Early in the morning.
In the garage of his house.
"It's still morning... You want to do it here?"
Saya asked Shiryu shyly. He suddenly told her to follow him.
He said he wanted her to do something for him. Judging from his perverted personality, Saya couldn't help but think he wanted to do...
Her face felt hot.
But as his girlfriend, she couldn't refuse him, right?
"Hm? This is a bit surprising, how do you know what I want to do here, Saya?" Asked Shiryu in confusion.
Saya folded her arms, she peered at the face of the man standing in front of her with a tsundere expression. "Hmph! Of course I know. After knowing you so far, I know you quite well... Shiryu, you pervert."
She shifted her gaze to his lower body and added. "B-But if you want... I wouldn't mind helping you for a bit. Do it quickly, I still have to check on my mother's condition."
"?" Shiryu.
Is it just his feelings or is there something wrong with this situation?
[I think you two misunderstood.]
System-chan said.
Shiryu agreed, he thought Saya knew what something he did to her was. Although the possibility was small. After all, he hadn't told anyone about the ability card he had.
Still, what made his lips twitch was— Saya thought he wanted to do perverted things with her!
That's not true, okay?
[Host, I'm detecting an increased amount of hormones in your brain. In other words, you're horny right now.]
System-chan, I forbid you from checking my hormones without my permission from now on.
[Tsk, understood.]
Did his system just click her tongue?
Whatever, Shiryu pretended to cough. "Ahem! Saya, I didn't bring you here to do that."
"Wh-What!?" Saya was surprised.
That meant she had misunderstood?
How could that be!?
"What's with that expression? You think when I brought you here it was just because I wanted to do that with you?" Shiryu made a hurt expression.
But Saya unhesitatingly replied, "Yes!"
Immediately, she felt a pain in her butt.
Shiryu pinched her butt!
"Ahhh! You...! I knew it, I definitely didn't misunderstand! Shiryu, you pervert!"
Saya stepped back and covered her plump ass with her hands.
Shiryu rolled his eyes, "Well, enough joking around and take this."
He took out a gold-colored card from his inventory.
"What's that?" Saya asked curiously.
It was natural and Shiryu briefly explained what the Ability Card was. And among his other women, he chose her.
Saya was touched and felt sweet in her heart.
She held the card in her own hands and asked, "Why me? Saeko-senpai, Yuko-san and some other women are stronger and more skillful than me... Ouch!"
Shiryu flicked her forehead.
"What are you doing!?" Saya glared at him in annoyance while rubbing her forehead.
In an instant, she was back to being a fierce tsundere.
Shiryu smiled amusedly, "To answer your question, it's because you're also my woman and the Ability Card I gave you... Only a genius like you is fit to have it."
He remembered Saya once modifying a drill to have abilities similar to a gun.
That was proof enough that she could probably make good use of the ability card he gave her.
"...!"
Saya bit her lip, she restrained herself from smiling ridiculously because of what Shiryu said.
Even so, Shiryu knew she was very happy now.
As expected of him. His sweet words never failed!
[Why do I feel like you're a bastard, host?]
It's just your feelings, System-chan.
"A-All right, I'll accept this. But how do I use it?"
Saya knew the object in her hand was the reward Shiryu had gotten from his Diary System.
But viewed from anywhere, it just looked like a fancy card with a picture of a hammer and screwdriver.
"Wait a moment."
Shiryu said and opened the system interface.
He could see a notification saying:
[You gave "1 Ability Card" to Saya Takagi. Do you really want her to use it?]
[Yes/No?]
Shiryu without hesitation chose 'Yes'.
Instantly, the card in Saya's hand shone with golden light and turned into particles that entered her chest.
"Aaahh~!"
Saya moaned, she hugged her own body and her cheeks turned red.
Shiryu was not worried, he had already made sure that whichever woman he chose would not feel any suffering from side effects or anything like that.
However, they would feel a little discomfort when using the Ability Card for the first time.
Even so, he did not expect it to be enough to make Saya look obscene.
Shiryu rubbed his nose and waited until more than ten seconds had passed.
Saya's condition gradually normalized, and she was stunned.
How could she not be?
Right now, a lot of knowledge that a mechanic should have appeared in her brain.
She also naturally knew how to make weapons or other tools that were very effective in killing zombies.
Especially if she had the blueprints, she could make anything anywhere.
It's like a super ability, Saya thought.
"Saya, how do you feel? You should have the knowledge of a mechanic by now."
Shiryu asked.
Saya snorted and somehow, a gun similar to the Dessert Eagle with a more advanced design appeared in one of her hands.
"More than that, I can do this."
"Wow!"
Shiryu exclaimed and even applauded.
From his perspective, Saya was like a game character or system user like him who could summon items out of thin air.
What he was curious about was how she could create those things?
Did she not even need materials?
"How many weapons can you make? Is there a limit?"
"Umm... I'm not sure, but when I created this weapon based on the blueprints in my mind... I felt a little tired."
"I see."
If Shiryu's guess was correct, the Instant Weapon Assembler ability from Dead Rising 3 that Saya currently possessed consumed stamina when used.
She also probably has some blueprints that she remembers in her head.
Am I right, System-chan?
[Yes, it's a version customized by this system.]
That's right.
However, it's not bad.
He looked at the beautiful girl with big breasts in front of him with a grin.
Saya shuddered, why did she feel like her boyfriend was an evil boss who wanted his employees to work overtime?
Even though she had never been an office worker or anything like that.
After all, she was a young lady from a rich family before. Except when killing a bunch of zombies, she had never worked so hard that she would faint.
Of course, Shiryu was not ruthless enough to make Saya a continuously operating weapons factory without resting.
More than an hour later.
In the living room.
Saeko, Yuko, Sayo, Rika and the other women looked at the weapons placed on the table in awe.
Unlike the usual firearms, swords or spears. The weapons looked more sophisticated.
"Where did you get all this, Shiryu?" Asked Sayo.
"Just from their appearance, I could tell they were more advanced than the weapons I brought from home." Rika commented.
Holding the Dessert Eagle V2 (a different Dessert Eagle than the one Yuriko gave him), Shiryu held Saya's shoulder with his other hand and replied.
"Thanks to Saya, she's the one who made all the weapons that can easily kill these zombies."
"!!!"
Everyone's gaze fell on the pink-haired girl.
She looked exhausted and sweaty as if she had worked hard earlier.
That was not wrong.
After all, she did work hard! She was making weapons for everyone living in the Shiryu house!
"Saya, I know you're very smart, but I didn't realize you also had the ability to make all of this."
The person who said that was her mother.
Yuriko didn't look so depressed as yesterday, she seemed to have accepted that her husband had died and she became a widow.
Shiryu was happy about that.
He might have been able to woo her again.
"It's because of Shiryu, she gave me some kind of super ability."
What Saya said surprised the other women.
"Shiryu gave you a super ability!?"
"How does that work?"
"Shiryu, can you also give me one?!"
Rei, Yui and Chika couldn't resist asking. The latter was the most excited.
The other women also looked at Shiryu with expectant gazes. Instead of answering, he put the Dessert Eagle in his hand into his inventory and took out his diary.
[The reason Saya has the ability to make weapons is because I gave her an ability card. It was a reward I got from one of the quests I completed before.]
[Since I only got one ability card... For now, I can only give it to one of my women. Among my women, Saya is the only one I think can become a good mechanic.]
[In the future, I will definitely give suitable rewards to my other ladies.]
The heroines who had copies of Shiryu's diary knew they could not gain super abilities immediately.
Some of them were disappointed, but knowing Shiryu would give them other rewards in the future...
"Ehh... Then, we just need to be patient."
"That's right."
Chika and Ranko's shoulders drooped.
Shiryu closed his diary and said, "By the way, the weapons Saya makes are practically super-level."
Hearing what he said, the eyes of Chika and several other women lit up.
Saeko sighed, "Everyone, calm down and take them one by one."
Like the lady of the house, she put the other women in order. Only Yuko, Asagi and Sakura were not very interested in the weapons.
They were more comfortable using their own weapons. But just in case, each of them kept a pistol and even a grenade made by Saya.
...
Meanwhile, Shiryu and the women in his group had upgraded their weapons.
In an abandoned convenience store.
A woman closed a copy of Shiryu's diary and said, "So, he can also give super abilities to others? No, he seems to only give them to his women... Forget it, that's the business of the heroes who will save this world. As for me?"
She put many bottles of mineral water into the basket. In a world hit by a zombie pandemic, it was normal for survivors like her to grab food and water without worrying about money.
Even so, she only took what she needed to survive.
"Hmm... Should I grab some snacks? Ugh... No, eating too much sugar will increase the risk of certain diseases."
The woman sighed. Under her hood, most men including Shiryu would think she had a pretty face and a good figure.
She had neck-length dark purple hair that had long bangs on the right side, eggplant-colored eyes, and a medium-sized chest.
Due to her skimpy sportswear, her breasts and buttocks stood out.
Her name was Shizuka Mikazuki.
If Shiryu was here, he would be familiar with her appearance and think he had met the heroine of another zombie series!
"Alright, time to go."
After finishing gathering supplies for a few days, Mikazuki was ready to leave the convenience store.
(A/N: I'll call her by her last name to avoid confusion with Shizuka from Highschool Of The Dead.)
But because of her cautious personality and unwillingness to risk her life, she took out her cell phone and a bluetooth-activated app.
The app was connected to the camera installed on the bicycle she parked in front of the convenience store.
Using it, she could see what the situation was like outside from the inside. It served as a precautionary measure so that she could see if there were any zombies around where she was.
"Looks like it's safe."
Mikazuki didn't see any zombies wandering around outside.
But when she was about to slide the exit door, she stopped her steps as she saw a group of zombies suddenly running around.
"This..."
Mikazuki immediately hid behind the counter and observed the situation from her cell phone.
She wondered if there were other people around that attracted the zombies' attention?
If not, they wouldn't be running around so aggressively!
*Boom! Boom! Boom!*
The sound of several explosions made Mikazuki flinch.
She controlled the position of her camera and tried to find the direction where the explosions were coming from.
She found it and was surprised.
The zombies were not chasing others, but they seemed to be being chased and running away!
"No way..."
"Aren't they not too smart to do that?"
Mikazuki was confused.
And soon, she saw who the person was who was able to scare the zombies away.
At the end of the street previously covered by explosions and flames. There was a red-haired man leading several women.
Each of them was holding a cool-looking weapon. A single shot from one of them created an explosion of blue energy. Four or five zombies were instantly killed by the shot.
Mikazuki wondered where they got those weapons?
"This is bad."
From her cell phone, she saw a man leading the group glance towards the convenience store.
She could even hear what he was saying from her position.
"You guys can go first. I want to grab a drink at the convenience store."
"I want a bottle of yogurt!"
"Shiryu, I'm a little thirsty too."
That man's name is Shiryu!?
Is that the owner of the diary, Shiryu!?
Mikazuki widened her eyes.
Hearing his women's request, Shiryu did not refuse and planned to get water for everyone in his group.
By the way, he divided the women living in his house into several groups.
Currently, each of them was testing the weapons Saya had made and using them to hunt down the zombies.
His group consisted of Chika, Yukana, Osaragi and Miko.
However, there was another reason why he decided to stop by the convenience store in front of him.
It was because he got a new quest!
[Ding! A plot in this world has been detected.]
[At a convenience store down the street, there is a heroine who is gathering supplies. Meet her and prevent her encounter with the protagonist at the beginning!]
[You will get a random reward.]
Those were the details about the quest.
Shiryu naturally didn't refuse and he was curious what kind of heroine he would soon meet.
He entered the convenience store which at first glance looked very quiet. However, his hearing and as sharp as Captain America could hear the sound of breathing from behind the counter, he smiled and picked up an empty basket.
Then, he walked over to the fridge filled with various drinks.
"There are so many drinks here. Chika wants a bottle of yogurt, but what should I choose for the other women?"
"It's a difficult choice."
He pretended and made himself linger there.
Mikazuki was not happy.
'Pick any one and leave quickly!'
She complained in her heart.
Her personality made her to keep hiding from Shiryu. Don't misunderstand, she didn't hate him and some of the things he wrote in his diary had also helped her to survive until now.
But getting involved with him was a different matter. In her opinion, it would increase the risk of danger she had to endure.
She just wanted to survive for a long time.
"....." Shiryu.
He did not expect this heroine to be so shy or perhaps timid?
She didn't seem to be planning on showing herself to him and continued to hide until he left.
Well, since you're playing like that, I'll use my own way to get you out!
Pretty, you can't escape me and I won't let you meet the protagonist.
[Host, you're a bit scary.]
Ignoring System-chan, Shiryu walked to the shelf close to the cash register and placed his basket on it.
His movement made Mikazuki's heartbeat speed up.
Still, what he said next made her almost make a sound. She wanted to reprimand him and say you pervert!
"I remember the location of the condoms should be behind the counter. I don't know why, almost all convenience stores always keep things like that there."
"Hmm... I don't like using them, but just in case and not to get all my women pregnant at the same time..."
Shiryu held his chin with a thoughtful expression.
Mikazuki was frightened and regretted hiding behind the counter. From the copy of Shiryu's diary, she clearly knew that he seemed to be a perverted man.
She should have thought about the risks or worst case scenario of hiding near the adult items in the convenience store!