The World Is Overflowing with Monster, I'm Taking a Liking to This Life

Time goes back a little.

Nishino, along with Shibata and the others, had come to a convenience store near the school.

"Hey, I'm glad you still have the food"

"Right. Honestly, thank you."

Nishino nods as he mouths a pet bottle with tea.

Fresh foods such as salads and lunches were quite damaged, but cans, vacuum packs, confectionery, etc. could be eaten without problems.

If you look in the store, his people are also sitting on the floor, continuing to eat with the guts.

You don't have to be so hasty, food doesn't run away, but there's no other way.

Anyway, I haven't eaten properly in the last few days.

Including Nishino, his group is currently less than ten, but still becomes a good amount when it comes to filling that number of bellies.

Especially Nishino and his companions are high school students growing up and eating.

I would feel twice as hungry.

Food was always critical, both in the home center and at school, and it was truly 'luck' that this convenience store left untouched supplies.

(Well, I wonder what's going on...)

Nishino thinks about what's to come while picking potato chips with limited convenience store flavors.

Where should we go now?

How should we act?

(A place where people are going to get together. Is it City Hall that's closest to here? Still trying to get there......)

If you're looking for a deviant companion, it's still Iron Rule to look from a place where people are likely to get together first.

Besides, if we're skilled, we'd be welcome as a force of war.

We're not going to get used to each other, but it won't hurt to keep the fighting together.

- Except for one concern.

(If she - like Chairman Fifty Storms, someone with 'brainwashing' skills would be troublesome...)

Currently, Nishino was free from Tenka's 'charm'.

Because there is a time limit to the skills of Tenka Goku's "Charm".

If the state is not 'overwritten' on a regular basis, its effects will be reset.

To make it up to her, she set up regular discussion spaces in the school, and her skills continued to be effective without being noticed around her, but it also lost meaning due to monster raids.

Nishino regained his original thought, and at the same time he remembered his words and actions at school, convinced her that he would be 'brainwashed'.

(What a fool I am...)

Maybe he was still in a hurry somewhere.

The deviation from my people seemed to shake my mind more than I expected.

This doesn't even make me laugh about the six flowers.

Because he has' that kind of skill 'himself, he should have had a little doubt that someone else - not to mention a single high school girl - was dividing up so many people.

There's more to the detour.

(Resistance skills. Or you need the skills to be able to 'disarm' it even if it is brainwashed...)

Brainwashing measures.

He was very afraid that someone would brainwash him again.

He's not the only one. So are his people.

I'm sorry I was brainwashed and only at the end of the line to be pawned someone's disposables.

Once at the home center, when the High Oaks attacked him, he fully understood the possibilities and fears because he made the choice to trump the evacuees.

(Or are we the only ones who can even level up and base ourselves somewhere...?

Don't force yourself to increase your manpower and level into the tunnel.

We then create a base, properly 'sort' and recruit our people.

Wouldn't that be more efficient to survive in this world?

(… yes)

Companions and others.

Life to pick up and life to throw away.

For him the weight of life is not equal.

I will use whatever I have available, and whatever I need to protect, I will protect it at the stake of my life.

In today's world, that is being tested as it is.

(It's a fucking drooling world to make...)

Without skills, you can't fight monsters.

But because of their skills, other humans must be vigilant.

When I was in a bad mood in my heart, I felt my gaze inadvertently.

Shibata looked anxious, looking at herself.

"What is it, Mr. Nishino? You look scared."

"Hmm? Oh, I'm sorry. I was just thinking."

"Thinking - is that what you're going to do?

"Oh, there's that, and there's about Roppo and Ono..."

Release snack confectionery into your mouth.

It tastes thick enough to make your tongue spicy. I don't really like it but I can't say luxury.

Rinse it off with tea and reset it in your mouth.

"... I hope you're all right."

"He's alive, I swear."

At least Rokka and Ono haha, he adds in his heart.

Nishino does not doubt its survival only with regard to these two.

Roppo was the strongest of them, and Ono's weak is the scratch on the balls, but he can't complain if only in terms of 'surviving'.

(Well, the rest of them remain somewhat anxious...)

That's not even what I'm supposed to say here.

You don't have to make your people anxious for nothing.

"Now it's time to move..."

I thought so, and it was the moment I tried to get up.

"- I received an email."

A voice echoed in Nishino's head.

"... what?

Email......?

What, what's your voice now?

Nishino looks around in confusion for a moment.

"What's going on?

"No..."

"Certain conditions have been met."

"Skill 'Email' is now available:

"There is currently one unread email."

See you later.

My voice echoed in my head again.

"Huh..."

Nishino rushes to check the status screen.

Then, the status screen changes to an email object.

While keeping an eye on the change, I check the items one by one.

I'm looking at this one with Shibata's worried face next door, but I can't afford to care.

Eventually we discover the item 'unread' and click there.

(addressed to "Isakarika"?... Ricka - Six Flowers!?)

As soon as he sees the name, he changes his blood phase.

That's the name of his people I've been looking for.

(In person? Or someone else......?

I immediately glanced at the body.

"Yay, Nissy. Is he alive? Six flowers! (o ^ ^ ^ o) no

Sorry I texted you all of a sudden. Surprised?

This is a skill called "email."

Are you all right there?

Seriously, I'm worried.

Oh, and by the way, I'm fine as this. Y-v (. -ω... "Yee."

………………

And soon, the expression disappeared from his face.

Shibata shouts "he" next door.

(... no. Bear it. Bear it.)

The peace of mind that Rokka was safe, the skill of 'Email'... I really feel like I've been ruined by this retarded mess, even though I already have a lot of things.

Take a deep, deep breath and gently press your thumbs between your brows.

Calm down. Calm down, yourself.

Holding back various emotions, Nishino read the text all the way through.

(I see...)

If you pulled out the joke at the beginning, the contents were out-of-the-box decent.

It was written about the current situation of Rokkawa, the skill of "email", and if possible, I want you to get an email and contact me.

It also contained surprising information for Nishino, such as "Demon Stone" and new information about wildlife.

(At least, it must have been Rokka himself who sent this email. that's for sure)

Under these pressing circumstances, no one else uses such frustrating emoticons.

At least six flowers are alive.

And I'm trying to make contact with myself.

But Nishino thinks.

(Who's the collaborator?

Immediately he came to the discussion.

I'll put it the way I don't have a body or a lid, but Roppo is an idiot.

He's always the type of person who doesn't think enough, doesn't have enough words, and his body moves before his mouth.

There is no way that I can send her this amount of information accurately and in an easy-to-understand sentence.

Someone has a collaborator.

A collaborator who thought of the sentence in place of that girl who was retarded and instructed him to send it to himself.

Who's that?

Possible possibilities are student council members who were in school, and their fellow deviants.

And...

(Ichinose Natsu, huh?

Battle in the dining room.

Before it began, the suspicious movement shown by Rokka.

At that time, Rokka must have definitely been grumbling 'Email', 'Natsun'.

(Roppo was obviously crazy then...)

No, since before that, Liuhua cared about the existence of Ichinose.

Arbitrary devotion in the dining room is also convincing if you think of her as an action to follow.

(For, after that battle, did Roppo rendezvous with Ichinose? And Ichinose gave Rokka details of her 'email' skills and sent them to me...?

Put your hand on your chin, Nishino thinks.

Is that a slightly more forceful guess?

(What is certain is that Rokkawa is acting with someone else? If so -)

Quickly manipulate the status plate and open the list of additional acquirable skills.

'Email' had been added at the bottom of it.

- Shibata.

"What is it, Mr. Nishino?

"I got a new skill and I want to give it a try. Can you help me?

"Huh? Oh, yes. Fine, but what kind of skills are you?

Nishino laughed.

"- It's 'Email'."

Either way, there's no harm in keeping this skill acquired.

Given the world today, the value of this skill is immeasurable.