System Partners II

[These are the conditions: You will have to pay a thousand gacha points for the upgrade and afterwards, five hundred gacha points for each partner of your choosing. This person will have access to the inventory, and scanner and their kills will provide you with gacha points. It doesn't sound like a bad deal, right?]

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"You greedy cunt!" I cursed out loud and even stood up from my chair, there are scams and then there is this. What is Hollow doing with those points anyway? going to brothels behind my back?! why does he need so many?!

"Brand, Language..." Kyoko frowned at me, not so happy with my choice of words, we all rolled our eyes at her teachings. She was yelling worse obscenities under my body yesterday.

"A thousand and then five hundred each? that's too much!"

"What is it, Brand?" The girls asked for an explanation.

"I could give you all access to some features of the system. But it will cost me five hundred points each aside from an initial thousand gacha points. I'd have to spend everything I have to give it to a single one of you"

Right now I have about a thousand nine hundred points. That's considering we have been killing a lot of zombies, I doubt we can get more than this unless we stop focusing on survival and instead focus on slaughtering every single zombie we see.

"A pity, it would have been easy if you didn't have a harem~" Saya smirked cunningly, hmph! as if I'd ever regret it.

Seeing their numbers and what I wanted to achieve, I had no other choice... there is no time to be resting.

I stood up and went to the corner where my clothes were, I'd take away this pyjama, wear my clothes and get into action.

"Fuck it. I'm going to make that money".

"H-Hey! Isn't it our resting day?" The girls started to complain when they saw me prepare to head into the wilderness... each zombie head that I see is a head to chop.

"You can all rest, I'll go out to kill zombies on my own, if I want to give you all access, I'll need too many points".

Allowing them to have access to the inventory and scanner will give me relief. I can fight and move around with more confidence if I know that they have more possibilities for livelihood. Lucy could get all the ammo she needs without me having to be present. Shizuka could get all the medicine and resources she need to heal anyone without me having to give them to her. And if that's not enough, they will all help me get more gacha points, which means all the points I spend on this, I'll eventually recover.

It is a no-brainer.

"I'm coming along, darling~"

"I go anywhere husband goes".

It wasn't a surprise to me that both Lucy and Saeko were eager to go, darling, husband? you two just want to kill zombies. I would have disapproved of Saeko joining us due to her injury, but she performed so well yesterday that I couldn't...

I took Kuroikazuchi and my glock, Lucy took her M4 Carabine and Saeko wielded her Hanayome. We were ready to go in no time.

"We will go upstairs, I'll tell Hirano to cover you from the balcony" The lazy girls that stayed were ready for a show.

"Let's go!"

"Yay!" Lucy squeaked.

"Hmm" Saeko nodded.

The moment we opened the door, what we found was a sea of zombies in front of us, courtesy of the shots being fired by Hirano and the guys upstairs. This is nice, we don't have to go too far for a killing spree.

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"Hollow, Lucy is my summon, so... shouldn't she have access to everything already? I don't have to pay for her, do I?"

[...]

"Hollow?"

[You still have to pay for her].

"You greedy bastard... if I get to learn that you're spending that money in brothels..."

[I don't have a physical body, Brand... I can't go to brothels even if I wanted].

"You better".

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*PA!*

*PA!*

*PA!*

[+30 gacha points].

[+20 gacha points].

Lucy and Saeko were helping me clean off the zombies in the area, we had slaughtered more than fifty in the first twenty minutes. I don't know when but this became a competition to see who killed more between the two. I wanted to reproach Saeko, but she was moving so carefully and nimbly. The experiences she had gotten from the last few days worked wonders for her. After all this movement, her wound hadn't opened at all.

She sliced the zombie's legs for me to finish off which essentially counted as her 'kill'.

In the distance Hirano was giving us cover, mostly killing zombies that we didn't see coming from behind. This is the Elite indeed.

Half an hour later I saw that we were all depleted and pushed the two of them to a corner to rest for a while before continuing. There is but a mountain of corpses left where a crowd of zombies should have been. Once again we're going to need a deep shower.

"With this, I have two thousand… I want to leave at least a thousand points in case we need them… with a thousand five hundred I could give it to you two and Saya" I said, deciding to sort out Saya first who was the other beauty who was proficient with a gun. Nevertheless, Lucy interjected.

"Don't you think Rei would be a better option, Brand? she kills more zombies and faster than Saya with her weapon; also, we have to get her a decent spear somehow"

"I agree with Lucy... if for the sake of obtaining gacha points faster, Rei is a better option... that is of course if Hirano is not a possibility" Saeko declared, bringing me to a junction.

There is no rule that says that the person has to be a girl or my girlfriend, that is naturally my preference. But there is also Hirano who is an absolute mad lad when it comes to killing zombies. the system would do wonders for him since he's also the one that spends the most ammo more efficiently.

[Once you have transformed someone into your partner, this can't be taken back, Brand... it is not as simple as 'removing' a summon. You'd have to kill Hirano in order to remove the system].

*Tch!*

I twitched my tongue in annoyance, which broke up my plans... I could always take the system away from Hirano if he became a threat or betrayed me. But now, I don't know.

"I could give it to Hirano as well, Saeko... but once this is given, I can't take it back. Do you think we can trust him like that?"

"We can't" Lucy's answer was absolute and grounded, her train of thought was the same as mine, so it made sense.

"... I can say for certain, we need more time" Saeko was more reluctant to not trust her comrades, but she had enough rationality to know that this was a risky move.

"..."

"There is Yuriko as well" Lucy reminded me.

"No rush, I'm going to get it for everyone... if we keep doing what we're doing, we should have enough points by the end of today, we will be naked and starving though, perhaps staying here another day is within reason".

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We were discussing the plan for our next round; we'd have to leave the surroundings and rescind from Hirano's cover in order to kill more zombies. That was until something happened.

[WARNING, BETA INFECTION DETECTED!]

*GROWWLL!!*