Arrival At The Mall

We start to leave the vehicle and Saeko, Soichiro, Scythe, Kurisu and I being the ones with silent weapons, cleaned the parking lot of zombies. With 5 people helping, it didn't take long, when the area is clear the others also come out.

When everyone is together Soichiro says,"well, we should load the cars up with whatever we can get." I turn to look at everyone in the place, they were the people who carried the weapons to the cars and defended Takagi's house, in addition to my group. Then I turn my eyes to those in the other cars snuggling up waiting for us to do the work. Without being able to avoid it, I intervene.

"Who is going to carry the things?" -Alex

"Hmn? We will of course" -Soichiro 

"I do not think that is the most optimal method... we should choose the people who can carry things without any difficulty and have them do it, we will be in charge of protecting the area from any zombies approaching." -Alex

"... They are still very scared with everything going on, I don't think they want to get out with zombies in the vicinity." -Soichiro 

"It seems that you didn't hear me, I said that we would protect them from the zombies, so they don't have to worry about them. Besides, I didn't tell you to ask them, make them do it." -Alex

"That ... it's not good to use force on them when we can do it." -Soichiro 

When we decided to proceed with carrying things, I ran into a problem, I don't know if Soichiro has a hero complex or his personality is just too straight forward, but he preferred to work for others by putting himself and those by his side at risk, rather than forcing others to help.

"Well, if you don't want to force them, I'll do it."

Deciding not to waste more time I decided to do it myself, I don't care how others see me, I simply believed that it was more efficient and above all I don't feel okay putting myself at risk for people I don't know while they just wait around for us to protect them.

When walking in the direction of the vehicles where the other people were, raising his voice Soichiro calls me.

"Alexander, it should be enough for us to do the job with just us... don't bother them, they're scared and have been through a lot." 

Listening to his words I feel like pulling my hair out, there really is a limit to how good a person someone should be. I stop my steps and turn around facing Soichiro, looking a little angry at him, I speak.

"Soichiro, I'm not going to ask children or elderly, it's not that I intend to do inhuman things or take advantage of them. The people I choose can carry things without any problem, and as long as we protect them the risk will be minimal.

You say they are scared? Anyone would be scared of a horde of zombies in front of them, if they don't want to be outside they just need to move quicker so the time they have to stay outside is shorter.

I have nothing against helping others, but it is very different if they want to put their entire burden on me. If things get bad, do you know what a person totally dependent on you and whom you helped will say?"

"…Thank you?"

"Hahahaha ..."

With his response my laughter comes out before I can even realize, Soichiro frowns, because he did not feel my reaction was very pleasant. After calming down, I continue.

"Soichiro, I must say that you are a good person ... but unfortunately you are too naïve. Although I cannot deny that in this world there are people with a conscience and perhaps you can get their gratitude in such a situation, it is a pity that the most likely thing to happen in such case, is that those people will blame you for why things turned out wrong.

People being under a lot of stress do things that they normally would not do, you can call it instinct, collective hysteria or whatever you want, the point is that at that time things go wrong, they become very selfish to ensure their survival.

That is something we have all seen here when the zombies emerged, I don't know if you forgot about it or you just don't want to accept that as part of human nature. " -Alex

"..."

"Soichiro, Alexander-kun is right ... it is more productive to make others help, it is also better for them to get used to this world now, since I don't think it's going to go back to how it used to be." -Yuriko

Soichiro remains silent without answering my statements, in the end with the support of Yuriko-san he nods but also asks.

"How do you intend to make them come out if they don't want to?" -Soichiro

"... I will threaten them, if they still refuse, I will shoot someone in the leg." -Alex

"That's totally illegal, you can't shoot people!" -Soichiro

"Alexander-kun ... I agree, shooting someone in the leg is excessive." -Yuriko

I try to answer honestly so they won't be surprised when I do something, but when I get to the part of shooting someone, I see in Soichiro's face displeasure and in others fear, that's why I tried to soften it, but even Yuriko's-san doesn't seem to like my idea.

The policewoman starts to raise her voice to lecture me about laws and things like that, she probably hasn't been out of the mall for a while, I guess she doesn't understand that those things lost their validity when the zombies emerged, so I just ignore her, she shouldn't take long to realize anyway.

"Let me do it"

Soichiro takes a step forward after speaking, he probably wants to prevent from me shooting someone, so he ends up taking the role to convince those waiting in the trucks. We walk to one and go inside where he begins to explain things to everyone.

"...That's the situation, so please those who can carry things come down to help."

When he finishes his words, only one person gets up, but when this sees that the others remain seated, he can't choose whether to move forward or sit down again. Then within the people who were sitting, one speaks.

"Takagi-san, outside is dangerous ... you have always done everything to help all of us. Please, you must strive to continue to keep us safe, it is you guys who have the weapons."

I wanted to say "I told you so" but looking at his face and that of his men, I can see that he finally understood. The others in the vehicle agree with the man's words, and also begin to demand things that they think they are entitled to. So when he lost control of the situation, I decided that it was my turn to interfere.

"Silence!!"

"W-who are you? What do you want little girl?"

[Tzun]

"Hiii"

The man opens his eyes wide when he sees the bullet hole near him. Having everyone silences and their attention on me, I order them.

"Well, Soichiro kindly asked all of you and you didn't want to do things the easy way, so now it's my turn to ask... I'll count to 3 and everyone who is over 15 years old and under 50 gets off the truck before I finish... if you don't, the next time I shoot I won't miss."

When I start counting some young people get up immediately, their faces seem familiar. When I see them up close, I remember that they were the ones who were in the group of that teacher who the zombies ate.

They should know from experience that things would not be good for them if they don't comply with my orders, for that reason they were the first to get out, with them moving the others begin to follow. Finally, I check that the ones that remain are neither too small nor too old, after looking over them, we also get out.

"See, if they have so much energy they shouldn't have any problems helping to load things."

We do the same in the other 2 trucks, it was less problematic than with the first one, since after seeing people get off the first truck, others also imitate them.

"You just have to follow the instructions given to you, the faster you move, the sooner you can go back to sitting in the truck. I must tell you something in advance, if you do something stupid then in the best case you will end up with a bullet in the skull and in the worst I will make my zombie eat you."

"Grrrawn ~"

When kindly speaking to them I caress Scythe's pigtails, who is always by my side, and then as she always does when I caress her, she roars a little, when others pay attention to her they discover the differences from an ordinary person, identifying her as a zombie. As a result, a small hustle and bustle is created, but by ordering them to shut up quickly all those people return to silence.

When Matsushima discovers this, she tries to take out her gun, but before she could she is stopped by my group, then Yuriko-san and Saeko explain everything about Scythe to her.

"Alexander-san… you should stop using Scythe-chan for intimidating others. Everyone will be afraid of her."

Saeko complains a little whispering in my ear when I use Scythe that way, I honestly think it's better for others to fear her, it's more useful that way, but knowing that she cares about Scythe I nod, then she smiles happily and also caresses Scythe head.

"Some may think that I am only threatening you and I will not really do anything, but you can ask those who already had the joy of being under my protection, and you will learn that I am not lying."

I turn to the group of students that accompanied me from the school, when they see I set my eyes on them they exaggeratedly nod strongly and repeatedly to confirm my words. With that all cleared up, we all move to the doors of the mall to enter, as we get closer, people are seen on the other side of the doors arguing with each other.

"Hello, if anyone is in there, please open the door!"

.......

(POV 3rd Person)

In a building next to the mall a group of men played poker, if a normal person entered inside, the strong stench coming from each one of those who were in this place would be noticed.

"Boss, Boss a group of cars has arrived at the mall!!!"

"Idiot! How many times have I told you not to raise your voice?!! Do you want to attract all the surrounding zombies here?!!"

The one who seemed to be the leader of that group reprimands him with a louder voice than the man that came to report, although the others who were playing at the table notice this, nobody says anything since he had something they did not possess.

If someone thought what he had was courage, they couldn't be more wrong. Although with what he had, even the most cowardly would surely have some guts and some of the bravest when it is pointed at them would make them tremble ... yes, it was a weapon.

In one of his hands, he held a hunting rifle, and as if he was afraid of losing it, he wouldn't let go of it even for a second.

"Bitch!! Don't you see that I have to get up!!"

The man tried to stand up, but the woman between his legs who was licking his penis with care prevented him from doing so. With a strong slap he sends her to the ground and then walk away fixing his pants. After seeing her fall he has an obvious dislike in his eyes by the appearance of the woman.

At the beginning when the apocalypse began, she was the most beautiful woman he had found, but with the days going by without being able to bathe, plus the constant sexual activity and stress, her charm had changed to a completely disheveled appearance and there was a strong smell from the sex and sweat.

"S-sorry boss ... I was focused on your great member so I didn't hear anything."

Even when she was beaten, she responded with the best smile she could manage, she knew that complaining would only make things worse, besides that, they would refuse her food, so she swallowed her pride and responded by praising him with words that would satisfy his ego.

"Humph"

The Leader along with the other men who were playing poker approached one of the windows of the building to see outside. Outside they see a caravan of cars that stopped in the parking lot of the mall.

"Are they military? The cars at the beginning and the end of the line don't look like civilians."

"Shit, first there was those two police bitches that stayed there so we couldn't take things from the mall, and now the military arrive!"

The leader of the men in this building had planned to take the entire mall for himself, but when he saw the two armed officers he dismissed that idea from his mind. The only thing that put him in a higher position than the others here was that he had a gun, he would have to be crazy to go there and have those female police officers strip him of his rifle.

As the saying goes, it was better to be the head of a dog than the ass of a dragon, with that in mind he preferred to be the leader of his group than having to join in the protection of the police.

On the other hand, he was afraid of having to face them, since they had 2 weapons, in addition to having shooting training. He was a rookie at shooting so he would end up dead if a battle was unleashed.

Therefore, he could only observe to see if things changed and he could take advantage of the situation, unfortunately for him a group, possibly military, arrived with better weapons. Clenching his fists from what he saw, he kept watching what was happening in the parking lot.

Soon several people got out of one of the cars, and then it seemed that they began to discuss some things between them. When he observed he was surprised for several reasons, the first was that they did not appear to be military, in the thoughts of the leader he believed that they might have obtained the cars by luck.

Another thing was that everyone seemed to carry weapons, besides they were not the simple rifles like the one he held so carefully, but among all the things that most caught his attention were all the women who got out of the car.

It was like seeing a group of women who were models arriving at the mall for shopping. They all looked the same as before the zombies emerged everywhere, clean and well-groomed, with neat clothes as if the apocalypse was just an illusion.

All the men in that room began to salivate imagining being able to put their hands on them, they had experience and knew that those girls would end up succumbing to them, either because of fear or hunger...

"Who are they?"

Taking them out of their lustful thoughts, the previous woman spoke, directing their gaze to her, the leader's displeasure only increased, then he turned to the beds in the back where more women were lying, due to the smell their situation of whether they were alive or dead was unknown.

"Someone take this thing down to the workers!!"

"E-eh?"

When comparing the two groups of women, the leader could not stand it anymore, the mere thought that he had been with her stirred his stomach, although he had ignored that the other men and himself were not in a much better condition than her.

"B-boss, I've been completely faithful to your orders ... besides, I love you! Please don't leave me!"

The woman knelt held one of his legs imploring him to not take her down there, she knew that if she went to where he sent her, even selling her body to others, the food she would get would be scarce, so she held on to him with the hope that he might feel sorry for her or some other emotion.

"Shut up bitch!!"

It was a pity that the only thing in the head of his leader now was how to get those women that he saw outside... the problem was that they all seemed much better armed than the two police women. While he was torturing his brain to devise a plan, the woman's screams distracted him, angry about that, with all his might he hit her mouth with the butt of the rifle.

"Aaah!!"

The woman cried from the impact that had forcibly removed several teeth from her mouth, due to the pain she then lost consciousness, one of the leader's men then takes her and drags her out of the room.

"Boss! We have to take all those women ... also all the weapons, with them we won't have to fear the zombies anymore and we will not have to hide here"

"... are you implying that we are here because I am afraid?!! That I do not dare to go out and that I only depend on this weapon?!!"

"E-eh? O-of course not boss ... we are all alive thanks to you!"

"Hmph, it's good that you know that, don't worry, we'll get those women and the weapons... we just have to think of a way to achieve it."

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Written by:

Jwunder99

Ideas by:

Drack21