No. No, Nooo!
Allisha, no, please, it's me, Alfred, your boyfriend, can't you remember this face that always spoils you?!." Alfred said as kept begging to her girlfrind
However she just looked at him with her cold red eyes for a moment.
Then, as all normal zombies, she didn't care nor understand what he's boyfriend was saying. Hence she immediately lunged at him without hesitation, tackling him to the floor and started biting his neck aggressively like as if she had not eaten for weeks.
"ARGHHH. ALLISHA NO, IT HURTS. PLEASE STOP. " Alfred continued to beg, but it was all pointless as Allisha just continued to keep biting his neck deeper and deeper.
When Alfred felt it was all hopeless to beg and that his mind wouldn't want to try to fight back and hurt his girlfriend, he decided to do something that would instantly change his and her girlfriend's faith.
Alfred slowly moved his two hands around Allisha and hugged her tightly and tilted his head towards her cheeks and gave her a soft kiss while whispering calmly: "Al... Allisha, don't bite too quickly; you might choke.
I might die first looking at your cute face as you scramble to find water."
After Alfred uttered those words, time suddenly stopped with a system notification appearing in front of him that said:
[SYSTEM MESSAGE]
DUE TO YOU'RE SELFLESS LOVE TOWARDS YOUR GIRLFRIEND, THE GODDESS OF LOVE, ONE OF THE HUNDREDS OF GODS OF THE UNIVERSE WANTS TO GIVE YOU THE POWER OF SOUL CONTRACT.
SOUL CONTRACT IS AN ABILITY WHERE YOU CAST A CONTRACTING SKILL BETWEEN A ZOMBIE WITHIN THEIR SOUL REALM, AND IF YOU SUCCEED, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO CONTROL THAT BEING BY YOUR WILL
HOWEVER, THE RATE OF SUCCESS OF SOUL CONTRACT DEPENDS ON HOW POSITIVE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BEING YOU ARE TRYING TO CONTRACT.
BETTER RELATIONSHIP WITH THAT BEING WOULD EQUAL TO A HIGER RATE OF SUCCESS, WHILE A WORSE RELATIONSHIP WOULD EQUAL TO LOWER RATE OF SUCCESS.
NOTE:
ALL CONTRACTED ZOMBIES ARE NEEDED TO BE FED BY THE HEART FLAME ESSENCE PERIODICALLY, THAT WILL BE GAINED THROUGH KILLING ZOMBIES, SAVING HUMANS, AND COMPLETING TASKS ASSIGNED BY THE GODDESS OF LOVE THROUGH ME, THE SYSTEM.
INADEQUATE HEART FLAME ESSENCE COULD RESULT IN SOUL CONTRACTS BETWEEN ZOMBIES TO BREAK, CAUSING YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF THEM, RESULTING IN A PROBABILITY THAT YOU MIGHT GET ATTACKED OR EVEN WORSE BE KILLED BY THEM.
BUT IF YOU SUCCESSFULLY AND CONTINUALLY GIVE THEM FLAME ESSENCE, YOUR CONTRACTED ZOMBIES WILL SLOWLY BECOME HUMAN UNTIL THEY WILL NO LONGER HAVE ANY TRACE OF BEING ZOMBIES.
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DO YOU ACCEPT THIS POWER ALFRED?
IF YES,
SAY THE WORD "INVOKE HEARTBIND"
AND YOU WILL IMMEDIATELY BE TRANSPORTED TO YOUR GIRLFRIEND'S SOUL REALM.
IF YOU DON'T WISH TO ACCEPT THIS POWER, DON'T UTTER THESE WORDS IN THE NEXT 30 SECONDS, AND THIS POWER WILL INSTANTLY COME BACK TO THE GODDESS ALONG WITH ME, THE SYSTEM.
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Alfred looked at the system and then at his girlfriend's beautiful face frozen in time for a few seconds.
Then with 5 seconds left before the cancellation of the power, he finally spoke and said:
I WILL DARE TO DO ANYTHING FOR MY BELOVED GIRLFRIEND, SO, INVOKE HEARTBIND.
The moment Alfred uttered those words, he instantly transferred to the soul realm of Allisha.
He found himself floating in a large space-like area where it was filled with foggy Misty white clouds, and at the center was the soul of Allisha, who was sleeping calmly with his heart glowing faintly with a small flaming essence around it. Her arms and feet were shackled by a thick metallic cable.
Then the system appeared once again, saying:
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[SYSTEM MESSAGE]
ALFRED CLIFF OPEN YOUR HANDS FOR THE FLAME ESSENCE WILL SHOW AND USE THAT TO BURN THE METALLIC CABLES, FREEING THE SOUL OF ALLISHA AND MAKING HER YOUR FIRST CONTRACTED ZOMBIE.
NOTE: THE AMOUNT OF FLAME ESSENCE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO MUSTER IS BASED ON HOW MUCH POSITIVE EMOTIONAL RELATIONSHIP YOU TWO HAVE WITH EACH OTHER.
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Alfred slowly opened his 2 hands, showing his palms, and then a small flame appeared in both of his palms, and then all of his happy memories with Allisha suddenly started to flash in his head from:
The first time that they met in high school, where she was the only person who comforted him when he was bullied by the a popular guys and girls of the class, where she gave him a sandwich after those bullies took his food forcefully, and stayed and helped him ever since that day through helping him in his studies and assisted him in taking gym sessions to stop the bullies from mocking his thin and weak physique.
Then too, the memories where they started to become even closer friends that they even came to each other's own houses from time to time without even a special occasion, just because they just want to hang out with each other and play games, and study that made their parents start to tease them and say that they tow look like cute young couples.
And all other happy memories of him and Allisha resurfacing in his mind with the last memory flashing where he finally told Allisha his feelings, saying:
I have fallen to your kind and selfless personality, Allisha. So, if you won't mind, can I be someone who will love you no matter what happens? I promise that I will do everything to continuously repay the way you helped and protected me when I was weak."
Allisha, after hearing Alfred's heartwarming confession, quickly teared up with a cry of joy and hugged him and accepted his confession.
With all of those memories flashed to Alfred, the flame in his hands started to grow bigger and bigger, fully covering his hands.
Then the system once again instructed Alfred, saying:
[SYSTEM]
AIM YOUR TWO HANDS TOWARDS ALLISHA.
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Alfred slowly raised his hands and pointed them towards Allisha's heart, and then all of the flame essence that was created by his happy memories with Allisha started to move towards her heart, making her body glow with a golden red aura with the shackles slowly breaking apart,
Then, after a few seconds, the light finally faded out, revealing Allisha's body covered with a golden aura, with the system appearing:
[SYSTEM]
YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY CONTRACTED YOUR FIRST ZOMBIE.
REWARD: YOU WILL BE IMMUNE TO THE ZOMBIE VIRUS.
NOTE: YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO CHECK THE STATS OF YOUR CONTRACTED ZOMBIES.
JUST RAISE YOUR HANDS AND POINT IT AT YOUR CONTRACTED ZOMBIE AND SAY THE WORD "STATUS CHECK"
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Alfred upon hearing that immediately raised his hands and said: "Status Check"
[STATUS CHECK OF ALLISHA]
LEVEL: 1
HP: 560/560
DEFENSE: 2
ATTACK: 90
ATK SPEED: 3 PER SEC.
MOVEMENT SPEED: RANK D (SLIGHTLY FAST)
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After reading the current stats of his girlfriend and the system appearing once asking would he now wants to return back to the physical world,
Alfred immediately said yes and in a split second a came back to the physical world.
With time once again flowing as normal,
And in the same situation where Allisha was on top of him but this time there was a huge difference.
Allisha stopped biting him and just looked at him, with her earlier red glaring eyes no longer present, making Alfred smile like as if he won the lottery.