The Heroines Want to Confess.

Sakurai Saki slowly opened his eyes and found himself in a strange place.

'Strange ceiling.'

No—there was actually no ceiling. Above was a blue sky with white clouds, only now it seemed to be sunset, tinged with a reddish pink hue.

It was still summer, very hot, and even though it was sunset, the heat lingered.

[You have received a mission: Survive]

[First day survived!]

[Reward: Strength +2]

[Hint: To care for the female perspective experience, a filter has been added to target Nakano Nino]

'Not good.'

Sakurai Saki looked to the side and saw that Nakano Nino still hadn't woken up.

He observed his surroundings.

This appeared to be the rooftop of a school.

Beside him were several planted plots.

'Why would the school's gardening club set their activity location on the rooftop?' Sakurai Saki scanned around.

Perhaps because it was summer vacation, the plants here were almost wilted.

But not yet dead.

'Corn, cabbage, chili, tomatoes…'

Quite a variety.

Next to them was a small school desk, and inside the desk drawer was a book. Sakurai Saki picked it up.

[Diary of the School Living Club]

On the cover was a cute Shiba Inu illustration.

He gently flipped to the first page.

[Activity contents of the School Living Club.]

[1. Live on campus, become familiar with various tasks that one would have no chance to experience outside of study.]

[2. Train self-reliance.]

[3. Become a role model for students.]

"What a strange club," Sakurai Saki muttered.

He turned to the second page.

[May 15, cloudy

Found the seeds left by the gardening club—this is good news. With a long-term food source, even if the stockpile in the basement runs out, survival is still possible. Drinking water supply has no issues for now and can still be used normally.]

[May 16, sunny

Reinforced defenses with chairs. Safety shouldn't be an immediate concern.]

...

[May 24, rainy

Yuki's mental state is getting worse. In her eyes, the school still looks the same as before. We decided to play along with her, hoping her condition would improve.]

[May 25, sunny

Preparing to go to the shopping mall for supplies.]

[May 26, sunny

Met a survivor at the shopping mall, brought her back to the School Living Club to live together.]

Sakurai Saki kept turning the pages.

'This school seems to be a shelter—it has solar power, a warehouse, and a complete water filtration system.'

He had figured out what had happened to this world.

'Things you often see in sci-fi works… though zombie movies haven't been popular lately,' Saki thought.

If it were an ordinary person in this situation, they would probably be terrified, but for Sakurai Saki—an Esper—to be honest, his heart wasn't beating any faster at all.

'Let's check the last entry.'

[July 16, sunny

It's been a week since we broadcast the rescue signal through the loudspeaker. The number of zombies nearby is increasing, and the frequency of our defenses being breached is also rising quickly. We can't wait any longer.]

[July 17, sunny

We've decided to go on a long trek, with St. Isidore University as our destination…]

[July 18, sunny

The School Living Club, officially graduated!]

This was the final message.

Sakurai Saki closed the diary.

Next, he had to think about how to survive here for a week.

'If what's written in the diary is true, then the supplies are enough—at least living for a week won't be a problem, as long as I make sure zombies don't get close.'

After thinking it through, Sakurai turned his head to look at Nino lying on the ground.

This girl was the real problem.

Everyone knew women were hard to deal with. Curse Chef the Great Sage once said: "Only petty men and women are hard to raise; close, they are rude, distant, they complain."

In an apocalypse, if an ordinary person wanted to survive, they certainly wouldn't choose a woman as a teammate; in a situation with scarce supplies, of course you'd pick someone with high combat ability.

Naturally, that was how ordinary people thought. Sakurai Saki certainly didn't care about the threat from zombies.

He just found Nino troublesome to handle.

'How should I explain my ability to her?'

After all, this was a sudden isekai—this kind of thing couldn't be explained to begin with.

Moreover, a girl with such a strange way of thinking like Nino might even think she could take advantage of the situation. Sakurai Saki didn't like the type of girl whose "brain was full of love"—too blind, too idealistic, lacking rationality. But to say they weren't cute or attractive when they took the initiative to attack… wasn't right either.

Sakurai Saki suddenly realized—

So the reason he disliked "brain was full of love" girls was simply because the target of their affection wasn't him.

'Feels like my way of thinking has been a bit weird lately.'

Ever since falling for Hayasaka Ai, Sakurai Saki felt he had changed a little.

Before, he never thought about these things.

He saw women the same as men—carbon-based lifeforms, whose only contribution was to the biodiversity of Earth, and nothing else.

'This change might be a sign that I'm becoming closer to a normal person.'

After all, Shirogane Miyuki and Ishigami Yuu often talked about women; last time, they even sat in the student council room discussing why panties never get shown in manga.

'…No, those two are just plain perverts.'

Sakurai Saki came back to his senses and noticed Nino starting to stir.

When he stepped closer, she also opened her eyes.

Nakano Nino sat up, looked at the yukata she was wearing, then scanned her surroundings.

∘ ∘ ∘ ( °ヮ° ) ?

"Am I dreaming?" she murmured.

Just a moment ago, she was walking around the festival with Sakurai, and the next second she was on a school rooftop.

Aside from dreaming, Nino couldn't think of any other possibility.

"It's not a dream," Sakurai Saki denied.

"I don't believe you." Nino noticed there were many plants growing on the rooftop.

"Fine, just treat it like a dream then."

See? Women just won't believe the truth… Hmm, forget it, better not stir up gender conflicts.

Men in this situation wouldn't believe it either, except they'd probably jump up and yell: "Damn! I got Isekai'd! Time to build a harem, woohoo!"

･°˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°.

Probably something like that.

Nino took two steps before remembering her sprained foot. She bent down to look at it a few times, discovering the injury was much better now, only slightly bruised.

'So it really is a dream—doesn't hurt much anymore.'

…And that was the wrong conclusion!

The two of them had been unconscious on this rooftop for half a day; a mild sprain would naturally hurt less by now.

"Uwaa, there are so many people playing on the baseball field! Are they training to prepare for Koshien?" Nino exclaimed in surprise.

There were more than a dozen of them—though their movements were… a little strange.

Her dream really was amazing!

Sakurai: ∘ ∘ ∘ (｡· v ·｡) ?

Sakurai Saki, full of question marks, stepped closer.

He looked toward the baseball field Nino mentioned.

Inside, more than a dozen zombies were tearing into human corpses.

'What the hell, what kind of "filter" is this?'

Sakurai Saki was speechless.

Was the mission system's idea for him to live a survival life while letting Nino enjoy cheerful school life?

'I can't let her notice anything unusual… but what should I do?'

Can't this filter be removed?

Share blessings, share hardships—why doesn't this trash ability understand that logic?

Mission system, why don't you and Word Spirit both go straight into the trash bin? I don't think our company needs useless employees like you anyway.

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Note: You think it's Re:zero? No, it's me, School Live! (I haven't read that manga)