Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 275 - Deadly Training
Day 316: 8:00 A.M

Osaka: Blood Battalion base

Equipment: 

Melee: Piyavka Machete, Piyavka Blade Cleaver

Gun: AR15, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

It’s another day after the rescue of the enslaved survivors. They have already awakened after they were put to sleep temporarily for transportation ease.

Not all of the survivors who were captured decided to stay behind after they recovered and wanted to reunite with the others who managed to escape so we didn’t force them to be with us. As for those who have their entire groups wiped out and have no means of a place to go back into, our group decided to take them in.

Since Haru is nonchalant about accepting others as long as they can help in the situation of the base without being a heavy responsibility by the others, they will be welcomed with open arms.

As of now, out of those slaves that were saved, only 6 remained in the base while the rest parted ways with us. Haru parted them with some weapons and guns to use for their survival while on the road. As for the remaining 6, two of them are around the 27-29-year-old range while the three are the same ages as Eve and the two other kids.

As for the last girl, she is around the same age as me and the others. That girl is none other than the one who tried to spit on me the last time. I was surprised that she didn’t part ways with us despite me being part of the core members of the group. She still hated me though but that is none of my concern at all.

Nathalie has easily managed to talk with this girl so I guess she was in good hands.

Right now, I am here with Byakuya, training him. The other day, I was not expecting him to come to me since most of the time, I am always alone sleeping and only a few would make conversations with me except for the people who are all the original members of Blood Battalion. The others who are originally from the SDF group and just came to know me when we merged were not that interactive much to me. So to see the initiative of this kid to talk to me is something else.

(The other day)

”Please let me marry Eve!”

When I heard that, the cola that I was drinking that time almost went out to my nose which still f*cking hurts.

”What the f*ck are you saying all of a sudden? Did someone bonk you again in the head which messed you up a little bit?”

”I am serious! I fell in love with her and I want to marry her! As her father, I wanted to formally ask her hand in marriage and I hope you accept the proposal for me to marry your daughter! Your girlfriend also agreed and already showered me her blessings! Only yours is left now!”

I shook my head in confusion. Since when did I have a girlfriend? I didn’t even reciprocate the feelings of Miyuki and Cindy who are both infatuated with me because I focus on our survival first and decided to stop building a romantic relationship with the opposite s.e.x for now, and now this little runt has already asked my girlfriend for a blessing?! I am too shocked I don’t know what to do anymore. Maybe he was speaking about Miyuki since she is the only one here who she calls Mommy.

”You... you sick bastard, you are still a kid and now you are asking for my daughter to be your bride?!”

”I know we are still kids but love doesn’t measure using the age! Age is just a number! I will promise to protect your daughter in any ways possible!”

”And jail is just a room you little f*cker. Kids shouldn’t be talking about marriage so casually. Also, your age is not yet proper to marry my daughter as both of you are still underage. Aside from that, you are still far too weak to become my daughter’s husband. If you wanted to be the husband of my daughter, you needed to be able to knock me down at least! I doubt you can effectively protect her.”

”Then! I beg you to train me and shape me as the ideal man that can protect Eve!”

”What...”

...

(Back to the present)

So yeah, after that, he begged me again to train him. Since he keeps on nagging me and I don’t think I can stop him from doing so, I decided to agree to his silly training.

”Reporting! I have finished running 20 laps around the base!”

”Good! Now do me 10 push-ups with 5 repetitions!”

”Uh... Master, I don’t know how to do what you just said. Can you please clarify 5 repetitions?”

”Alright, since you are still a greenhorn with this kind of language, I will explain, you need to do 10 pushups, however, for every 1 count, there are 5 sub counts to it and that is the repetitions. One count of the 10 main counts needed to be performed 5 times!”

”Master, but that is not 10 pushups! That’s 50 in total!”

”Are you going to give up now?”

”No master! I am just clarifying it!”

He then began to do the 5 repetition push-ups with physical vigor plastered on his face as he does the repetitions.

”Oy, Kyosei, how is the training with the little kid going?” Souichi appeared while sipping coffee.

”Not that bad. I just made him do a few stretches of exercise.”

Souichi then looked at Byakuya who is struggling to finish the first count.

”Wait, you did the repetition count on his pushups?! You monster, kids can’t withstand that much! Are you even sure you are training him and not torturing him?! Basically what you just did is plain torture!” Souichi was horrified hearing what I just did.

”All I did is make things difficult for him. If he gives up, too bad for him.”

”Yeah, yeah. I know this kid is trying to marry Eve since Miyuki told him about it. It felt like you are disapproving of the proposal he is giving.”

”He is still a kid. He needs to know that survival first before things like love life.”

”Bruh... Don’t transfer your bitterness to others. You are ruining everyone’s expectations!”

”Shut up, just because you have a girlfriend doesn’t mean you are superior to me and act like you know everything. This is Eve we are talking about and I am not going to let her just accept proposals like nothing.”

”Ugh... I quit. There is no point trying to argue with you.”

As we just finished talking with each other, Byakuya who looked like he just took a bath appeared before us while panting for air.

”Master... Huff... I have done the...huff... 10 pushups with 5 repetitions...huff...just like you just mentioned.”

”Good. Now then,” I was about to give something to Byakuya when Souichi stopped me.

”Bro. I know you are testing the kid but you should also give him a rest! Even someone who has reached their limits needs to rest to avoid dying trying to do something impossible!”

”Oy, don’t bother us. Mind your own business. Also, I am not that inhumane, why did you think I will keep him do training with his body too tired to do anything?”

I then give Byakuya a cold orange fruit.

”Eat this orange to help ease the muscle pain and to also replenish you with liquid to replace the amount of liquid you lost while doing an exercise.”

”Ah! Thank you... Huff!”

Byakuya accepted the orange but he didn’t eat it immediately and just lay down on the ground after experiencing something so hard to do.

”Hmm, you also know how to be a human sometimes huh?” Souichi smirked.

”You want to lose some of those teeth of yours?”

”Ah... No no, I am fine.” 

”Anyways, once you are done eating and resting, prepare your gear, we will go hunting later on.”

”What? Kyosei, you want a kid to fight some undead?!”

”It’s better for the kids to know how to fight the undead rather than stay oblivious. If he wanted to protect Eve, he needs to be strong enough to endure everything.

”Then let me come along. I don’t trust this training method of yours and whenever you are out, you are always entangled in different dangerous situations. At least two guardians can help protect him if things go awry.”

”Suit yourself. I am just doing this to train him properly.”

Souichi grinned and pulled a thumbs up. Honestly, I was surprised by this kid’s resilience. I thought he was just joking since he was a kid but I think this is not just some random joke. He really wanted to marry Eve. 

Still, it doesn’t change anything. If ever, he indeed needs to get strong. If I am not here to protect her, then he needs to act as the sword and shield to protect her from any kind of harm.