Chapter 36: Left the Village

Chapter 36: Left the Village

===A Certain Silver-Ranked, Middle-Aged Adventurer===

H-Hey y-you must be kidding me right?

I, who felt cold running down my spine upon hearing Pimp's remark, asked him so.

But my young comrade-in-arm's serious expression didn't change at all.

I-If that's the true then, why in the world are the villagers acting like nothing happened?

Well, that's only natural since newspapers won't reach a frontier village like thiwait a minute, maybe

Pimp continued on after a moment of silence.

All of these villagers have already turned into undead.

!!!

Now, the day had already turned into night.

Although I didn't want to admit thisnight was the time when the undead were most active.

Have already turned into undead They might be just being manipulated, right? D-Don't say such scary things. I mean the way they act is too natural.

But such a thing might be possible for high-ranking undead, right?

Come to think of it, I did hear the rumor that the undeads who were controlled by Jean Diego, the necromancer, could act and speak normally just like when they were still alive.

And since the one we were talking about was a great disaster-rank undead, turning every villager into his subordinate and making them act like normal might be possible for him.

Nay, since he was the so-called great disaster-rank monster, I don't think it would stop with just that.

He might have done so without being noticed by us. All the villagers had already became undead

Meals are ready.

HIIIII?!

I untentionally let out a shriek upon hearing a voice from the direction of the door.

Hahaha! I wish you could see your scared face just now!

Y-You bastard, I really hate it when you ridicule me like that!

Pimp burst into laughter upon hearing me shrieking like a kid.

Anyhow, the matter just now was probably just his made-up story to scare me.

I felt like being cheated just now.

Dammit.

We left the room while continuing our banter in that way.

After that, we ate dinner that was prepared by the benevolence of the landlord.

Although it was a simple dish, common for frontier villages like this, the taste wasn't that bad.

In addition, I noticed another thing.

Are you not eating your meal?

Yes. Tonight is a special day for us. That's why, please, enjoy the food without worrying about us.

For some reason, it seemed that the inhabitants of this houseno, all of the villagersdidn't eat dinner tonight.

Papa, I'm hungry~

I'm famished~

Please, endure it for a while longer, okay.

Nevertheless, he rebuked the children who were complaining about their hunger.

Endure it a while longer he said?

Did that mean they were going to eat another dish after this?

Uhm, I couldn't understand them.

We also have liquor if you want something to drink.

Oh, thank you very muchUhn? What's the matter, Pimp? You don't want to drink?

I nodded.

And yet to be honest, it was really difficult for me to eat these dishes.

In the first place, undead like me had no need for food. I would be fine even if I was treated in the same way as those young men.

Please, don't feel too reserved. In fact, we welcomed adventurers too just a while ago. Those adventurers should be enjoying their meal too around this time.

It seemed two adventurers who accepted the villagers request just arrived today.

They came from a faraway place to help the villagers fight back against the kobolds.

However, they were too late.

I wanted them to forgive me for stealing their job though. After all, this village would have been practically wiped out unless I did so.

Uhm? Was there something happening outside?

Soon enough, I heard a voice come from the entrance.

The village chief hurriedly went out and seemed to be talking to a few villagers.

Those adventurers are gone?

Y-Yes they're gone from their room We're currently looking for them inside the village.

Just what's happening here?

I have no idea but they might actually the ghosts of dead adventurers.

A-As if they're.

Your voice was trembling, you know, village chief.

It seemed that even the villagers here were afraid of the undead.

Ironically, these kind people had no idea that their savior here was the actual undead.

Nevertheless if those adventurers were truly undead, I should be the one who first realized about that fact.

But there was no way a normal, living adventurer in the flesh would suddenly vanish without any explanation.

This was interesting, indeed.

In the end, the villagers never found out the whereabouts of those adventurers, even after the morning had come.

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One thing led to another, and it had been a few days since I came to this village.

Although I could hold simple conversations with a few people, a long and deep conversation was still impossible for me.

But then, I realized that there was no way the villagers of this frontier village knew ofa means to kill me.

Thus, I decided to ask the villagers if I could find some city around this area.

Then the one you're looking for is the royal capital. Naturally, since Tana Kingdom is just a small kingdom, our royal capital can't be compared to the other kingdom's capital.

From what I heard from the villagers, apparently, I was currently in a small kingdom called Tana Kingdom.

It seemed I had already crossed over to another country before I noticed.

But of course, I had no idea whether the thing I was looking for could be found in this kingdom's royal capital.

Well, at the very least, the possibilities were far higher than in this frontier village.

I mean, I shouldn't overstay my welcome.

Thus, I decided to leave this village.

After I conveyed my will to them, not only were the villagers disappointed by that news, they even held a banquet to send me off.

Please, be careful of bandits or dangerous monsters along the way, but Well, I guess someone as powerful as you doesn't have to worry about such problems.

You absolutely must come to play again later, uncle!

I waved my hand toward the villagers as I departed from the village.

They had no idea about the fact that I was an undead, but this was the first time I was being treated so kindly by others.

I felt a bit lonely upon leaving the village.

I hoped the people of the royal capital of this kingdom would receive me kindly just like those villagers