Chapter 35 (2/2)

She raised her face, Makiura was standing. She lower her head apologetically,

「Excuse me. A request for Fujino-san came.」

「A request…. is that?」

「Yes.」

While thinking doubtfully, Mitsuki leaves in the hallway while being suggested. Makiura who is kind with the att.i.tude of adults was the other partner who seemed to be able to trust other than Atsus.h.i.+.

Move to a place without a people by the window, Makiura started talking.

「Can you share the food of the underground car?」

「Eh?….」

「I’m truly sorry. Our supplies are running low……. Ashamed to say, I am asking you to do this.」

「Ah, no. That’s fine, but that is what belongs to Takemura-san…..」

Makiura made a bitter smile,

「I already asked Takemura-san. We conditionally divided half of the supplies.」

「Condition… is it?」

「Yes. Permission to browse materials in city hall and permission to enter each room accompanying it. Including with my signature. Also, on the condition that it runs independently from the steering committee.」

「I was also a little surprised. Especially the second one is regrettable, that amount. I can not change my stomach on my back.」

「…..It seems to be Takemura-san」

Mitsuki muttered.

Makiura continued the word.

「The other half of the supplies, but because that is the belongings of Fujino-san, I heard that Fujino-san was told」

「My……」

It was a word she do not even think of.

She had no contact with Yusuke-san from then and she thought that she was already forgotten.

「I am aware that it is a grateful request, but would you please offer it if possible? If there is something like Takemura-san’s request, I will respond as much as possible.」

「Not at all…..」

Mitsuki loosely shakes her head.

If consuming by herself, the dumping food will have it for a month or two. However, where food circ.u.mstances are tight, one person can not imitate such a thing. It will definitely draw troubles and, more than anything, Yusuke is largely releasing food.

If food is more important than anything, Yusuke would not have accepted offering. That means that Yusuke’s decision to provide food to the community is now the best.

And he is doing something now.

Even while he was dropping by himself.

Mitsuki opened her mouth while thinking about it.

「Ano…… What will happen to the rescue?」

Makiura kept silent for a while, but because of food it told her straight away without cheating.

「Thank you….. It may be that the fact that it seems stable here has been backfired. Although it was not told in fact, there is a sign that other, urgent places are prioritized and rescued.」

「Is it so…… 」

「Or maybe the fuel problem is not solved. Communication also tends to be interrupted. I told you that food is tough, but the reaction is not good…. A divulgence is unnecessary for this thing, please.」

Mitsuki nodded, after thinking for a while, she said.

「I understood. I don’t mind the food. Instead, can I get a job?」

Mitsuki belonged to the hygiene team.

Because the injured people and sick people decreased due to the transport of the SDF, the number of people in the rescue team has been reduced. Instead, the hygiene team had been increased.

Cleaning of rooms and toilets, transportation of water, waste disposal, was.h.i.+ng of dirty objects from each group, was.h.i.+ng of goods, and so on, there is not enough manpower.

Through the aspect of middle – aged women who are the leaders of the sanitation group, what was first allocated was a.s.sistance in transporting water.

It was about a weak college student who wore spectacles with black hair wearing gla.s.ses carried water together. Whether it is a retracting personality character, they also do not look into each other eyes.

Because the daily water was supposed to be taken from the river, they put a poly tank in the dolly and headed for the back. From the end of the road surrounding the park, pour a bucket with a rope tied in to the river, handrail, draw water and draw it. Pour it into a poly tank and carry it all the way to the acc.u.mulation place on the second floor of the city hall until it became full.

Water in the river was beautiful, because drainage from homes and factories ceased. Although it is not suitable for drinking as expected, it is enough for use in toilets and laundry.

The man silently throws a bucket into the river and raises it. Mitsuki said, looking at his arms gradually getting tired.

「Ano, I will do it.」

「N, no, it’s okay.」

The man replies as if he had panicked. He didn’t look this way either.

Mitsuki looked at the river on hand as she was unable to help with her work from the previous time. There is a reasonable level of water, wide river. The other side was far away.

When the second poly tank went full, the man breathed and pulled the bucket down. He put a hand on the waist and stretch himself.

The bucket was taken from the side, Mitsuki said.

「Please take a little rest.」

「Ah…..yeah. Sorry.」

Since the end of the rope is tied to the handrail, you will not lose a bucket even if you take a hand on the flow. All she need is strength. It was hard work to raise the bucket from the surface of the water, but Mitsuki moved her arms while sweating the forehead.

The man looks at the state in a blurred way.

She got some water about three times and another voice caught from behind.

「Oi, don’t let girl do that, you lazy, let me do it.」

When she turned over, the guard was standing.

「Eh, no, ano」

A gla.s.ses guy covers in a rush.

Mitsuki bacame confused,

「Ano, that’s not it. I just asked him to take a break. he was pumped up all the time until before」

「Ah, yes…..」

The man alternately looks at the bucket and Mitsuki’s face,

「Whatever. Lend that.」

He take a bucket from the hands of Mitsuki, without a time to say anything, the bucket was thrown into a river. Then he pulled the rope to the extent, and pulled water into the poly tank. The movement was fast and was energetic.

Looks like that, Mitsuki looks behind the scenes.

When Mitsuki was struggling with something, it was common in high school that boys came from the side and helped her. In the past she did not wonder about it, only thought she was thankful.

Now she couldn’t had such a weak feeling.

It was all overdriven by Yusuke.

But when she was praised she was pleased.

There was no craziness there, only praise for ability and achievement.

(So, I was so happy……)

Before the world collapsed, her whereabouts were everywhere.

It is not the case now.

She must make her own place.

And Mitsuki learned that in her life with Yusuke,she could get a pride that her whereabouts could stay here by being useful for someone else.

Compared with it, there are plenty of things that are fluffy and unreliable, such as the whereabouts that can be obtained with unfathomable goodwill.

While the man waving his hands, Mitsuki opened her mouth awkwardly. Towards a man of gla.s.ses that was vaguely standing,

「Ah…. I’m sorry. Because of me.」

「N, no…..」

A little silence.

「It’s okay I am used to it.」

「Used to it…..?」

「Ah, s, sorry. Please don’t worry about it.」

「Haa…..」

It isn’t possible to ask the halfway att.i.tude any more, and they pushed cart back without saying a word.

They encountered the fuss while lowering water to the collection place and going to return the cart to its original place.

Because the first floor of the city hall is hardly used for zombie invasion, people live upstairs from the second floor. There was a crowd of people in the central lobby on the second floor, places with security guards.

An angry voice raised.

「SO RETURNING THE WEAPON! ORIGINALLY IT IS OUR!」

The voice of a young man shouted.

In the place of trouble, a few guys in the security team are standing in front of the place with trouble face. There were six or seven men standing around it.

The one who shouted was a young man in his twenties who used a blonde hair mesh to make his hair a ponytail. He is slender, and the height is a little under 170. He was wearing Parker on a well-ordered face, and maybe someone mistook as a woman if had not heard her voice.

A man next door intercepts that man who raised his voice.

「Calm down a little. Don’t make it becomes a fight.」

The mesh man turns his face as if he had been defeated. In the meantime, a man of physique full of flesh workers like a forties advances.

「This fellow was rude. I am sorry.」

He did not suit the appearance, and the man started talking in a gentle tone.

「Just as I said earlier, it’s hard to go empty-handed to get food outside. I just want you to return the tools I have deposited, but is there a problem?」

「….But, without having permission.」

「Then go to get it.」

A young man murmures beside him, but an old man crushes and tries.

「That’s enough. …..Well then, I’m sorry, but please maintain the story as quickly as possible. I want to go there today.」

The guard guy walked away silently.

People gradually gather in the lobby whether they heard an uproar. Some guards who have weapons are also wandering around and are watching closely like warning.

However, despite the gaze from such surroundings, the men were calm. Next to the man who seems to be a leader, about 30 late tall men have kept silence for a long time. The mesh man was beside him, staring at the surroundings as if irritated.

While watching the course at the corner of the lobby, Mitsuki remembered the dejavu impression in that group. She have memory that she saw it somewhere.

Thought suddenly come to her mind.

(Ah, I see. They are people who were in the first room……)

A room in the western government building, which was informed when she evacuated the city hall. It is a group of refugee who were there. I brought in the light in the center of the room, and was chatting noisily. While others tired, it was very conspicuous.

Then silence continued for a while in the lobby, but soon Makiura appeared.

She bring them to use and come walking round the white coat. After checking the flocks of people gathered in the lobby glancingly, she stood in front of a man who seemed to be a leader.

Say in the opening first.

「I heard that You will go for food. Is it true?」

「Yes. Therefore, I want the tools returned.”

「It’s dangerous.」

In the words, the man scratches his head,

「There will be little food left. We must go to secure it while we can move.」

「But….」

「I won’t trouble you. I will do it only by myself. If I fail, that will be reduction of mouths number for you to feed.」

「……I’m sorry for causing a trouble. However, we should look for ways to survive. We still have food and rescue may come tomorrow.」

「Yeah….. you seem to be a good person. But waiting for it, it will be a dilapidation. The help is unreliable.」

Makiura loses her words and kept silent.

As staring still, the two confront each other.

An unexpected voice came up there.

「I will go too.」

Mitsuki who was watching from a distance in the crowd emerging from the crowd breathed a breath.

It’s Yusuke.

A man seems to be strange,

「You too?」

「You’d better have a lot of hands. I am a newcomer.」

Yusuke shrugging his shoulders, the man lifted his mouth corner and laughed.

「I’m grateful. Hey, is there anyone else who want to go?」

A man looked the surroundings, but the human beings have diverted their eyes. A man of gla.s.ses stiffened his body next to Mitsuki, and looking down. No other voice came up, the line of sight went through.

「Well, It’s like this…….. It doesn’t matter, right? Sensei」

Makiura seemed to be troubled, biting her lips.

After worrying about something for a while,

「……I’ll negotiate with a committee and make a plan. By my personal judgment……..」

「It will be left unsettled anyway. The first thing is just saying that you should return the deposit. Thank you for providing the roof and food, but we did not belong to your organization. There should be no reason to suppress action.」

In the words of a man, Makiura is silent.

Gaze at each of the men slowly, then turn her eyes on Yusuke. The line of sight intersects for just a moment, but Yusuke got out of sight as it seems to be boring.

After a short time,

「……Understood.」

Makiura dropped her shoulders and said.

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