The woman stared at the hellish sight of the corpse for a few seconds before suddenly turning to look at Edward, her eyes appeared calm with only a hint of tiredness but Edward suddenly felt cold and a chill ran through his body. He felt fear toward the woman who had started walking towards him and wanted to run but his body still was not listening.

The woman stood at arm's length from Edward, her appearance was both sweaty and bloody, although it was not her blood but still made her look savage; Edward gulped down in fear.

"Are you alright?" She asked in a low tone that even Edward could feel was suppressing a wave of emotions that might explode at any moment. The others also came over at this moment and they all looked at the mess that was left of their companion with solemn expressions, the woman who had been saved by Fablo immediately broke down in tears at the thought that she might have ended up the same had Fablo not arrived on time.

While they were grieving silently over the loss of the man, Edward stared at the woman with his mouth open but no words came out. He was unable to muster a response to the woman's simple question.

"I asked, are you alright?" She asked again but this time did not wait for Edward to answer as her hand suddenly moved. The speed of her hand was fast and Edward would not have been able to see it clearly if it was him before that female zombie pulled his heart out but he was different now and was able to follow the movement of her hand with ease, he could even react but his body refused to move.

BAM!!

Edward's eyes widened as the woman landed a solid punch on the side of his head with so much strength that his feet left the ground and he was thrown a few steps to the side, he landed gracelessly as his body rolled on the dirty ground before coming to a stop after colliding with a zombie corpse.

'Damn! That hurts' Edward thought but the good thing was that his body was finally listening to him again and he could now move again so he tried to get up.

The others also looked over with shocked expressions on their faces when the woman suddenly attacked Edward, but their shocks only doubled when she pulled her sword and lunged at Edward with the pure desire to cut him down.

Fablo appeared in front of her just in time and held her hand, he shook his head at her but his expression was one of pity and warning.

The woman gritted her teeth and glared at Fablo before shooting a sharp murderous glare at Edward, she turned around and walked off.

Fablo and Edward could only watch her back as she walked towards the corpse of the man and stabbed her sword into his heart position. The body that had been lying motionless on the floor for a while now suddenly jerked violently as green blood sprayed from the sword wound before turning motionless again, she had just destroyed the virus box that had yet to completely form and killed him completely.

Fablo shook his head again and turned his head to Edward before helping him up.

"Are you okay?" He asked with concern and Edward slowly nodded with a complicated and gloomy look on his face, he still could not understand why the woman had reacted that way to the man's death even if he was really the cause.

" Try not to piss her off from now on, they were kind of…close" Fablo whispered to him before walking towards the others.

Edward's face changed at Fablo's words but his mind wasn't entirely on the matter as he was thinking of something else too.

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'The zombie had been killed beside me which meant that they were not actually coming for me but for the woman who was approaching from behind me? They are still ignoring me' Edward thought but the realization did not make him entirely happy when he realized that she might have finished him off out of anger from behind had the zombies not been there to take the fall for him and had the others not arrived sooner.

This also meant that her earlier attempt to cut him down was a fake, not that she did not really intend to kill him but because she knew that the others would stop her, or else she would have used her sword instead of her fist the first time she attacked him.

'Is this her warning to me? I might really die if he offended her again' Edward concluded in his thoughts and made a mental note to not offend this woman and stay away from her as much as possible.

Fablo gathered everyone after everyone had rested and stopped talking about the unfortunate event, it was getting late and it was time to retreat to their base. They had brought supplies with them and could have decided to stay for a few more days before returning, probably to clear the entire area first but what had happened to the man had put everyone in a bad mood which was a very wrong footing for their plan so Fablo decided for everyone to go back and rest for a few more days before they started again. Although this place was like a small neighborhood, it was not something that they could clear in a rush. Zombies would probably come back to this place that they had already cleared in a few days and that would require them to clear it again but it was better than letting today repeat itself.

They all made it back to the two-story building before it got dark and the scrawny man welcomed them after opening the metal door.

The fat woman came down to join them shortly after for the inspection but her expression changed by the mood in which she met the group upon coming down and also noticing that their numbers weren't correct.

"Where's Lucas?" She asked, directing her question toward the woman using a sword and the latter threw a piercing gaze at Edward without saying a word and walked toward the female restroom to wait for the inspection and also to wash herself.

The fat woman was stunned by this behavior as it was completely new, she looked toward the others for an explanation.

"Lucas…he's dead. He got bitten" Someone decided to fill the fat woman's curiosity instead of letting her wallow in suspense.

The expression of the fat woman changed drastically when she heard this.

"How did that happen?" She asked further but the person who had answered her previously just shrugged, signaling that he had no idea.

"I know what happened" a woman suddenly voiced out and started talking about what she had seen after everyone turned to look at her.

Her story was from where Lucas had already been surrounded and was trying to crawl away from the seven zombies.

Even though she did not know the entire story, Edward had his head down while her words sounded in his ears like whispers of regrets that were bound to follow him for the rest of his life.

Everyone else except Fablo turned over to look at him with different expressions after the woman was done telling what she had seen and it without a doubt showed that Edward could have saved Lucas had he not been paralyzed by fear.

"Everyone's tired, stop thinking about depressing things and go wash up" Fablo suddenly stepped in and pushed Edward toward the restroom and the other men followed while the women went the other way.

Clang!!!

A few minutes later a terrified scream suddenly sounded from the female restroom as sounds of things falling followed.

Fablo and the others immediately dashed over while barely finding something to cover themselves along the way since they had been in the middle of their shower. They had to clean up first before the inspection so the dirt did not camouflage any wounds or marks that might be on their bodies.

They rushed into the women's bathroom without warning and what they saw was the consequence of suddenly entering a female restroom; or should it even be called a reward since it would have been a consequence in a normal situation.

They found all the women here butt naked except the fat woman, everyone else including the woman who used a sword had nothing covering them and were completely exposed.

But the men had no time to admire the glorious scene in front of them, well, so was true for Edward and Fablo, the other men might be enjoying the scene.

Edward and Fablo were focused on one of the women who was also completely naked but was separated from the others and was standing at the end of the restroom while holding a fallen door in front of her to probably prevent the others from coming closer to her.