Forced plot

Saeko looked at the smile on Sato's face.

It was the same smile and the first smile she had seen him make.

Usually, he always had a neutral expression, so there's no way to know what he thinks and feels.

She had a few guesses in her heart, but all those are just her speculation.

She won't ask about his choice. He can tell her if he wants. And if he wants to keep it a secret, then he can keep it. She will remain silent and won't try to probe.

"I don't know," she said.

Saeko is really keeping her guard up.

He wanted to listen to what she thinks he would choose.

In this way, he can have a better view of how she thinks.

"Is it that you don't know? Or is it that you know, but you don't want to say it?" He looked into her eyes.

What the two of them didn't know was that they both were testing each other.

She dodged his eyes and insisted, "I really don't know."

Looks like he won't be able to get her to show some flaws.

He has no choice but to go roundabout.

Sato walked to a window and looked outside with his back towards her.

"A choice is a possibility. Different people have different possibilities, which also means different choices." He acted like he was a wise man, then said, "For you guys, it might be dangerous, but for me, it's just a troublesome problem, not enough to endanger me."

The more unclear the answer is, the more impatience the other will be.

When they are impatient, they will show flaws.

She calmly looked at him and said gently, "In the end, what is your choice?"

I want to understand you.

How you think.

What you think.

"The current identity between humans and zombies—humans are prey while the zombies are the hunters. But what happens if zombies lose the ability to threaten humans?" He turned around and smiled meaningfully at her, "The answer is—the identity between the two will reverse. The human will be the hunter while the zombies will be the prey."

She was already prepared for his answer, but she was still surprised.

Without herself noticing it, a tiny sadistic smile curled up on her face.

A flaw!

She has shown a flaw!

Sato gave her a meaningful smile and asked, "Do you understand?"

"I understand and I will follow your path." She turned around and walked to the other sleeping member.

Some may wonder why he wasted so much time on talk.

Can't he just say what his choice is?

And why does he even want to probe Saeko's mind?

His weakness, you may even call it his strength, he doesn't trust anyone.

Not even himself.

Things others say can be a lie. Things others see can also be a lie.

What you hear can be a lie. What you see can also be a lie.

The only truth is what lie you want to believe in.

Because of this reason, he doesn't trust anything.

Even if the characters in the anime show, to be honest, he won't believe it.

He will test them and probe them.

According to his investigation and knowledge, Busujima Saeko has a twisted mind, just like how it showed in the anime. Her mind resembles him a little bit.

Her outer personality shows that she is very kind, caring, and reliable. But her inner character is sadist, evil, and has a violent nature. She enjoys causing pain and controlling somebody's life.

The two of her personalities conflict with each other, but they get along at the same time. Those personalities gave her a very calm and collected mind. Making her never panic or lose control of herself.

If any of the two personalities were missing, then she would be completely different. Either she would be a person with a feeble mind or a mass murder.

If he deducts her answer according to her personality. Then she probably understood his answer as him staying and keeping killing zombies.

Wait!

It's wrong!

What she understood is that his goal is to be in a higher position. Being in a higher status means being a hunter. And right now, his current identity is a hunter.

Only by keeping on moving can he keep the status quo of being the hunter. Because once they are surrounded by zombies, then they would be in a passive position.

This implies that he had lost the higher status. Which also means he lost the qualification of being a hunter. Losing the identity of a hunter signifies he will turn into prey.

And he definitely won't let the situation turn around to make himself into a prey!

In other words, he won't stay in this place but will keep on moving forth.

Saeko is now going to inform the other members of their situation and their next action.

While she is informing the other, he is now thinking of his next plan.

He is thinking of when to return to his world.

It's not that he misses his world or anything like that.

He wants to go back to rewatch anime. And take them with him, so he can watch them anytime. But that's not all.

He wants to go back to get the manga version of highschool of the dead.

Why doesn't he just watch the anime?

The author kicked the bucket.

That's it.

You got the answer you didn't want to hear.

Since the anime was cut off, then he can only read the manga. At least he will know a little bit of the future.

To trust inaccurate information is the same as walking blindly!

Did you guys seriously believe those words?

He only said those words to humiliate the main character.

And do you guys believe he would really trust the information in the manga?

Every piece of information is worth looking over. But it's not reliable to trust it. It's all right to look at it as a reference to make a comparison.

But to tell him to blindly trust it?

No way in this life.

Neither in the next life.

Let's now leave this question aside and let him make his plan.

While he was thinking to himself, a barking noise emerged outside.

He walked to the balcony and looked at where the sound came from.

It was from a dog.

A small white dog.

It's the small white dog he encountered after walking out of the convenience store. To make it easier for readers to remember, it's the dog he met in chapter 22.

Did the dog resurrect?

Did he lie about killing the dog?

Or is it another dog that resembled the dog in the store?

Wrong.

What you are thinking is wrong.

All the answers are wrong.

Sato did kill it and even touched the corpse. And he got drops which means he definitely killed it.

There's even a corpse in his [Storage] as evidence!

But how is this dog still alive?

Leave this thing aside.

Right now, it really doesn't matter if that dog is alive.

What is important now is the next question.

Who was played?

Sato wasn't played, but he sure was shoved into a forced plot.

But he is pretty sure that some were played.

There was already a title, but they still couldn't guess the answer.

No, wait, this isn't the right way to do things.

He should do it like this.

You got played like a d@mn fiddle!

Do you feel anger?

Do you feel upset?

He just stated the truth, and if you don't like it, then come and bite him!

That's if you have the skill.

But will he just end things like this?

No!

You know what?

Fiddles are actually quite hard to play. So you all got played like a cheap kazoo!

How do you feel being that cheap kazoo?

Feeling some unknown maliciousness, Sato couldn't help thinking, 'This is really the beginning of being the most hated character.'