Chapter 41: I will Protect All of You

"What?"

All the girls looked at Kurono incredulously. Is this guy really talking about the truth?

Kurono know that the girls are not convinced with just saying. They needed a proof. He then said, "Have you guys ever wondered why I know so much about this place?"

"Because you are a past Gantz Fighter?" said Kishimoto.

"Wrong." said Kurono shaking his head.

"You are not?" asked Sakuraoka. She and all the people in the room that knows Kurono assumed him to be a past Gantz Fighter.

Kurono said, "I was brought here first when I and Kato saved an old man at the train station. You all should have heard on the news, about two high schoolers saving a man, and died after being hit by the speeding train."

All of them nodded. The have seen this news previously.

"That's how I and Kato died and brought here. However, why did I know too many things, but Kato was still confused about this place?"

The girls were starting to feel convinced, but not entirely. Only Shinozaki was still looking as confused as ever.

"Gantz missions were never the same for each of the hunts. However, how did I identify the capability and the weakness of those aliens that we hunted even before we fought it?

And just this time, how did I know those people who scums, and said that the girl named Ayaka knows them?"

All the questions suddenly made the girls somehow felt convinced with his words. He is really a person from the future.

"Then...then, how are those related to us being your lover?" asked Kishimoto.

Hearing her questions made Kurono sigh heavily. He then spoke about the future, but mixed truth and lie in it.

"Let say the future time where I came from as the future timeline, and right now as the current timeline.

In the future timeline, I died the same, and brought here in this room. I first met Kishimoto's copy, whose real body is still alive in the outside world. I fallen in love with her the first time I saw her. I wanted to have her as my girlfriend. However, she is not into me, even when we lived together at my house.

After that, I met Sakuraoka in the third mission, where we needed to face those Buddhist aliens. Having unable to get Kishimoto as my girlfriend, I go for her as she looked beautiful and more mature. However, in that mission, both Kishimoto and Sakuraoka got killed, and I was saddened so much. Everyone else in the mission also died, except for me.

Feeling the lonely life, I once again tried to find some company, and found Shinozaki, the transfer student to be attractive. I confessed my love to her, and she accepted it. We then started dating. However, I made a mistake in the next mission. I didn't kill all of the Shorty Aliens in my lone mission. Then, that alien followed me to my school, and killed everyone including my girlfriend.

On the next mission, once again I was in love with a girl who died in Shinjuku, and was brought to this room. She is the idol, Reika. At that time, I'm still afraid that the bad luck will follow me, and kill her too. So, I didn't make any move to make her my girlfriend.

However, I didn't know that she already starting to like me from the first mission. She eventually become my girlfriend, and we even survived several Gantz mission. However, the bad luck still got her. During the Aliens Invasion hunt, she got killed while protecting me."

Kurono felt a little emotional even when he told so many lie in his story. When the girls heard his story, they all fell silent. There are truth in his story. Even Shinozaki was convinced when she remembered the time when the alien came to their school, and killed everyone, except for Kurono and her, who was coincidentally caught a fever...

"Hold on. When the massacres happened in our class, I was not in school. How did I suddenly died in your story?"

"I don't really know. Maybe something changed in this timeline when I got back here. At that time, you only have a slight fever, and you still came to school." replied Kurono. "Another thing changed in this current time is that, the total target for our hunt is doubled. This time hunting target is Ring Alien, right? In the future time, there are only eight of them. There will be sixteen of them this time."

So, he knows the current situation like the back of his hand, thought the girls.

At this time the teleportation started, and everyone in the room started to get transferred outside.

"Let's hold off the story. Let's go out and hunt the targets." Kurono said. He and his team then run around to hunt those 'centaurs'.

As for the group of five men, as soon as they got teleported out, a Ring Alien found them and killed them mercilessly.

In this time mission, there are sixteen Ring Aliens as the hunting targets. These target are all big and strong. However, the group of hunter this time are well prepared. Even when they are facing these big sized opponent, they didn't show any fear or falter. It didn't take them that long to beat all those Ring Aliens.

To balance the gain in score, all the Gantz Fighters each killed two, except Shinozaki and Ayaka. The team helped the two to get one kill for each of them. Sakuraoka lend his Z Gun to Ayaka, and Kurono let Shinozaki borrow his. This way, both girl managed to kill the target while Kurono and his team suppressed the aliens with their psychic powers. After that, they all got called back into the Gantz Room.

"Well, that was easy. It's way easier than the previous dinosaurs hunting mission." said Sakurai, feeling more relaxed at doing the mission this time.

"It's not that it was too easy. It's just that we got the leader to help us train ourselves. Those centaurs are pretty strong if you ask me. I think that it is comparable to those T-Rex that leader killed in the previous mission." said Sakata.

Kurono felt helpless towards this two. They just don't want to stop calling him leader. "Can you two stop calling me that? Besides, you two are already powerful to begin with. With your psychic powers, you can defeat the target this time easily."

The psychic duo smiled. It's still feel good when someone acknowledged them, especially someone like Kurono.

"That's aside. Let's see the score."

"I wonder, how much did we get from hunting those Ring Aliens."

Gantz then proceeded with the scoring.

Gantz Fighter: Dumbass

Points: 20

Accumulated Points: 50

50 more pts to reach 100

Gantz Fighter: Cherry

Points: 20

Accumulated Points: 45

55 more pts to reach 100

"So, the Ring Alien is marked with 10 pts each. That's too little of a score." said Sakurai.

"I'm still Dumbass? This thing should think of some creativity ways in naming people." sighed Sakata. Though, he didn't really think much about the nickname.

Gantz Fighter: Countryside General

Points: 20

Accumulated Points: 30

70 more pts to reach 100

Gantz Fighter: Klutz (lol)

Points: 10

Accumulated Points: 10

90 more pts to reach 100

Kaze stoically looked at his score. Among all of the male from the previous participants, he has the lowest score. It somehow made him feel uncomfortable. I will do my best next time, thought the Bajiquan expert.

As for Ayaka, she was newbie. So, it was expected for her score to be just that little.

Gantz Fighter: Reika Shimohara (Mr. Esper's 4th woman)

Points: 20

Accumulated Points: 35

65 more pts to reach 100

Gantz Fighter: Kei Kishimoto (Mr. Esper's 3rd woman)

Points: 20

Accumulated Points: 87

13 more pts to reach 100

Gantz Fighter: Sei Sakuraoka (Mr. Esper's 2nd woman)

Points: 20

Accumulated Points: 22

78 more pts to reach 100

Gantz Fighter: Ryouko Shinozaki (Mr. Esper's 5th woman)

Points: 10

Accumulated Points: 10

90 more pts to reach 100

Sakurai, "..."

Sakata, "..."

Kaze, "..."

Ayaka, "..."

Seeing that everyone already got their score except for Kurono, Ayaka then concluded that this Mr. Esper should be the one named Kurono.

Gantz Fighter: Mr. Esper

Points: 20

Accumulated Points: 66

34 more pts to reach 100

As expected, it was Kurono's face that came out, and got the nickname Mr. Esper. All the girls related to Kurono blushed when they saw each of their nickname. They all wanted to curse the black ball for that.

"Hei, I don't see the Mr. Esper's 1st woman..."

Psshiu! Ching! Swish!

All three girls who knows psychic powers suddenly launched out some psychic attack towards Sakurai. The boy was forced to quickly evade those attack.

"Hei! what's up with you all?" Sakurai shouted in dissatisfaction.

"I was training my psychic powers for a moment." said Sakuraoka.

"Same." Kishimoto.

"I thought you are an alien for a second." Reika said, looking as if nothing serious happened.

Shinozaki also glared at Sakurai. Seeing the girls being hostile to him caused Sakurai to sweat profusely. He subconsciously retreated to Sakata's side. He whispered to his sensei, "These girls are tigress. They are to ferocious."

"That's what you get for seeking your own death." said the sensei.

After the scoring, the Gantz opened the door, and allowed everyone to go out. Ayaka wanted to go home, but she didn't have any money on her.

"I can help her to go back home." said Kurono. However, four hands reached him and held him in his place. As he looked at the one held him, he subconsciously sweated like a bullets. Those who nicknamed as his womans were glaring at him. "On second thought, I am unable to. I still meed to sent these girls back to their house. You guys help Ayaka then.

"Let me help her then." volunteered Sakata.

At the side, Sakurai moved closer to Sakata and said, "This is your chance. You have been single all this time, right? Just take this chance and make her your woman. Though, I need to remind you, she is no longer virgin."

Whack!

Sakata kicked his disciple, causing Sakurai to stumble to the side. "F@#k with your reminder. Are you looking down on your sensei? Moreover, she was reborn in the Gantz. So, she is still virgin."

Sakurai stood up, thought of it, and agreed to his sensei. However, he was thinking that this teacher of his already considered that far. Did he already planned to go, and seduce the girl?

Sakurai wanted to ask, but refrained himself after remembering that he just got kicked for saying some unnecessary things. He can only give his teacher a thumbs up, and encouraged him in his heart.

After that, the group headed back to their own place. Sakata helped Ayaka to go back to her place, Kaze and Sakurai walked back alone towards their respective house, and Kurono...he got entangled with the four girls.

"So, we are back together again." said Kurono, while heading out towards his house.

Those girls just followed him silently. After sometimes, Reika was the one to spoke first. "I have a busy schedule tomorrow. So, I'll be heading home first."

"I still need to head back home. Otherwise, my parents will be worried." said Shinozaki.

"I already promised my sister and mother to have dinner with them. So, I also will be going home." said Kishimoto.

The three girls then turned away wanting to head towards their respective house.

"I'm living in his house. So, Kei, let's go home together." said Sakuraoka. She then took Kurono's hand and walked away.

The three girls who just walked away heard her, and felt uncomfortable.

"I think my parents will be alright if I said that I stayed the night with some girl friends."

"I guess I can cancel some of my schedule tomorrow. So, I will come visit Kei's house today."

"Sei-nee! You cannot hog him for yourself. I will go to his house too."

In the end, our MC was being courted to his house by four beautiful girls. Kurono was feeling so bliss at this moment that he promised all the girls, "This time, I will not allow you guys to die. I swear, I will protect all of you with all my life."

The girls smiled appreciatively when they heard his promise.