How To Be Misunderstood as a Villain in a Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter 21. The Art of Deceiving One Another (6)

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They’re back again. The naked ones.

This time, I wore thin clothes and shorts. I guess it’s because I get bitten by mosquitoes and such when I’m naked.

However, in the outer areas, there is some kind of great unification of love, and people who appear to be fanatics and gang members are walking around together.

Those with neat hair, who cry a lot, or who keep mumbling something are fanatics.

Those who have holes in their ears, nose, lips or belly button, wear underwear over their outer clothes, or have tattoos covering the upper 1/4 of their bodies are gang members.

Now, I’ve seen them so many times that I can easily tell them apart just by looking at them.

“Oh, John! Bless me!”

And I’m slowly creeping up on the guys.

– Are you really going to do it?

Camilla’s radio. She must be watching me with her sniping scope from the roof of a building 800 meters away. Of course, I don’t know exactly where she is, so instead of answering, I raise my hand.

– There are more than twenty of them. Even I can’t react immediately if an emergency arises. Wouldn’t it be better to just ignore those guys and show up when a small group comes?

“I have a gun too.”

– Yeah. We have two on our side and they have twenty.

“If things get weird, I’ll set off a smoke grenade and run away. I brought a flash grenade too.”

– That’s right.

I acted a little tough with Camilla, but I’m actually a little scared. If those guys had been my enemies, I would have shot them without a second thought.

But those guys worship me. I have no idea what they’re going to do to me. Surely they won’t stuff me somewhere or hang me in a noose and then bow down to me.

“Crunch.”

The military police zombie guy approached me, pretending to know me. I threw him a compressed pound cake. The guy’s expression was a little strange, probably expecting chocolate, but he chewed it happily because it was tasty.

“If you listen well, I’ll give you something with raisins in it.”

“Krrrrr.”

“Wow. Raisins are such a great food. I heard that in ancient times, people made yeast from raisins. Without them, they wouldn’t have been able to eat bread as they pleased.”

“Krrrrr… .”

“As long as you eat well what I give you.”

I also threw some raisin scones to the guys around the military police, and they ate them all up. It was clear that they all loved raisins deep down.

“Let’s go after eating moderately.”

For this day, I tied a white cloth to a long pole. I sprayed pheromones on the cloth so that it would blow freely in the wind. I held up a flag and dropped bread crumbs, and the zombies followed me.

What do you care, I only have two guns? Forty mouths surround me.

He walked towards his fanatic friends holding the flag. When he saw the zombies, he pulled out his gun and thrust it at them in a fit of rage, but stopped after waving the flag a couple of times.

“You guys are here.”

“Crunch.”

They say that even dogs are almost impossible to train once they become adults, but zombies are even more so. There was no way they would have understood what I was saying, so I threw small chocolate bars here and there with all my might. As the ones who knew the taste of chocolate wandered away, the ones who were a little less savage followed.

Thanks to that, I was able to approach the fanatics with only a flag in my hand.

“It was real.”

These people just sat there blankly staring at me without any intention of answering my questions.

“It’s true. It was true! Oh, John! John! Bless, bless!”

“I don’t want to be a zombie, Yohan!”

No matter how I looked at it, these people seemed hungrier than the zombies. I held up my palm to tell them not to come any closer, and then pointed to the zombies I had scattered.

“Don’t come any closer. Those guys might come at you at any moment. No, but how did you even get to the city center?”

A man approached me with a look of rapture at my question. Seeing the shy young man with his pupils wide open and his cheeks flushed red, I felt so embarrassed that I wanted to run away.

“It’s the power of love, John. Before, we hated and slandered each other, but after the miracle of those who were baptized by John not being eaten by zombies, we finally became one.”

“Did you become part of a military group or something?”

“Uh, what are you talking about…?”

“Let’s move on. Anyway, how’s the situation outside the central area?”

The man clasped his hands together. It seemed to be a polite gesture in his own way. Is that how Elsa greets you? I’ll have to ask her later.

“Saint Catherine, who is incontinent, and her guardian Eliane are diligently ‘educating’ the non-believers. And the other priestesses as well. They spread the warmth of love from mouth to mouth, and from body to body… .”

“No, no, wait a minute. What are you doing?!”

What are these crazy people doing? The man answered my question.

“Light kisses are commonplace, and people who are on the same page can freely have s*x. Of course, we are careful not to get pregnant, but the more we love each other, the less zombies come near us. Oh, John! It’s thanks to you that we learned about love! As we share love, we forget about the gnawing hunger!”

Oh, I never told you that much. The man’s eyes became moist, and he felt even more burdened.

“But none of us can love those zombies. They are only human on the outside, they are beasts that don’t know love. But John truly loves even them.”

“yes?”

No, wait a minute. This makes the context a bit weird.

“Aren’t they also touched by John’s love? I can see it all. If we share love, will we be able to communicate with zombies?”

It’s somewhat possible if you treat them like dogs rather than people. I scratched the back of my head.

“It is possible, but not easy.”

“Then please love me too!”

“Hey, stay back! Those zombies aren’t ready yet! If you come too close, there’s no telling what they’ll do to you!”

Those words stopped the man in his tracks. For some reason, he seemed to have become quite sullen.

“… I see. I was wondering if I could talk to my family and friends who had become zombies again if I followed Love… Is that not possible yet?”

Suddenly, the atmosphere became solemn. Looking closely, it seemed that it wasn’t just this man, but the men and women around him all had similar thoughts.

Again, I want to get my family and friends back. I want to see that they are human and not monsters. It was something I hadn’t thought about, since I have no blood relatives in this world.

“Big. Well. Love is powerful. At least they don’t see you as a walking lunch box. If that’s the case, I think we’ve succeeded.”

“That’s true, but….”

I felt a little sorry for the dead man. So I spat on my palm and walked over to him and rubbed his shoulder. I don’t know what was going on in his body, but he was quite hot. It was like a cold, but not a cold.

“Cheer up.”

“John.”

“yes.”

“Can I hug you just once? Is that okay?”

“Just for a bit. Any longer than that and the zombies won’t stay still.”

It wasn’t that the military police guy was watching me with interest, making a noise. The man who was aware of the military police guy quietly hugged me and sobbed. The twenty people who were just watching came closer and touched me here and there. Fortunately, they didn’t steal my belongings or anything, but they literally just lightly touched me.

“Thank you. Thank you… .”

“You said you didn’t show up in front of other people, but you saw our sincerity. Thank you… .”

Well, to be honest, I wanted to say here, ‘I’m not what you think I am!’ It’s a bit burdensome. But when I think about what I’m going to say, I can’t say that. If I’m going to say that, it’s much better to be the Messiah to these people.

“Big. Do you trust me that much? I don’t know.”

“Do you want proof of faith?”

“Oh, oh, don’t take it off! What I mean is, what on earth do you see in me that makes you believe that?”

I guess my question was a bit stupid, because everyone around me was pointing at the zombies around me.

“You see now? You have united us. You treat zombies with love. None of us can do that. They understand your love, and we want to love the world as you do.”

“Well, if you don’t like it, you can just break it.”

“If not for love, what else can we live for?”

But you guys, your eyes are empty.

These people somehow resemble Camilla. She still doesn’t know how to live or what to live for.

These people were also struggling to survive. It wasn’t just a matter of not getting bitten by zombies today or something. It was just something that allowed them to endure today and live tomorrow. Love was just an excuse. These people wanted to live.

And those who want to live, become blind. So much so that they can easily use it.

“If you really want to live, you may have to leave here soon.”

The people who heard the unexpected words murmured in surprise. A woman who looked a little older raised her hand.

“Are you talking about the central district?”

“No. This whole city. Sooner or later, there will be a war between the Western countries of Minsk and Elsa. There may be cannons, fighter planes, or bombers flying around. It will be hard to survive in that gunfire. You must have heard the radio, right?”

Virginia should have talked a little more.

Virginia may be evil, but she is not stupid. There is only one reason why that wicked woman would wage such a ridiculous war.

Even if I use all my knowledge, and listen to Leticia and Camilla many times, Elsa is not capable of waging an all-out war.

In other words, Elsa alone cannot eliminate the zombies in this world.

But what if we declare war and bring the Western nation of Minsk into Elza? Minsk’s weapons are powerful and its firepower is also strong. At least the western part of Elza will be clean enough.

From Minsk’s perspective, they will have to fight off countless zombies and advance to the capital of Elsa, so they will have to waste a lot of firepower. They must have calculated that it would be worth it if they were to confront a country that does not have the ability to wage an all-out war and a country that must wage a war of attrition.

But that’s when there are zombies between Minsk and the capital of Elsa.

“Now that we’ve come to this, I’d like to meet your leaders. I’d like to talk in more detail.”

I took a step closer to them.