The Villainess and I, her Zombie

"Sigil monster right under our noses..."

Shanks breathed out, looking at the debris and the few still standing walls that were the only remains of the previously prominent Durian's estate. 𝗳𝒓𝚎e𝚠𝒆𝐛𝐧𝐨v𝚎Ɩ.co𝓶

"Well... I would say that the fucker got what he deserved. Trying to use Eternal's power for himself - as expected of someone from the Greed family. Fuck..."

Lairs shook her head end exclaimed, shaking her head from left to right.

"Lai-lai..."

Rotte closed his eyes with a bitter expression and nudged the black-haired elf in the side while motioning at the blond-haired prince with his chin.

"Wha...? Ah! Oh, fuck...! I... I mean...!"

The elven mage realized her mistake and flinched, hurriedly trying to backtrack on her words but ended up stuttering and shutting up instead, looking away acting as if she didn't say anything, to begin with.

"It's nothing. Miss Lairs is right, after all... This outcome is the result of my uncle's greed for power - there is no way around that."

Roan waved his hand dismissively, letting the Dandelions know that there is nothing wrong with speaking openly about the situation.

"I wasn't aware that sir Durian was able to use his unique magic on monsters too. But I am not surprised that he was tempted to at least try to put the strong monster under the influence of his slave crest - his magic allowed him to use the skills of his underlings, didn't it?"

Shanks tapped his chin with his index finger and also looked at the blond prince who was more than willing to answer any question since the alternative would be to get beat up by the less than agreeable Cranberry.

"That is exactly right - as far as I have been told..."

Roan glanced to the side at the currently peaceful red-haired girl leaning her head against the shoulder of her blue undead knight, before turning back to the rat-faced man.

"...Gorut, the monster that has been polluted by the corruption of the Eternal, was supposed to bring luck - I suppose that my uncle has believed that it was because of a skill that the monster had and tried to make use of it to counter the most bothersome trait that each member of the Greed family member has to deal with."

"...?"

The blond prince shared his opinion about the illegal monster's presence at the scene but ended up making most of the gathered people confused.

"I mean the fact that each one of us is born without the option of raising up our luck stat - making it remain the exact same level and value no matter how much we level up or how many quests we will complete."

He revealed with a casual shrug.

"...haa... Alright, did we make ourselves clear about what has occurred here?" 𝐟𝘳𝑒𝗲𝘸e𝒃𝘯𝒐𝐯e𝚕.c𝒐𝒎

Cranberry rolled her eyes and breathed out, frowning at the blond prince as he was looking as if he wanted to start adding some unnecessary flavor to the story they agreed upon beforehand.

"Yes, yes. There only doubt that was needed to be cleared out was what was an exotic monster was doing in this part of the kingdom."

Shanks nodded and smiled reassuringly to the girl who didn't need any reassurance.

"Ha. True. That must have picked up your curiosity considering that the monster leading the attack on your village around twenty years ago was an exotic monster as well."

"...!"

The red-haired girl agreed, nodding her head with a soft smirk.

The four of the five Dandelions remained calm but the fifth one, the kindhearted Uresha flinched so hard that her armor made a loud noise and the huge woman hurriedly turned away, trying to play it off as if she didn't just act in a suspicious way.

"Am I wrong...?"

Cranberry's smirk grew into a malicious smile and she looked down at the rat-faced man, whose expression clouded the moment he realized that the red-haired girl wasn't just talking some random news and was hinting at something.

"Yes. That is true. It is not a secret that the village where all five of us had grown up in was destroyed in a huge monster surge two decades ago."

He confirmed squinting his eyes and leaning to the side trying to figure out where the girl was going to go with that subject.

"Say. Don't you get homesick? Don't you want to return there and rebuild what was lost? With how strong you all have become it wouldn't be impossible to reclaim that territory from the wild monsters."

Cranberry shrugged her shoulders and cuddled to Zombie's arm.

"Things are a little bit more complicated. Of it was just the swarm of weak monsters or a couple of big strong monsters, there would be no problem. But the lost territory we are talking about wasn't just overrun by the beast's - one extremely dangerous monster had actually railed up a bunch of tribes of intelligent monsters who did not qualify to become the members of the intelligent species and created something akin to a monster land."

Shanks breathed out and explained with a bitter expression.

"From what we've learned about the situation, they created a city to the east of our former village - which apparently lies now in the spot of land that the queen deemed as a no man's land and pledged to uphold its neutrality under the condition that the intelligent monsters will not attack the humans on beyond their own land."

The rat-faced man added, glancing at the shocked first prince who certainly didn't look as if he was made aware of a situation like that.

"I explained it all to your undead before, miss."

Shanks shrugged his shoulders and turned back to Cranberry who...

*crackle*

"!!!!!"

*booom*

...raised her glowing hand and without a word released an electric discharge that missed the rat-faced man's head by less than an inch and caused a small explosion in the distance when it finally hit the ground.

"!!!!"

All five Dandelions jolted up and took defensive stances slightly confused but very much agitated because of the sudden act of aggression.

"This handsome and lovely undead knight here is my HUSBAND - do you understand, Shanks? I am not a miss but a Mrs and if you don't want me to actually get angry you will not address me in the incorrect way."

Cranberry smiled lowering her head speaking in a domineering way, causing all the agitation of the five adventurers to turn into actual shock.

"Now, with that out of the way, I have some great news to party."

The red-haired girl added in a casual voice as if she just didn't almost blow off Shanks's face.

"No deal with a human is sacred for a sigil monster, as long as you go with us, we can go and reclaim your home even now."

"!!!!"

She said as if it was the most obvious thing to declare.