A Power Not Mine

After several life-and-death situations, it didn't take long for me to realise how shitty the world had turned into.

Fortunately, my daughter was here with me. She was probably the reason I still had my sanity intact.

"Papa," my daughter's voice reached my ears as I turned to look at her.

Yuki was currently in my embrace, laying her head on my chest.

For some reason, after a few brushes with death against zombies, who looked slow and easy targets but actually had the strength to crush a man's head to paste, and a few monsters who wanted to have us as dinner, Yuki started to refer to me as papa again, something she stopped doing when she started the new term in school.

I had thought that perhaps she was being teased to be a baby to use such an intimate term by her age by her classmates, which was why she stopped referring to me as such. Perhaps I was right.

"What's the matter, Yuki?" I asked my daughter.