Tokyo Soft Rice King.

But that probably won't work. This accident happened because a student who jumped off a building at the school died and turned into a zombie. If everyone who dies in this field turns into a zombie, then death will happen one after another like a chain reaction.

Even if some people are lucky enough to escape the first wave of the outbreak, the survivors will kill each other because they are fighting for resources, or there will be fools who become reckless and harm people everywhere because of the apocalypse, and people who starve to death because they cannot find resources... All these factors will make the number of zombies grow more and more.

"By the way, Aya-chan, those zombies should be killable, right? We hope they're not the kind of undead creatures that you can't kill no matter what you do, that would be troublesome."

"..."

Aya turned her face away guiltily again.

"Uh, could I have actually guessed right?"

"Those corpses were able to be resurrected because of my faith, so they can keep moving until their faith runs out, and they won't die no matter how you kill them... No, however! I don't have regeneration abilities, so as long as I cut off their limbs, those corpses won't be able to move! That should do it!"

Don't add uncertain words, you're too unreliable as the god of the underworld.

"Chop them all into human sticks... It's a bit difficult, but it shouldn't be too hard for you, Hikaru, right?"

Rather, this is the area where my younger sister excels.

After all, she originally wanted to cut all the women who were in the way of her brother into human sticks.

Xiao Guang's pupils had turned scarlet, and his heavy killing intent was about to solidify.

"Hehe, what do you think, brother?"

"...It seems I asked an unnecessary question."

Akira Kuroba also found his younger sister quite terrifying.

I once again sincerely thank Sister An for stepping in and stopping my sister in time.

Otherwise, as the older brother, he would definitely be chopped into a human stick by his sister, leaving only one stick.

Three months later, Kuroba Akira and the other two had gradually adapted to life in the apocalypse.

They turned the school rooftop into a base, securing a water source and a generator, and even started growing vegetables in the school's flowerbeds.

Xiao Guang had cleared away all the zombies around him, and even buried the severed limbs in the ground, so that the dead could return to dust.

Life was pretty comfortable... even a bit boring.

After all, there is no entertainment in this post-apocalyptic world. Apart from ensuring the supplies needed for survival, the only thing one can do is... engage in matters of love and romance.

It wasn't Kuroba Akira who took the initiative, but Hikaru said that since he worked so hard to kill zombies, shouldn't that also count towards the redeemable merits?

Moreover, Xiaoguang's twisted logic is quite convincing, suggesting that since it's the end of the world, there's no need to follow common social norms anymore, right?

Kuroba Akira had no choice but to give in to her.

In fact, even if Kuroba Akira wanted to refuse, she couldn't. In this zombie world where survival mainly depends on her sister, there was no way to restrict her. Hikari could easily force Kuroba Akira to submit.

Seeing this, Aya joined in as well. Since she was the one who found the supplies, she deserved a reward for her efforts.

Zombies weren't a threat to her; on the contrary, she encountered a few raiders from the apocalypse, but because Xiao Guang was her bodyguard, she didn't encounter any danger.

Kuroba Akira is no different from a stay-at-home dad. He grows vegetables, cooks, studies the habits of zombies, and rewards the two heroes who helped him survive.

However, three months was enough time for them to try all the different things, and after the revelry, they fell into a period of burnout. Even Kuroba Akira started to miss other women.

Even Xiao Guang said he was tired of killing zombies, and apart from mealtimes and entertainment time, he spent the rest of his time lying in bed sleeping in.

At first, Aya always complained that her romantic comedy was ruined, but after she started having sex, she stopped saying it so much. She probably thinks this kind of life is not bad.

She could understand why other women clung to Kuroba Akira... No, perhaps it couldn't be called a reason, it was just following her feelings. Just like how she now liked to use Kuroba Akira as a chair, sitting in his lap every day. There was no reason, she just liked it. She wasn't even this clingy when she was a cat.

The two women led decadent lives, but Akira Kuroba lived a fulfilling one.

What drives him is curiosity.

His curiosity about the world that Aya-chan herself created drove him to keep exploring.

First, the size of this area is roughly one-fifth the size of the city where Kuroba Akira lived in his previous life, with a population of about 100,000, although 99% of them have now turned into zombies.

The reason it's so big is because 'this floor' is only this big, and Aya-chan has turned this entire floor into her domain.

As mentioned before, the other world has the concept of 'depth'. It is generally a tower-like spatial structure, with each layer having a fixed size and not expanding infinitely. It is only because some places have the characteristic of being trapped in a maze that people feel they can't get out no matter how they walk.

Then Kuroba Akira asked Aya-chan if she had personally created all 100,000 NPCs.

She said that was of course impossible. Setting each character individually would take forever. Only the NPCs in the school were carefully designed based on Kuroba Akira's past life memories, but not all of them. Only the classmates that Kuroba Akira was familiar with were hand-crafted. The other people she wasn't familiar with, as well as the NPCs outside the school, were all 'overwritten' by using their powers to attract all the monsters on this floor into the domain at once.

The so-called overwriting is to give monsters new concepts.

Even ordinary gods can't do this. Just look at old man Kobayashi. If he could do this, he would have already made the shallower otherworld safe.

But Aya-chan has too many beliefs now, she can't spend them all, so she can achieve this miracle.

"By the way, were these zombies originally humans? I mean, before you turned them into NPCs, were they all humans who were lost in another world?"

"Some are, some aren't. Apart from lost humans, the other world naturally gives rise to strange things based on human negative emotions... But anyway, whether they are or not, those ghostly things are no longer human, but a concept from the other world."

"Oh? Is it a concept?"

"Why do you think people can't return to the real world after being assimilated by another world? It's because they're no longer 'creatures' in the traditional sense... So you don't need to worry about killing humans. Those things are just a 'phenomenon' in another world, and they can't turn back into humans."

Aya thought that Kuroba Akira asked this because he was worried that he was guilty because he had only killed humans... But thinking about it carefully, it was his sister who killed the zombies. Kuroba Akira had only buried the corpses and had never killed even a single zombie with his own hands. He was a complete freeloader.

Besides, he's not the kind of person who's a saint, so he probably wouldn't feel guilty at all.

"Anyway, they are like gods, things that cannot be completely destroyed. Right now, they can keep moving because of my faith. Once the faith is exhausted, they will turn back into their original strangeness... or another kind of strangeness."

"Oh... so that's why those zombies that had exhausted their faith turned into mist and disappeared..."

Kuroba Akira crossed his arms and nodded, looking as if he had just realized something. Aya looked up at him and asked, puzzled.

"Why have you been asking these pointless questions all this time? We can't get out of here anyway, what's the point of researching these things?"

"I need to find something to do, I can't just spend all my time having fun with you guys, can I?"

"What! You mean you're already tired of me?! You've only been with me for three months and you're already bored?! You bastard, you scumbag human! You should at least keep things fresh for another year!"

"I didn't say I was tired of playing... Don't be so overly sensitive, okay?"

"Your reaction clearly shows you're bored! You're just lying there, looking like you can't be bothered to move, not giving us any interaction at all!"

"That's because my back hurts from working so much... cough cough, I'm asking these questions just because I find them quite interesting."

"Huh?! Interesting?! Are you out of your mind?! Why would you find something interesting about this?!"

"How should I put it... it feels like a game?"

They'll keep respawning even after you kill them... Isn't that just like the endlessly respawning monsters in a game?

"Well, I originally created this world as a dating simulation game, so of course it's like a game, although it's turned into a bizarre post-apocalyptic survival game now... Oh well, it's not bad as it is now."

Aya stretched lazily, then curled up into a ball again, like a cat, needing Kuroba Akira to stroke her little head before she could sleep peacefully.

"No, this world is too crude as a game right now. I want to turn this world into a real 'game'."

"You're really bored out of your mind..."

"No, listen to me. If you've seen my memories, you should also know about those fully immersive games in virtual works, right?"

"Oh...you mean the kind where you can enter a game world...why are you suddenly bringing this up?"

Aya-chan was still a little confused and couldn't understand what Kuroba Akira meant.

"Hey Aya-chan, if your gods want to appear in the real world, they need to create an incarnation through faith, right?"

"Yes... since we can't directly descend with our true form, we have to use an avatar or possess someone."

"How about the other way around?"

"in turn?"

"In other words, is it possible to use faith in gods to create avatars for humans, and then let humans use these avatars to descend into another world?"

"Hmm... Theoretically, it should be possible. Some psychic users who are afraid of death won't directly enter the other world, but will send their shikigami in their place... Using faith in gods should make it even simpler... Ah!"

At this point, Aya-chan understood Kuroba Akira's thoughts.

With current human technology, it's still a long way off before we can achieve fully immersive VR games; it's unlikely we'll see them in the first half of the 21st century.

However, now that we have this semi-ready-made embryo of another world, as long as we find a way to introduce 'players', we can 'disguise' this other world as a virtual VR game.

"Actually, when Grandpa Kobayashi asked me to find a way out for those useless gods, I was quite troubled about what to do, but now, thanks to you, I have a better idea."

Since they were originally gods, let them continue to be gods. This is their job, and it's better than being a streamer, right?

There's no need to be subservient to the audience; in fact, in the game world, one can still be treated like a god by the players.

Besides making them gods, they can also be made GMs to manage this otherworldly game.

"But even if you can introduce monsters and players, what about the most crucial system...?"

At that moment, Akira Kuroba covered Aya-chan's eyes with both hands.

"What's up? Suddenly want to play blindfolded thick-wet?"

"Why are you so gloating? Think carefully about the abilities you gave me."

Kuroba Akira stretched his hands forward, making his palms appear in front of Aya-chan.

The words on it made Aya's eyes widen slowly.

Skills and proficiency...!

"Although you can't use your own abilities right now, the abilities you gave me are still in effect. Of course, they're not perfect yet, but we still have nine months before we can leave, right? So let's build the 'system' from scratch!"

Kuroba Akira never expected that even after arriving in another world, he would have to return to his original job.

But he suddenly felt that this might be the reason why fate had chosen him.

This time, he might be able to create an unprecedented masterpiece that could change the world.

Chapter 489 The Landmine God Who Destroyed Japan

"Okay...! Done!"

About nine months later, in the otherworld with a drastically changed art style, in the very center of the unnamed starting town of the game, Kuroba Akira stood with his hands on his hips and announced the completion of version 0.1 of the otherworld game.

The overall setting is a fantasy medieval dark gothic fictional world. There's no particular reason for choosing this period; it's simply because the environment of this other world fits the style better. After all, the main monsters are zombies, although there are now some other types, but they are still disgusting fleshy monsters.

This is a compromise that can't be helped. It's not that I don't want to be a different kind of monster. In fact, the appearance is easy to replicate, but the internal structure is very difficult to define.