It has been five days since the zombie apocalypse. The insane growth of the zombies is already a concern for Eishi. He could vaguely feel, in pces he couldn’t see, there are mutated zombies way stronger than the ones he killed.

  The principal’s behavior of ‘eating’ other zombies to become stronger showed mutated zombies can grow stronger as long as it devours lifeforms. It isn’t entirely impossible for Second Rank mutated zombies to appear right now.

  Any pns to ‘sck off’ were thrown out of the window.

  “I’ll be staying inside my room for a few days.”

  Saeko was surprised to see his serious look. When she heard about the ‘zergs’ simir to the ones in sci-fi movies, she understood it all.

  “I will entrust leading others to you. Hunt zombies around the residence, but don’t stray too far from it. Make sure that either Mahiru or Shizuka takes shifts in guarding the base…”

  His words made it clear. Eishi intended for Saeko to be the captain of the ‘combat group’. Everyone listens to her orders while going out. This kind of unconditional trust felt very sweet in her tongue. She could not resist herself taking a few ‘bites’ out of his lips.

  Feeling the evil fmes spread to his lower waist, Eishi felt conflicted.

  ‘It doesn’t matter. It’ll be a quick one…’

  Carrying Saeko in his arms, he decided on taking his ‘st meal’ for today…

  *****

  Three days of relentless eating made Eishi’s tongue numb on the fruits’ citric juices. Aside from an hour of sleep, he allocated the rest of his time consuming crystals and eating evolution fruits. The first day, specially, was a torture. He consumed countless cherries, with the rest filled up by the mutated zombie crystal.

  ‘This rebate chance is a cheat…’

  Eishi completely grasped its mechanics.

  For money, everything spent all at once triggers the rebate.

  For evolution fruits, eating one triggers it immediately.

  For food, it can be set to a certain dish or the ingredient consumed to cook a meal.

  When it comes to water, the mechanism for water bottles remains the same. For water consumption, it is computed based on the volume of water accumuted before closing the tap.

  The system is extremely astringent in these rules. Eishi had to be astringent as well, emphasizing other actions that needed to be done at certain periods of time.

  Even now that he hasn’t come out of his room, he still receives the everyday returns of water, diesel, rice, and premium meat products.

  With four women, that was twelve rebate chances every day.

  The most he used them on was the evolution fruits. The mutated crystal took five minutes to absorb. Eishi’s consumption of them didn’t reach 1,000. It was the evolution fruits that needed his attention.

  Fortunately, the girls rotated to explore the outside of the vil, with Saeko acting as their captain. Basically everyone can kill zombies without much hesitation now.

  Along with their harvests were mutated zombie crystals and evolution fruits—especially the tter.

  Eishi’s “daily lucky opportunity” always took effect, allowing them to obtain several evolution fruits stronger than the cherry.

  The current fruit he uses now is a peach that was the equivalent of 500 golden grapes. Coincidentally, it was also a physical fruit capable of upgrading his [Constitution Boost].

  It tasted novel at first, but when he ate thousands of them, it numbed his tongue.

  Eishi could not help but compin at this bnd power system. Others cultivate, kill, or do some quests to level up. He is stuck here binging on fruits until his tongue turned numb.

  Then again, it is precisely this bnd power system that enables rapid growth. He could not compin about that.

  ‘Compared to being stronger… a small deal.’

  After eating more than ten thousand peaches, an unprecedented warm current flooded Eishi’s body. They concentrated particurly towards his skin and muscles.

  ‘Genetic energy!’

  He performed a self x-ray. The familiar milky light converged towards the core in his head, growing slightly in size. He saw his skin and muscle tissues being broken and reconstructed at a fast speed.

  Unlike the brute-force enhancement of adding onto one’s attributes, Eishi saw his skin and muscles being tainted with the milky white light.

  The limits of his genetic lock were broken as his perfect genes assimited with this surge of genetic energy!

  Bam-!

  Numerous items inside his bedroom flew after an electromagnetic shockwave emerged from his body. His entire body felt like a burning furnace. His body temperature gradually affected the ambient coldness, melting it.

  Most importantly, his head felt like splitting open. The speed of his thoughts stepped into another inhuman level.

  “Second Order… Is that what I am thinking?”

  [Eishi Hiraoka]

  Innate Talent: Time Dominator (SSS, Second-order)

  Non-exclusive Talent: Spatial Backpack (410,000 Cubic Meters), Constitution Boost (S, Second-order)

  Life Level: Second-order, One-star

  Strength: 228 > 328

  Agility: 223 > 323

  Constitution: 274 > 624 (822 > 1,872)

  Spirit: 420 > 720

  Eishi’s seven-hundred point spirit made his brain a biological supercomputer. He posited several hypotheses and confirmed it with a few simple tests.

  60 points from the first-order upgrade and 40 points came from his level up to the second-order. This 100 point is the most basic attribute increase.

  For his Constitution, the [Constitution Boost]’s rank up to S granted 50 points. Its upgrade to the second-order netted another 200 points. It grew under his relentless consumption of the peaches.

  For his Spirit, the [Time Dominator]’s upgrade to the second-order granted him 200 additional points to his spirit.

  There are also the ‘correspondences’ of each attribute.

  Strength originates from muscle power, skin durability, and bone toughness.

  Agility is reted to the body’s nerves, joints, and overall body coordination.

  Constitution increases the strength and toughness of internal organs, allowing one to sustain more damage and recover at a faster pace.

  Spirit is tied to his brain’s activity.

  Eishi suddenly made a grasping motion to the fallen deskmp.

  Sou-!

  Seeing it fly straight to his hands made him exhale.

  ‘Electromagnetic energy..!’

  The final conjecture was confirmed.

  Through the special genetic energy ingrained to his skin and muscles, Eishi gained the power to control his body’s electromagnetic energy. What was once a negligible electromagnetic field born out of nerve impulses and bodily activity became tangible.

  He looked at his dimmer core.

  ‘Consumption is born by the core, just like innate talents…’

  Eishi was about to test his newly-upgraded [Time Dominator] when the door was flung open.

  “What happened?!”

  He met the concerned gaze of Mahiru. The pure white one-piece dress she wore exposed her calves and shoulders.

  The heat in his body, which had just settled down, erupted once more.

  Eishi’s body turned into a blur. The door was closed and locked in one swift motion.

  Mahiru, who came inside the room, saw his familiar state. Her eyes were drawn to his fully naked body. His clothes had long been torn to shreds during his level up.

  The thick flesh rod in his lower waist was pointing straight towards Mahiru, making her blush.

  “I need some help.”

  *****

  ‘I am the worst…’

  Looking at the fainted Mahiru beneath him, as well as the torn fragments of the pure white dress, Eishi felt guilty.

  This was resulted by the imbance of his attributes. His constitution is three times that of his other statuses. The overwhelming hormonal secretion and kidney enhancement strengthened his lust by several dozen notches.

  Eishi made an important discovery in this regard.

  His self-control is cooked.

  'I need to rein myself better. I won't accept any other reason...'

  Eishi gnced at Mahiru’s panel. The three hours of fighting was inseparable from her ability to heal. Even then, he felt her strong body. Those legs who locked him in the back might have troubled him three days ago.

  [Mahiru Shiina]

  Innate Talent: Healing Grace (SS, Second-order)

  Non-exclusive Talent: Agility Boost (B, Second-order)

  Life Level: Second-order, One-star

  Strength: 102 > 222

  Agility: 126 > 296

  Constitution: 101 > 221

  Spirit: 147 > 367

  Aside from the normal increases, there are an extra 75 points from [Agility Boost] and 100 points on spirit from [Healing Grace].

  Looking at her conspicuous agility attribute, Eishi had a realization.

  ‘No wonder she felt more flexible…’

  The thought almost ignited his fighting spirit. Eishi managed to calm himself this time.

  He covered Mahiru with a bnket. It was then did he notice the messy room.

  “The gss held up…”

  Though the thick bulletproof gss had cracks, it held up against his electromagnetic field.

  ‘Come to think of it…’

  Eishi looked at the sleeping Mahiru. He sensed a ‘magnetic field’ emanating around her, though it is not as strong as his. He assumed that its strength is tied to one’s innate talent.

  Due to their different talent ratings, she consumed half of what Eishi did. It wasn’t surprising for her to have stepped into the second-order earlier than him. In this regard, he doesn’t know how the other SSS rated espers will rank up. It took tens of thousands of cherries as well as nearly a thousand mutated zombie crystals to reach the second-order.

  ‘There must be another sustainable, more realistic alternative…’

  While it wasn’t useful compared to him stacking resources to rank up, Eishi felt they still had to learn it.

  He stepped out of his room while musing. Eishi first went to the fourth floor surveilnce room. Upon entering, he saw several spreadsheets open on computer screens. A pair of wireless earphones are pced on Haruno’s ears. Her fingers moved fast, accustomed to the deskwork.

  She is the appointed logistics and surveilnce personnel. Their supplies being in the surplus does not mean they can waste it all. Haruno was already building the prototype of a new management system once Eishi gave the ‘expansion’ a green light.

  Suddenly, she felt a strong pair of arms bugging her from the back. It forcefully broke her out of a concentrated state, her heartbeats quickening as she turned to see Eishi.

  Haruno’s mind always turns into a complete mess with his presence. With his 2,000 point constitution and perfect genes, coupled with the complete sense of security that he brought in this apocalypse,

  “You haven’t rested for a while…”

  Eishi made her rest in the truest sense… by tiring her first. Once she fainted due to exhaustion, he carried Haruno back to her room. The mature beauty’s fwless face is deeply etched in his mind. It bore simirities to Yukino, just that the tter held a different ‘fvor’.

  ‘It’s time to add more confidantes…’

  On the way to the second floor, he came across someone.

  “Eishi-kun.”

  The girl with the short-stature ran over him. Her pair of destructive weapons were perfectly outlined by her oversized shirt. Her golden twintails swayed along with her breasts.

  She did not hesitate to dig her face onto his chest. Her nose inhaled his scent, slowly getting addicted to it.

  [Airi Akizuk

  Innate Talent: Love Devil (SS, Second-order)

  Non-exclusive Talent: Agility Boost (B, Second-order). Spirit Boost (B, First-order)

  Life Level: Second-order, One Star

  Strength: 65 > 230

  Agility: 69 > 309

  Constitution: 75 > 240

  Spirit: 110 > 400

  ‘Spirit boost?’

  Only then did Eishi recall the spirit-based evolution fruit that he got back then. He stored thousands of them in the huge freezer in the basement.

  The answer to his current predicament presented itself.

  ‘I need to get this talent!’

  “How was the others? Have you all come outside?”

  “Mhm. Those zombies… are not that scary anymore.”

  As if recalling something, her body jolted.

  “Saeko-sanchou left the new fruits in the fridge…”

  Eishi wasn’t a stranger to this matter. Saeko always informed him of the new fruits. They did not consume it until he said so.

  With the past few days’ rebate chances used to farm those physical-based peaches, there are other fruits left unused.

  Airi enthusiastically led him to it. She brought three different fruits, big and small, to him.

  One was another physical-based evolution fruit. Another was a spirit-based one, clearly stronger than the one he previously got.

  The st fruit startled Eishi.

  [Lightning Evolution Fruit (First Grade)]

  Details: An ordinary fruit that underwent continuous evolutionary energy bombardment at a high-concentration environment. It contains pure genetic energy closely reted to the lightning element. Consuming it can break the inherent limits of human genes and awaken an A rated talent reted to lightning.

  ‘Holy crap…’

  He calmed himself down.

  “Eat it.”

  “Hum.”

  Airi did not hesitate to pce the chili-like fruit in her mouth.

  “Hot!”

  Her face started to turn red the next moment. Sweat started gathering on her forehead and snow-white neck. Her oversized shirt got wet from it, outlining her blue bra underneath.

  [Confirmed consumption of Lightning Evolution Fruit (First Grade). A rebate of 5,544 times has been activated. 5,544 Lightning Evolution Fruits have been credited to the system space.]

  As he expected, a brand new talent appeared on Airi’s non-exclusive talent section.

  [Lightning Shock (A, First-order)]

  Details: Sends out a high-frequency static shock in a certain range. The selected targets will experience a numbing shock upon its usage.

  ‘It’s not a talent to control lightning. Anything’s fine, too…’

  Eishi ate the chili while watching Airi sweat. His desires started to break out once again, urging him to lick her tender skin filled with sweat.

  Eishi endured a momentary hot taste before his taste buds returned to normal.

  [Non-exclusive lightning talent, “Weak Electricity (A)”, has been awakened.]

  He checked on his new talent.

  [Weak Electricity (A, First-order)]

  Details: Allows for the manipution of static electricity inside the body. Boosts nerve reaction by 20% upon usage.

  ‘...’

  For a moment, he could not react.

  It was too overpowered.

  Eishi’s current attributes are in the 300’s. His spirit is in the 700’s. That means his agility and spirit will gain an additional 60 and 140 points, respectively. It may not mean much to the espers now, but to him, it was a godly auxiliary talent.

  He waited for the ‘upgrade’ prompt to arrive but to no avail.

  ‘First time… I lucked out with constitution boost.’

  He carried Airi by her waist, causing her to yelp.

  When her blue pupils met his eyes, her entire body melted.

  “We sweated just now. Let’s go take a bath…”

  *****

  A/N: If anyone's wondering, I wrote this fic partly to experiment with some slice-of-life storylines that I cooked up. I also wanted to verify whether it is better to write supernatural slice-of-life or just pure slice-of-life reting to the struggles of every day life...