Haru waited patiently for the answer.
"M-More than 10,000," Shoji finally said.
"…." There was a short silence after there, other than a gasp from Takashi, nothing else was heard.
Haru didn't say anything as he had already reached their location since their positions were quite close to each other.
Haru was in the south, Saya was in the southeast and Makoto's group was in the southwest. In normal cases, Haru would have tried to stay close to all the girls, but Saeko was in the north which is directly opposite Haru's location.
She said that she was strong enough to protect herself and she wanted to freely test out her new ability, which she wouldn't be able to do if she stayed close to him.
She knew that Haru would attract most of the zombies in the area so, she justified Haru with this while she also added that if there was any problem then they had the system and she just had to buy a grenade and blast a zombie, as it would be enough even if it is an A-rank zombie.
'Hey, Saeko,' Haru mentally said while his face had a pondering look on the outside.
'Yes~~' Saeko sounded like she was enjoying her time slaughtering the zombies with her new power, though her group members were shocked by her increase in power.
'Do you like dancing?' Haru asked in an amused tone.
'What are you up to?' Saeko stopped killing zombies and asked.
'Well, we have more than 10,000 zombies to dance with.' Haru didn't keep her in suspense.
'Really?' Saeko was already holding Dagmor tightly with a smile, but she still asked for confirmation.
'Yes. So? What do you think?' Haru asked, by now he already had a smile on his face, this caused Makoto and Shoji to tremble a little as they knew that look.
'Don't even think of leaving me out of this. Where are you?' Saeko spoke hurriedly.
'At the Southwest end." Haru replied.
'Wait for me,' Saeko said and directly ran towards his direction, forgetting to even inform her teammates, who ran after her as they saw her running, though they failed to notice the crazy smile on her face.
"Boss?" Haru finally came out of his thoughts and stopped smiling when he heard Makoto's voice.
"Yes?" Haru asked innocently.
"What is your plan, Boss?" Makoto asked, completely ignoring the fact that he had seen Haru smile a moment ago and that he already knew Haru's plan.
"Well, I will take care of that. You don't need to tell anyone about it as it would only cause people to panic."
Haru spoke nonchalantly as if it was not a big deal and for him, it really was no big deal as he alone could take care of 10,000-20,000 zombies without any problem.
"Haru?" Before Makoto could say something, Saya's voice was heard from Haru's walkie-talkie.
She had been hearing the noise made by Haru's skills, but then suddenly the noise stopped. She quickly contacted Haru, she thought something happened, and she completely forgot how strong Haru really was.
"Yes, Saya?" Haru asked gently as he could hear the worry in her voice.
"Did something happen?" Saya asked though she also sighed in relief so did the other girls who had the same worry as Saya until they heard Haru's voice.
Haru contemplated for a while then finally decided to tell them about it.
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"Hmmm, they are obviously more than 10,000, what do you think?" Haru said as he looked at the coming hoard of zombies.
"They are more than 20,000."
Kohta said with a trembling voice as the sheer amount of zombies walking in their direction was more than the total of what they had killed.
"Oh, well, we can let ourselves free then," Haru said and started stretching his body, and so did Saeko who was standing beside him while everyone else looked at them with disbelief.
After Haru told Saya about what was happening she quickly came along with him, and Saeko's group did the same when they heard what was happening.
Right now, there were 11 people standing together while one was standing on a tree that was elevated higher by Shizuka's ability, they were, Haru, Saeko, Yuriko, Saya, Kohta, Miku, Kazuki, Rei, Shizuka, Takashi, Makoto and finally Shoji who led them here.
"Haru, I see something weird," Suddenly Kohta spoke gathering everyone's attention, even Haru looked at him with a questioning look since weird is always bad.
"What is it?" Haru didn't try sensing how many zombies there were or what the weird thing Kohta was talking about was since he didn't wish to steal Kohta's job.
"I think someone is.... leading them?" Kohta said with uncertainty, so, Haru just sighed and climbed the tree and then he finally saw the seen, they looked like a colony of ants moving towards something.
But then Haru noticed what Kohta said, and it really seemed like they were led by someone as they were moving in an orderly manner, so, Haru tried focusing and he finally found it.
"Hoh? That's Shido," Haru muttered when he saw a guy with tattered clothes sitting on a large dark blue cat though it looked black and larger than Kuroneko, still, Haru could feel it was weaker than Kuroneko.
But Kohta who was by his side heard it and he also focused and saw Shido clearly and spoke out loud.
"Shido?"
"What do you mean Shido?" But before Haru could answer Rei quickly asked as she really hated even that guy's name.
Haru looked at everyone who was looking at him and spoke.
"The zombies are being led by Shido and I think he is also a zombie just better than other zombies." It was the best Haru could explain to them, but then he jumped down the tree and spoke again.
"Does it change anything? Whether he is there or not doesn't matter, what matters is we have to kill the zombies that are coming towards us."
Haru spoke without thinking much in a nonchalant tone which caused them to repeat his word in their minds.
'Nothing has changed, we just have to kill the zombie….'
Still, Makoto and Shoji didn't have a bit of an idea who this Shido they were talking about was.
After a while everyone calmed down, they knew that they had to fight the zombies since their leader had already decided, so, Saya inquired.
"What's the plan?" She looked right at Haru who was helping Shizuka with stretching while Shizuka just blushed when Haru groped her body with the excuse of helping her stretch.
"Plan?" Haru looked at Saya in confusion, but Saya was dumbfounded by his response and quickly asked.
"You didn't make a plan?" She asked in an incredulous tone, not ready to believe that Haru hadn't made a plan.
Yuriko was the same though she realized that they were thinking differently when she saw Haru's lips stretch into a smile so did Saeko's.
"There's no need for a plan, I am enough to take care of things here, but you guys wanted to be here, so I brought you. Now whether you want to fight or not it's up to you."
Haru spoke with a smile and turned towards the hoard of zombies that was now 500m away from them.
"You…" Saya was about to say something, but she paused when her mother held her hand and shook her head while gesturing her to look at Haru.
She looked towards Haru again and she then realized that she was just underestimating him as he was more powerful than she thought he was, still she was also a little sad since she could see that Saeko trusted Haru without a doubt by the way she directly ran towards the zombies leaving her back for Haru to cover.
However, if she could read minds, then she would notice that every girl had almost the same thoughts as her, well, except Kazuki and Miku.
Miku never really thought much about anything, so, it didn't matter to her.
As for Kazuki, let's just say she could even die for Haru, so, looking at Saeko running ahead didn't bother her much as she also did the same next second.
As if Kazuki running towards the zombies was a start signal, everyone did the same except Kohta who positioned his gun, aiming for the zombies from above, and Shizuka who ran a little behind everyone and used her ability to bind the zombies or trip them, sometimes even piercing them.
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