The moment he saw what was happening, he couldn't help but look at the scene in rage. A group composed of 3 women and a child were being attacked by someone wearing some kind of strange clothes, the garments were shiny in some places, like the sleeves and it had some details in the rest of the clothes. That person's hair was long and went to the waist.

Being just a single person, Victor decided to do something to help the group, but when he was about to move forward, the person wearing strange clothes pointed at one of the women and she exploded in a red cloud, pieces of her organs spread across the street painting the sidewalk and the others around it red, seeing the scene he instantly backed away, this time he was unable to hold himself up and vomited right after seeing that scene.

Elizabeth seeing the state he was in, was about to look at what was happening on the other street, luckily, Victor noticed her actions before something terrible could happen.

"No! We have to take a detour."

Realizing how disturbed he was, she just nodded and followed him silently.

The walk took more than 1 hour, during that time, all that crossed their paths were people killed in the most diverse ways, and some monsters killed too, probably the work of armed police.

Everywhere they passed made them feel discouraged and depressed, no matter how far they walked, not even insects seemed to be alive, everything was empty and stained with blood.

Stopping on a bench next to a train station, Victor sat down and looked at the sky with empty eyes, he was struggling to understand all of this, to find an explanation as to why everything had become this way, could this be a kind of punishment? He didn't know, all he wanted at that moment was motivation to continue, but even that seemed unlikely to happen.

Elizabeth sat next to him and began to cry silently, she wanted to say something, find the strength to continue, but with each body they passed, the more her determination to move forward was tested.

"How are we going to survive... Look at them, all dead..." Elizabeth rubbed her eyes trying to wipe away her tears.

"Who knows, I don't even know if I want to continue. Maybe I should wait for these bastards and let them eat me alive... I wanted to know at least once how it would feel to be someone who would make my mother proud but look at this mess, I doubt she is alive ... "

He looked at her, and with a chuckle he said. "Hey look at the bright side, at least we lived to see a true apocalypse!"

"You... How could you make jokes at this moment!?" She looked at him with anger in her eyes.

"Well, what do you expect me to do? Seat and cry? No thanks, I prefer to deal with my depression by using jokes." He rolled his eyes at her.

'Humph!' Was her answer to his actions, they stayed there for some time, but nothing happened.

Victor started to wonder if all of this was like a wave, it strikes once and then retreats. This or the monster kept going forward and now they are too far away from them.

Sighing he looked at her and said.

"Hey, can I ask you something?"

"What is it?" She replied with a sullen tone.

"Can I kiss you? I mean, on the lips?" He asked with some hope in his voice.

"What!? Why are you asking something so stupid? Of course, you can't, and if you touch me I... I... I will..." She seemed lost in the last part of her speech.

"What are you gonna do?" He said as he approached her with lustful eyes.

"I..." She kept walking backward, her body trembling with fear of being disgraced by this disgustful boy in front of her.

"You know, I'm really thinking of doing something, I saved your life and you didn't even thank me, I could have died, but even after that, you look at me with those hateful eyes! I pity however marries you if it ever happens." Smirking he backed away and sighed.

Elizabeth started to cry once more, this time realizing that if she had found someone else, even worse things could have happened... Looking at the boy, she thought of his words and noticed that what he said was true.

"Thanks..." she said it so low, that he almost didn't hear it.

'Tch, I'm still hurt, does she really thought I would rape her or something? Ahh, I hope she has more trust in me in the future.'

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Getting up, he resumed his walk, Elizabeth followed behind him.

This time however they weren't so lucky to the point of avoiding the monsters.

Right in front of them, one of the saber-tooth tigers was eating the body of a kid. Seeing that they didn't have any other alternative but to keep going forward, he turned to Elizabeth and whispered.

"Take cover behind one of those cars, make sure to pay attention to our surroundings, if you happen to see any other mob - I mean, monsters, you have to warn me, I'll try to attract their aggro's."

Elizabeth looked at Victor with a curious expression on her face, she never heard anyone using such weird words, but she still complied and hid behind a car.

'Well, let's do this!' breathing deeply, he equipped the crowbar and approached the tiger slowly and as sneakily as possible! As he approached, he noticed some differences between the first tiger he met and this one.

The other was a little bigger and seemed to have a lot more muscles around him, this one, however, did not have these characteristics, He hoped this one was weaker and easier to deal with.

When the distance between him and the tiger decreased to 3 meters between them, the tiger instantly looked behind and roared towards Victor. Showing its claw's it jumped at him trying to cut him dow.

Using his 'shield' he managed to parry the tiger attack, them using the crowbar he attacked it on the head, making it bleed as it roared painfully.

This time the tiger tried to circled him while running as fast as it could, then, when Victor finally lost track of the tiger, it jumped at his back and tried to cut him once again. But surprisingly it only left some marks on the Boy armor.

Panting and thanking the gods, for having found some leather, he turned to the tiger that was still confused with the situation and used the monster confused state to attack once more, this time he managed to hit right at the tiger eyes, making him blind at one side.

"ROAR!"

This time, the air around the tiger, seemed to swirl around him as his skin turned shining purple, Victor seeing what was happening, instantly guessed what the tiger was trying.

"Oh, you won't!" Throwing away all caution, he stepped forward using all his speed and strength, hitting the tiger on the head once again, this time though the tiger head twisted to a weird angle and his skin turned back to normal.

Soon after a notification popped up on a blue screen.

[Congratulations for defeating (Wind Tiger, lv 7) rewards: 40 XP, and 10 SC]

Looking at the screen, he thought about the new reward he received, this could be some kind of coins or money, but where could he use it?

Then it came, the level up screen, seeing his points he decided to store it for now. But there was one thing he noticed, every time he leveled up, his health points increased by 10 points, which was really good.

Turning around, Elizabeth was already approaching, she looked at the tiger with fear in her eyes.

This time, Victor, bent down and touched the tiger, he wanted to see if could store it and try to use his skin and other materials to craft something, thankfully it worked, so he wouldn't have to worry about lack of ways to carry something.

Seeing how the tiger disappeared in a flash of light, she looked at Victor trying to understand what the hell happened.

Noticing the girl's gaze, he decided to make some random excuse.

"I learned something called storage magic after crafting some items don't think too much about it, I don't know if everyone can be like me." He wasn't lying in the last part, it was still early to know if other humans could get strong, the System helped him, but there was nothing saying that others couldn't become strong without a System.

"Let's continue."

Half an hour later, they stopped in front of a building, Victor took a key out of his pocket and opened the gate, there were some bodies around, but he was not sure whether tigers could enter a building. After all, the emergency stairs only open if you use the handle and he doubts that tigers know how to use elevators.

"Where are we?" Elizabeth asked worriedly.

"I'm taking you to meet my relatives before I make you a proposal ..." Victor made a joke and laughed a little as he moved on. Elizabeth blushed hearing his words, but then the anger changed the meaning of the red in her cheeks.

Following with heavy steps, Elizabeth was pouting and feeling offended.

After a while climbing the stairs, they stopped on the eighth floor of the building.

"Stay behind me, if something happens you hide."

This time he equipped the kitchen knife, slowly opening the emergency stairwell door, he looked around the hall, there was nothing there, not even blood.

Sighing, he walked to the door of his apartment, opening it he realized that there was no one, everything was neat and clean, while Elizabeth sat on one of the sofas, Victor locked the door behind him and checked if his mother was at home.

After looking at each room and finding no one he started to worry about what might have happened to his mother, he was almost having a panic attack when Elizabeth called him.

"What's it?"

"I think this is for you." She showed a letter.

Opening it, he found a letter written by his mother, apparently, after what happened, she took some things and left with her friend to stay in one of the military shelters 3 km from here, she left the address and a printed map so that he could find her.

Sighing with relief, he sat down on the sofa opposite Elizabeth's and thanked the gods that his mother was still alive.

However his happiness did not last long, after a while, he realized that Elizabeth was looking at him while frowning.

"What's the matter now, my princess?" Victor asked sarcastically.

"I'm hungry."

Looking at her, he couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, 'You gotta be kidding me.'

"The closet is there and the stove too, do you need anything else?" He asked with a fake smile.

She blushed and looked down before saying, "I ... can't cook."

Slapping myself I decided that it would be better not to count on her for anything.

"Um, got it, are you going to need me to bathe you too?" noticing her aggressive look, Victor laughed and continued. "Ah, come on, you don't have to be so nervous, I guarantee you that it would be an honor for me to be able to touch the whole body of the most beautiful girl I know!"

Seeing that she didn't respond, he gave up on continuing to joke or teasing her. Standing up he went to the kitchen, seeing that there was still gas running he sighed and started preparing something to eat, it is a pity that electricity had been cut, otherwise, the items in the refrigerator could be used, in the end, he could only use tiger meat, and some spices to season the meat.