The Villainess and I, her Zombie

Chapter 542 - Return To The Outpost - Retaking The Outpost...? (part 4)

"System-damn it, Avocado you moron!"

Lime called out in disbelief after the tank was swept away by the harpy.

"You will go after him later! See?! Lychee got caught by the spider too! Damn it, why mister Shanks isn't doing anything?!"

Lemon called out angrily while glancing back at the headquarters building.

Yet, the next moment that she did that...

*THUMP*

"OWW!"

"UGH...! Lime, what the hell?!"

Both sisters ended up bumping heads against their will when suddenly something wrapped around the two of them, squeezing them enough to make them lose their breaths.

"Hello, magic casters~! My name is Safou and my inborn affinity is called dispell~ Care to guess what it does~?"

A handsome male naga wrapped around the two girls smiled lightheartedly.

"...!"

"You...!"

The twins gasped but neither could actually conjure any spell no matter how hard they try.

"Now, now – since lord Zombie didn't show up immediately, then my guess is that he actually doesn't want any of you killed – so do me a favor and don't struggle~ I might get too excited and squeeze you both too hard...?"

The handsome naga explained with a polite expression but then he looked down at the faces of the spellcasters and closed his mouth in genuine shock.

"Whoa... humans can be this pretty...?!"

"!!!"

"!!!"

Safou gasped, leaning down to have a closer look at the shocked twins.

"You have guts to try to take this fort right from under Zombie's nose, human."

Plum, the teal-scaled lizardfolk, scoffed while blocking the slash of the holy-element empowered sword and glaring down at the human wielding it.

"Huh?! You must be kidding me – we are the ones guarding this outpost for sir Zombie from the likes of you!"

Cherry, the leader of the adventurer party Brave Swords, called out before pushing himself away from the lizardfolk – he intended to push the monster away but his strength stat turned out to be too low for that.

"...?"

"...?"

The two of them furrowed their brows looking at each other in disbelief.

"...just to be sure – is the Zombie that you talk about a big blue-skinned undead knight who has a red-haired human girl by his side...?"

The teal-scaled lizardfolk asked staring down the human warrior.

"...he is..."

Cherry blinked a few times, furrowing his brows in confusion.

"Then why did you attack our group?! He literally gathered all of us and is here with us!"

Plum called out in anger rising his spear back up.

"Wait... ! What?! Impossible!"

Cherry gasped in disbelief and he actually lowered his holy-empowered sword.

"Oh, it is very much possible – you bastards even launched a beam out of one of the magic crystals!"

The teal-scaled lizardfolk scoffed in annoyance and pointed towards the broken-down gate.

"But the guards on the walls..."

Cherry muttered in disbelief, looking at all the cacoons sitting atop of the walls after the black and green arachne had dealt with all of the people who were panicking at the sight of the monster group.

*swoosh*

"...?"

"...?"

Then, a sudden gust of wind made almost everyone in the fort stop whatever they were doing and looked up.

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And they all became stunned at the sight of the clouded sky slowly breaking apart as something extremely threatening was forming up there, ready to descend at the outpost at any given moment.

The space itself seemed to be shattered and the shards kept on falling down from the enlarging crevice but they disintegrated mid-air to never reach the ground.

"Oh, what the fuck...?"

A new person entered the scene – or rather a new pair – but their entrance was slowed down considerably once they saw the state of the sky.

"Wait... isn't this...?"

The other one of the pair gasped, as her eyes widened and she grabbed onto the first one's sleeve.

"EVERYONE AT THE OUTPOST – STOP FIGHTING IMMEDIATELY – IF NOT, I WILL ACTUALLY RELEASE THE HEAVEN'S FALL AND YOU WILL NOT EVEN HAVE THE TIME TO REGRET YOUR STUPIDITY!"

"!!!!"

The voice of a certain red-haired girl resounded in the entire outpost making the already frozen people and monsters flinch and step away from each other.

Even those who didn't know the voice's over knew better than to mess with someone who conjured something sou ridiculously powerful...

"That was our Cranberry, wasn't it?"

Olive – one of the two elves who showed up late and didn't even properly take part in any fighting gasped and looked at the woman at his side.

"It was! So she is safe! Fuuuuuck...! I was so worried about her!"

Mirabelle breathed out in relief, leaning against Olive's shoulder.

"I told you it was fucking nothing. As long as she's with Zombie she will be fine."

He leaned in and rubbed her back reassuringly.

"ARE YOU DONE FIGHTING? BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO ENTER THE FORT AND IF SOMEBODY IS STILL FIGHTING I WILL MAKE THEM REGRET IT!"

The pompous and prideful voice resounded again, right before a blue undead knight entered the fort through the broken gate, followed by the red-haired girl riding a blue griffin, and a red dragon that climbed his way over the wall instead of squeezing through the small opening.

"Zombie?!"

"My lord?"

"THE FUCK?! YOUR LORD?"

The more voices called out the more all the fighters confused themselves as the fact that they were all on the same side slowly dawned upon them.

"Ha...? HA?! MOM!? DAD!"

*phuaaaaaaaaa*

Also, as soon as Cranberry noticed Mirabelle and Olive, she instantly released the ready spell without activating it and the mana sizzled out with a sound similar to a person exhaling in relief as the sky returned to its rightful appearance, and the red-haired girl rushed towards the pair of elves.

"Cranbaby~!"

Mirabelle cheered out and spread her arms at which Cranberry threw herself without any hesitation whatsoever.

"Mom! Mom, I missed you so much...!"

The red-haired girl cried out, desperately clinging to the elven woman with all her might as if she was afraid that she would disappear on her if she let her go.

"Hey there, sweetie. Now, now. Mommy is happy to see you two."

Mirabelle laughed, surprised but very much happy because of the reaction that the red-haired girl had – mainly because she was feeling the same way – and returned the tight hug.

"You had a quite interesting situation going on in here, didn't you?"

Olive smirked and asked while patting Cranberry's head.

"A certain someone decided to charge instead of checking up what happened after the magic crystal fired at us, and then Zombie thought it would be fine to let everyone fight as long as no one dies, and I agreed..."

"...!"

The red-haired girl revealed – after sending an evil glare towards the armored centaur who twitched nervously and backed away a few steps under her heavy stare.

"All well that ends well – right?"

Zombie walked up to the happy family of three and waved his hand dismissively.

"Haa... yeah, I guess... Did you know that mom and dad will be here?!"

Cranberry breathed out and nodded, before furrowing her brows and staring at the blue undead knight while still cuddled up to Mirabell and Olive.

"Sure I did~ I even knew the timing of their arrival – why do you think I asked you to conjure a spell that would stop the fighting at the right time?"

Zombie smirked confidently and shrugged his shoulders without a shred of guilt.