A Real Man Knows When To Advance And When To Retreat

When Ayame and Kayden heard Winston's command, the two of them looked at each other and Kayden pointed towards Ayame's hair.

Realizing that Winston referred to her as "Whitey" due to her white hair color as well as also being unaware of her name, Ayame retorted, "I'm not Whitey, I'm Shiro Ayame!"

Shooting the zombies in front of him, Winston nonchalantly replied, "Yeah, yeah, Whitey. Get on with it if you want to form an alliance with me. I don't have all day arguing with you on why you were born with white hair at such a young age."

"Pfft! Hahaha! How old are you, Ayame? Why do you have white hair? Inherited it from your grandma?"

To lighten up the mood, Kayden joked but he was met with Ayame's gaze as well as a gesture of swiping her neck.

Kayden wanted to defend his dignity as a man and he wanted to show off that he wasn't afraid of Ayame's threat. However, when he saw the zombie blood on Ayame's metal bat that was already drenched with it as well as the zombie corpses near Ayame, Kayden decided to remain silent.

'Ah, forget my dignity as a man. I can't beat her. A real man knows when to advance and when to retreat.'

'Also, if not for that kid having two pistols, I wouldn't have suffered alone.'

Averting Ayame's gaze, Kayden shifted his attention to fighting zombies, showing that he didn't see Ayame's gaze and he was busy with what he was doing.

Of course, Kayden could barely fight zombies. Winston and Ayame who saw Kayden's pathetic attempt of killing zombies just shook their heads.

It wasn't that Kayden was truly pathetic. But he was compared to two monsters whose zombie kill count was already six times than his. Nevertheless, for an average human, Kayden was doing quite well and didn't pathetically die.

After getting over and tolerating Winston and Kayden's jokes, Ayame just sighed and went out of their formation, heading towards those students who were fishing in troubled waters.

Noticing that Ayame was heading towards them instead of attacking and holding off those zombies from invading the school, those students who wanted to take advantage of Ayame, Winston, and Kayden's exhaustion after fighting all those zombies had run away like a bunch of cowards.

Even if those students had split up and retreated in different directions, Ayame didn't give up her pursuit and continued catching up to them until she eventually caught one of them.

Striking her metal bat towards that student's leg, the student screamed in pain but Ayame turned a deaf ear to it. She slammed her metal bat towards his four limbs until it broke his bones and crippled him.

Ayame didn't go any further than that and spared his life but Winston and Kayden who saw that knew that Ayame was even making their lives more miserable.

After all, not only that crippled student had to experience the excruciating pain of having his four limbs fractured, but he eventually would meet the demise of getting bitten by zombies yet having no means of resistance to it.

From another perspective, killing those students would be far more merciful than crippling them and letting them get bitten by zombies.

However, Winston and Kayden didn't have any comments regarding Ayame's actions since the two of them weren't the holy mother.

But after witnessing Ayame's decisiveness even after fighting a fellow human, Kayden gulped and watched Ayame's action in bewilderment.

'Damn! This girl is fierce! If I had offended her any further, I might be the one laying flat on the ground with my limbs crippled!'

'Fortunately, I, a real man, knows when to advance and when to retreat!'

While Kayden was praising himself for being a real man, Kayden immediately remembered something.

"Ayame, isn't your metal bat coated with zombie blood? You broke that guy's limbs and the zombie blood on the metal bat had already entered his wounds. It won't be long before he becomes infected by the zombie virus and mutates into a zombie."

In response to Kayden's words, Ayame turned a deaf ear to it as she left the crippled student and headed to other students who had run away.

Knowing that he was ignored by Ayame due to that previous incident, Kayden sighed, 'Girls can be so petty for little things.'

"Wait, please kill me! I don't want to suffer from more pain and become a zombie!"

With snot and tears on his face, the crippled student started begging for either Winston or Kayden to kill him.

However, his begging had only attracted the attention of some zombies which caused them to head towards the crippled student, reducing the pressure on Winston and Kayden's side.

But when the zombies were about to bite the crippled student, they sensed the zombie virus within his body so they refrained from biting the crippled student and instead, they returned to attack Winston and Kayden who were sensed by them as humans.

A few zombies had also headed to where Ayame was. So when Ayame was pursuing those high school students who had run away, the zombies were also pursuing her.

Nonetheless, the several seconds worth of diverting the zombies' attention had relieved the pressure on Winston as he had already killed tons of zombies during that time frame.

In the end, Ayame eventually returned to Winston and Kayden only to find out that the zombies were already wiped out by Winston and Kayden.

Instead of fighting zombies, Winston and Kayden were busy lifting the zombie corpses that had piled up and blocked the school gate, setting them aside.

"Whitey, you are late."

"Since you are here, help us move these corpses so that we can drive the car out of here."