How To Be Misunderstood as a Villain in a Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter 13. Superiority and inferiority (3)

He stood strong and held back Camilla. She felt like if she was dragged along like this, she would be caught up in Cassandra’s pace.

“Over there. Cassandra. “There’s something I’ve wanted to say for a while, will you listen?”

Cassandra seemed a little annoyed, but she stopped and waited for me to speak.

“If you speak quickly.”

“Now we live together. Yes?”

Nod.

“Let’s show our private lives to each other without hiding anything, that’s not what I mean. But health-related issues, like viruses, are not private. “It is a story that goes beyond the personal realm and affects all of us.”

Nod again.

“So, I want you to tell me the reason first. To both me and Camilla. Well, your speaking style may be like that now, but I don’t want you to be dragged around without knowing why you have to do that. “Please tell me that part openly.”

Cassandra looked back and forth between me and Camilla with her slightly ambiguous eyes, then pushed out her large breasts and placed her hands on her waist. There seems to be something undesirable about it.

“Yes. There’s something I’ve learned while working as a doctor: it’s better to just tell patients what to do. He didn’t listen. Cassandra thinks you will be no different. “She should be doing it for medicine and science, but she’s wasting her time like this.”

“We decided to call it ‘etiquette.’ I know you’re smart. Admit it. But that doesn’t mean we have to do as you say. “Me and Johan are not your lab rats.”

Camilla joined in after finishing her sandwich. Cassandra seems to have finally understood what she said.

“Ah, I understand. All you have to do is say it gently and as if you are requesting something, right? Instead of saying, “Do this,” Can you do this? Like.”

“… Hmm. What. “Let’s start from there.”

Cassandra let go of my arm. Instead she strode over to Camilla.

I just got closer, but it felt like her breasts were somehow touching each other. Camilla flinched reflexively and tried to cover her breasts, but she puffed them out, probably because she was angry at herself for shrinking. Camilla isn’t small either.

“Camilla. “Could you do me one favor, Cassandra?”

“Okay. What?”

“Please open your mouth. “Snap,” He said.

* * * * *

After a while. Cassandra closed the lab door and came out. She seemed very happy. She seemed to have forgotten all that she had said, ‘You wouldn’t misunderstand if she said, ‘Could you please open her mouth because I need to collect cells and saliva from her mouth with a cotton swab?’

“The results are in.”

Cassandra didn’t even look in her Camilla direction. Somehow, it feels like the resentment is building up between the two women. Camilla decided to solve it separately later, but first she decided to solve the questions she was curious about.

“Is analysis always this fast?”

“Oh, Cassandra copied the entire backup copy of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency database. It contains information on the subspecies and variants of Cro virus discovered and analyzed so far.

If you compare it with that, you can get a clue as to exactly what type of virus you are infected with. In conclusion, there was no virus that matched 100%.”

In the end, Camilla, unable to contain her curiosity, waved her hand.

“So, am I now a zombie?”

“It depends on the definition of zombie, but if the situation in which the Cro virus has completely taken root in the body and is chronically established is called ‘zombie,’ then more than 95% of Erza people are already zombies.”

How can you talk about scary things so clearly?

“The virus in your bodies is most similar to the one discovered most recently. 8 The National Military Police rescued civilians from a golf resort, but the tendons on their wrists and wrists were severed at the time of rescue.

It had been so long since the cut that even the Cybele emergency kit couldn’t recover the cells. But strangely enough, the tendon was reattached not long after being rescued. Amazing recovery power, right? To the point of being unnatural.”

I remember.

These are the people Camilla and I saved at the resort. Those people were also immersed in the same ‘source of pollution’ as me. In the parking lot on the first floor of a resort shopping center, where water spouting from sprinklers mixed with zombie blood.

The next place I saw them was in front of the Hampton Continental Hotel. In the pamphlet distributed by the fanatics, it was written, ‘The messenger of the goddess saved the persecuted and healed the severed tendons. This is not grace, but luck.’

At that time, I thought it was just nonsense.

“So, what do you mean, if you cut me and Camilla’s tendons, they will come back together?”

“I guess not. Because the virus does not match 100% with those people. And that’s not a very good thing. This means that the virus has taken over the body. “It’s never a positive sign.”

“It sounds bloody.”

Cassandra told me about the pattern of the Cro virus.

All living things in the world want to survive. If they cannot survive, they want to at least leave behind descendants. That’s the law, and not even viruses can escape it.

Most viruses find various means to ‘spread’. So the influenza virus is transmitted through the respiratory tract, and cholera is spread through water.

For this reason, the spread of most viruses can be controlled by cutting off the source of infection. It was like that until now. Except for the Cro virus.

“Crovirus uses almost all means of spreading infection. Although there have been no cases of respiratory transmission yet, there have been cases of droplet infection.

The species boundary has already been crossed a long time ago, and as can be seen in your case, transmission is also possible through contaminated water.

In that way, it seems like we are analyzing and finding out which method is most effective. Biting animals is one of them.”

It was unexpected.

“What do you mean?”

“95% Of Erza’s population is infected, but not everyone is biting each other. But those things we commonly call ‘zombies’ are like that, right?

They eat everything they can, whether it’s people or animals, and if they get bitten, they get infected… That’s because the virus that took over that person’s body was ‘that type’.

A type that must be transmitted through saliva and skin contact. The easiest way to do that is to bite it. Oh, and.

But usually, people don’t bite live things just because they’re hungry. So this virus found another way. By lowering judgment and enhancing instinct.

In other words, zombies aren’t stupid. The intellect itself is similar to that of the original person. However, they seem to have no judgment and just follow their instincts. We don’t say that people who suffer from hallucinations due to high fever have become stupid. They say it hurts. Same thing.

That’s why when zombies in non-human protected areas see anything covered in blood, they bite like that. Because I’m hungry. The zombies in the sanctuary are violent and sensitive to stimuli. It increases aggression. That’s how viruses control people. But you guys are a little different.”

Camilla came towards me and sat down next to me. She put her hand on my thigh and stammered. When I covered the back of her hand tightly, she felt calm. Cassandra looked a little strange, but I nodded to tell her to continue.

“The virus in you two is not trying to take over your bodies. Rather, what should I say… “It looks like it’s trying to settle into your body.”

“Please, such a terrible…” “

“… It’s not a sound. Camilla. How many germs are there in a person’s body? Especially in the intestines. “We call things like lactic acid bacteria beneficial bacteria.”

Camilla was horrified, but I thought she knew what I meant.

“Does that mean the Cro virus is trying to help me and Camilla?”

“Actually, I think I’m trying to help you survive. Do you feel like you’re being watched? It helps relieve fatigue in a small way, but this is just a feeling and has not been verified. Just think of it as a hypothesis.

It seems like the virus in your body has chosen to coexist. It seems he decided that he would have to live long if he kept you alive for a long time. Congratulations. “You don’t become monsters with poor judgment who bite people.”

Camilla sighed as her land fell. Her body was shaking, so he quickly wrapped his arms around her. Cassandra made an unknown expression again.

“And Cassandra, I think I know why the virus in your body made that decision. From what I heard, the two of you were in a closed and closed place for quite some time shortly after becoming infected. And you guys are pretty… “I ‘exercised’ vigorously.”

Cassandra still seemed suspicious. But my calves still tremble when I think of that time. Because it was really grueling training.

“Oh, that’s right?”

Camilla blushed. It seems like something happened that night.

“If I had to guess. The virus will quickly try to take over your body and will do everything it can to spread. It must have caused a cough or something.

But you took the lead, sweating and exhaling through exercise. It would have been convenient for the virus. Even if you just stay quiet, it’s as if you ‘spread the word’ on your own.

And the breath you exhaled must have spread to each other’s respiratory tracts… I accepted it because I thought it was an enemy, but if it was a virus that was almost similar to my own, there wouldn’t be much of a fight. There is no reason to be toxic.

Some kind of reinforcement must have been done instead. You guys are pretty… “It seems like we’ve been in love for a long time.”

“I said no. “I just worked out really hard!”

Unfortunately, Cassandra is not listening to me.

“I’ll assume so. Anyway, in the meantime, you were constantly sharing each other’s saliva and touching each other’s skin, right?

Thanks to that, the two viruses strengthened each other in the process, making them stronger, resolving errors, and catching mutations. Because I decided that the current situation was optimal.

You strengthened the viruses in each other’s bodies. So I mixed it with Cassandra’s virus. “Cassandra’s virus is pretty strong, but yours is even stronger.”

Should I like this or not? I needed some time to think. Camilla’s body was pulled. It had a lovely scent as always.

So, Camilla and I’s virus is planning to settle in our bodies. However, instead of ‘taking over’ our bodies and turning them into zombie monsters, they changed their strategy to live with us. A defensive method of building and protecting a strong castle.

“You mean coexistence?”

“If I were to be honest, yes. I don’t know if it was intentional or not. “At least I won’t mess with you in the area of judgment.”

“He is merciful.”

It seemed like he was being sarcastic, but Camilla seemed quite relieved and even smiled. But Cassandra’s face still looked serious.

“But, is it really not having any effect?”

“That can’t be possible. “This is something special just for you, Johan.”

I knew it would be like this. Camilla held my waist tightly. As if I was being kidnapped by a ghost.

“What, what!”

“Should I say it’s closer to emotional amplification?”

“… Huh? What?”

Did I hear something wrong?

“I’ll put it a little easier. Sorry. This is Cassandra’s first time doing something like this. Um…What should I say? Excited? Or.”

“What are you talking about now?”

“Heart?”

It seems like 100 alarm bells are ringing in her head. Camilla opened her mouth and looked back and forth between me and Cassandra. Cassandra thought about something and nodded her head as if she wanted to say this.

“John, the virus in your body creates a very special substance and spreads it outside the body. It stimulates the other person’s nerves, and it works in a very unique way. Should I say that it further amplifies the other person’s emotions?

If someone tries to attack you, their own excitement will make them more aggressive. John, your tactic is to make the opponent lose their temper by making them angry. Because it increases the survival rate of you and the virus in your body.

But on the other hand, if it doesn’t threaten your body. It will create goodwill and, in some cases, attract people. If you already like it…”

At that point, Cassandra’s eyes changed. Should I say it’s something sloppy, oozing, and sticky? A strange glow comes from the green eyes.

“…If you like it, what happens?”

“It will make you unbearably close enough to transmit and infect the virus in your body.”

“What…What?”

Camilla looked at Cassandra as if she were dumbfounded. And Camilla also seemed to have read Cassandra’s strange mood. She pulled me closer, as if she didn’t want to lose me.

But Cassandra also looked at Camilla. Somehow, their eyes were a mixture of sympathy and regret.

“…How on earth have you endured all this time? That’s admirable patience.”

“Doctor! Please! Talk about personal things!”

But Cassandra pointed at me.

“But, John, the health-related issues, i.E. The virus, are not private. It’s a story that goes beyond the personal sphere and affects all of us, so you asked me to talk about it publicly?”

This is how you get it? But Cassandra’s words were not finished.

“So from now on, Cassandra is going to tell you something very, very important. It’s for the three of us. We must become one.”