Plundering in the Apocalypse

Alfred and Reina were dumbfounded by Shin's show of strength.

"Such power," Alfred muttered in disbelief.

"I can't believe someone can get that strong in a single day."

"Haaah." Reina sighed.

"What are all we martial artists doing training all these years to get stronger. And here we have someone who grew so much in a day. If this goes on he will surpass us easily." Reina said with a pout on her face.

But it was obvious how proud she was of Shin. Even though she complained. She was very happy to see her son grow so much.

Shin approached them and asked.

"So how was it."

"You were indeed strong but." Alfred paused and looked at Reina.

"Right. I agree." Reina nodded while agreeing with whatever Alfred wanted to say.

Shin frowned and asked.

"Tell me what is it?"

Reina sighed and said.

"Shin your power is good but it was crude. No fighting style. Lack of combat skills. Even the way you swung your sword was wrong. You were able to win solely by your physical advantage."

"Right, your stance was wrong. You weren't able to even unleash half of your current power." Alfred continued pointing out Shin's mistake.

"What? Not even half. Am I that bad?" Shin asked worriedly.

"Don't worry. We just need to correct a few things and you will be good to go." Alfred reassured.

"And fighting these monsters is the best combat experience you can ask for. Right?" Reina said with a wink.

Shin just smiled wryly at her words. 'Yeah, I need to work hard. Both with my skills and fighting style.'

Shin tightened his grip and looked forward to getting stronger.

Something then clicked inside his mind as he remembered his skill.

'Right. Let's test it out.'

Shin walked towards the corpse of those monsters. He sat down near the corpse of a Velnora dog and muttered.

"Devourer's touch."

Shin noticed a black fog near the monster's corpse. 'Is that because of my skill?'

He felt refreshed and all the little fatigue he built up vanished.

Maybe because the fight was easy for Shin. He couldn't grasp the effects of his skill perfectly. But he got a general idea of it. His brain was telling him that this skill will be very beneficial.

As he looked at the monster's corpse. It looked like it was sucked dry of blood. Its body was shriveled up.

'So that's what it means when it says. I'll not even leave your blood.'

Shin sighed and returned to his parent's side. His father gave him some pointers as they started walking. Alfred's understanding of the sword was much refined. Shin attentively listened to him.

Reina chuckled seeing them like this. Shin who just yesterday didn't bother to listen to them and thought they were nagging him is now attentively listening to his father.

What would have happened if the world didn't change? Would we have continued like usual? Eating breakfast and minding our work instead of coming out here hunting.

She wanted to visit this Mall together with them for a long time. But she never expected her first family visit to this Mall would be like this. Bloody and quiet.

Reina glanced at Alice who was smiling and looking at Shin.

She wanted her son and his girlfriend, to visit this Mall on a shopping trip with them. Enjoy themselves by buying clothes and eating, or playing at the arcade.

Never in her wildest dreams, she would have expected her son to take his girlfriend out with his family in a bloody mall. Hunting monsters and talking about fighting styles and tactics instead of flirting with her.

She sighed. 'Maybe, but if the world didn't change I don't know if we had talked and laughed together like this. Would Shin have changed even then?'

They started checking every shop searching for any monsters in hope of finding some survivors.

They checked many shops on the first floor. The most common thing they found was dead bodies of people. They also found some monster corpses which means some people did kill some monsters.

After checking dozen of shops they entered a beauty salon. As soon as they entered the shop they saw a few Corpse eater eating the dead bodies there.

This time Alice didn't wait for Shin after all it was her turn. Alice summoned her silver scythe and sliced the monsters like she was cutting vegetables.

The salon had enough space for her to freely swing her scythe.

Reina and Alfred looked at Alice in surprise. They were shocked. Their mouths were wide open. They never expected that of Alice.

With her cheerful personality, it was difficult to imagine her killing something.

Well, they also understood. It was necessary. At least she is sane. Many people will not be able to handle themselves in her situation.

Well, they still haven't seen Alice's dark side. Anyway.

Alice finished them off and returned to their side.

After that Reina also gave a few pointers to Alice on using a scythe. Although Reina never used a scythe. She still used a halberd, spear, and other similar weapons. So she can somewhat help.

Suddenly thinking of something Reina asked with a curious look.

"By the way Alice. Why did you decide on using a scythe? Have you used it before?"

Shin was also curious about it. From the way it looked. Shin understood she used her mana in a way to create a weapon. It might also be because of her ability that she was able to do it easily.

Before he didn't have mana stat and didn't understand it but now he knows she created it herself. Well, Shin can't do that for some reason. Even so, why a scythe?

Alice looked down as she was remembering something. She had a sad look on her face.

Everyone thought that maybe she has some story behind it. They felt guilty. Reina was about to take back her question. When Alice said in a low voice.