We put on our backpacks and stood in the middle of the pharmacy door.
"Are you really okay with running?" Perci asked me.
"Yeah, it's been quite a while since I was on my feet," I said. "The painkillers are a huge help. I no longer feel anything on my thigh."
"If it starts hurting again, allow me to carry you."
"No, your shoulder is still injured."
"I can just use painkillers too," Perci put tablets in his mouth and swallowed them.
"Just don't push yourself."
"Let's do some stretches first, we can't afford to have any more injuries."
Perci started doing side lunges. I followed suit and copied his steps. Then, we started doing arm swings, bent-knee forward swings, straight-leg lateral swings, hip stretches, lateral squat stretches and many more.
Perci put his thumbs up and praised me.
"Very good, milady."
"I already told you multiple times to call me Ori, idiot."
"Sorry, Ori. Let's go, shall we?"
Perci opened the door for me and let me go first.
A basic gentleman move....he never seems to miss out on those small gestures.
I walked out of the door and Perci closed it behind me.
"Do you have any family you'd like to go to first? I'll escort you there," Perci said.
"My mother, I want to see if she's ok. She called in sick last night."
"Very well then. Let's go there, show me the way."
"How about you? Don't you have family you care about?"
Perci's expression turned grim for a second, then laughed it off.
"No. My parents died when I was younger, so my grandfather took care of me. But he died just last year due to a motorcycle accident."
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have..." I looked down.
"No, it's fine."
I'm an idiot. I already knew about his grandfather during his sleep talk. But I didn't think that he had any family left anymore.
In other words, he's all alone.
"This way!" I told him.
"Wait, there's an umbrella shop nearby."
"Huh? What are you going to do at the umbrella shop?"
"To pick up some umbrellas, of course."
"It's not raining though....."
Perci ran over to the shop and picked up a black umbrella.
RAAAAAAH!
A zombie emerged from inside the shop and tried to attack Perci.
Perci used his umbrella to attack the zombie, striking it three times before kicking it in the face. He finishes it off by stabbing it directly towards its head.
"W-what? Is it really ok to be using an umbrella for fighting?"
"Yeah. It's something I learned during my grandfather's Savate training," Perci said while spinning the umbrella around.
"Savate..?"
"It's an elegant martial art from the Baguette Country."
"Oh...."
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Gentleman of the Apocalypse
Romance"Men are trash." This was Ori's absolute philosophy in life. Every encounter she's had with them always seems to end in disaster. It was because of them that her life had been filled with despair, to the point that she had become the most unpopular...
