Zombies 101

My name is Hazel Falken, and I am the only daughter of the Base Commander during the apocalypse. Even though it is the apocalypse, I am still spoiled left and right by my family and raised to be their little princess at home. My dad, Ernest Falken, is worried that I will marry into a family that will mistreat me. So, he decides to choose four husband candidates and bring them up in our own home for me to pick from when I'm older. In my past life, I chose Curtis Granger, whom I have liked for a long while, when Dad asked me to pick my husband. However, not long after our marriage, Curtis volunteers himself as a guard to be stationed outside the base perimeter. He never returns home after that, and I am left living as a widow in the safety of the base's inner district. 30 years later, when my hair has turned fully white, I decide that I can't wait for him anymore and go out to find him. I then realize that he has formed another family outside the base without my knowing. It then dawns on me that Curtis never liked me. He had also only married me because he wanted to repay Dad for bringing him up. Not long after that, a wave of zombies attacks us. Curtis pushes me down and shields me under his body. "Hazel, I know that I never should've lied to you. I'll give up my life to repay the kindness that Commander Falken has shown to me. "But if there is a next life, I hope that you won't pick me again." When I open my eyes again, I find out that I have travelled back in time to the day when Dad asks me to pick my husband. "Hazel, these four people are my right-hand men. Whom would you like to pick as your husband?"

七年間愛し合った彼に、私は101回目のプロポーズをした。彼はいつも「まだ心の準備ができていない」と、同じ言葉を繰り返すばかり。 28歳の誕生日、彼のジャケットのポケットに指輪の箱を見つけた。胸が高鳴り、ついにその時が来たのだと信じて疑わなかった。 だが、私の目の前で繰り広げられたのは、彼が女性アシスタントの前にひざまずき、永遠の愛を誓う光景だった。彼がアシスタントの指にはめたのは、私がずっと夢見ていたあの指輪だった。 誰かが私にどう説明するのかと尋ねると、彼は新しい恋人を腕に抱き、気のない笑みを浮かべた。 「あんなに結婚に焦っている女なんて、みっともない。俺にはとても結婚する勇気はないな。 まあ、もし俺が再婚することになったら、彼女を再考するかもしれないけどね。彼女は俺に夢中なんだから」 彼は私が自分を待ち続けると確信し、私が彼の結婚式に乗り込んで大騒ぎすると、友人たちと賭けまでしていた。 しかし、私は最後まで彼の結婚式に姿を現さなかった。 結婚式が始まる直前、彼は別の宴会場で、私がウェディングドレスを着て別の誰かと結婚する姿を目撃した。 その瞬間、彼は狂ったように私に振り返るように懇願した。