"Ten? How could that be?" He cant believe what he just heard. From 1000 zombie bites to 10! Both Alpha and Uno can't believe it.
"Did you know the reason behind this?" Uno asked.
"Unfortunately no, we have only a few guesses."
"Tell us," Alpha said and the man nodded. He tells them various guesses but it was far from the answer, most of them are random, and nonsense guesses, as he keeps going, Uno lost interest already and the same as Alpha.
Although he is not interested anymore, he keeps listening while Uno takes a step back, then leaning his back to the wall and closes his eyes with arms crossed.
He does not fell asleep while standing, instead, he contacted a guy who knows everything in the game, he's a d*** but his words could be trusted.
He enters the chat message and calls him.
'call Izaya.' He muttered, and shortly after, the system search for the name 'Izaya.'
[Calling…]
[Connecting to Izaya…]
[Connected.]
"Yo Uno! Been a while since you call me! Did you miss me? Get married already you loser!" A man's voice that is full of spirit comes out from the call.
"Shut up, I could get any girls when I wanted to. Ok get to the point, do you know anything about the sudden changes in the game?"
"Sudden changes? You mean that mushroom cloud on District C on the second city?"
Hearing his answer, Uno frowned. "Mushroom cloud?"
"Un, it appears about four to five hours ago, I don't have any information about it at the moment though."
"What about it?" Izaya asked as to why Uno wanna know about the sudden changes in the game and as long Izaya remembers it right, the game is the same as before.
"Guess it wouldn't hurt tell you this, the zombies in the second city suddenly gets stronger, earlier, four NPCs who got their Player ID injured."
One of the requirements of taking the Player's Examination is to reach level 80 before reaching 25.
Izaya didn't say anything as he knows that no matter what, it is impossible for a level 30 zombie injured a level 80 player, he didn't have to ask what is their level is when he heard they had a Player ID.
If he thinks that Uno is playing with him, that's impossible, he only calls him when he needs to and they don't very close to each other.
"So you want to know the reason behind that. Alright, I'll keep an eye out about it. I'll call you when I get the answer. Don't forget to pay or I'll make your seven descendants living in hell!"
"Don't worry, your service is the best around here. How could I not pay you? Also, tell me more about that mushroom cloud if you found anything."
Uno gets a hunch that, that mushroom cloud has something to do with the current situation, his hunch or gut rarely kicks in but when it does, he always follows it.
"Ok, got it. Hmm?" Izaya paused for a few seconds when he finally said, "you lucky Uno, we got a client who got the answer. He said that he knows what is the cause of that nuclear explosion."
"Is that so? Then tell me."
"Don't get so impatient, wait for a minute." He said as he hung up the call, a minute later, just on time.
"He said that he'll talk with you directly if you wanted the information, I'm sorry Uno but I don't want to torture someone cause of money. It against my principle."
At this moment, Uno felt that he talk with a different person. How come this d*** b**tard talking about principles? What happens to your ignorant attitude or your lust for money?
"Are you really the Izaya I know?"
"Yes, I am your lovely Izaya. What? Did you think I'm a shapeshifter that disguises as him?"
You setting up a flag you know? Uno thought himself.
"Fine, I don't care if you're a shapeshifter or the real one, just tell me where we meet."
"We'll meet tonight, at 9 P.M, you must come alone. That is what he said." Izaya tells him the location but before he said it, there is a brief second of silence.
Uno notices the brief silence and knows something's wrong.
"Ok, that's all. Regarding the place, he said he'll call you personally."
"Ok see you later. Don't forget about- teet… teet…" His words cut in the middle as Izaya intentionally hung up the phone in the middle of his words.
He closes the chat message and opened his eyes only to find out a beautiful young girl holding a marker and it looks like she draws something with it.
The girl is very close to him and the tip of the marker touches his face. Moving here and there before finally stopped.
"Clover what are you doing?" He asked.
"I'm drawing you a mustache, you always wanted one." She said with a smile then excitingly said this as she takes a step back and crossed her arms with a proud look.
"Finished!"
"Clover, did you draw a dumb mustache on my face?" He asked as he touches something between his nose and mouth. Clover about to say something when.
"Looking good Uno," Tornado said as he exited Alpha Wolf's office and saw Uno's new mustache, a black and thick one.
It looks very real from afar but Tornado's keen eyes somehow notice something's weird about it, therefore, he take a better look with his hand pinch his chin.
He looks like an appraiser analyzing an old, ancient artifact that worth millions but the truth is, he analyzed a mustache, a beautiful black thick mustache!
"Pfft, hahaha! Yeah, your mustache is very good. Hahaha!" He laughed loudly and Uno sent a gaze to Clover who holding a marker in her hand.
She said innocently, "what's wrong? You didn't like it? Want a beard instead?"
"No thank you! I am proud of the way it is!" He said and look at Tornado who still laughing then avert his gaze to Clover.
"Can it be erased?" He asked.
"I think so, I found this marker on that old man's desk." She said as she points her finger at Alpha who still listening to the man, his eyes are very tired.
"I'm pretty sure this marker isn't a permanent one, I mean, who uses it nowadays?" She said confidently and look at the marker, to know that it wasn't a permanent one but it was the opposite.
Clover's expression turned grim, Uno aware of her expression turned 180° He gets bad premonition about this, so he asked.
"What? Is that expression just to mess with me? Don't tell me it was a permanent one."
Tornado stops his laugh and noticed that the air between them suddenly changes, so he grabs the marker from Clover, carefully analyzed it, nodding and looks at Uno.
"Uno, you're lucky bud, you got an unremovable mustache that never grows and doesn't need a trim! How lucky you are! So many people wish they had a mustache like you."
Uno's mouth twitch slightly before saying, "lucky your little sister! Lucky your whole damn family!"
"Thank you," Clover said with a warm smile.
What the hell is this? How did I end up with this bunch of eccentric people? What on earth did I do in the past life that makes me deserve this?
He sighed helplessly and ignored the mustache. For now, he needs to tell Tornado about the changes.
He then returns his mind to reality only to find out something that makes his eyeball popped out from its socket.
"WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING?"
"Hmm? We just wondering if it was funny to draw a mustache on a zombie's face." Tornado said as he looks at the zombie cage while Clover carefully puts on makeups on its face.
"Why and how you capture one?"
"Well, at the time, I was bored. So, I decided to just throw a slice of meat on the street with this cage hanging on the air and when this guy ate it, the cage fall, thus trapped it."
The zombie inside it shrieking loudly and ramming the cage with its body. Both of its arms get out from it due to the small gaps between the metallic bars.
It doesn't have any hands, just a handless zombie, this is the reason why Tornado look from the distance without a worry of Clover getting hurt, but he ready himself if something happens, and if it did, he will not hesitate to turn it to cinders!
Moments later, it was finished. The zombie had a mess up face earlier are now covered by makeups. It was a dashing young man right now even though its right eye went missing.
It has also a mustache! A fine one that is.
"Your skill is amazing Clover, that mustache looks like a real one." Uno praised her, earlier he thought the mustache she drew on his face would turn out to be bad but seeing this, it must be not that bad.
"Thanks!" She said with a cute voice.
Uno nodded and summoned a mirror from his inventory and Tornado notice his action.
"You sure want to see your face?" He asked.
"Why? I mean, what could go wrong?"