Saya stands in the middle of the group. She looks at one of the two empty plastic water bottles she placed on the table and frowns while everyone silently pays attention.
"(So she can manipulate things with her mind? It's basically telekinesis then...)"
I can feel a very faint and small cloud of mana surround the bottle on the right and it, slowly, begins to shake before lifting up and floating in the middle of the air without anyone touching it.
Yuuki: "
Kawamoto: "
Taniuchi: "
Kawamoto: "Awwww, thanks."
"(Is it really telekinesis? It doesn't seem like a psychic ability, however. It feels more like she's manipulating the mana around the bottle. The outcome is the same but the process is different.)"
Saya: "From what I know, I can manipulate things without touching them and without any gesture but the power is weaker. Now, if I do this..."
Saya points her right hand forward and a much stronger and clearer cloud engulfs the bottle on the left. It rapidly floats when she lifts her hand and the exact moment she closes her hand the mana cloud tightens around the bottle, crushing it.
Yuuki: "Ho-ly!"
Kawamoto: "
Taniuchi: "That's... sick."
"(Yeah, seems like she can manipulate mana to influence objects... And gestures make it stronger. I see. But is there a way to dodge it? Like moving out of her vision or even resist the power?)"
Saya releases both bottles on the table and the mana clouds returns to her body, though they are a little small, meaning a small part of them were lost. She glances at me, while I stare at her, and then looks away.
Saya: "I'm not done yet."
The mana cloud rapidly condenses itself into an extremely thin blade on the opposing side of the remaining bottle, when she swipes her finger in the air in the bottle's direction, the mana blade slices the bottle in two. The mana once again returns to her albeight less concentrated.
Yuuki: "She... cut it with her mind. Hey! That's cheating!"
Taniuchi: "That's... cool."
Kawamoto: "Haha! Saya, you're so fucking cool!"
"(Now that looks hard to dodge.)"
Saya: "Now, what about you?"
I look at Saya and see her condescending face, making me smirk.
Yuuki: "
Shaking my head, I glance at Saya, look at everyone's expectant faces and stop at Yuuki's wide, basically sparkling, eyes.
"(Nice try.) That's a really impressive power, Saya, but as much as I'm itching to show what I got from the treasure box, I won't. But I can tell you. I can turn any part of my body into super-heated plasma and create plasma flames but the heat is so high I'm sure it wouldn't be safe for any of you to stay close to me while I'm doing it. (The reason I did it to kill the zombified teacher was because Yuuki was standing behind me so I tanked almost all the heat instead of her. Besides, the surroundings of the walkway were devastated even though I focused the plasma flames in a jet.)"
Saya frowns and the rest looks a little disappointed but they seem to agree.
Kyoko: "If it is dangerous then it's for the better to not show it. Thank you, Tony and Saya, for telling us."
Saya: "Are you kidding me? Bullshit. You must've gotten something really bad and got ashamed because this genius's power is too much.
Yuuki squeezes my hand and glares at Saya as I feel immense pain. My hand deforms under her grip, my fingers bends weird ways and blood comes out from my squeezed out palm.
"
She turns to me and looks and our hands before releasing what is left of mine.
Yuuki: "What?
Gritting my teeth to not yell out in pain, I look at her extremely worried face and force a smile as cold sweat quickly covers me.
"Grrr! Do-Don't w-worry. We-We've got Shi-Shizuka. (I don't know if it'll work but it's the best shot!)"
Kyoko: "Shizuka! Help him!"
Shizuka: "Yes! Yes!"
Shizuka rapidly gets in front of me and points her hands at mine, the green glow comes out from her palm and a green aura envelops me, washing away the pain. The rest looks quite worried, even Saya.
Shizuka: "It's gonna... be... alright."
"I... trust you."
Under the green glow, my squeezed out hand gradually returns to normal. The mana flow coming out from her is much bigger and denser than when she was treating Yuuki. Glancing at Yuuki, she's really worried, bitting her nails hard.
Yuuki: "Please! Please, don't hate me! Please! I didn't do it because I wanted!"
"I won't hate you, you just don't know your strength. Don't worry. Oh, this makes me remember. There's a gym in the villa, right?'
She nods strongly.
Yuuki: "Yeah! Yeah!"
I smile but not quite.
"Great. First thing you'll do is hit the weights and train, you have to learn to control your strength. NO SEX until you can control yourself perfecly. Are we understood?"
She looks dejected.
Yuuki: "W-What?! B-B-But-"
I interrupt her.
"Are. We. Understood?"
She withers like a flower.
Yuuki: "Yes."
"(It's not fair but what would happen if we were fucking and she suddenly squeezed me with her legs? I'd die. Some guys love the idea of having their head crushed by thick thighs and I can say it's tempting but certainly not enjoyable.) Great."
My hand completely recovers thanks to Shizuka's power.
"Thank you, Shizuka. I didn't expect this to happen."
She wipes the sweat off her forehead.
Shizuka: "Oof. As I said, I'm glad to help. Gonna get a towel to clean all the blood."
I hold her.
"No need, let me do it. I'm gonna wash my hand and grab the towel. Rest a little."
She smiles.
Shizuka: "Sure. But if you feel pain, tell me immediately."
"I will."
Walking to the bathroom under curious eyes, I get into it and close the door behind me. Only then I notice that there already was someone in the bathroom. Saeko and, I lift my head to look at, a giant chubby woman with long and messy pitch black hair, freckles on the nose, chest and shoulders, humongous tits, belly slightly hanging, really wide hips and huge thighs, and a big bush of thick black pubes. Even though she's plump, her body is incredibly muscular also.
"(Barbarian: Developed Strength and Endurance incomparable to humans, gaining immense height in the process, at the cost of significant loss of intelligence, born from the influence of God. Ho-ly. Fuck. Who is this huge ass woman? God damn she's tall. If Yuuki suffered quite a bit under the Strength Orb's effects, then how much did she suffer to get all that big? It must've been horrible. And she got dumber too. Poor thing. Really unfortunate... Wait. I think I know her.)"
Looking at her, it takes a couple of seconds but, I recognize her pretty face, thick lips and beauty mark even though she is immensely taller and not with her glasses on.
"Amane? (Is that the Fat Ghost? I'm 180cm tall, so Saeko being taller than me but not by much means she's at least 190cm tall. Now, this girl being two heads taller than both of us means she's at least 250cm tall. What. The. Fuck?)"
Amane looks back at me.
Amane: "... Yes."
Saeko has what looks like bedsheets on her paws.
Saeko: "No one ever taught you to knock before entering?"
Glancing at her, I go to the sink and wash my hands.
"Sorry. Somethings happened outside and I forgot I was told you was in here with someone."
Saeko looks at me.
Saeko: "Is everything alright?"
I dry my hands.
"With everyone? Yes. With me? No. I just got my hand squeezed out like a lemon by Yuuki."
She shakes her head.
Saeko: "I told you she was evil. Who knows if she did it because she wanted to hurt you."
Smirking, I hold the towel.
"There you go again. It's not like that. That girl got really strong but she lacks control over her strength. But I'm glad it happened to me out of everyone. And I'm glad Shizuka healed me or else I'd just have one hand by now."
Turning around, I head to the door.
"You don't seem to need this so I'm gonna take it to clean some of my blood that dripped on the floor."
Saeko: "Wait..."
I look at her and she turns to me, showing the two long folded bedsheets, one on each paw.
Saeko: "Since you're already here, give me a hand. You see, I've only got paws."
"
She shakes her head.
Saeko: "
Shaking mine, I get closer to them.
"Alright, alright. What do you want me to do?
She places the folded bedsheet under Amane's armpit. Amane glances at us, under he gloominess I can see she's curious.
Saeko: "Grab the two ends and tie them firmly. We don't want them to come out or for it to fall down."
Looking at Amane's gloomy eyes, I point at the sheets.
"Can I? (Don't want you screaming I'm a pervert like a certain pink-haired brat. Though I don't think you would.)"
She nods.
Amane: "... Yes."
"(You heard her, Saeko.)"
Grabbing the sheets, I wrap around Amane's immense chest and do as Saeko said, tying them very firmly. However, that makes it so that Amane's breasts are getting squeezed and I can perfectly see the outline of her huge areolas and puffy nipples protruding from under the cloth. Saeko crouches and unfolds the other sheets before placing it on on Amane's hip with both paws.
Saeko: "Nice. Now down here. Same thing. No need to fix it, I'll do it."
Nodding, I do the same as before and tie it firmly. She stands up and looks at Amane and smiles at me.
Saeko: "Looks good. Thank you."
I feel an intense glare and glance at Amane, she has a slight smile on her face. My skin crawls but I turn to Saeko and smile.
"Gotta go now... Oh. Did you find a backpack?"
Saeko points at a wall.
Saeko: "Yeah. Right there."
Turning to look at it, I see a mid-sized backpack leaning against the wall. Throwing it over my shoulder, I walk out.
"(What the fuck? I knew she was weird but damn she's creepy as fuck. It felt like she was eating me with her eyes. I should keep my distance from her. She smells like trouble.. Actually she smells a little sweaty and her pubes had a strong musk. I wonder how Saeko was not bothered by that, she's got that super nose, after all.)"
I go back with the towel and the backpack, and clean my blood off the floor before throwing it in a trash can. Sitting on the chair besides a depressed Yuuki, I pet her head and wait until we can move along since everything's pretty much done. After Saeko comes out of the bathroom with the huge Amane following behind her, everyone comes together.
Kyoko: "Everyone's ready? ..."
Each person nods.
Kyoko: "... Alright. So we're good to go. Just keep in mind what we know: they are blind. We don't know if they can find us through smell but they can certainly do through sound, Tony, Saya and Saeko have confirmed this, so stay quiet at all times. Once we're out there we shouldn't make any sound, whatever that may be, we can't afford to take any risk. Tony and Saeko said there's at least a couple of hundred of them, this means if we alert any of them, we won't be able to walk out of here alive. So keep quiet. Everyone understood?"
"(So far she's been a good leader. I guess her sterness wasn't all a facade.)"
We nod again.
Kyoko: "Okay. I'll walk in front so follow me."
"Wait. Wait."
All eyes turns to me.
Kyoko: "What is it, Tony?"
Taking the packback off my shoulder, I walk to Saeko and hand it to her.
Saeko: "What?"
"I remember you said you saw some boxes on your way here, right?
Saeko: "Yeah."
"It may be too much to ask for but could you collect all the boxes you've seen so far? You know that they can give us many things, including weapons like Yuuki's gun or Kawamoto's gauntlet, so having them could be vital to our survival. Of course, we'd need luck to draw out something good but at least having the chance of doing so is better than not."
She looks at the backpack and then at all of us. Her eyes, however, stays on Amane who nods back at her.
Saeko: "Are you sure you want that? If anything goes wrong, having me close to protect you would be better, no?"
I look at her with a serious face.
"Nothing will go wrong. But if it does, I'll deal with it. Besides, we got Yuuki and her gun, Kawamoto and her gauntlet, and Saya and her power. And me of course. We should be able to defend ourselves if anything happens..."
I turn to Kyoko.
"Right, Kyoko? (Honestly, I don't give a shit about anyone else other than Yuuki. Maybe her friends too because she'd be sad if they died. Other than that, I just think it'd be a pity for the extra-beautiful women like Saeko, Kyoko and Shizuka were to die.)
She glances at me and at Saeko.
Kyoko: "What Tony said makes sense. If we could get our hands on other weapons it could greatly increase our survival chances against those things, so having more of those boxes could be very good to us. But it all depends on you, Saeko. You don't need to if you don't want to."
"(Since the description of Human Boss said my influence only worked on humans, I can't tell her that I want her to do as I said. Besides, I don't think I would. Taking away another person's free will like that is wrong. I may have done so with Yuuki but it was for the better, that girl needs to be controlled or she will do whatever she wants and she can be quite mean to others.)"
Saeko looks at the backpack and purses her lips, she seems unsure. After a couple of seconds, she lifts her head and looks at me.
Saeko: "Alright. I'll go. But you have to protect everyone, Anthony."
"I will. I promise. (It's everyone for themselves. If someone fucks up then they have to deal with it. I'm not a babysitter. There was no need to but I've explained everything they needed to know about the zombies and how to not die.)"
Kyoko: "Don't worry, Saeko, nothing will happen to us. But be careful, you'll be alone. We won't be able to help you if you need."
Saeko throws the backpack over her shoulder.
Saeko: "I won't need it, I can outrun them pretty easily and I'm stealthy. Stay safe everyone."
She walks to the door.
"Let's meet up at the gate."
She glances at me.
Saeko: "Okay. Ah..."
She looks at Kyoko.
Saeko: "What should I do if I find any survivors?"
Kyoko thinks.
Kyoko: "... Wait..."
She goes to a table, grabs a piece of paper and a pen, and writes something. Looking at it, I can read in japanese letters: The monsters can hear but can't see, please don't make any sound, the gates will be open, mathematics teacher Kyoko Hayashi. Then she comes back and hands the paper to Saeko.
Kyoko: "Show them this. Unfortunately we can't wait for them to take them with us. Every second out there is dangerous to everyone. Even here we aren't safe."
Saeko grabs the paper and nods.
"I'm going."
Kyoko calls for everyone's attention.
Kyoko: "Alright, with that everything is set, let's go."
"Take off the shoes, they make too much noise. Keep the socks though. I you don't have any, just stay bare footed."