The Villainess and I, her Zombie

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

Luke was about to enter the mansion, but before he reached the door, the wall a floor above the entrance exploded when six people were kicked through it by the diabolically grinning blue undead with a golden shield.

"ZOMBIE?!"

The healer stumbled back and fell on his back, staring in disbelief as the blue undead reaches for the sword on his waist, pulls it out, and...

*SHING*

"!!!!!"

...with a single move bisects two of the six he forced outside - a curly-haired blond woman got cut diagonally from her left thigh all the way to her right armpit while the man exactly opposite to her got cut in perfect halves with a massive jet black blade that had no physical right to come out of the expensive-looking scabbard on the monster's waist– their intestines and viscera rained down and caused Luke to scuttle back on all fours in panic as the intestines and body parts splattered all around.

"LUKE! THANK THE SYSTEM! REVIVE THEM AND...!"

*CHOMP*

Another woman noticed the young healer and shouted at him – but her urgent voice suddenly stopped when around one-third of her head disappeared in a flash of the orange light followed by a nauseating sound of a juicy bite...!

*crunch*

*gulp*

"Luke, good to see you – stay away from this – I will kick your ass if you even try helping them."

The blue undead who had already landed chewed on the unidentified mass that appeared in his mouth before swallowing it and smirking towards the young healer without taking his eyes off of the remaining three people – two men and a woman.

"Luke, what the...! You know that thing?!"

One of the men called out in an accusatory voice, holding up twin daggers with blades coated in poison to such extent that the deadly liquid was dripping odd of them.

"Shut up Orange! Kid! That thing already killed and ate Strawberry and Plum – I don't give a damn why do you know it, help us, or I'll kill you before you get a chance to explain yourself!"

The woman scoffed at the twin dagger man named Orange and glared at Luke as her body shone, cowered in a translucent protective barrier made out of mana, in a rough shape of armor.

"NO - you shut up, bitch! It was your idea to try to take that thing without waiting for Persimmon to return!"

Orange shouted back furiously, making the mistake of looking away from the blue undead.

*BOOOOM*

*WHAM*

"GU-HUAH...!

As the man with twin daggers was turning back towards Zombie, the blue undead already launched himself right at him and slammed into him with the golden shield, sending him flying with an almost comical gasp.

*****

"ORANGE!"

Without skipping a single beat of his deadly dance, the blue undead aimed his shield at the unwillingly airborne opponent and calmly aligned his position with the ruby crystal in the middle of his kite shield – which suddenly let out a threatening light and shot out a beam of blinding concentrated mana, that pierced right through Orange's head, killing the man on the spot – and making the barrier woman call shout in fury.

"YOU FUCKER!"

"TOMATO, YOU IDIOT, STOP!"

The other man suddenly let out a frenzied howl and his body enlarged to at least four times his previous size – the same happened to his weapon, a draconic-pattern spear that grew up to the thickness of an average adult's thigh – and charged at grinning blue undead wh clearly was enjoying himself way too much.

"Khahaha! You guys are so easy to beat~!"

*CLANG*

*BOOOOOM*

Zombie laughed and parried the spearhead the size of his head, with the golden shield, and nimbly dodged to the side, letting the madly charging man slam into the wall of the mansion.

"I thought that something was wrong with all of you and I finally figured it out."

The blue undead started talking in a casual tone as if he wasn't in the middle of combat while taking a step towards the barrier woman.

"..."

She on the other hand didn't look remotely interested in charging at him and instead continued to glance back, searching for the best escape route that she could take.

"Luke, I don't know if the same thing happened to you – but all of those laughable so-called high-level player characters can't use draw out half the power of their skills. I guess that's what happens when you gain EXP far too easily. Seriously, if something sounds too good to be true – it is too good to be true. Durian's unique magic messed you all up really bad."

The blue undead did the same thing as before – moved his head slightly and talked to the completely disoriented healer without taking his eyes off of the opponent.

"Bullshit! Even if that is true, do you know how high each of us had leveled up our skills?!"

The barrier woman was so furious that she almost spat to the side and took a step forward – but stopped herself and instead backed off a bit more as if she finally found her way out and was trying to position herself perfectly so that once a chance presented itself to her, she would be able to use it immediately.

"How much your skills levels were raised – you want to say."

Zombie shrugged his shoulders indifferently and corrected her with a mocking tone.

"Honestly – I fought a REAL high-level player character before and I had to really use my brain to get him – but with you all?"

The blue undead furrowed his brows and shook his head n disappointment.

"I imagine that a bunch of rookie adventurers dressed up in a high-level gear would pose me more of a threat."

He declared as a mocking smile bloomed on his face once again.

"But hey... I'm not one to turn down an easy way to rank up my skill~"

The blue undead giggled and glanced down at the two halves of the bisected bald man and his throat and jaw shone with orange light.

*CHOMP*

*crunch*

*gulp*

Zombie clapped his teeth together and a big chunk of the corpse disappeared while an unidentified mass appeared in his mouth – and the blue undead promptly chewed and swallowed it.

"Wha...?! You damn hypocrite!"

"Hmm? Well, yeah, that word does describe me pretty well, what about it?"

The barrier woman's eyes widened and she growled in anger at the ridiculous remark of the smirking blue undead...but with taking another step back she finally reached the spot she wanted to be in, now the only thing left was...

"...tsk...! Fine! The proposition you made talked about before! I will agree to become the follower of that master of yours!"

The barrier woman clicked her tongue and declared, clenching her fists while the barrier around her seemed to be growing brighter.

"Oh? Really? Great! She'll be so happy~!"

Zombie cheered out and his body instantly stopped shining as he deactivated all of his skills.

"Now, if you don't mind, I will proceed to clean up your former comrades, you can go help Luke stand up or whatever until Cranberry will show u-"

"...!"

The blue undead turned away from the barrier woman and crouched over the unfinished corpse of the bald man in a rather slovenly way, and said – but instead of letting him finish. The barrier woman used all of the speed-increasing skills that she had and rushed towards the wall.

*BOOOM*

She jumped up, using a half-full barrel of rainwater as a stepping stone, and propelled herself at the right height while crushing the barrel completely...

*whoosh*

*STAB*

"...eh...?"

The woman who could already see her way out heard a whistling noise and the next moment a sharp pain spread through her torso – while mid-air she looked down and gasped once she saw a spike-like blade sticking out of her chest.

"Idiot~"

*WHAM*

The blue undead holding out his right hand stuck out his tongue and giggled before pulling on the red string connecting his right hand with the pommel of the spike-like blade – estock – which resulted in the barrier woman getting pulled right back to where she started...

"Ughh...! Augrghhh...!"

She twitched and tried to crawl up while attempting to take out the blade, but no matter what she tried the sword stayed lodged firmly inside as if it was consciously refusing to slide back even while she was pushing on it with all her might.

"H-how is tha-at pos-ssible...? M-my barrier...!"

The woman cried out, glaring at the violet-shining blue undead - casually strolling towards her - with bloodshot eyes.

"Hmm? Look at your blade. That is how a barrier skill like yours should be used – it was always meant for the offensive."

"?!?!?!?!?!?!"

The blue undead shrugged his shoulders and pointed at the weapon stabbed through the woman's chest – and once she herself have looked at it, she became speechless.

The weapon itself wasn't covered in her blood at all – instead, the trails of crimson were dripping all-around a translucent sword much wider than the spike-like blade itself...!

"No... way..."

*SHING*

She managed to gasp before the blue undead made a snappy move with his right wrist and the blade lodged in the woman moved wildly and cut right through her neck and head, spreading it apart like some sort of gruesome flower in full bloom.

/High-level player defeated

You receive the EXP

|If I manage to eat all of them, that will make it like what...? Nine?|

The blue undead asked internally while looking at the system message that popped up for him.

|Quince was the first high-level opponent you killed and ate, so yes, nine~|

The sealed being inside of him confirmed enthusiastically.

|One more, huh... that can be arranged...|

Zombie nodded to himself while looking over the petrified Luke right at the life essence that he kind of recognized.

...the only thing was when he met that person in the previous playthrough, they were a lot weaker...

|That could get interesting...|

The blue undead smirked and took a step back.

"Zombie! You promised me that you will not kill them!"

"...whoops..."

But then he flinched and looked back at the person shouting at him.

From the breach in the wall that he himself has made, a red-haired girl accompanied by a dark-skinned woman was shouting a complaint at him.