The Villainess and I, her Zombie

|What do you think happened – how in the world could the system ever make the mistake of making an undead monster a player character?|

Zombie tapped his fingers against his forearm as he was standing behind Cranberry talking with the three essential characters who returned to her side the moment she walked back into the waiting room.

As it turned out, Mary received the tamer class once again, but this time she did not blow apart the scepter since after what Zombie told her, she did not hold on to it for her dear life.

"Miss Pride – you said before that you awakened to Dark Arts magic – here, I hope you could use it."

The future heroine went ahead and offered it to Cranberry instead!

"Ha? Oh, thank you, but don't mind me – this is all I need."

The red-haired girl furrowed her brows looking at the scepter with a red magic stone on top of it and shook her head in refusal before pointing at the baseball bat hanging across her back in a neat package.

"Eh...? But isn't that just some blunt weapon? Scepters improve the magician's power by leaps and bounds!"

Mary tilted her head, last at Cranberry's reasoning, and did not take the weapon back.

"No, really, I'm fine – but maybe Claymore would like it?"

Seeing her refusal being shrugged off, the red-haired girl skillfully deflected the matter towards another magic user in their little group.

"Eh...? Ah...! Well... It's not like I'm not allowed to use scepters..."

The androgynous child fidgetted nervously and looked back at the future heroine to see whether or not they can take it.

"Ah! Of course! Here!"

Mary's face brightened and she passed the scepter on to the avatar of lust.

"But then what about you? You ended up empty-handed that way."

Roan pointed out.

"Oh... you know... I think that I will be fine, actually – since I got the class and all, I receive a tamer's skill! I will try to tame the monster I will be fighting with!"

She declared proudly.

"What if it will attack you first?"

Cranberry pointed out, furrowing her brows.

"For that, I have a mend skill at the ready! Besides, all the monsters are supposed to be weakened, it will be alright! I think..."

Mary tried to calm her down but ended up her sentence sounding as if she herself was unsure about the outcome.

|I'm quite sure that Caramel showed her the part at which she tames Arion using the dream giver – but after what you told her, she began doubting it.|

Patience pointed out with a scoff, kind of ignoring his initial question.

|Good. Whatever messes with her plans is good – after all we are aiming for different endings in the first place.|

Zombie shrugged back, more interested in the list of the tier-two skills that showed up in front of his eyes than what anyone other than Cranberry was talking about.

|They all look good, but it just has to be Holy magic immunity, right?|

He asked deep in thoughts.

|Of course! As you are now, you will evaporate instantly if anything stronger than heal will even brush against you – and even heal will cause a great deal of damage.|

Patience instantly agreed, sounding as if she was nodding vigorously.

"...system, I choose holy damage immunity..."

The blue boy muttered under his breath so that no one else would notice.

/Skill selected

/You receives a skill

Holy damage immunity (level 1)

/You receives a quest (level 1)

Defeat your first monster

Reward: +5 HP

/Reward granted

/System detected at least one bane of type title

Special reward granted

Reward: +1000 HP

|Holy shit...!|

Zombie gasped internally staring wide-eyed at the message.

|This really is insane... Though, maybe we should have expected something like that since you started the new playthrough on the corrupted file and all...|

Patience sighed sounding both confused and worried.

|Don't even joke around like that... what about the seal...?|

|Stable 85% non of the quests actually messed with it – it looked like the sole fact that you have become a player character shook the system, but that's it...|

The blue boy asked and the sealed overseer calmed him down with somehow positive news.

|Silver lining I guess...|

He sighed internally before looking back up at the kids discussing their strategy or rather boasting about what each of their plans to do.

Seeing Cranberry in the middle of all that and actually being the center of the attention and happy about it was a very welcomed and also very calming sight.

|That said, it's kind of annoying that neither the bond nor attraction meters were unlocked.|

Zombie added looking back at his unchanged small body.

|Nah, no way – that is reserved only for when the global event starts, it showed up in the previous playthrough so early only because you already had the endgame class of the eternal servant. Besides, you will rank up, that will change your appearance plenty!|

|Hopefully.|

Patience was keeping a positive mood but Zombie only smirked and shrugged his shoulders – he looked around trying to check up where's Fig, but he could not spot her anywhere near.

A couple of minutes passed until the big door opened again and the children went out the second time.

The young participants all exited the room and sat down at specially prepared seats, the fights would be one on one, but the families would be watching them from their seats and other children would watch from theirs – that much did not change since it had no reason to.

After all, what would be the point of showing off if no one could see it?

"Young lord Melon Bread!"

The high priest, who was also the master of the ceremony for the fights, called out the child from the family of the lowest standing amongst the participants and a short chubby boy stood up and walked to the center of the area holding a spear.

He then faced against a small shaking green dog with broken legs, killing it without even needing a skill – not because he was that good, but simply because his opponent was that weak.

Much less than a fight, it was simply a mercy kill.

"Lesser frenzied dog... Breads' really didn't care this year."

Roan furrowed his brows and leaned towards the other three, whispering conspicuously.

"Don't be that fast to judge, weakling prince, apparently they've spent a lot of money to hire a high-level adventurer to catch something good for them, but he never returned from the forest."

Zombie couldn't help himself and leaned in too – making the prince flinch and hurriedly get back on his seat.

"Oh... Sucks for them, I guess. That's why my mother always says to never pay for anything in advance!"

The boy shrugged his shoulders and crossed his arms.

"You really keep on talking about your mother, huh... do you plan to ever get out of her shadow or will you try to marry her?"

Even though he pulled back, he certainly wasn't safe from Zombie's teasing, as the blue boy moved behind him and put his hands on his shoulders.

"G-get away from me...!"

"No."

Roan groaned and tried to shook him off but his attempts were as fruitless as they were funny for the blue undead.

"Zombie..."

"...?"

But then he felt someone pulling on his clothes from the back, and when he turned around he met with a pouting face of the red-haired Cranberry.

"Fine, fine. I'll leave him for now."

The blue undead rolled his eyes and got back to the girl's side since he had no seat on his own.