As Leo went to the upper floors, he intentionally made a small noise on each floor. He was strong enough to handle around twenty zombies, so he didn't fear attracting their attention. As he had expected, he met only occasional growls and roars from zombies.
The dormitory building had 10 floors to accommodate the increasing number of students from all over the Federation. In comparison, his dormitory building, being older than the new dorm area, had only 5 floors.
Humming a melody, which was already a habit from his past life, he went to the seventh floor. Consequently, zombies responded to his humming with a growl on every floor. He didn't expect any other response, but he was surprised to hear a plea for help on one of the floors.
"We're here! Please, help us!" A desperate woman's voice could be heard from one of the rooms. Her voice was not melodic or gentle; it carried a sense of fear and desperation.
At the same time, he heard how one of the doors was being banged. As he heard the sound, he quickly rushed towards it and saw how a zombie was hitting the door of the room. He easily killed it, collecting a black coin from its corpse.
"You're safe now, but don't leave the room for now. I'm going to check the upper floors, so stay quiet there." Leo wanted to finish the job before meeting with survivors. Indeed, he was surprised to stumble upon them, but not so much, since he saw plenty of them in his past life. Also, they were safe in the room, so he could help them after he dealt with all zombies in the building.
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"Do you think he will come back?" The same voice that pleaded for help resounded in the room. It was a soft voice that was pleasant to hear.
"I don't know, but he said we should wait for him." A composed and proud voice followed after the soft one.
"But what will we do if he leaves us?" The sweet voice was clearly concerned about her safety.
Three women were whispering with each other in one of the dorm rooms. One of them had luscious light brown hair, adorned with a beauty mark right under her lips, accentuating her features. She had a sweet voice and had a fiery body.
Another one had composed air around her. She had short black hair until her neckline and sharp facial features. Maybe she wasn't as enticing as a hot woman next to her, but she had a sharp and confident aura around her. Clearly, she was the type of person who attracts attention no matter where she goes.
The third woman in the room had a completely different aura than the other two women. If the first one was hot and mature and the second one was sharp and charismatic, the third one looked naive and meek.
She had silky black hair, kind eyes, and a cute, charming face, but the most eye-catching was her big chest covered under a light pink sweater. She looked like a kind big sister.
"He said it safe now. Maybe we should check the corridor?" Like a whisper from the devil, the owner of a sweet voice suggested opening the doors of the room. She cautiously approached the door with the intention to peek into the corridor, gently pushing it ajar to avoid making noise. The woman with sharp facial features, who exuded an air of confidence, remained silent.
"But he said that we should wait for him here." A naive-looking woman tried to object to her with a meek voice, but she wasn't convincing enough to stop her from peeking.
'Naive bitch! If you are so scared to look outside, then don't stop others from doing it.' As she peeked out of the doors, the first thing she saw was the dead body of a zombie. Witnessing the congealed blood and lifeless body sprawling on the floor, she collapsed in terror, unleashing a piercing scream.
*Aaaahhh*
"There is a body! A dead body!"
At the same time as she screamed, two student girls standing beside her were able to see the dead body before their room. Each of them had ashen faces, as all of them were scared witless at the sight of a cold corpse.
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'It should be all done here. I checked every floor of the building, so it should be safe now.' Killing the last zombie in the building, Leo collected the survival coin dropped by a zombie. As he went higher, Leo met another 2 zombies and killed them easily.
As he was heading downstairs to the seventh floor, he heard a woman screaming below him by the floor.
"Aaahh"
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'Did I miss a zombie down floors?'
Enhancing his body with mana, he rushed to the seventh floor. As he got there, he saw that the door, which had been closed previously, was wide open.
"Tsk... Didn't I tell them to stay in the room?" As he neared the room, he saw no blood in it, only three women with no visible injuries. Seeing no bloodstains and no traces of battle, he sighed slightly. He would have felt bad if they had died because he left them.
"Are you alright? Didn't I tell you to stay put in your room?" They barely heard him because they were still in a state of shock over the corpse. As they lifted their eyes from the dead body to the man with bloodstains on his clothes and a sword covered in blood, they felt more fear creeping up their spine. Leo's scars, especially the one on his left cheek and the one under his eye, added a rugged edge to his appearance.
"Please, don't kill us!" As they saw him, it was the only phrase that came to their minds.
'Am I so frightening? Even Willie, when he saw me, shouted the same line.' Leo was already used to the side glances directed to him, but shouting not to kill them was stretching it too far. Even in his past life, a few people were eager to talk to him without any prejudices.
"Don't be silly. I'm not going to kill you, so please stop a bit with making rush conclusions." Leo tried to put a smile as nice as possible, but his scar made his smile much more intimidating than he thought. To look less frightening, he even raised his hands to the same level as his head.
"See, I won't harm you." It seemed that his actions were able to bear fruit. The women looked less panicked than before.
"Th...This...This is a dead body!" The naive student girl stuttered as she pointed at the body lying in a puddle of its own blood, her voice trembling with fear. It seemed that the sight of a dead body scared them much more than a man looking like a murderer.
"If I hadn't killed it, it would have eaten you," Leo said as a matter of fact.
It seemed that the woman with a composed air around her was able to come to her senses. She looked less frightened as she tried to pull herself together. "What do you mean by having eaten us?"
"I meant what I said. Did you watch a film about zombies? Then, you should know what zombies do with people." Leo tried to explain.
"Zombies? This is a zombie?" When the women heard him, they hardly believed him. Who in a sane mind would believe in it?
Seeing their reactions, he had understood why they were so skeptical. They had thought that the monster banging on their door was a fellow student who kept assaulting them. And when they saw the corpse of a person banging on their doors, they thought that he killed the student.
"How did you even survive without food for several days?" After several questions, he discovered that they were classmates studying cultures together, shedding light on their shared academic background. They were assigned to do the group work, so they gathered in the room of a naive looking student girl called Charlotte. The charismatic woman was called Hazel, while the mature one said that her name was Sarah.
When they were in the middle of finishing their work, they heard the words of the heavenly voice and fainted after hearing it. After they woke up, someone started banging on their door, so they sat scared in it. It seemed that Charlotte had stockpiled snacks in her drawer, allowing them to last for several days by snacking on them.
'Fortunately for them, the doors of the new dormitory building are sturdy enough to withstand the forced entry from an average person.' Leo considered them fortunate to have gathered in the new dormitory building at such a critical time.
"Do any of you know how to look after the ill person? And Charlotte, do you have any medications in your room?"
"Yes, I have pills. And I also know how to look after a sick person. I looked a lot after my little brother in the past." Charlotte's voice remained as meek as when she timidly objected to Sarah. It seemed that she was gentle and mild by her nature.
"Take the medication and come with me downstairs. I need your help to care for my injured friend, it's urgent." Leo, with those words, proceeded to lead them downstairs to Adam.