Su Yan raised his clear, bright eyes and greeted Busujima Saeko nonchalantly.
This was ignoring the current state of the several people in the infirmary...
Rei Miyamoto was sitting on Su Yan's lap, while he playfully messed with the two strands of flaxen hair sticking up like cowlicks on her head.
Although her face remained expressionless, one could tell from those slightly wilted-looking cowlicks...
...that the young girl's current mood was likely not very pleasant.
Standing behind Su Yan was the blonde, airheaded beauty, Shizuka Marikawa.
Her arms were wrapped around Su Yan's neck, and a pair of bouncy, water-balloon-like breasts were pressed against the top of his head, as she leaned her entire body weight onto him.
Two locks of blonde hair fell across his forehead, which Su Yan held in his hands, playing with them alongside Rei Miyamoto's cowlicks, seemingly having a great time.
However, compared to the flaxen-haired girl's reluctance, Shizuka Marikawa squinted her eyes, appearing to actually enjoy it.
*Cough, cough.*
Realizing Busujima Saeko had arrived, Su Yan coughed twice and moved Rei Miyamoto, who was sitting on his lap, to the side.
Then, he pushed away Shizuka Marikawa, who was pressing her heavy chest against his head.
He stood up, glanced at Saya Takagi, who had entered the infirmary behind Saeko, and asked, "Senior Saeko, why did you bring someone else? Is she your friend?"
'Isn't this Saya Takagi?'
'A member of the main cast from the anime... was she the third or fourth female lead?'
'Although she has a fair amount of screen time, her presence is honestly quite low.'
'She leaves less of an impression than Shizuka Marikawa's best friend, Rika Minami, or even her own mother, Yuriko Takagi.'
"Hmm?"
Busujima Saeko paused for a moment and looked back at Saya Takagi.
Seeing how hesitant the girl had been at the infirmary door just now, she had assumed Su Yan was the one who called her over.
'So they aren't acquaintances?'
After realizing this, Busujima Saeko didn't expose the girl.
After all, she was already here.
It was so dangerous outside with man-eating monsters everywhere; if she hadn't misunderstood earlier, she definitely wouldn't have pulled her inside.
But now that she had already brought her in, what would be the difference between pushing her back out and killing her with her own hands?
She couldn't bring herself to do something like that.
'Perhaps this is also a form of fate.'
Busujima Saeko nodded and admitted, "Yes, she is my friend."
"Is that so?"
Su Yan didn't say much else.
As for Saya Takagi, one of the female leads, Su Yan's opinion of her was average.
She sat at the same table as Rei Miyamoto in his mind.
However, his lukewarm opinion of Rei Miyamoto was due to her actions in the anime plot.
His lukewarm opinion of Saya Takagi, on the other hand, was because of her father, Soichiro Takagi.
Saya Takagi's father, Soichiro Takagi, was the chairman of Tokonosu City's largest right-wing group, the Uyoku Isshin Association.
They were the kind of trash who denied history and pushed for visits to a certain shrine.
Therefore, even though Saya Takagi, as a female lead, had always been in the same class as him, he had never considered getting close to her.
This could be seen more or less from Su Yan's usual history exam scores.
In Su Yan's eyes, those broken Japanese history textbooks were less useful than the light novels geeks called toilet paper.
But since Busujima Saeko said Saya Takagi was her friend, although he was somewhat surprised, he had no intention of kicking her out.
Su Yan gestured, "Alright then, you two go sit over there with Shizuka."
"Saeko, come quickly! Sit here with me," Shizuka Marikawa called out to Busujima Saeko while patting the spot next to her on the bed.
Busujima Saeko nodded and led the hesitant Saya Takagi over.
"Senior Busujima, thank you."
Saya Takagi lowered her head and whispered her thanks to Busujima Saeko.
She had also heard the content of the broadcast just now.
She knew that something terrible must have happened in the school.
Moreover, from what she heard from Busujima Saeko, there were man-eating monsters everywhere outside.
If the other girl wasn't lying, then by admitting she was a friend and not kicking her out, Saeko had undoubtedly saved her life.
Busujima Saeko patted the back of her hand without saying a word, only giving Saya Takagi a faint smile.
'This damn sense of security.'
If Busujima Saeko were a man, Saya Takagi would probably have been captivated by her by now.
Busujima Saeko turned her gaze to Su Yan, not quite understanding what he was doing standing behind the door with his hand on it.
"There."
Su Yan glanced at the plain wooden door of the infirmary and withdrew his palm.
Just now, he had used a special Nen technique to infuse the door with aura.
This was a technique that had appeared in the anime but was never explained or taught in detail; Su Yan had only mastered it after many attempts.
Its first appearance was in the Heaven's Arena arc, when the protagonist, Gon, insisted on using Zetsu during a fight, resulting in him being severely injured.
While he was hospitalized, Wing, the master who taught Gon Nen, tied a red thread around his finger and made a promise that Gon would not practice Nen while recovering.
Gon only found out later that if he had used Nen, the red thread on his finger would have automatically snapped.
The second time was before the Greed Island arc began, when Killua accompanied Gon back to his hometown, and Gon received a metal box left by his father from his foster mother.
That metal box was made of ordinary metal plates, but it had Nen similar to the red thread attached to it.
Amazingly, without using Nen, no matter how Killua used his strength—which exceeded sixteen tons—he could do nothing to it.
And that box had been created by Gon's father at least ten years prior.
Now, Su Yan was using this same Nen technique on the door.
As long as they didn't actively use Nen against this door, even if someone blasted it with a rocket launcher, the wall might blow through, but the door would remain intact.
This way, no one would be able to disturb them.
Don't misunderstand; Su Yan wasn't planning to do anything bad.
He simply hated trouble.
After all, sometimes humans could be much more troublesome than zombies.
For example, if he went out now to clear zombies, even if his intention wasn't to save people, he would still end up saving some by accident.
These people might not necessarily feel grateful; it was even possible they might act like they were possessed by a demonic cultivator and criticize him for not coming out sooner to save them.
Although Su Yan didn't care about such people—and would probably choose to cut them down as if they were zombies the moment he heard such words—it was still inevitably disgusting.
So, to avoid such a situation.
Su Yan's choice was to first gather the people he cared about in the infirmary to protect them. Then, once the people outside had either died or fled and only zombies remained...
...he and Busujima Saeko would go out for a battle thrill.
He wanted to test the sharpness of the weapon Saeko manifested, Spirit Slash.
As for everyone else?
Respect their fate and let go of the urge to help.
"Now that things have come to this, let's rest for a bit."
Su Yan clapped his hands and sat down right between Shizuka Marikawa and Busujima Saeko.
Then he leaned back, resting his back on the infirmary bed.
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