Kore wa Zombie desu ka? - Volume 6 - Chapter 1.2

VOLUME 5

Chapter 4: Part 4

On our way back to the mixer, we passed by the oden restaurant again. We saw a huge crowd there. There were way more people there than before, and they were all laughing and seemed to be having a good time.

Chris… wasn’t there. I didn’t know whether that was a good or a bad thing. Well, I kind of understood her movements now, so all in all this was a good day.

… Hm? Was that Sera over there?

I see. Those were all vampire ninjas. All the vampire ninjas were here at the oden stall. Had they chosen that stall for the after party?

What the hell… at least some of them should’ve come and tried to help me out back there… ugh.

“Haruna, Kyouko. You two head back first.”

“Hueh? A-Ayumu! … Ugh, Ayumu just does whatever he wants, doesn’t he?”

I left Haruna, Kyouko, and the owl behind, dashing towards Tokyo Tower.

After all that, Sera had to take care of that demon baron for me until the very end. I had to thank her before I forgot, and also ask her about what had happened after I had left.

“Hey, Sera-“

I spoke up to the ponytailed beauty in front of me, but…

“Aikawaaa, what are you doing~~?”

Tomonori came up behind me and whacked me on the shoulder, still wearing that rather revealing red dress of hers.

“Whatcha talkin’ bout, Aikawa~~? Also, let’s play Kabaddi!”

“Tomonori, I’ll get to you soon, so just wait there for a bit.”

“Ugh, Aikawa, what the hell~~… ah, let’s play sepak takraw!”

Now, Tomonori playing sepak takraw in her skirt is something I’d definitely want to see… oops, that was close. I almost got completely swept away by Tomonori’s energy. “Next time, okay?” I replied, before speaking up to the girl in the white dress sitting there eating oden.

“Sera, sorry for leaving that guy to you until the very end… did everything work out?”

“Do you have so little faith in me? There is no need to worry.”

“Sorry, that was a stupid question. I’m sure you handled everything perfectly.”

“Naturally. So… did Hellscythe-dono and Haruna have fun?”

“Ah yeah… thanks. Is the vampire ninja meeting over?”

“Yes, without issue. The chief also seems quite satisfied.”

I had left the demon baron completely to Sera, but it seemed like she had gotten through it pretty well. As expected from Sera. She was so reliable.

“You should come to the mixer too.”

“No thank you. That sounds disgusting. I don’t have many fond memories of mixers.”

“It’s not like I have any dirty ulterior motives or anything. Yuu’s also there, so why not just go?”

“That’s true. Well, if Saras wants to go, I will go with her. Would that be alright?”

Saras? Then, I realized that Sera was looking directly behind me…

There was an evil black aura emanating from behind me. How did I not notice that before?

“Ah, look at the stupid face which decided to show itself… my darling.”

The black-haired beauty who was standing there was like a wall. I could feel my heart withering away… maybe her anger was just that overwhelming, but when she looked down at me with her arms crossed like that, I just saw her as nothing but a huge wall.

“Y-Yoo, Saras. Sorry about earlier. There was a bit of an emergency…”

Saras let out a sigh.

“I know already. I’m sure you have your own things to take care of. Ugh… because of my piece of crap darling, I feel like I’ve become so much more forgiving now…”

As I thought, she was a really nice, patient person. She might have some selfish, unrelenting sides to her personality, but… I see. When she said she would forgive me for anything, she seemed more pleasant than annoying. Almost like I could get away with saying anything. Alright, this was my only chance.

“Thanks. By the way…”

“Hm? What is it?”

“Do you want to go to the mixer too?”

With Saras like she was now, she’d probably just laugh it off and then give me the okay… is what I thought. But I was an idiot.

I could’ve sworn I heard the sound of something in Saras’s heart breaking, like a rubber band had just snapped.

Was she going to be forgiving or not?! Make up your mind, dammit!

“I am not so generous as to be able to love mixers!”

Ah, I see. I was asking her to like something that wasn’t me, so she couldn’t be forgiving.

“Hm? Sarasvati isn’t going? Let’s go, Aikawa! To the mixer!”

Tomonori hopped up and down with a full-fledged smile on her face, and she took me by my hand.

“Eh? Ahh, okay…”

I glanced at Saras, and… gyah! She looked like a volcano just about to erupt!

“… I changed my mind. I will join you as well.”

“What?!”

Saras almost jumped at Sera’s resigned words.

“Ayumu, if we’re going to go, then let us hurry.”

Sera linked her arm with mine and began to walk, causing Saras to panic.

“W-Wait, you all… I never said that I wasn’t going!”

It seemed that Saras had been diffused, and she confiscated my arm from Sera.

“Now we’re perfectly even.”

I didn’t really know what she meant by that, but it seemed that Sera had saved me.

Yeah, Sera really was pretty reliable.

We met up with Haruna and Kyouko on the way, and we were almost at the darts bar too… but suddenly I felt a bit of déjà vu from a girl passing us by and stopped.

“Hey, piece of crap darling. You must have a lot of courage to be ogling another girl in my presence.”

“No, that’s not really the reason I stopped…”

I muttered that without looking Saras in the face, when Kyouko explained to me why I was feeling a bit strange.

“That girl was at the mixer, wasn’t she?”

I see. Yeah, she was right. I had the feeling that I’d been seeing a couple people in the past few minutes who had been at the mixer.

I suddenly came to a realization and fished out my cell phone.

On the display, I saw… it was twelve minutes past seven.

The time limit on our reservation had been seven o’clock. The mixer had already ended.

“Ah, sorry everyone… looks like the mixer is over already.”

“Ehh, but we already came this faaarrr~~t have little breasts! I’m better built than that!”

“So, what do you have then?”

“Eh?” Haruna opened her eyes wide and seemed a bit troubled before putting one hand on her hips and showing me a satisfied smile and a guts pose with her other tightly clenched fist.

“I have low-fat breasts!”

… So, I guess that’s more healthy for your body or something? But then, Haruna let out a little yelp. I followed her gaze, and saw a girl wearing a school swimsuit.

It was the cute necromancer who had turned me into a zombie. But she looked a bit different than usual today in that outfit.

That was pretty common. School swimsuits could be found anywhere. But, if you add in the silver hair to that, it became uncommon. And if you add in the gauntlets, it became rare!

Her form burned into my eyes more brightly than the light from a million suns.

Her silver hair fluttered in the wind, and she stood there still with no expression on her face.

Her voluminous, flowing hair spread out behind her. She didn’t have any expression, but I could see just a tinge of red in her ears and cheeks. She had small, weak arms, but they formed a stark contrast to those gauntlets she had equipped. And that school swimsuit that enveloped her innocent body was just divine! And best of all was that “Yuu” that was printed on top of those small bulges on her chest. Those just sent sparks running through my brain.

Small breasts! Go! Fight! Go! Fight!

Actually, Yuu had to use those gauntlets to seal the special powers she had, so I guess she wouldn’t be able to go to a pool normally.

If there hadn’t been a cosplay event going on here, I probably wouldn’t have been able to witness such a sight.

Ahh, how wonderful! This was just super rare. I didn’t really know what “super rare” really meant concretely, but either way, it was really valuable.

“This one’s my win!”

Haruna looked really proud of herself, and she was staring right at Yuu’s chest and the “Yuu” lettering printed on top of her swimsuit. Yuu continued to show no emotion, but she did form a cross with her arms above her bust.

Ahh, watching Yuu acting embarrassed was also the best. Sera might call me a perv right now, but I honestly don’t care. Also, where was her plate armor? Was it really okay for her to not have that on?

“Hmph, you’re three cups too early to try and win against me!”

Don’t you mean “a hundred years too early?” Ugh, you make no sense. Also, there wasn’t that much of a difference. Haruna put her hands on her hips and bent her body backwards so that her face was looking up at the sky, and began to laugh uproariously. But at that point, we heard the sound of water, and we found our gazes locked to one spot in the pool.

When I say “we” here, I meant almost every single person here at the warm-water pool.

After all, those limbs were just that incredible. They could draw anybody’s attention in a heartbeat.

“Hellscythe-dono, you have come out at last. That uniform looks quite nice on you.”

A vampire ninja was climbing out of the pool, with her beautiful body and wet black hair for all to see.

Both Orito and Haruna opened their mouths wide, completely dazed.

Sera brushed up her wet hair, and then bent down to pick up her towel… ooohhh!!

Her breasts looked way bigger than when she was in her normal clothes. No, it wasn’t just her breasts… it was more the balance of her entire body. From her collarbone to her cleavage to those lines in her waist… her lean, toned body was filled out in all the right places. She was like a work of art.

Forget fighting over little breasts and big breasts… the ones that everyone could agree on were just “beautiful breasts.” They were only uncommon in terms of rarity, but they were just as valuable as rare objects.

I’ve heard rumors that all vampire ninjas had great bodies, but it seemed that rumor might be true.

“That’s your loss. You can’t compete with that at all.”

Orito looked at Haruna and sent her a scornful chuckle. Haruna took Orito’s torn prince outfit and straightened it once, before shouting a battle cry and ripping it left to right.

“T-Those breasts! She just tied them up!”

Isn’t Haruna the one who did that?

Haruna ignored Yuu’s retort. I never expected Yuu to try to retort like that, so maybe she really was a bit frustrated at losing the breast competition with Haruna?

Sera seemed to be the only one confused, and she cocked her head to the side.

“What are we talking about?”

“About how sexy your body is.”

“Ayumu, that’s sexual harassment. Go take a sextant and hara-kiri yourself.”

“What are you telling me to do with a sextant?!”

“Don’t worry! I’ll help with the execution! There won’t even be a speck of dust left!”

Haruna’s ahoge jumped excitedly back and forth, but I ignored her.

Orito took a camera out of his bag, seeming to want to memorialize this moment in film.

“By the way, Aikawa, why did you want to come to the pool all of a sudden? You missed every single swim class at school.”

“Yuu told me she wanted to go.”

I sent Yuu a kind smile. If Yuu and not Haruna asked me to take her somewhere, I’d go to the ends of the earth to make sure she got there. I was a zombie, so sunlight made me weak and faint. So I couldn’t go into the school pool. But I still wanted to make Yuu’s wishes come true, so I waited for a cloudy day for this. But…

I never said such a thing.

Huh? I double-checked the memo that Yuu had just held out. What did she mean?

“If I recall correctly, it was definitely Haruna who said she wanted to go.”

Sera crossed her arms and placed her index finger on her lips. Certainly, it seemed more like Haruna to say something like this.

Wait… don’t tell me… this memo was…

“Ayumu, did you know? There’s a rare monster called ‘Nessie’ here!”

Haruna had faked the memo?! She had predicted that I wouldn’t pay attention to the request if I thought it had come from her, so she made it seem like Yuu had said it! Stop being a genius in all the wrong ways!

“You pretended to be Yuu, didn’t you?”

“You just noticed that? Use your head a bit more, ugh. Why would the gloomy necromancer ever say she wanted to go somewhere? Nyahaha, I’ll definitely be the one to capture Nessie!”

So, everything had been planned by this genius masou shoujo?!

“You should also think a bit more. Nessie is called Nessie because she lives in the Loch Ness. There’s no way she’s here.”

“S-She is! She’s definitely here!”

Exactly what gave her so much confidence as to be able to say that?

I was a bit pissed that I had been tricked, but I guess it was pointless to raise a fuss about it now that we were already here.

It was just too troublesome to pay too much attention to Haruna here, so I just let out a single sigh and decided to enjoy this day at the pool.

TRANSLATOR’S NOTES

(1) One of Nam’s attacks from Dragonball.