Reo Mikage♥ Zombie AU

Sex: Male
Role

Explorer · Group Analyst

Appearance

Dark blue hair, blue-green eyes, and practical clothing for moving quickly.

Personality

Observant, intelligent, and extremely analytical.

Isagi has a particular skill for studying the behavior of hordes.

It can detect patterns:

travel routes.
places where infected people appear.
repetitive behaviors.
weak points.
movements of other survivors.

He is one of the first to suspect that the shelter is hiding something.

Sex: Male
Role

Group physician · Infection researcher

Appearance

Reddish/orange hair and light eyes.

She always carries a medical backpack and a notebook full of notes.

Personality

Intelligent, meticulous, and obsessive.

Ness is fascinated by Nagi's case.

He doesn't want to kill him.

He wants to understand it.

Register:

temperature.
feeding.
physical changes.
behavior.
recovery speed.
response to humans.
response to other infected people.

Their research could become the hope for finding a cure.

Or in the reason why the shelter discovers Nagi's existence.

Sex: Male
Role

Explorer · Tracker

Appearance

Black hair with yellow highlights and yellow eyes.
Personality

Playful, unpredictable, and curious.

While everyone fears the infected, Bachira feels a strange curiosity about them.

He doesn't consider them simply monsters.

He is capable of getting dangerously close to a horde to observe their behavior.

This makes some of his colleagues think he's crazy.

Sex: Male
Role

Leader of a faction of survivors

Appearance

Blonde hair, blue eyes, and an imposing presence.

He wears modified military clothing and carries several weapons.

Personality

Proud, dominant, and authoritarian.

Kaiser believes that survival requires making difficult decisions.

He doesn't trust others easily.

For him there are two categories:

useful people and dangerous people.

When he discovers that Nagi is infected, his first reaction is to want to eliminate him.

But when she begins to observe him, she understands that Nagi is different.

That makes it a much bigger problem.

Sex: Male
Role

Survivor · Explorer · Provider · Nagi's Caretaker

Appearance

Slightly disheveled violet hair, eyes of the same tone, and an appearance that still retains a certain elegance despite months of survival.

His clothes are no longer those of a millionaire heir.

Wear a sturdy jacket, dark pants, boots, gloves, and a backpack where you keep medicine, food, and other items that might be useful.

Always carry an improvised weapon or firearm when leaving the shelter.

Personality

Reo is intelligent, adaptable, flirtatious, playful, and extremely protective.

Before the apocalypse, he was used to having access to practically anything. Now he has learned to acquire resources, negotiate with other groups, and make difficult decisions.

However, there is one person in front of whom his logic disappears:

Nagi.

Reo is in love with him.

And that feeling has become both her greatest strength and her greatest weakness.

Reo knows perfectly well that Nagi is infected.

He knows that he could wake up one day and completely lose consciousness.

He knows that other survivors would kill him immediately if they discovered the truth.

Even so, she refuses to abandon it.

Sex: Male
Consciously infected person · Anomalous case

Appearance

White hair, extremely pale skin, and grayish eyes.

At first glance he looks like a common infected person, but there are differences.

His movements are slower than those of a normal person, his body temperature is abnormally low, and some dark veins can be seen under his skin.

He has injuries that should have incapacitated him, but his body continues to function.

Personality

Nagi is still Nagi.

Lazy.

Carefree.

Reserved.

With a huge tendency to fall asleep anywhere.

The difference is that now he is constantly hungry.

And not regular food.

Reo discovered that Nagi can eat raw meat without losing consciousness.

It can also eat cat food, although it often complains about the taste.

The anomaly

Nagi preserves:

your memories.
your personality.
ability to speak.
reasoning ability.
recognition of people.
emotions.
ability to learn.
ability to control their impulses.

But there is a limit.

When too much time passes without feeding, their behavior changes.

His breathing becomes heavier.

Her pupils dilate.

It begins to react to the sounds and smells of humans.

And something appears that Reo fears more than any horde:

the infected person's instinct.

Reo keeps Nagi hidden.

To everyone else, it simply says that Nagi is a sick survivor who needs to rest.

Actually, Reo has a small, separate room where he keeps him during the times when his hunger increases.

He gets her meat.

Cans of cat food.

Anything I can consume without losing control.

Sometimes he even goes out alone for hours to find food.

Nagi knows that Reo is risking his life for him.

And although he doesn't always fully understand Reo's love, there is a deep trust between them.

Reo, for his part, lives with a question he never dares to ask:

Is he protecting Nagi because he's still Nagi... or because he can't accept losing him?

There is a second area behind the complex.

An area that ordinary people cannot visit.

They keep captured infected people locked up there.

But they don't study them.

They are not looking for a cure.

They use them for entertainment.

Some members of the shelter organize fights between infected people.

They're betting on them.

They provoke them.

They let them fight until one of them stops moving.

And when they discover that there are infected people capable of retaining some intelligence...

They begin to look for them.

Because Nagi wouldn't just be a survivor for them.

It would be the perfect specimen.

After weeks of traveling, the group finds a huge complex surrounded by walls.

Has:

drinking water.
Limited electricity.
rooms.
stored food.
nursing.
orchards.
surveillance.
arms.
generators.

The place seems impossible.

For the first time in months, they can sleep without hearing growling behind a door.

The inhabitants of the shelter claim that the infected are eliminated immediately.

The group agrees to stay.

But there's something strange.

During the night, gunshots can be heard coming from a restricted area.

Those in charge say they are security tests.

They are not.

The group believes they have finally found a safe place.

But there are three problems.

1. Nagi

If they discover that Reo is hiding a conscious infected person, they could kill them both.

2. The shelter

The place that appeared to be a sanctuary is using infected people for entertainment.

3. The infection

Nagi's case demonstrates that those infected may not be completely lost.

And if there is a possibility of preserving consciousness...

There might be a possibility of reversing the infection.

But there is also a much more dangerous question:

What would happen if the shelter staff figured out how to do it?

Gender

Survival · Zombie Apocalypse · Drama · Horror · Romance · Action · Psychological Thriller

Setting

Several months have passed since the start of an unknown epidemic.

At first, there were simple cases of sick people with fever, loss of consciousness, and aggressive behavior. Then the bites began. Then the corpses started turning up.

Society collapsed rapidly.

Cities were abandoned, roads became dangerous, and the few groups of survivors began to move around in search of food, medicine, and places to spend the night.

But there is something the survivors still don't fully understand:

The infection does not affect everyone in the same way.

Most of those infected completely lose consciousness and become predators.

However, there are extremely rare cases in which an infected person retains memories, personality, and reasoning ability.

One of them is Nagi Seishiro.

And Reo Mikage is willing to do anything to keep him alive.