Terror Infinity Side B

Chapter 8, H.O.T.D 2

Takashi Komuro.

The main protagonist of the series. A high school second-year and now the leader of the main group of survivors from Fujimi Academy. He is also the childhood friend of both Saya Takagi and Rei Miyamoto and while he has strong feelings of love for Rei, he also shares intimate feelings for Saeko Busujima as well. Takashi is a pretty decent melee fighter, also skilled with firearms because of Kohta Hirano's tutoring. He is also shown to have good leadership skills, which often hold his group together in dire situations.

For me, it was nostalgic seeing Takashi again after such a long time and in a way he was one of my first comrades. When I was still weak we worked together to escape the zombie infected school and traveled together with Rei through the city to meet up with our separated comrades. We ran into trouble with some rioters and to face them we both took our first steps as protagonist together, and he was present when I realized my purpose for being in this dimension. When I was injured both he and Rei protected and treated me as best they could, and we fought through a mob of rioters gone mad having each others back.

Last I saw Takashi and the H.O.T.D main characters had come back to save Alice and me, but due to the Hidden Side Quest I activated we had to go our separate ways due to the danger. He and the rest of the main characters had reluctant expressions as they left on their Humvee and watched Hikari, Misaki and I escape on foot from hundreds of zombies, but there was no helping it back then. In fact it was my hope for them to divert most of the zombie's attention away. It worked, but in the end I was bitten by one of them and almost turned into a zombie myself.

Shin: (But I awakened to my inner plot armor as the protagonist and survived long enough for Aqua to save me/avoided getting killed by her monster wolf form. My, how long ago that was. Since then I've become the leader of Team Japan, built something of a harem, have become pretty OP myself and raised a good team from the ground up... but it looks like he hasn't been playing around either. Takashi is decked in some strange armor, swinging around a majestic looking hammer like Thor, and is even unlocked. More so, like Aqua he's Unlocked up to the Second Stage.)

Shin confirmed all of this as he watched his long ago good friend wreck havoc on the once stampeding group of evolved zombies. After the initial greeting the evolved zombies didn't wait any longer and pounced on the man who dared jump right in the middle of their ranks. Takashi couldn't take it easy talking to old friends anymore and started his own attack. As he was surrounded by S1 zombies, in the First Stage of the Genetic Constraints he twirled his hammer around like a baton and smacked the heads of the undead into bloody pulps. When the L1 Zombies came charging towards him, he swung his hammer and blew them away into the air like they have done to the soldiers whenever they got close and had the chance to do so.

Next a S2 Zombie appeared leading a small pack of S1 Zombies right behind Takashi, and this made his eyes shine with a mysterious light at the impending threat. Takashi entered the Second Stage and his arm and legs expanded for greater power and speed. On top of that Takashi activated a movement skill which drastically increased his speed to a realm beyond the S2 Zombies. The S2 Zombie and S1 Zombies behind it couldn't react as Takashi closed and swung his hammer around like a war god of legends. The S2 Zombie was crush and mangled by the full weight of the war hammer, splattered against the ground as rotten fleshy remains and the S1 Zombies soon met a even worse fate not having even a S2's defensive power.

Shin watched Takashi fight and came to a conclusion about his power. Takashi was strong. Incredibly strong and stronger than even the leader of Team Germany who once had difficulty defeating, yet he was a bit weaker than Aqua and himself. Not that his skill level wasn't high as it was probably greater than theirs, but Shin felt that the system he was working under was inferior to God's Dimension. Shin didn't have definite proof of this, but that's what he felt. Takashi was doing a far better job than his team at disposing of evolved zombies, but that could be contributed to his experience with the type of monster called zombie.

Zombies weren't weak opponents per se, but it took a lot of courage and resolve to face zombies that have a viral infection, and even Aqua and Shin knowing that they would be fine with their high stats and healing factors were still consciously aware of the fear of being turned into zombies. Takashi and those like him had completely overcome this fear after an untold number of battles and hardships, so they were in the truest sense of the word master zombie hunters. Something that Team Japan was not. Takashi's rampage continued and he had no need of assistance from Team Japan or his own comrades waiting beside the Humvee, yet-

Shin: "Do I look like a damsel in distress to you!? Out of the wave now, Takashi! Fire Bolt!"

Shin extended his left hand forward with his open palm facing the evolved zombie grouped up together and charging towards Takashi. Takashi wasn't directly in his line of fire, but he felt like giving fair warning so he wouldn't be startled. He still was though. Unlocked Mode gave Takashi a heightened sense of danger and even had the Danger Perception skill leveled twice. He was wearing strong type 3 mutant beast armor, but his body screamed at him to run away, and he obeyed using his strong legs strengthened by the Second Stage to jump thirty meters away from the horde of zombie. The next moment a scarlet light blinded his vision. What was shot out of Shin's extended hand was a scarlet lightning shaped flames of immense power.

The lightning flames roared loudly and the instant the lightning flames hit the pack of evolved zombies, a dazzling light burst out swallowing them and the nearby zombies as well. It was like an orange flower blooming out and once the lights dimmed all that was left was death and destruction. Takashi was blinded and missed what happened, but others saw it. The scarlet lightning bolt pierced through the chest of countless zombies on its path and then in a flash scarlet flames swallowed up and incinerated over thirty zombies in one large explosion following after the lightning bolt. Hardly anything was left after Fire Bolt hit the evolved zombies. Not rotten flesh or blood, just smoke rising up into the sky. Only the power type zombies left charcoaled armor like skin behind, yet they obviously couldn't ever be hoped to be used for anything.

- SIDE QUEST REWARD 3, EVOLUTION TYPE 1 ZOMBIE. TWELVE L1 ZOMBIES KILLED. THE WHOLE TEAM IS REWARDED 12 POINTS!

- SIDE QUEST REWARD 3, EVOLUTION TYPE 1 ZOMBIE. THIRTEEN S1 ZOMBIES KILLED. THE WHOLE TEAM IS REWARDED 13 POINTS!

- SIDE QUEST REWARD 4, EVOLUTION TYPE 2 ZOMBIE. ONE L2 ZOMBIES KILLED. THE WHOLE TEAM IS REWARDED 5 POINTS!

- SIDE QUEST REWARD 4, EVOLUTION TYPE 2 ZOMBIE. ONE S2 ZOMBIES KILLED. THE WHOLE TEAM IS REWARDED 5 POINTS!

Takashi: "Too severe! The power is equal to my Devil Flame, but much faster! Fire? Lightning? You incinerated even the type 2s with whatever that was."

Shin: "Impressed? Fire Bolt is just a death sentence for soft body targets!"

Both Takashi and its user Shin were overly impressed by Fire Bolt's effectiveness against zombies. In a flash of lighting close to thirty evolved zombies were incinerated into charcoal. Most targets could only helpless be burned alive and those with thick skin and muscles could still be killed. Fire Bolt's power and speed levels up as the users energy increases, and Shin's Ki had already surpassed the limits of B tier energy with Black Heaven & Earth Technique and approaching A tier. It definitely lived up as a expensive CC tier magic attack spell. The power and especially the speed was outrageous. Even if you see it coming you might not be able to get away in time.

Shin: (I could probably kill over fifty zombies in one shot if they were densely packed together, though it would be too overpowered if you could kill anything with it. I might not be able to inflict much damage L3 Zombies or aim and catch the S3 Zombies when we finally meet. I doubt there are too many of them, but if all it takes to defeat those monsters is Fire Bolt then this mission would be too easy to farm.)

As Shin considered this the battle was already coming to a close. Takashi's group consisting of the main character of High School of the Dead rushed over to back up Takashi and together with his own Team Japan they swiftly wiped out the few remaining evolved zombies with little difficulty and without injury. The H1 Zombies hiding in the hole were then killed by Takashi's group, going by the name Walking Dead Unit, by throwing a few grenades into the hole, but it looked like the giant that was digging holes underground had already fled. Afterwards, the Walking Dead Unit and Team Japan helped the JSDF wipe out the last few 1000-2000 zombies roaming around. Thus the battle came to a close.

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At night.

Inside a certain mansion within the Tokonosu City Survival Camp. Hundreds of soldiers and elite Enhancers were standing both outside and inside the mansion on full alert. This mansion's security wasn't normally this tight, and would be impossible after the loss this group experienced against the Walking Dead Unit earlier today, but other big powers within the city brought some of their forces over for a meeting. They weren't told by their bosses what was going on, but they didn't need to know. After the apocalypse began social order and laws fell apart. To survive in this world overrun by zombies and mutant beast you only had five choices in life.

Be devoured by the zombies.

Be devoured by the mutant beast.

Be devoured by your fellow man.

Summit yourself to a greater power than yourself and hope for the best.

And lastly, become powerful yourself and take it upon yourself to live your life and choose what is just and evil in this new world.

The men from multiple factions within Tokonosu City guarding the mansion and their comrades elsewhere had chosen the fourth option. To submit yourself to a greater power, and unfortunately that greater power for them weren't good people. They used their power to abuse resources, force themselves upon women and humiliate their fellow man for sick pleasures. These men that they follow had lost their pride as Japanese men if they ever had it in the first place, yet their subordinates had no choice but to follow so they would be guaranteed food and shelter, and if you proved oneself to the masters then you could take part in their special *pleasure* and pretend to have power when you do not. Power borrowed from their masters, and in this mansion most deepest most chamber were four of Tokonosu City's great powers.

The largest faction was the military and political group run by Saya Takagi's parents, an organization that took in all sorts of powers, both military and civilian into the biggest force in the city. Then there were the 5 Heads of Military centered around former military higher ups of the JSDF who survived the initial days of the apocalypse and built their own forces from the ground up from both the JSDF and civilian volunteers. Three of these powers hated the Takagi's rule which respected the people and only moved justly, and the other two were neutral with a shared dislike of everyone else. Lastly, was the fallen government officials who used their political power before it lost its face value in the apocalypse to draft soldiers to protect their own interest while pretending to be working for the people, and it was lead by a man called Tokonosu City's Mayor, the former Diet member and suspected corrupt politician Ichirou Shido, but he prefers the title Mayor.

The men in this meeting were all past their prime with gray hair and fat bellies, yet as if the opportunity for grabbing power in the post apocalyptic world was good for their health they all acted with energetic, yet greedy hearts.

Mayor: "You bastards! You dare tell me off for going after the Walking Dead Unit too soon? They killed my son! And you want me to wait till after the zombie invasion! Go to hell!"

Commander A: "Don't talk to us like we fucked your wife while you were hard at work! Also, we all know he was just a spare for your eldest son and I'm putting that kindly from the things we've heard."

Commander B: "He's right! We all know you just wanted to kill the Walking Dead Unit because they are Supreme Commander Takagi's best force capable of killing tens of thousand zombies on their own just because he hindered one of your dirty back room dealings. What was it again? Selling little virgin girls for favors. You were also hoping to capture and play with the beautiful woman of their group. Though I get that, but you've gone too far! We have to contend with a 3 million strong legion of zombies soon!"

Commander C: "There are also reports of a Z type among them with high intelligence. That along with our own resources... even best case scenario it'll still be a major loss to us all. We need the Supreme Commander and his forces to take the blunt of the damage for us. Only afterwards should you-"

Mayor: "Fine! I'll wait till afterwards to have my fun. Though it'll be tough. I've run out of pretty high school girls. They too easily catch the things that I have, so their appearances drop to the bottom unless I pay for their upkeep. I barely have it for myself, the bitches!"

Commander A: "Hahaha! Mayor, I still have a few so so good looking high school girls locked away somewhere if you like... but just remember the deal. We'll help the Supreme Commander on the surface, but we'll hold back our full forces and resources to weaken him. Even if the Supreme Commander suspects something he won't make a move against us till afterwards. He also won't hold back like us because of his pride and responsibility as a leader of the people. The fool! We'll come together with a united front once we repel the zombie legion and immediately launch a offensive against Supreme Commander Takagi! Afterwards we'll divide his territory, people, and eat up as much as his military power that's left over! Is that good enough for you, Mayor? Ah, but I get to keep his wife. That high and mighty bitch is my type. So prideful and well educated, that's why when you break and dirty them they are just so.... Ahahah! I just love that broken and aroused look of a dog in heat on such woman as they lick my xxxx and xxx xxxx! Hahaha! I can't wait to xxxx her over the Supreme Commander's grave. I'll pay whatever the cost just for that. Even the grave!"

Mayor: "Fine! Long as I get what I want."

Commander 3: "Ah, Mayor, please remember that you owe me for that pretty American lady with blonde hair and tits almost as big as the Walking Dead Unit's nurse. If you can capture the woman from that unit then you can pay me back by helping me give a present for my son's tenth birthday in two weeks. I want to give him his first pet and I'll think that cute Alice would be nice! He has been eyeing her for a few weeks now. His first crush which is cute, but keeps begging me to abduct her for him. He hasn't grasped that there is a time and place for such things. *Sigh*. So hard to educate children these days, but I'm sure a good pet will get him motivated to learn."

Mayor: "Sure whatever."

Commander 2: "Wait! I wanted Alice-chan for my Lolita harem collocation. So pure and innocent. I also don't have a red hair yet! I thought I did, but when I checked the lower half it turned out she just dyed her hair. Damn it all! Had to throw that one in my rabid dog pen. At least they got enjoy some good and fresh meat for the next fight."

This disgusting topic went on until the Commander gave up on Alice. Once they finished up with that pointless discussion they moved on to the next topic. The arrival of a new group of enhancers. According to their spies they were a powerful group of enhancers which could wipe out thousands of zombies and could even contend with the frightening type 2 evolved zombies. This was interesting new, but unfortunately for them it looked like they had joined the Supreme Commanders faction due to having a past relationship with the members of the Walking Dead Unit.

Mayor: "What do you think? They are currently staying at the main house of the Takagi family. Do we need to do anything about them? They are quite impressive, but not at the level of the Walking Dead Unit. Just some skilled Enhancers."

Commander A: "I'm in agreement, but I wish for us to try to either bring them over to our side or kill them off. According to a report from one of my spies present at the border defense, this group killed thousands of zombies without borrowing supplies from the the army, and didn't appear to be carrying any supplies other than backpacks at the most. They might have the same Level 5 Treasure as Takashi Komuro. The subspace ring. That's a valuable treasure we should be willing to kill for right now even if it offends the Supreme Commander, but we should wait till after the invasion. Then along with everything else of value, even their people... Hahahaha!"

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Proofread by Deltoren.

Well... aren't they something. I just read Akame ga Kill a second time, and so I had some dark thoughts to expel.

Also, no double releases for a while.