, I climbed through the window."

I didn't lie.

Because I really came in through the balcony.

She did not easily believe what I said.

So, when I pointed directly to the place where the window was wide open, they started to believe me to some extent.

"Are you alone? Are there other people… ?"

His behavior and his young age make him look like someone who came to save him.

We asked with great anticipation whether there was anyone else alive besides us, just in case.

I had no choice but to betray those expectations.

He avoided her gaze and gently shook her head.

Then, a short elastic sound comes out without your knowledge.

We were trapped in silence again.

"Haa… "

I sighed.

It's natural that the mood will sink no matter what you say, given the situation, but since you've survived, you can't keep the mood down like this forever since you've survived and no matter how many times you try to survive , it's not enough.

So I decided to change the atmosphere.

Let's take some time to get to know each other.

"What's your name?"

I asked for your name.

As I was casually asking her name in an atmosphere of despair, she smiled inadvertently.

It was my first time seeing a smile, but how beautiful it was. For a moment, I stared at her face blankly, as if I was possessed.

"Minseo… My name is Minseo."

Seo-ah tells me her name

"Minseoara… That's a pretty name."

After complimenting Minseo Ara saying her name she was pretty, I also said my own name her her her.

"It's Han Jae-won. I'm now 20 years old."

"Twenty years old?"

When Seo-ah heard her my age her, her eyes widened.

"Really? I'm 20 years old too. Are we friends?"

I thought he was about the same age as me just by looking at his appearance, but I never dreamed he was actually the same age.

"By any chance… By any chance. Are you also a freshman at Korea University?"

As she said, I am a freshman at Korea University.

I was the freshman who barely survived the hellish high school life and applied to a Korean university far away, leaving behind faces I never wanted to see or remember.

But you too.

If it were you, would Seoah also be a freshman at Hankuk University?

"That's right."

"Wow! That's amazing! It's out there. Isn't it strange if I live around here?"

Seo Ah tilted her head.

Most young people and college students living in studio apartments around here are living in rooms because Korea University is close, so in some ways it wasn't surprising.

Still, she said with a smile that this was also fate.

As expected, even I felt good because my dark face became brighter.

"What are you doing? What school did you go to? Where are you from?"

Seo-ah, who was the only one left alive in the area after the zombie outbreak broke out, couldn't do anything and kept telling me various questions in order to let out all the chatter she had been holding in.

"If the world wasn't like this, we would have met at school anyway…"

Seo-ah laughed bitterly.

"I just… Wish this hadn't happened…"

I nodded at her, completely agreeing with what she said.

Even though it was a bad life, it was not wrong that it was a much better life than this.