The Villainess and I, her Zombie

"G-good luck...? Good luck?! Did the system message seriously just wish us good luck?! Corvus shook his head and blinked repeatedly, staring at the window fading away from his field of vision.

"Mend! Mend! Mend!"

instead of responding to him, the brown-haired heroine, Mary hurriedly used her healing speel consecutively on the knocked-out prince, then Anry, and then herself.

"GHAAAAAARGH...!"

"SCREE! (OOOOOWWWWW!)"

"Ugh...!"

Every single one of them ended up growling in pain as their wounds – including the broken eardrums – were forcefully welded back together without any sort of anesthesia.

"What... what in the system's name is going on?!"

Roan shook his head and raised his head just in time to witness the crimson light surrounding Baron's jaws and throat to reach its culmination stage and...

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...yet another laser-beam of concentrated fire cut through the city like a red-hot knife passing through butter...

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

"...!"

Yet another explosion shook the earth and another part of the city has fallen, disintegrating into the rapidly expanding flames.

"MEND!"

"!!!!"

Mary reached out her hands and grabbed bot the blond prince and her jet-black griffin and had to cast her spell only once for it to pass through all of them, healing them back from the shock and once again broken eardrums.

"Mary...! What is going on?! How long was I out of it?! And for the love of the system what is Baron doing here?! And why is he so huge now?!"

Roan shook his head and grabbed onto the brown-haired heroine's shoulder pointing at the massive red dragon flapping his wings over the ruined city, looking around as if in search of something.

"Scree! (Master!) Scree! (The dragon is looking for Blueberry!) Scree! (If he will find her like that, we will not have time to escape!)"

The jet black griffin, Anry, lowered his head and prodded Mary in the back with his beak while flapping one of his winds to point out the wounded - and also concussed – emperor griffin with the broken wind.

"Yes, but also what if the two of them will join forces if we heal her?"

Mary bit her lips and looked between the blue griffin on the ground and the red dragon in the sky facing a dilemma.

"..."

Roan glanced at her in confusion as he could not understand Arny's screeches – but once he looked at the direction in which the tamed gridding was pointing, he figured out what his words must have been.

"Mary – don't you remember? Baron might have always called her a pigeon and acted coldly, but he never allowed anything to happen to her – not to mention that we won't be able to survive attempting to escape once he sees her wounded like that! If we'll make her fly up to him, we might have a chance to sneak out then! The quest is about surviving – there's nothing about staying in the same area!"

The prince pointed out, moving his hand and grabbing Mary's hand as he started hurriedly pulling her towards the fallen griffin, not even sparing the unsteady Corvus holding onto his bleeding ears a single glance.

It seemed like at the moment all the possible positive emotions Roan could have had towards his older half-brother were dispersed by the punch and then the knee that Corvus had served him.

"Blueberry – Blueberry, do you recognize me?"

Mary was unable to find any fault in the blond prince's statement about Baron – so she kneeled by the wounded emperor griffin and gently touched her neck – but the winge monster seemed to be completely out of it to the point that she didn't even properly realize that someone was patting her neck.

"...I only hope she will not screech too loud..."

Mary muttered to herself as she nervously glanced at the sky that suddenly got filled up with spells that every possible surviving mage or spellcaster in the city launched at the creature that easily destroyed their normal lives within seconds.

*WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH*

"...!"

Every single person suddenly froze as every single spell dispersed in the air even without actually reaching Baron's scales, snuffed out by the pressure coming from him merely flapping his wings to stay up in the air.

"(Hmph! Weaklings.)"

The red dragon shook his head, glared down with his vertical-slit pupils, and reached out with a mocking telepathic message to every single living creature in the area.

"(If even a single feather is missing from my pigeon's head I will not stop on warning shots.)"

Baron's words echoed in everyone's minds – chilling the blood in the people's veins.

Warning shots.

Apparently, the attacks that wiped half of the capital of the Wraths territory off the map were merely considered as warning shots...!

"MEND!"

That was far more than enough reason for the brown-haired heroine to stop worrying about the what-ifs and immediately use the healing spell on the downed griffin.

*CRACK*

"...skwee...? (...eh...?)"

Not only were the shattered bones restored into one with a loud, disturbing sound, but even blood and loose feathers all returned and were welded back together onto the Blueberry's body and she shook her head in confusion looking around as if unable to comprehend what was she doing there.

"Skwee...? (Ah, mommy's friend – why are we here...?) Skwee? (What is going on?)"

Blueberry tilted her head and raised her front leg, gently prodding the brown-haired heroine's side with the dull part of her talon.

"...eh...? Wh-what? Blueberry, you were attacking the Wrath's territory! Those two said that you've killed the previous avatar of wrath!"

Mary stared at the confused griffin and pointed at the still indisposed duo of the ashen-haired Mika and the white-haired Corvus both staring at the sky wide-eyed.

"Skwee? (Eh?) Skwee. (No way – mommy told me to not kill humans or elves unless she will tell me to do so.) Skwee! (They might be important!)"

Blueberry shook her head in a very human0like motion and declared in a confident tone – before she ended up looking up to see what the others were staring at...

"SKWEE?! (BARON?!)"

She suddenly gasped, spreading her wings in shock as she noticed the red dragon hovering threateningly over the ruined city.

"SKWEE! (BARON!) SKWEE! (MOMMY TOLD US TO NOT DESTROY THINGS WITHOUT HER PERMISSION!)"

The blue griffin jumped up and used the skill empowered flap of her massive wings to give herself a vertical take-off and she screeched loudly, sounding like a kid just about to tell on their older siblings to their parents for breaking the rules.

"...just what is going on here...?"

Mary took a step back, buffeted by the gust of wind caused by the emperor griffin, and watched her fly up higher and higher to meet up with the red dragon high above.

"(Blueberry?! Are you unharmed?!)"