My name is Levi, and I work in anime.

"It's okay, I'd do anything for Touma-kun!"

"This isn't a question of whether or not I want to do it!"

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!!!"

And so, Goto Ichiri was completely burned to ashes, leaving only snow-white ash.

While disinfecting her index finger, which had been cut, Li Wei carefully examined the markings on the map.

then.

"Um!?"

After his tongue touched Little Lonely's blood, Li Wei suddenly realized that although this world was lacking in magic, the girl's bodily fluids contained a lot of magic, which was a great tonic for recovery.

A bold idea suddenly popped into his head.

Chapter 16 Night Talk

No, no, no, no, such behavior is ungentlemanly. How could I do such a thing?

Immediately, Li Wei suppressed the thought that immediately conjured up images of decadent pleasures and debauchery. Even in a world in ruins where morality had collapsed, he could not entertain such inappropriate thoughts.

The thought suddenly popped into my head even though I hadn't used up much of my magic power. What was going on?

It seems that this problem has arisen ever since Sister Melly orchestrated the Second Livy War.

After everyone had dinner together, it was already late at night, and they would have to wait until tomorrow to do anything.

So, under the boy's guidance, they cleared out a rather nice detached villa with enough rooms for everyone to rest.

The house was quite large, both in terms of its decor and interior design, and its size. It seemed that the owner was not home when the crisis broke out, so the zombies had little interest in the house, and it was only slightly damaged, with only a few wandering zombies remaining.

"Tonight, Saeko, Hiratsuka-nee, and I will take turns keeping watch. Everyone else, please get some rest," Li Wei decided.

These are the only three in the team who possess strong killing power against zombies; the other girls are really not much help in combat.

Surprisingly, this villa has its own independent power generation and water storage facilities, and the stored fuel is enough to last for a period of time, which is quite remarkable.

"Squad leader, you can even repair machinery? You're practically an omnipotent person!" Li Wei exclaimed once again, looking at Yu Chuan who had repaired the equipment.

She's practically a superwoman; I've never seen Yuukawa fail to do anything.

"Oh, no, no, Li Wei fixed most of it. I just lent a hand." The girl with braided hair and glasses waved her hand hastily. "Besides, I don't know everything. I only know what I know."

"Since the equipment is working properly, we can take a hot shower tonight," the boy said, turning to the girls.

"Taking a hot shower, something that's usually so ordinary, now seems like a luxury." Looking at the bloodstains and filth on her clothes, Hiratsuka Shizuka sighed.

Only when we leave behind the basic necessities of modern life can we truly understand how rare the things we have at our fingertips every day are.

"Let's go, let's go. Everyone take turns to shower and then get some rest. We're going to a new destination tomorrow." Yu Chuan clapped her hands and began to arrange for everyone to take turns washing up.

"Hey, brat, aren't you coming to shower with me?" Before entering the bathroom, Hiratsuka Shizuka asked with a hint of provocation, "Showering with so many girls, huh? That's the dream of so many teenagers. Now you can make it a reality with just a few words."

She was the only one among them who dared to speak to Li Wei like that after witnessing him fly through the air and unleash his full power, completely unconcerned that if she angered the boy, Li Wei would pin her down and dehydrate her.

Or, if this situation were to actually occur, it would be difficult to say who benefited whom.

"I'm already exhausted, Hiratsuka-nee, stop teasing me." Li Wei rejected this extremely decadent suggestion without even looking up.

At least for now, the mana consumption is not high, and there is no need to replenish mana.

"Tch, brat, pretending to be an adult."

Even in this villa, which has a fairly large area, it was still a stretch to accommodate nine people taking a shower at once. So the girls decided to work in three shifts, with three people at a time.

As for how to arrange things, that was none of the boy's business. What he needed to do now was go back to his assigned room to rest and prepare for his night watch later.

As the saying goes, one should not stand guard for the second time, nor should one be an official for the second time. The most grueling second post is naturally Li Wei's turn, and now is the time to conserve his energy.

Everything was going smoothly and all was well. Just as the boy closed his eyes to rest, footsteps came from outside the door.

Immediately afterward, with the sound of the doorknob turning and the doorknob being pulled inward, Li Wei opened his eyes and was shocked to see his older sister from this timeline—Touma Kazusa, who had just finished taking a bath and was wearing a bath towel—standing in front of him, looking at him with a blank and complicated expression.

"Kazusa, is something the matter?"

Li Wei was a little curious. He Sha's hair was still wet when she knocked on the door in the middle of the night. Surely she wasn't here to have a life talk with him?

"...There are many things I want to say to Avi."

The loyal girl slowly walked to her younger brother's bedside and sat down. The two bodies were close together, and Li Wei could easily smell the fragrance emanating from Kazusa.

It's been a long, long time since I've spent time alone with Kazusa, and it feels really comfortable.

"You can say whatever you want. There's nothing between Kazusa and me that we can hide."

"Avi, do you think humanity will become extinct?" Somewhat unexpectedly, the girl with long, straight black hair asked this question.

Li Wei thought Kazusa would ask about the Sword of Light and his superhuman behavior.

"No, humanity has faced countless crises since the Age of Gods, but it has always persevered." Li Wei answered decisively: "From being ordinary creatures looked down upon at the beginning, to becoming a great being that both the gods and the demons of the underworld must take seriously, humanity's future will definitely be bright and great."

“Avi is speaking in a language I don’t understand.” The loyal girl gave a helpless yet doting smile. “But I understand the meaning: Avi is full of confidence in the future of humanity.”

So much has happened in just one day that it has far exceeded the capacity of the average person to process it.

The girl herself didn't know why she came here. Perhaps it was for peace of mind, or perhaps she just wanted to confide in her family. As for why she didn't go to her mother, she didn't know either.

"Of course, as long as I live, I will not let the future of humanity fall into ruin." Li Wei said confidently, "This is my duty."

"Hmph, talking big to your older sister." Kazusa pinched her younger brother's cheek and made a face.

"This isn't just empty talk, Kazusa. For you, and for me, I will work hard." Li Wei hugged the long-haired black-haired girl tightly, enjoying a warmth he hadn't felt in a long time.

"What are you talking about?" Kazusa was a little flustered when she was suddenly hugged.

"I'm telling the truth."

"..."

"It's already the end of the world, is Kazusa still going to be my older sister?"

"..."

"Since Kazusa wants to continue being the older sister, then I'll go find Mom."

"no!"

The girl with long, straight black hair, who had just been petrified, immediately reacted upon hearing the word "mother" and grabbed Li Wei with her other hand.

"Why not?"

"Because, because..."

"If you can't say it, then I will say it: Kazusa, I like you."

"You, you—"

"This is a confession of love."

"..."

"I will protect you, Kazusa." Li Wei said, holding his sister, lover, roommate, classmate, listener, and loyal dog tightly.

Touma Kazusa didn't say anything, but after a moment of silence, she hugged her younger brother.

The two enjoyed a rare moment of peace in the apocalypse, listening to each other's heartbeats.

Chapter 17 The Birth of a Warboss (crossed out) Grandmaster

The next day, everyone looked at Li Wei strangely. Kazusa didn't even dare to lift her head and huddled in a corner of the bus.

"You brat, I knew you were popular with women, but I never expected you to end up with your own sister."

Today's driver was Shizuka Hiratsuka, and she sounded extremely annoyed, as if she had seen her cooked duck fly away.

"Actually, we didn't do anything last night, we just hugged each other." Li Wei tried hard to explain, but the effect seemed to be very poor, as if the more he explained, the worse it got.

"I expected this to happen. Have you taken any safety precautions?" Yaozi asked, a little exasperated. "Juchuan, do you even know how to deliver babies? My two silly kids don't seem prepared at all."

"I did learn a little bit when I was studying medicine, but only the basics." The blonde school doctor crossed her arms in thought, a gesture that made her front armor appear even more imposing.

"A natural birth should be fine, but if the stitches come out, that's beyond my expertise. I haven't studied C-sections."

"Until we can't find a professional doctor, we can only hope that Touma is safe." Hanekawa sighed.

"To merge with Avi," Saeko said, looking up as if she longed for it.

"That, that, that... it's all my fault..." Pochi once again transformed into an invertebrate, about to undergo plasmolysis.

The events of this morning were actually quite simple: Kazusa simply didn't go back to her room last night and slept with Li Wei.

However, Kazusa looked really beautiful when she was sleeping, so when Li Wei woke up early, he couldn't help but kiss her, just as Goto Ichiri, who was going to call the boy to eat, bumped into him.

In an instant, words like "incestuous relations," "empty space," and "random beeping" surged through her mind. Before she knew it, the basin in her hand fell to the ground, attracting everyone's attention and allowing them to see clearly the state of the two people on the bed.

So, what happened next is obvious to everyone.

"Look on the bright side, it's actually not bad at all." Yukinoshita comforted her friend, "We know each other well, there are no mother-in-law issues, people will praise us for looking like a couple when we go out, we don't have to worry about whose surname the child should take, we won't argue about whose family we should go to for the New Year, and even if we have a conflict, no matter how fierce the argument is, we will not become strangers."

"Alright, stop joking around with Kazusa." Li Wei looked at the map in his hand. They were getting closer to their destination, and there were more and more zombies around them.

"Same as before, I'll go to the school first to check things out, everyone find a safe place to wait for my news."

Hope everyone is okay.

……

The atmosphere inside Fengcheng Affiliated High School was extremely oppressive.

Unlike Chiba Municipal Soubu High School, which was completely wiped out when a crisis broke out, the survivors here collectively huddled in the gymnasium waiting for rescue, but their morale was low and they were on the verge of collapse.

There were naturally not enough supplies in the stadium. The few vending machines that were smashed open yielded some food and drinks, which was far from enough for the number of survivors.

With the water supply gone, sanitation became a problem, and the air was filled with the smell of human bodies, making it oppressive and unpleasant.

"No, staying here is just waiting to die. We have to fight our way out." The student representatives, who were spontaneously elected, and the representatives of the survivors they had taken in sat together to discuss the matter, and they all agreed that they could not sit and wait to die.

If you keep waiting like this, even if you don't get killed by zombies, you'll have a mental breakdown first.

"We need a victory, or rather a miracle, to lift our spirits," one of them argued. "We can't expect a god to suddenly appear, unleash his invincibility, and wipe out all the monsters, saving everyone, can we?"

"Um, senior!"

As footsteps sounded, the students who were supposed to be on guard upstairs scrambled down the stairs, panting heavily.

"What's the panic? Didn't we agree that we can't leave our posts? What if something goes wrong?"

“There’s something strange going on right now. It’s like a god suddenly appeared and started clearing out all the monsters along the way.”

"Huh?" No, I was just saying that, you actually came?

The group of people in the meeting exchanged glances, then rushed out the door and ran upstairs to see which deity had appeared.

"Yukino, what happened to them?"

A beautiful girl with long, light brown hair in pigtails, striking looks, and a friendly demeanor watched what was happening before her and curiously asked her friend about it.

"I don't know, but judging from their expressions, it shouldn't be any bad news."

She has a cold demeanor, but her figure is disappointing; only her legs and face are worth looking at. This is the assessment made by Yukinoshita, who is small in size.

"After all, their faces showed mostly surprise and confusion, but no fear or anxiety."

"Eh, is that so? Yukino is amazing~"

"Yukina, you..." Yukinoshita, who was petite in both age and figure, couldn't help but sigh as she looked at her friend.

On the other side, the group on guard duty watched as a boy of about sixteen or seventeen years old swaggered in from the school gate, seemingly without any sense of danger, making them wonder if he was just there for a visit.

Then, the guy pulled out a huge, gleaming golden cleaver from somewhere and chopped away like it was nothing, from the east end of the school to the west end, and then from the south end to the north end. The monsters fell before him like wheat in a harvest field, but he didn't even glance at them, instead searching for something.

What an incredibly strong man!

Amidst the astonished and admiring gazes of the crowd, the boy's otherwise normal physique appeared incredibly tall. Whether it was an illusion or not, because they thought the boy was already tall and strong, it seemed as if his body had indeed become a little taller and more powerful.

"Ok?"

While Li Wei was hacking away at zombies to find people, he felt as if something had come to him. An energy called "Li!", which Confucius had once taught, was constantly being injected into his body.

This power provided him with a continuous source of strength. It is said that in ancient times, the giant Confucian scholars were much larger than ordinary people because they were worshipped. They used this power to conquer all directions and educate the barbarians.

"My actions in clearing out zombies earned me the recognition and admiration of others, so [Li!] came to me?"