Soon, Leah saw Matthew fall to the ground, as if he were twisting from pain, as if he were a simple wireless puppet. Making a deaf and grotesque crunch. Leah did not move, his body remained totally paralyzed. She only observed it from her distance that for him, it was the highest, it was then that she knew that she no longer recognized the same man who, at first, had promised her "forever together"
Their legs trembled, but they didn't do it because they were afraid.
They did it because I was sure there was something else.
Something had grown inside her at that time that she received her system, like a caged beast who expected her time to give her first appearance, and that, finally, she had managed to smell the footprint of her owner's blood.
The system continued to whisper things in his mind, as if it were a kind of chatterbox doll that he did not want to stop.
[Stable emotional module. Trauma tolerance limit exceeded. Activating Ferrer Memory]
At that moment, his mind was filled with random flashes: one of them was his first kiss with Matthew, his feigned caresses, his promise that he would never betray her... and then, his coldness when delivering it as a bait. A heartbreaking shout sprouted from his throat. But it was no longer a human cry. It was the roar of someone who had been broken... and rebuilt with pain.
Matthew tried to return, growling like an animal, his pupils clouded by the thirst for meat. Leah raised a hand, almost without thinking, so as if she really knew what to do. A scarlet flash crossed the air and pushed it against the closet with an invisible force. The zombie twisted, caught by an energy that paralyzed him.
Matthew no longer existed.
Now, it was something else that his body occupied.
Her boyfriend has died.
And she didn't hurt at all after learning of her absurd betrayal.
"Where is your" perfect two -year anniversary plan now? ", Leah said with a low voice, almost without emotion. For a moment, she believed that perhaps, her emotions have been turned off, and did not care about that, quite the opposite, she felt a great peace since she realized that ability.
[Skill load: 89%. Emotional control level: stable. Mental state: active dissociation]
In decision, she walked towards him, and every step turned out to be much firmer.
His cream yellow dress was now stained with all the blood that belonged to the love of his life. She was broken by the illusion of a romantic night that ended even in death.
The silence was as thick as the air before a storm.
The moon shone through the window, as an indifferent witness.
Soon it would dawn, and it would be the beginning of a new life.
He stopped in front of the living and depressing body of those who once called "my love."
"If you thought he was going to die for you..., cursed, unfortunate," he whispered, bowing towards him, seeing his inert body, rotting slowly - then you should have killed what he felt first.
And then he activated it.
A new ability emerged from his chest, like a fire that materialized between his fingers:
Unlocked skill: "Implacable heart" Your pain will not be in vain, my dear carrier and heiress. Now, every beat is a blow against those who wanted to break you, because not only was your boyfriend the only one who hurt you, there are others who also did, and now, in this new era, we will have to take care of them, whatever happens. We will not let them kill us. → Effect: Absolute rejection of everything you once loved and now represents a threat. → Activation time: immediate. → Emotional consequence: partial loss of human attachment (temporary).
Leah closed his eyes.
And when opening them, the world changed completely to her.
"How wonderful it is to know that I will not have emotional attachment for a good season" was what she thought, without taking her eyes off the dead body of who once was the love of her life.
Matthew shouted for the last time... So as if he had resurrected for a few seconds, however, Leah no longer listened. The system absorbed it as a neutralized threat. His body fell, inert, again. Dead again. Or maybe it would finally be forever.
A whisper crossed his mind:
[Congratulations. You survived betrayal. Welcome to the new protocol, Leah ...]
[Defense system of the betrayed heart: stage 1 completed]
Next mission: resist. Remember. Rewrite your story, and welcome you to a new destination.
Leah looked at his hands, trembling.
The pain was still there, but now it was his shield and, perhaps, his greatest ability to self-defense for what was coming.
There was no reversal.
The girl in love had died.
Love no longer existed for her.
Quickly, love had ceased to be a priority.
And what had emerged in its place... It was something that the world was not yet prepared to know.
At 3:14 in the morning of that same day, an alarm shook the world when activated. The people who took refuge inside their homes, paying attention to the unexpected message of the United States government, decided to go to the streets.
People no longer supported the confinement, although it was just a couple of minutes that had elapsed since the circulation of the news.
In addition, there was something outside that I was quickly calling them out.
Leah realized this.
Hold, he left for the window of his room, and looked down. His apartment was on a fifth floor, and he could see precisely what was happening down.
The neighbors of the block had gathered to each other to find out what happened.
[Accepted ionic hearing activation: With this ability, you can listen to others, no matter how long the distance is]
"Ionic? Great! Let's hear what my dear neighbors say!," Leah said enthusiastically.
Indeed, Leah listened to everything carefully.
"Do you know what is happening?," Said one of the neighbors.
"Supposedly, we are emergency because of a lethal virus that makes us zombies," said one of the children.
"The government already knew about this and told us nothing before!", An old man complained, Mr. Robert, Leah recognized him because he always carried his cane with him everywhere, the old man did not walk well if he did not carry it.
"Mr. Robert, calm down. You have to be calm and united in this situation. We cannot allow the government to control us after an emergency of such magnitude has already been unleashed. They lost control, now, we have to find the way to survive," Brenda demanded, one of the neighbors of the same building where Leah lived, but she lived on another different floor than his.
"We need someone to explain what the fuck is happening. A zombie virus? Is it seriously?", Brad, the annoying neighbor who had a fight won with Leah for his lousy coexistence within his building, because he also lived there, but lived in a floor above his, spoke, and Leah felt that at that time, things would not go well for his skepticism towards these kinds of things.
"Really, Brad? You don't think it's true if you received the government's message to your cell phone?" Leah said for herself, and he looked at the body of the zombie that lay on the floor of her room, still shedding blood, although the ground has dried.
It was there when Leah had a wonderful idea.
At any time, she would have to get rid of that body, she could not leave it there, decomposing and causing the energy of her house to be lost in something as evil as that zombie that was her dead ex-boyfriend.
She approached her bath, took out a first aid kit, put on a couple of surgical gloves in both hands, even put twice as gloves that she could because she did not want gossip neighbors and realized that what the government said that happened was true.
When the dead zombie fell to the ground, he just did it in the midst of the neighbors who had gathered in a circle. It was then that from the body of the zombie he fired drops of rotten blood around him, and likewise, as he was so weak and soft, his organs were left inside for everywhere thanks to the impact.
Zombie's brains fell on many of the neighbors.
Everyone shouted from horror and sought desperately towards the place where the dead had been thrown.