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Miyako winced. “That’s pretty realistic… Where do they sell those?”
“You can get them via mail order easy. It’s Halloween stuff, basically.”
“First these bikini briefs and now this body stocking… Ugh…”
With a sigh, Haruto darted behind a handy tree.
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A couple, played by Itsuki and Nayuta, were making out in the shade of a rocky beach, the waves lapping nearby.
“Oh… No, my darling, not here… ”
“Haah, haah… I—I can’t hold out no longer… Look, I’m swellin’ like a Twinkie down thar…”
“Ooooh, you’re such a freak, aren’t you? Hee-hee! ”
“Yeah, ain’t that nice? C’mon, let’s bump some uglies…”
“Ahhh! You’re so naughty, you big Twinkie man! ”
“Mmnnmph…”
“Hngnggmh…”
Just as their lips were about to meet:
“Hissssssssssssssssssss!”
With a healthy shout, a shark zombie (Haruto) with a shark head and zombie body flew in front of them.
“Ah, ahhh!”
“Oh no! What’n tarnation is this monster?!”
Nayuta and Itsuki shouted, their voices a little wooden.
“Hissssss!” The shark zombie sank its teeth into Itsuki’s arm.
“Aaaaaaaaah! My arm, my arm!”
“Hissssssssss!”
Now the shark zombie was plunging its head into Nayuta’s chest.
“Oh nooooo! It’s eating my titties!”
“Graaaaaaah!”
“Aaaaaaaah!”
“Eeeeeeeeeek!”
“Cut!” Ashley shouted as Kaizu stopped filming. “Good performances, all of you. Next up, we’re filming the scene where you two are shark zombies and you start attacking other people!”
Kaizu gave Ashley a warm “oh, brother” look as she carried on.
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Three young friends (Chihiro, Miyako, and Haruto) were seated on a plastic sheet laid out on the beach.
“Uh, boy, those two sure are late,” Chihiro intoned. “What are they doing.”
Haruto sneered as hard as he could. “Heh-heh! Ahhh, they’re prob’ly out neckin’ somewhere.”
“Heyyyy,” Miyako said, sounding both embarrassed and wooden, “how about we go woo-woo over there?”
“I like it. Woo!”
But just as Haruto was jumping for joy over this, the zombified Itsuki and Nayuta were slowly lumbering toward them, groaning.
“Ohhhhhhhh…”
“Aaaaaaaaah…”
Chihiro spotted them. “Oh, they’re back. Woo!”
Miyako stood up and started running for them, but then…
“Hisssssssssss!”
Then Itsuki bit her arm.
“Eek! My woooooo!”
“What did you do to her,” Chihiro called awkwardly.
“Something’s wrong!” Haruto said. “Let’s get out of here!”
“B-but Wooie is still there!”
“Hrrrrrrrrrrrg!” Nayuta bit into Miyako’s breasts.
“Woooooooo!”
With that final shriek, Miyako was overpowered and eaten alive by the two zombies.
“There’s no saving her! We gotta get out fast!”
“Right!”
So Haruto and Chihiro abandoned Miyako and ran away, the two zombies running after them full tilt.
“Haah…haah…haah…”
Once they shook them off, Haruto stopped, his breathing ragged.
“Phew… We ought to be safe here…”
“Yeah… Ah… Hnggg…”
Suddenly, Haruto fell to the ground, holding his side painfully.
“Wh-what’s wrong?! Oh no, you’re bleeding bad… Did, did it get you while you were defending me earlier?”
“Heh-heh…” Haruto looked up weakly at Chihiro. “Guess I let one of those bastards bite me… I wonder if I’ll turn into one of them now…?”
“Oh no…”
“But…before I turn into a monster…I want you to kill me with this gun…that we found on the ground a couple minutes ago…” Haruto pulled a handgun out of his pocket, attempting to give it to Chihiro.
“I can’t do that! I’ve loved you for so long!”
“Me too, woooo… That’s why I want you to do it…with your own hands… Please…I… Ugh… While…I’m still human… Please…”
“O-okay… Woo!”
Once she had his gun, Chihiro needed only a second or two to fire a bullet into Haruto’s head.
“Cut!” shouted Ashley.
Chihiro turned around, confused. She still had a few lines left in this scene.
“…Chihiro, you worked out your emotions and blew him away too fast. This is a really moving scene, right? You’re fulfilling the final wish of your one and only beloved, so try to act more conflicted about it, okay?”
“Oh, really? Because I figured I’d want to put him out of his misery as soon as possible…”
“Boy, if there really was a zombie apocalypse, I’m pretty sure Chi would have no trouble surviving to the end.”
Nayuta, watching from just out of frame, smiled.
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A little while longer, and they wrapped up all their scenes on the island.
Back on the main island of Okinawa, the gang all toasted one another at an izakaya. Kaizu was shooting all of this; they figured the footage could be used in a making-of featurette.
“Phewww! Nothing like a good beer after a hard day’s work!”
Itsuki was having a blast with his beer cocktail—an Orion with hibiscus extract.
“It wasn’t really work.” Haruto chuckled. “It’s just a film we’re making for fun.”
“Hee-hee-hee! Good job, everyone.” Ashley gave them all a satisfied smile as she sipped her awamori and soda. “Thanks to all your work, we completed shooting on schedule today. We’ll film the fantasy portion tomorrow.”
“The fantasy part… So Partier A, who was killed by Partier D—or me, that is—wakes up reincarnated in another world, right?”
Miyako smiled at Chihiro. “I know this story is insane, but just making a movie with all of you is kind of fun, isn’t it? Like we’re working on our high school’s yearly festival.”
“Oh, I know what you mean! My class held a play and ran a haunted house.”
Nayuta bit her lip as Miyako and Chihiro reminisced about high school.
“Gee, too bad I was too much of a shut-in to experience all that.”
“Me either. Kind of a dark time for me.”
“Yeah! And I was too nerdy to participate in anything!”
Itsuki and Haruto, already a little drunk, echoed Nayuta’s opinion.
“Hee-hee-hee… Well, no matter which school clique you were a member of, I want everybody to enjoy tonight!”
“What was school like for you, Ashley?” Chihiro asked.
“Well…there was a lot of student activism back in those days. I’d get involved with demonstrations, throw Molotov cocktails at riot police, that kinda thing.”
“Wow, really? Sounds like a rough time.”
“I’m kidding. You don’t have to believe everything I say.” Ashley glared at Chihiro. Then her voice turned a bit sweeter. “But…you know, my experience was pretty normal. I studied, got involved with clubs…”
“Oh, I see. Everyone has their own history, huh?” Chihiro sagely nodded, despite Ashley’s disapproving glance.
“…You know, Chihiro, I really wish you’d stop treating people like they’re ancient fossils. It really hurts.”
Then Itsuki got up.
“Ah, sorry, bathroom break.”
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“Ugggggggggh…”
Itsuki was using the izakaya bathroom urinal when he heard something like a moan from one of the stalls.
“Waaaaaaaaaah…”
“Huh…?”
He turned around, suspicious.
“Aaaaaaah…!”
The stall door sprang open, revealing a zombie inside.
“Ah, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!”
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“Huh? Hey, did that sound like a scream just now?” Miyako asked.
Nayuta laughed. “Oh, look at you! I know we’re shooting a zombie film, but that’s such a trite joke!”
“Hmm, maybe I imagined it…”
Miyako looked puzzled for a moment but went back to tackling the food on the table.
Then Itsuki returned, staggering a bit.
“Oh, you’re back? I’ll go use the bathroom, then—” Just as Haruto got up and headed out:
“Ooooooh…” Suddenly, Itsuki let out a guttural groan and grabbed Haruto’s body.
“I-Itsuki?!” As Haruto shouted at him, Itsuki let out an oddly cute voice.
“Big Broooooooo…”
“Huh? Big Bro?!”
“I looooooove youuuuuuu…!”
Then he gave him a fat, wet, sloppy kiss.
“I-Itsuki?! What are you doing?!” Nayuta was honestly panicked.
“Whoa, Itsuki! Are you drunk?!”
Miyako and the others were similarly disturbed, but Itsuki kept going with his deep kiss as Haruto struggled to breathe.
“Are you all right, Fuwa?!” shouted Chihiro.
After about a minute, Itsuki finally let go.
“Ooooh…! Haaah…!” Haruto coughed, sounding like he was in agony as he crumpled to the ground.
“Itsuki! No matter how drunk you are, you know I’m right here—”
“Big Brooooooo…”
Now it was Haruto moaning all cutely.
Slowly staggering to his feet, Haruto gave Miyako and the others a horrifying, toothy smile, his pupils blown out and his irises bloodred and shaped like heart marks.
“Huh? Whoa! Fuwa?!”
“Big Broooooooo… I loooooooove youuuuuuuu…”
“Big Broooooooooooo…”
“Something’s wrong! Keep away from them!” Ashley’s voice tensed up as Haruto and Itsuki slowly approached them.
“Big Broooooooo…”
“Big Broooooooo…”
“Let’s get outta here for now! Then we gotta call the police and an ambulance!”
“R-right…!”
Miyako nodded at Chihiro, and they all fled the izakaya to get away from the infected pair. Itsuki and Haruto dashed after them—this time moving pretty briskly like normal people, not the shambling gait from before.
The group ran away from them, frantic. But:
“Ah!” Nayuta tripped over her own feet.
“Nayu!” shouted Miyako.
“Big Broooooooo…” Itsuki caught up to Nayuta, holding her down as his lips approached hers.
“Please snap out of it! I’m not your big brother, Itsuki; I’m your lover— Mmph!”
Itsuki didn’t wait for her to finish before mercilessly taking her lips.
“Hommmmph…”
“Ngh…ah…hff…”
Their lips parted, a sticky thread of saliva running between them.
“N-Nayu…?”
Nayuta slowly turned around at Miyako’s fearful call. “…Big Brooooooo. I love youuuu…”
She was moaning in that sickly sweet voice, looking as horrifying as the other two.
“Now Nayu’s gone crazy, too!”
“L-let’s get out of here!” Chihiro said, grabbing Miyako’s arm.
“Makina, keep the camera rolling just in case!”
“I know,” Kaizu replied, pointing the camera behind him as he ran.