Story 11 Great Great Asset Chapter 3

Mizuhara Chizuru was a 'rental girlfriend' from the after mentioned 'rental girlfriend' slice of life anime. And she in this hellhole... Was the very definition of deadweight to put simply.

"Collect some freeze-dried food, and some water bottles to go in one of the backpacks." I told her as she stood not far from me as she still stood with her hand outstretched towards me after making her introduction.

And to my refusal to give my name she winced and then looked around at the terribly torn up sports store before with a grimace walked over and took my advice to collect some living supplies while I analyzed the sporting goods store and the large mall indoor mall on the outside before coming to the conclusion. That the mall was just a death trap if there were more monsters in the closed down shops that I previously wanted to break into to check out for more special items to sell off to my patrons.

I brushed my hand over my face as I gave Mizuhara a final look before turning my back as I saw a hallway leading from the sports store to another section of this labyrinth similar to the winding hallway that led from the entrance of the factory section to the mall section.

I didn't have any superpowers of any sort so I wasn't going to chance running into some kind of SCP/monster which I had no way of dealing with, even if I believed I could easily get a bunch more anomalous objects of value.

But as I continued down the winding path I heard a shout and I sighed as the sounds of Mizuhara's hard bottomed shoes rang out on the linoleum floor. "Why did you ha... Leave without saying anything?!" She demanded while panting and holding her heaving chest while looking at with wild eyes and I realized that she wasn't doing all the great mentally obviously.

"I do not know you. We both are looking for anomalous objects to pay out way and sharing means that we will need to aquire double the objects probably from the claws of monsters I will need to kill." I stated bluntly and she gave me a long look before breaking into a hysterical giggle.

"You think I am going to... Haha that's so funny!" She spoke with literal tears coming down her face as she continued. "I am just a tier one woman... The Company didn't even send me in with a bracelet! They expect all tier one and two women to give their objects to tier three and fours who actually have bracelets... Even if I took a bracelet off someone, its literally tied to their very souls so people here don't kill one another for the points someone may be saving up." She finished with finality.

'That... Fucking sucks but it makes sense as only tier three and up women in the Waifu Catalog typically have any form of real combat skills.' I thought before taking a breath and answering firmly as although her story... Was fucking terrible to hear. I still gained nothing from her following me.

"What do I get for protecting and providing for you Mizuhara Chizuru." I asked bluntly and her furious expression froze as she looked at me almost defensively as she clearly was thinking I was going to demand sexual favors and although she was hot... It's not like even had a damned resting place to do such things!

I wasn't that bad!

So I quickly added. "Get your head out of the gutter... Just follow me and don't cause trouble." I finished with a sigh as I realized that having a lookout to take turns sleeping when we inevitably got tired was going to be important.

And as I turned back around not letting her see my wry smile as I recalled my patron's words on not bothering to buy waifus when I could just find them naturally. I spoke out with more volume. "My name is Jake Barriss, just call me Jake." I finished before tilting my head to the side as I heard a skittering of something scratching across metal in the distance in front of us.

'Was it a monster or just something falling?' I thought holding my duct tape spear firmly in my hands as we continued down through the halls and after we rounded a bend we reached something new... 'This is definitely something from the backrooms.' I thought as we exited out of the hallway into a fucking utterly massive hall with obvious fake star lights in the roof of the massive hall that was good five or six stories above our head.

But it looked like this massive hall that was a good mile long was a sort of pre-made subdivision house building display area as lined on both sides of the massive hall was a dozen houses with six on each side in various cookie cutter subdivision like houses that were typically two-story square houses.

"Are we going into those houses?" Mizuhara asked with some trepidation as the houses had some lights clearly on which were the only source of light besides the weak fake star light above our heads and I took a breath as I tried to look through the darkness of the surrounding lots of the houses close to us to see if there were anything but after not seeing or hearing anything I nodded.

Saying quietly. "There is certainly going to be a good amount of anomalous objects in the houses... And we can probably rest inside one of the houses safely if we can board up one of the bedrooms." I muttered as I also wondered if there would be any food stored inside there as well.

Mizuhara quietly followed behind me as reached the first building as we reached the front gate of the waist height picket fence my braclet softly bleeped letting me know an anomalous object was here and as I looked around I noticed that the actual mailbox for the building was the object of value...

'Do I just uproot the thing?' I thought before realizing it was just the actual metal box itself and not the wooden post that was embedded into the concrete floor that was the anomalous object, so I used a knife to pry off the seemingly indestructible mailbox off its post and shoved it into my backpack and then we quickly went into the houses with some fear as I made a good bit of noise in taking the mailbox.

"There is fresh food in the fridge Jake!" Mizuhara called out excitedly from the kitchen and as I moved from the main living from from looking out into the dark main road seperating all the other buildings I noticed the door to the side of the staircase leading upstairs, that obviously lead to the basement...

And for a long moment I thought about checking the basement before I whirled around and pulled a showroom couch from the living room in front of the basement without a change of expression.

 "What are you..." Mizuhara said hearing me drag the couch and seeing me drag the couch in front of the thin aluminum door separating the basement from the main house.

"Do you think there is a monster in the basement or something Jake?" She almost teased before she went pale and then without a word stepped forward and helped me pull the couch in front of the basement door.

Because yes... There very fucking may well be a monster in the basement!

With that dealt with I took a breath and asked Mizuhara curiously. "Let me see the kitchen then." I said walking into the ultra-modern kitchen that was entirely too much shiny chromed steel, but regardless I opened up the fridge and froze as I realized something almost instantly.

The large double door fridge was clearly, very, very clearly split in half with the items within. On one side was cuts of beef, some corn in its wrappings with my preferred drink of DR. Pepper, Pizza in the freezer side and my favorite cookie dough ice cream. Likewise on the other side of the fridge and freeze was food that was clearly in Japanese writing...

"Is it just me... Or is this all our favorite foods." I said making Mizuhara pause as well as I considered a terrible thought.

'What if the house itself was the monster?'

I mentally said fuck it and smashed the bottom side of my spear into the ground and other than a simple loud cracking noise as the broom handle cracked the tiled kitchen floor... Nothing happened.

"Do we leave?" I asked with a grimace as the food looked great... But there was obviously something fucky going on and as though in answer a thumping noise of a door loudly slamming shut rang out from outside the house and I realized that it was one of the neighboring houses.