The Villainess and I, her Zombie

The group was led into the Gluttonys mansion and ended up in the large living room.

The servants brought them food and drinks but no one was in the mood for touching anything - especially the brown-haired heroine who was glued to the back of the royal prince to the point of actually climbing on the armchair that Roan sat at and pushing her way between the backrest and the blond young man himself.

"Master, please don't act like that, technically speaking I am still your tamed beast."

The black-haired Arion sitting on a couch opposite the armchair taken by the prince and the heroine spoke up leaning to the side trying to catch a glimpse of the brown-haired girl.

"In your dreams you disgusting creep! I don't see you anywhere on my tamed monsters list!"

Mary trembled from disgust and shouted from behind Roan's back, cowering even more just so her former wolf monster wouldn't be able to lay his eyes on her.

"...alright... How's the timer?"

Lovie, who although was on Arion's side clearly wasn't let in on the situation between the avatar of gluttony and the heroine, raised her brow and looked between the two sides.

"Five more minutes... convincing this miss Hope to get in the same room as sir Arion was definitely more difficult and time-consuming than I thought."

Corvus, sitting beside the ashen-haired Mika on a small couch next to the armchair taken by the prince, spoke up, sounding just as confused as the ashen undead knight was.

"Master, you do know that we are not your enemy, right?"

Arion continued talking as if he wasn't chewed out by the brown-haired girl and smiled benevolently as if Mary's disgust was just a tantrum of a cute toddler.

"I told you to shut the fuck up already, didn't I!? If you really still think of me as your master you can do it, can't you?!"

"..."

The heroine had no intention of dealing with him, and the blond prince glanced back at her, worried.

Roan was aware that Arion was Mary's first tamed monster and he was present when the brown-haired girl learned that her wolf wasn't just a normal wolf but in fact human suffering from the curse of starvation, a magical ailment that the members of the Gluttony family could suffer from, that would change them in mindless monsters...

...but the blond prince was lost when it came to the reason why Mary hated Arion THAT much...

In the end, a tamed monster is a monster - it was obvious for Roan that they had to be kept at a distance just in case.

After all, there were plenty of stories going around about tamers getting killed by their tamed monsters that grew too powerful and overpowered their overconfident masters.

That's why he was sure that the younger Mary was keeping her distance and wasn't treating the wolf Arion as a lovely pet.

"Master, please, you know that I have a playful personality - you were having fun watching me splash around in the water whenever we were taking a bath - and I know that you like me, otherwise you wouldn't let me sleep by your side~"

"!!!!"

...but human Arion's words quickly proved him WRONG and left him utterly speechless.

Baths? Sleeping together?

"YOU DISGUSTING PERVERT HOW COME YOU CAN'T SEE HOW CREEPY YOU WERE!?"

Mary couldn't handle it anymore and stood up and leaned over Roan while holding on to his shoulders and shouted at the black-haired avatar of gluttony.

"I thought that I was taking care of a lovely good doggy that was incredibly smart and obedient! But then it turned out that I was living with A FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT PERVERT TRYING TO ACT LIKE MY DOG!"

She burst out in absolute fury and clenched her fists on Roan's shoulders.

"I was a wolf."

Arion shrugged his shoulders dismissively.

"You had a body of a wolf but your mind was that of a human! How come you fail to comprehend it?! You pervert licked my face! You licked my hands! You sometimes even licked my feet! ALL WHILE MAKING USE OF THE FACT THAT I THOUGHT THAT YOU WERE MY PET! I WAS TAKING BATHS WITH YOU BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT YOU WERE MY CUTE PET! I LET YOU IN MY BED BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT YOU WERE LONELY, YELPING IN THE BED I MADE FOR YOU! BUT YOU WERE USING MY NAIVETY!"

Mary was trembling with her eyes burning with pure, primal fury.

"I was always grateful for the nice views that you gave me, also, master, you are a heavy sleeper, I licked a lot more places than just your face, hands, and feet~"

"..."

Arion responded with a playful laugh.

"DIE!"

Mary growled, baring her teeth in a frenzy and her hand shone with a brilliant white light, turning her fingers into massive talons!

*SWOOOOSH*

The storm talon skill that the heroine unleashed tore through the air flying straight at the laid-back avatar of gluttony.

*chomp*

Arion merely opened and closed his jaws, clapping his teeth together and the attack disappeared from the air as the fit was never there...

"...!"

*gulp*

Mary's face twisted in ire as the black-haired man gulped down the indescribable mass that appeared in his mouth and smiled back at her.

"It's worth adding that I am currently the highest level avatar of sin from the ones gathered in this room - I appreciate the light snack, but don't waste your time and strength. I am the host you are the guests - I am supposed to show hospitality here~"

Arion laughed and waved his hand dismissive while glancing meaningfully at Roan whose body was illuminating the room with its bright yellow glow.

"...slow the fuck down with that, why don't you? Must I remind you that according to the priestess you aren't a priority anymore since your special quest was completed...?"

"!!!"

Surprisingly enough, the one who had the calmest and the most annoyed sounding response to the avatar of gluttony's behavior was... the ashen undead, Lovie, who was supposed to be on his side.

"...the priestess you are talking about...?"

Mary glared at Arion and turned to her, stirring back it down behind Roan's back - it looked like hearing someone from Arion's side talk to him with a fraction of the hatred she harbored for him was putting her at ease.

"Miss heroine, don't act like you don't know who am I talking about! Caramel, the girl who was assigned the heroine's supporter role!"

Lovie smiled at the brown-haired girl and revealed, satisfied with the interest in her voice.

"Caramel...? I... I think that I remember a girl like that - she was revealed to have a strong magic ability and my father took her in as his student - but she left shortly after - you're saying that she became a high-ranked member of the church AND received a role of my supporter...?"

For the brown-haired heroine, it was shocking enough news so that she straightened her back, showing from behind the blond-haired prince's back without even glancing at the black-haired Arion who was kept smiling at her with a rather disturbing look in his eyes.

"It turned out that she had a powerful precognition ability too - she predicted the global event and a lot of smaller events without fail - she also knew that you will become the heroine and will be tasked with saving the world."

Lovie casually dropped an information bomb on the four out of five humans gathered in the room.

"Wait, what? What do you mean by saving the world - from what threat - is it that dragon...?!"

The white-haired Corvus gasped and stood up, clenching his fists, staring intently at the ashen undead knight.

"Oh, no - the red dragon of ruin can become a threat to the world, but if he was the main problem, we wouldn't be in that much trouble as we are now."

Lovie's expression turned bitter and she shook her head before explaining - making Corvus sit back down and blink in confusion.

"Are you saying that there is something even worse than that thing?"

The white-haired avatar of wrath asked in disbelief.

"Well... if we're talking about Baron, Zombie is - or at least was - stronger than him as far as I can remember... right?"

"...?!"

Roan spoke up, glancing back at Mary looking for confirmation all while making both Corvus and Mika stare at him in disbelief.

"A zombie? Not even an undead knight like this one here but a normal zombie? What in the world are you talking about!?"

The white-haired man shook his head and scoffed angrily at the avatar of greed.

"He is talking about an undead knight called Zombie - who is the red dragon's sovereign. Zombie is his name, not a species."

Lovie pointed out while shrugging it off as something not important.

"The dragon has a master?! Where is...!"

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/Special quest progress update

Survive [complete]\\\\

/-Let there be ruin!- quest completed\\\\

/Reward granted\\\\

"...!"

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Corvus, Roan, and Mary all flinched at the same time when the series of system messages popped up for them the moment that the timer in the corner of their vision counted down to zero.

"I see - the Wraths quest is over then, I assume?"

Lovie stood up from her seat and casually walked to the door.

"W-wait! Where are you going we are not done talking!"

Corvus called out after her but she didn't react to him at all and left.

"You, sir Gluttony, what is that supposed to mean?"

The white-haired avatar of wrath frowned and turned to Arion.

"Oh, just wait a moment, it will..."

/Special quest -Undying Love- start

Objectives:

Save the avatar of lust from the Lusts territory\\\\

Just as the black-haired avatar of gluttony started explaining, a message popped up for all of them.

"Another one of those?!"

Corvus roared furiously.

"This one seems even vaguer than the previous one too..."

Roan furrowed his brows and exchanged worried looks with Mary.

"It's fine - you don't have to worry about a thing."

"!!!"

"...?!"

Arion surprised the others by snorting and waving his hand dismissively, completely unfazed by anything that was happening.

"The remnant of the chaos god will deal with everything - after all, we already know thanks to do because of the priestess help. That said - we need to move too."

He added, smiling brightly.

"Huh...? Where to? And why?"

Roan furrowed his brows and glared at Arion.

"The place where Eternal is sealed - Pride's quest can be finished only after that thing had been released - without doing so, our world will be destroyed."

The avatar of gluttony shrugged his shoulders and stood up, ready to go.

"If that Eternal or whatever is sealed then what's the problem? Just don't bother it and it should be fine!"

Corvus scoffed waving his hand angrily.

"No - not really."

But Arion shook his head with denial.

"Not when the seal itself hinges on five percent of its power and is ready to break literally at any moment."

He declared as the smile disappeared from his face replaced by a serious expression.