Chapter 14: Volume 1 Chapter 10: Level Up – I

"What? How can I be a problem?!" 
Shizuka panicked on hearing my starting words and cut me off mid-sentence. Sighing at her acting, I looked at her and said in a serious voice, "Shizuka."
At this, Shizuka straightened her back on hearing my serious voice. Noticing that I have her attention, I continued, "Just like I said before, I understand that you don't trust me. But can you please stop with your acting? it is going overboard, and you don't need to act in front of two of us as we already know that you are acting to be air-head, only to protect yourself from the people with malicious intentions towards you. which you don't need to, at least when one of us is with you. As you already know we have no malicious intentions toward you as we already have our chance back at the infirmary to do whatever we wanted to do with you.  So, be at ease as both of us have no intention of harming and abandoning you. Nod your head if you understand." I asked her, she nodded her head.
"Okay, back to the topic. I was saying that your running speed will be a problem." I said, putting a bit of force on the word, 'running', making my point clear to her.
"Yes, a Pencil skirt is not suitable for running," Saeko said looking at the pencil skirt Shizuka is wearing. At Saeko’s comment, I also looked at Shizuka's slender thighs.
"Do you have any solution?" I asked Saeko. She nodded and walked near Shizuka, who looked confused, which quickly changed to surprise and shock when Saeko gripped her skirt and tore it from one side. Making it visible to see Shizuka’s plump thighs, even her waist as her purple glassed panty peaked out of the gap.
"Wha? Why do you do that?" Shizuka asked, making a crying face and puffing her cheeks as she looked at Saeko.
"Your skirt or life. Choose" Saeko asked back. But Shizuka's answer caught both of us off guard, "Both."
"Hahaha." I laughed at Shizuka's answer and Saeko's helpless expression.
After a moment, when the four of us are ready. The three of us looked at each other and then we ran out of the door into the ground.
Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!
The sound of heads being smacked by Bokken is created in the ground when I and Saeko smacked down the zombies, making quick work of them with Shizuka following us behind.
A few seconds later, when we were halfway to our destination. The situation started changing, and suddenly the number of zombies increased making it difficult for us to fight them back while protecting Shizuka. 
In the middle of the fight, I and Saeko exchange glances. Conveying the message, 'We need to hurry,'.
With that short exchange between us, we change our strategy. I used 'Reinforcement' on myself and my bokken. Spinning in my place to gather momentum, I struck the zombies coming for me. Making them fly back as they collided with my strike, which killed a few of them that took my strike head-on. 
Then I turned towards Shizuka who looked surprised and confused, "Wha?"
I cut her off and said, "Change of the plan, I will carry you, Saeko will clear our path and we will make a run for the other side."
"Wh-? Woow" 
I again cut her off as I picked Shizuka in a princess carry. "Wrap your arms around my neck, and hold me tight," I ordered her.
"A-ah, yes."

After a moment of surprise, Shizuka did as I told her and I noticed how her cheeks started to redden a bit.
"Saeko, let's go." I signaled Saeko, who nodded and we created a path for ourselves as she shifted to offense. I followed behind Saeko, carrying a blushing Shizuka in a princess carry. Supporting her body with one of my hands as I used the other one to kill the zombies coming for us using my bokken.
In less than 30 seconds, Saeko and I while carrying Shizuka in princess carry reach our destination, the other side of the U building. 
"Wow!"
Shizuka exclaimed as I hurriedly put her down and turned around to help Saeko in closing the door to stop zombies from entering. 
Closing the door, I turned to Saeko who was breeding a little, then I looked at Shizuka who was cupping her red cheeks with her hands.

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"Hehe" I chuckled, seeing Shizuka acting like a maiden in love. "Hmm" Saeko hummed while elbowing my chest. To which I replied by pointing at Shizuka, following my gaze Saeko looked at the still-blushing Shizuka, and after a moment of surprise, she also started chuckling.
Hearing our chuckles, Shizuka got out of dream state and with a 'Huh?' She looked at us and saw us both chuckling at her antics.
"N-no! I-i w-was just-" Shizuka's speech was cut off by me, who looked at her with a sage expression on my face. "I understand." I said making Shizuka feel relieved but my next words reduced to a blushing mess, "I understand that you have your fantasies. We can understand, Right Saeko?" I asked Saeko who nodded with a teasing smile.
"JEEES guys!" Shizuka shouted in embarrassment.
"Okay, okay. That’s enough to lighten the mood. We need to get moving." I said and on receiving a nod from both of them, we continued walking towards the staff room, which is located on the second floor for some weird reason.
And on our way, I got closer to Shizuka and said near her ear, "Hey, Shizuka I forgot to tell you before. But I loved your blushing expression back there."
"Mmmm" Shizuka puffed up her cheeks at my comment and then looking at me she said, "Jees, just stop teasing me."
"Okay, But my earlier words about me loving your blushing expression back there were true," I said and she stopped walking as her face got even redder than before.
"Let's go," I said, grabbing her hand and leading her by it, not commenting on her red face. Seeing the reaction between us, Saeko smiled as I also smiled back. 
Then a few minutes later, after climbing up the stairs, we heard a scream coming from a few corners away from us.
"Let's go, It's coming from the staff room," Saeko said as she started running.
"Let's go," I said to Shizuka as I led her by holding her hand.
Five seconds later, as we reached the scene we saw a horde of zombies surrounding a fat boy and a pink-haired girl, The fat boy is carrying a modified nail gun while the pink-haired twin-tail girl is drilling a hole in a zombie's head using a drill as she continues screaming with her eyes closed. 
"Shizuka, wait here." I said as I moved forward, but feeling a tug on my jacket, I looked back only to see Shizuka holding a corner of it.
"Be safe," Shizuka said in a very low voice but I heard her. 
"I will,"  I replied to her with a smile, and then I walked forward swinging my Bokken to hit the head of the zombie coming for me. 
Smash!
Crack!
Crack!
The cracking sound that came from the skull of the head at the moment my Bokken collided with it, is followed by another cracking out. But this time it came from deep inside and in the next second, I felt a warm feeling flowing through every part of my body. I stopped and stood in my place as I bathed in the warm feeling. 
While doing this, I contacted Raphael and asked her. 'Raphael, what's happening.'
{Confirmed. Congratulation. Master, you have leveled up. You have reached Level 02. The warm energy you are feeling right now is the accumulated Exp, which is now being used by the system to increase your statistics. Master, it is advised to keep fighting as the warm energy is still in your body to maximize the gains.}
'Okay,' I then started moving again, joining Saeko who had already started and started doing a slaughter.
Killing the zombies, I asked Raphael, 'Raphael, is there anything else? What do I need to know, related to my level up or anything important unrelated to it?'
{Yes. Slime Race has been unlocked with your level up, and relevant Racial skills like [Absorb] and [Dissolve] can now be synthesized. Other than that, two quests have been published by the Will of this world and quite a few Hidden Quests have been completed.}
'Okay, remind me to check the quests as soon as we stop for a rest.' Saying this to Raphael, I focused on killing the zombies in front of me.