I left my underlings where they were and headed toward the voice. I was running pretty fast, even with the sun up. It couldn't be compared to when the sun was down, but I still outpaced the other zombies by a fair bit. As I kept going, I grew worried, wondering if I was moving too far away from the group that had gone into the school.

However, if the voice really was the principal’s, it meant that they didn’t even get the chance to speak seriously.

‘Wait… Then what are the Lee brothers and Kang Eun-Jeong doing inside? Are the children inside telling them about the situation?’

It wasn’t the time to get lost in my own thoughts. I pushed these useless thoughts aside and headed toward the source of the sound.

‘Let's focus on the situation at hand. I need to confirm if it’s actually the principal’s voice.’

I finally reached the source of the sound. I could hear people screaming through the broken window of a store. It was a cacophony of sound, zombie howls mixed in with human screams. I entered the store immediately, not wasting a single second. My eyes fell on a group of zombies. Three? Four? No—there were at least five of them.

The zombies were trying to squeeze themselves somewhere. They were heading for the store’s fitting room. That was when I realized that I had entered a clothing store. One of the zombies fell to the ground with a thud. It spasmed once then stopped moving, as if its skull...