Ch 6 Introduction And Fortify

Day 86

October 2, 2012

It's almost evening and we went down to the third floor together with Megumi-sensei. While heading to the club room I got a suggestion to make with her.

Zach- "Megumi-sensei, would you let me be in charge of everything on this school."

Megumi- "E-Eh?"

Zach- "Trust me, I already got plans to make this school an anti-zombie home for all of us."

Megumi- "B-But I cannot just let you have all the burden that I'm carrying."

I just realized what I just said. I felt stupid and I immediately correct her.

Zach- "Ah sorry, what I mean to say is let me be in charge of our defenses."

Megumi- "Ohhh."

Zach- "Well letting me in charge of everything is also fine."

Megumi- "No, I'll be a bad teacher if I let a student take care of everything. Not only that I'll feel guilty even more because of it."

Megumi- "But yes, you can be in charge of our defenses, although you must get those two approvals."

Zach- "By those two you mean Yuuri and Kurumi?"

Megumi- "Yes."

I laugh a little.

Zach- "Ahahaha, fine by me."

Then we reach the clubroom as Megumi-sensei opens the sliding door.

Everyone Immediately looks at us and Ruu once more hides behind my back.

Yuki- "Welcome back!"

Yuki- "Zach-san did Megu-nee made you do a lot of chores because that was sure a long time you guys were gone."

Zach- "Ah, yes senpai."

Yuki- "Aww, I feel bad for you Zach-san."

Megumi- "Yuki-chan, now it's you're time to do some chores~"

Megumi said with an evil smile.

Yuki- "Ehhhh?!

Zach- "Pfft."

I pretend to hold my laugh.

Yuki- "Zach-san?!"

Then Megumi-sensei holds her wrist.

Megumi- "Come on now Takeya-san, this is also a punishment for not calling me Sakura-sensei~"

Yuki- "W-What, this is not fair! Everyone help me!"

And they left. Leaving us with Yuuri and the other girl name Kurumi in the clubroom.

Zach- "(Great…)"

Let's do some introduction but let me check if Yuuri did that already.

Zach- "Yuuri, have you told anything about me to her?"

I point to Kurumi.

Yuuri- "Oh you mean Kurumi, no, not at all."

Zach- "..."

I observe Yuuri for a while and judging by her reply, it was a lie. I let out a sigh.

Zach- "I know I have changed quite a bit, not like the old me who just want to laid back with school along with his best friend Yuno."

Zach- "But things such as how to read people is still my specialties."

Zach- "So lying won't work on me Yuuri."

Zach- "Why not you-"

Kurumi- "Hey, what's wrong with you Zach."

She interferes with our talk and stood in front of me with her shovel.

Zach- "(Man, how rude. Just straight out call someone's name without honorifics. We don't even know each other yet or close)"

I calm down and deal with it.

Zach- "(For Megumi-sensei sake but I shall also treat her the same way she treats me.)"

Zach- "What do you mean by that?"

Kurumi- "Don't talk to us as you're welcome here already."

Yuuri was slightly concern hearing that, so she decided to stop this now.

Yuuri- "K-Kurumi?!"

Kurumi- "No Rii-san, this guy just bragged in our place and everyone is treating him like he has lived here since the first day."

Kurumi- "Not only that his keeping secret from us, like hiding that kid behind him."

She points the shovel at me.

Kurumi- "Why are you acting so suspicious like and already treating this place like your own home!"

Zach- "...(Well, can't blame her if she doesn't trust me yet or misunderstood.)"

I decided to make this talk a little bit entertaining.

Zach- "I can't blame you if you don't trust me yet but don't you dare point your weapon at me kid."

Her expression tells me she's pissed because I called her a kid.

Kurumi- "K-Kid?!...How dare you call me a kid!"

She immediately attacks me with her shovel as Yuuri was going to stop her but Kurumi stops when Ruu decided to immediately go beside me and aim the crossbow at her face.

Kurumi- "?!"

Ruu- "Kid, If you dare hurt Nii-san, I'll kill you."

Kurumi starts to cold sweat because Ruu Isn't kidding while showing bloodlust.

Yuuri was shocked to see Ruu like this so is Kurumi.

Then Kurumi drops the weapon slowly on the floor and backs away as she stops pointing the crossbow at her.

I simply smile and decided to end this argument off.

Zach- "Ruu, calm down. I can easily dodge that attack."

Ruu- "Ruu is uncertain if you're going to get hurt. Sorry, Nii-san."

Zach- "No It's okay, you're just trying to protect me."

I look at the two who is still quite surprised about Ruu's action.

Zach- "Man, sorry about that but you do deserve it Kurumi."

Zach- "Anyway, Yuuri we need to talk...private."

Yuuri- "I...I understand."

Kurumi- "Rii-san, I…"

Yuuri- "Wait here."

Oh, she gave her a cold shoulder, oh well that's something.

We went outside out of the room and close the sliding door as we went near the stairs that lead up to the rooftop.

Zach- "About Ruu-"

Immediately Yuuri hugged me. Ruu was surprised to see this.

Yuuri- "Thank you…*Sob*...thank you so much."

Zach- "..."

Zach- "There, there..."

I start patting her back.

During that part, I understand why she's crying all of the sudden and hugged me in the process.

I know Yuuri Wakasa personally because were friends since my first year of high school and there's a secret with her that only I and Yuno knows. She's mentally fragile with things that seemingly hopeless situation.

You know what that means. Yes, she must have been worrying about her little sister since the beginning that I already know she has been having multiple mental or nervous breakdown without anyone knowing even Megumi-sensei.

Seeing her little sister alive and well is like a cure from her stress and anxiety right now. Which I'm glad that I have taken that out of her body.

Appearance. Yuuri is a teenage girl with long and straight brown hair, freely falling down to her hips. In addition, she wears a piece of her hair into a bun at the side of her head, tied with a small silver-grayish hairclip. She sometimes wears her hair as a ponytail, at either the back or side of her head. Yuuri has olive green eyes, sometimes depicted as having an amber tint in it. She has a "beauty mark" located under her left eye, and a fair and light complexion that is prone to blushing. According to my observation, she is the tallest among the girls except for Megumi-sensei. Yuuri wears her school uniform, which consists of a white short-sleeved shirt with a green necktie and a red ribbon hanging from it. Though not part of the uniform, she almost always wears a white cardigan over the uniform. She wears a green-colored skirt with four yellow buttons around her waist and hip, long black socks that cover most of her legs and end at her thighs, and white shoes that are green at the tips.

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A couple of minutes later she stops crying and we went to the rooftop to get some fresh air.

I help her water the garden while Ruu does crossbow maintenance.

Yuuri- "To think my little sister turn out to be like this."

Zach- "Sorry, she needs to, for her safety and she could protect herself If I'm not around."

Yuuri- "It's fine, I do understand your logic, Zach."

Zach- "Thanks for the understanding and you can call those things zombies."

Yuuri- "Eh? is that their real name?"

Zach- "Made up but much better than nothing."

She giggles.

Yuuri- "Ehehe, you're right."

Yuuri- "Anyway, can you tell me how you find my little sister."

I briefly told her how I find Ruu and what happened.

Yuuri- "Oh my…"

Zach- "You should be thanking her friends instead of me because without them I don't think Ruu will be alive right now."

Yuuri- "...I see."

Yuuri- "Did you put them to rest at least?"

Zach- "Yeah, I did."

Yuuri- "Then that should be enough for me to say thank you once more."

She said with a smile. I scratch my head thinking if I say I don't earn all the credit but I decided not too.

Zach- "By the way Yuuri, Megumi-sensei just made me in charge of the school defense."

Yuuri- "Huh, she did."

Zach- "Mhm, a while ago when I suggested it to her."

Yuuri- "Well I bet she made the right decision."

Zach- "Were you the one in charge of it?"

Yuuri- "Half of it at least but I guess I should give that half to you too."

Zach- "Hehe thanks, I won't let you guys down."

Yuuri- "I'll be looking forward to it."

Now I got Yuuri's approval, I guess I need Kurumi's. Man this gonna be hard to get hers.

We notice the sun is slowly going down, so before night arrives we went to the third floor.

On the third floor, I let Ruu be with her older sister and introduce herself to the others while I go search for Megumi-sensei.

She was against the idea of me leaving her but with my explanation and a promise, she's willing to cooperate.

Anyway, about Megumi-sensei, Yuuri told me she might be on the second floor at the Home Ec Room and School Cafeteria getting food for our dinner tonight. So I'm heading there right now.

While heading there I look around and amazed that we got electricity and lights.

Zach- "Man, this school is just amazing. Those solar panels on the rooftop provide us electricity to the school building. That's why we got lights in the hallway and the classroom. Pretty much every floor has electricity."

Zach- "But with all this light, it will lure more zombies... hmmm."

I look outside the window and no zombie is on the school field.

Zach- "I guess I was wrong."

Back with the school.

Zach- "Hehe, also I must know everything this school building has, I know some already since I'm a student of this school but I must know more."

Zach- "And the only one who could provide me that information is Megumi-sensei. I could have asked her that earlier If only I didn't forget about it."

Zach- "Again why didn't I visit this school sooner, goodness."

Then I stop because an obstacle is in front of me. This obstacle is a barricade made from those girls.

Zach- "School desk stack to each other with wire ropes to keep them together. Hm, not bad."

I climb up to it and carefully climb down then continue my walk.

On my arrival, I saw Megumi-sensei carrying a box. I right away went to help her.

Megumi- "Thanks for coming, Zach."

Zach- "No problem, didn't I said I'm here for you."

She giggles.

Megumi- "Hehe, I didn't think you were being literal."

Zach- "That hurts my feeling you know"

Megumi- "Sorry, sorry~"

I look at what's inside the box. It looks like rations.

Zach- "Hey, are these rations."

Megumi- "Ah yes, we run out of regular food supplies, like a week ago. So will be using emergency ration that was stored in that room."

Zach- "Hmm, how many do we still have."

Megumi- "I found around 3 boxes of emergency ration, could last us around a month or 2."

Zach- "I see, that's great."

Zach- "Before we run out of this, this school will be fortified to an anti-zombie building."

Zach- "Ehehe, can't wait."

I start smiling while giggling like evil. Megumi is slightly surprised by this.

Megumi- "R-Right...anyway I'm glad you're coming up plans already for our safety Zach."

Zach- "Of course, this will be my new home now and I won't let it go to waste by rotten zombies."

Zach- "And If my science knowledge was right, time is the only case of killing all these bastard."

Zach- "Around a year or 10 months for all of them to die hehe, we just have to wait and survive."

Megumi-sensei looks at me proudly.

Megumi- "You really live up to your title."

Zach- "What? the Smartest Student title? Screw that, you know I'm not that smart."

Zach- "Just knowledgeable that's all."

Megumi- "Say whatever you want Zach, but I still think you're the smartest student I ever known."

Zach- "I appreciate it but really no."

Megumi- "Ehehe."

Then we arrive at the barricade. I do know how to transfer this to the other side but…

Zach- "Why are you trying to climb up first Megumi-sensei."

Megumi- "Well so you could pass me the box and you could climb up afterward."

I shrug my shoulder and let out a sigh.

Zach- "So clueless...do whatever you like. I don't mind seeing you're underwear after all."

When I said that she immediately blush and went down.

Megumi- "Zach I hate you."

Zach- "W-What?!"

I was shocked that I got a hate for nothing.

So I climb up first and she passed me the box. I grab it and she proceeds to climb while I wait.

Then we continue our walk to the clubroom when I carried the box again.

Zach- "By the way Megumi-sensei."

Megumi- "Hm?"

Zach- "Mind if you tell me everything that this school has, It would really help me a lot."

She began to think.

Megumi- "I know as a teacher I shouldn't share important things like what this school has with a student but I'll let it slide since your my favorite student."

Zach- "Uhhh, could you cut it off with the favorite student you'll make someone hurt if keep perishing that to me"

She shed a single tear.

Megumi- "How mean! I generally think of you as my favorite student."

I looked at her with a doubtful expression.

Zach- "Ehh, you know teacher must love all of their student, not just one."

Megumi- "I do love all of my students."

Zach- "Then why are you praising me as someone special."

She blushed for some reason and look the other way.

Megumi- "*Mutter* Because, I...I sort of like you…"

I didn't hear what she just said.

Zach- "What? Can you speak louder."

She blushed as she starts twiddling her fingers.

Megumi- "!...Because what you did from the past with Yuno…"

Zach- "Ohhh. That."

I let out a sigh.

Zach- "Okay whatever, just don't say that when your students are around."

Megumi- "I'm aware, you don't have to remind me."

Zach- "Well, provide me the information I wanted."

Megumi- "After dinner."

She said while she stuck out her tongue

Zach- "You sly...tch, fine."

She giggles once more.

Megumi- "Ehehe."

Ch 6 Introduction And Fortify End