===A Certain Silver-Ranked, Middle-Aged Adventurer===
H-Hey y-you must be kidding 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 mont 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 ti 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 an the way they act is too natural.
But such a thing might be possible for high-ranking undead, right?
Co 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 beca undead
als 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 like that!
Pimp burst into laughter upon hearing shrieking like a kid.
Anyhow, the matter just now was probably just his made-up story to scare .
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 al?
Yes. Tonight is a special day for us. That's why, please, enjoy the food without worrying about us.
For so reason, it seed 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 an they were going to eat another dish after this?
Uhm, I couldn't understand them.
We also have liquor if you want sothing to drink.
Oh, thank you very muchUhn? What's the matter, Pimp? You don't want to drink?
Hey, what's the matter? Your complexion doesn't seem too good.
After I enjoyed a little bit of liquor, we went back to our room, a bit tipsy thanks to the liquor.
Suddenly, Pimp spoke with a slightly trembled voice.
L Let's escape from this place imdiately!
H-Hey, what are you talking about?
Didn't you hear what they were talking about a while ago?! No matter how you think about it, they're clearly about to eat us, you know?
WAH?
In short, what the village head said about waiting for a little bit was to eat us?
Did that an they were going to wait for us to sleep and then launch a night attack to kill us?
No way, please stop saying such scary things already.
I'm fu*cking serious right now! Feel free to stay if you want to be eaten by those undead, but I'm going to leave this village right away!
H-Hey
This guy managed to trick before, but I knew that he was serious this ti.
I sobered up at once.
I-I understand. Let's leave this place at once. But how?
Since the gate of this village is shut during the night we have no choice but to jump over the wall.
Okay, let's go with that.
Please, wait a minute What are you going to say if they find you leaving from the front door! If we're going to leave use the window!
Y-You're right.
And then, after we left from the sole window in our room, we ran in the darkness toward the hamlet's wallcompletely forgetting the fact that our opponents were undead.
Papa! Our guests are gone!
Eh seriously!
Chills ran down our spines upon hearing that voice.
W-What are you doing, hurry up?!
C-Can't be helped! I'm a rearguard, rember!
Due to that unexpected difficulty, I grabbed Pimp's hand and pulled him on top of the wall.
Thus, we managed to escape safely from that terrifying village.
I had to report this ergency situation as soon as we made it back to the adventurer guild.
===A Certain Undead With Communication Disorder===
I tilted my head upon seeing the scenery different from the usual scenery during the al.
Normally, the village chief would eat together with his family, but for so reason, they only prepared my portion right now.
The village chief then said the following words as if guessing my confusion.
The truth is, there's an old custom in this village. Everyone won't eat a dinner tonight except for the first prey hunted by our young villagers.
Custom, huh.
Co to think of it, I rember that my village back when I was still alive had strange customs too.
When the n ca of age, there was a so-called coming-of-age rituala ritual in which they made those young n jump down from the watch tower of the village.
Naturally, since there was no mattress prepared below, there were always cases in which those n made a mislanding and broke their leg.
Well, in the end, I had no chance to partake in such a ritual since I left my village before reaching adulthood.
Naturally that's only for the villagers. That's why feel free to eat as usual.
I nodded.
And yet to be honest, it was really difficult for to eat these dishes.
In the first place, undead like had no need for food. I would be fine even if I was treated in the sa way as those young n.
Please, don't feel too reserved. In fact, we welcod adventurers too just a while ago. Those adventurers should be enjoying their al too around this ti.
It seed two adventurers who accepted the villagers request just arrived today.
They ca from a faraway place to help the villagers fight back against the kobolds.
However, they were too late.
I wanted them to forgive for stealing their job though. After all, this village would have been practically wiped out unless I did so.
Uhm? Was there sothing happening outside?
Soon enough, I heard a voice co from the entrance.
The village chief hurriedly went out and seed 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 seed 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 co.
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One thing led to another, and it had been a few days since I ca to this village.
Although I could hold simple conversations with a few people, a long and deep conversation was still impossible for .
But then, I realized that there was no way the villagers of this frontier village knew ofa ans to kill .
Thus, I decided to ask the villagers if I could find so 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 seed 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 an, I shouldn't overstay my welco.
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 off.
Please, be careful of bandits or dangerous monsters along the way, but Well, I guess soone as powerful as you doesn't have to worry about such problems.
You absolutely must co 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 ti 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 kindly just like those villagers
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