Suddenly, Ren saw something out of the corner of his eye.
"Stop the car."
Shizuka Marikawa slammed on the brakes. Ren was steady, but Exusiai bumped into him. Hmm… her halo hit his chin.
"What's wrong?" Shizuka Marikawa turned her head.
"I seemed to see someone just now."
Ren got out of the car. He looked in the direction he had just noticed. He saw it! A little girl with pink hair, with a white dog beside her. The little girl was crying in front of a corpse. Many Dead Bodies were slowly approaching her.
Alice, a character from the Apocalypse. Ren knew her.
Stepping on the ground, the earth sank. He could adjust, cluster, and give new forms and properties to the direction of energy. Just a little bit of power could produce great destructive force. By concentrating the direction of the power on his feet on one point, he could fly or achieve the same effect as teleportation. Just like now, he appeared before Alice in a teleport-like manner.
"Woof!" The little white dog barked.
"You..." Alice looked up, bewildered.
Ren-kun clenched his palm. Five Thunder Rectification surged forth. The surrounding Dead Bodies were instantly enveloped.
Zzzzt!
A burst of black lightning pierced through them. The Dead Bodies all turned into charred corpses. His indifferent gaze swept over the house next door. Through the slightly ajar door, several pairs of eyes were peeking out.
"Hmph!" Ren-kun snorted coldly, stomping his right foot on the ground. The ground rippled like surging waves. It crashed towards the house. Under several horrified gazes, the house was directly flattened into rubble.
Before Alice could react, Ren-kun scooped up one person and one dog in his arms. He stomped his foot, teleporting. They arrived in front of the car. He threw them into the car. He entered the car and closed the door. All in one smooth motion.
"Eh!!!!"
A chorus of surprised gasps erupted from inside the car. What's going on? Ren-kun went out for a moment and brought back one person and one dog in a few seconds.
Alice looked at the people around her, bewildered. "Um... how did I get here?"
*****
After Alice's explanation, everyone understood her ordeal. After the Dead Bodies crisis erupted, she and her father escaped from the chaos. But her father was killed by a family unwilling to help.
"Good heavens, even if they didn't want to help! How could they kill someone?!" Shizuka Marikawa couldn't believe how terrifying humans could be.
"Where are these bastards? I'm going to chop them up!" Saya Takagi's fiery temper instantly ignited.
"I'll go too!" Miyamoto Rei, whose emotions had mostly recovered, joined in with righteous indignation.
"I also think it's better to kill off such scum." Exusiai narrowed her eyes, smiling, yet radiating killing intent through her smile.
"Don't be angry, a house just collapsed, it was probably Ren-kun, right?" Saeko Busujima was very calm; she carefully analyzed the recent commotion.
Ren-kun nodded, placing his large hand on Alice's head. "Those scumbags have already been buried by me."
"Well done." Ren-kun's actions received unanimous approval from everyone.
"Thank you." Alice's eyes welled up with grateful tears.
Ultimately, the group decided to take Alice with them and leave this place.
*****
The car then proceeded without hindrance. It drove directly to the destination Saya Takagi had led them to. However, the situation here was a bit off. There was no sense of a gathering place at all. Because it was dilapidated and messy everywhere. Many zombies wandered among them.
"Saya, you didn't get the location wrong, did you?" Miyamoto Rei asked doubtfully.
"Impossible, right? How could I be wrong?" Saya Takagi took out a map and pointed to the location. "Look, it's right here."
At this moment, Ren-kun spoke: "Saya shouldn't have led us to the wrong place."
"Something unexpected must have happened here."
"What? Dad! Mom!" Saya Takagi cried out in panic and rushed out of the car. The gathering place had become like this... her mom and dad...
"No... I don't believe it!" Saya Takagi was about to rush into the gathering place when Ren-kun held her back.
"Calm down, your impulsiveness won't achieve anything."
"But my mom and dad..."
"Ren-kun, there's gunshots over there." Exusiai suddenly pointed in a direction. The group quickly rushed over.
"Mom!" Saya Takagi saw her mother, Yuriko Takagi.
*****
The gathering place had been breached by a wave of Dead Bodies. Her husband, Souichiro Takagi, had been killed. She escaped from the gathering place. But now she was surrounded by Dead Bodies again.
Da da da da da!
The last clip of bullets was fired. Yuriko Takagi threw away her gun. "Is this the end? Am I going to die...?" She slumped to the ground, despairing and powerless. She had no way out.
"Mom!" Was that her daughter's voice? Was it a dying hallucination? She weakly raised her head.
A tall figure stood before her. It wasn't a Dead Body. He stretched out his hand. Black fluid writhed in many places on the ground. They were like living water, flowing, enveloping, and clinging to everything around them.
Zzzzt!!!
Black lightning suddenly burst forth! The Dead Bodies fell straight down, as fragile as candles in the wind.