“Heh… Can’t believe you only excel in answering. If you don’t show improvement through actions, you’ll be disposable at any time.”

The man who had been verbally abusing the woman spoke.

“Status window.”

Yellow letters emerged above the blood-red status window.

“Show me the number of zombies remaining in the capital, Agata, of the Kaladia Empire.”

The map of the capital’s administrative districts appeared on the red screen. Red dots were scattered across it, vividly indicating the presence of zombies moving back and forth.

“They haven’t breached the castle yet. Tsk, even with a single-digit intelligence, crawling up the castle wall is unimaginable without granting some intellect through the nails.”

The man sighed at the stupidity of the zombies he had created.

“At least, this is the final version that came out after improvements.”

“Father, is there anything I can do to be of assistance?”

“Forget it. I don’t want to talk to you. You make me sick just by being around. Get lost quickly. Don’t come out unless I call you. It’s an order.”

The man impatiently waved his hand for the woman to disappear.

Though the woman felt tightness around her heart, she couldn’t comprehend why. Her stopped heart didn’t beat, and she thought it might be because she, constructed like a fake using a dead body, had only barely managed to simulate life.

The woman, who had taken on a nearly indistinguishable appearance from a real person, bowed politely to her master.

“Well then, Father, I will take my leave.”

“Fine. Go away. Drop those manners; you’re unbearable to look at.”

In the man’s eyes, irritated like a spoiled child, there was something peculiar.

“Hey, what’s this? Why aren’t there any red dots around this area?”

The man, who had successfully infected almost everyone in the capital with zombies, starting with this woman, expressed his dissatisfaction.

“Why, in this vicinity alone, there aren’t any red dots?”

The man, despite sacrificing a substantial amount to achieve it, was highly satisfied with the process.

Explosive infectivity. Despite being a curse created through magic, it could transmit secondary infections by biting.

At first glance, it could be mistaken for something transmitted by some kind of pathogen, but without a closer investigation… No, even if it were investigated, one couldn’t be sure that it was caused by magic.

Looking at the few remaining blue dots, the man had found it amusing.

“How far will they go at best? If they run out of food, unable to withstand hunger, they’ll go out and turn into a red dot, or if not, they’ll starve to death and transform into a black dot.”

The man felt no guilt as humans approached their demise.

His slightly flavored brain happily anticipated the increasing number of dead humans, eagerly pondering ways to spread to other regions.
“Weird. The blue dots have taken over the area where the red dots were.”

As the man’s older brother was Kieran Warey, they were scorned as mere nobles in appearance, but they were well aware of how the administrative districts were divided.

And among those administrative districts, they were not unaware of Duo1 District, which had few red dots.

“Still, until yesterday, it was occupied by red dots…”

Today, all the red dots in Duo1 District disappeared.

Driven out by the red dots, the blue dots took their place.

The blue dots, barely surviving the chaos and ridiculed by the man, did not disappear; instead, they expanded their territory.

“Unlucky…”

The man cursed. His plan, which he thought was going smoothly without any interference, was once again going awry.

“I thought I had prepared perfectly this time!”

The disappearance of the red dots meant that survivors had killed the zombies and turned them back into corpses.

“What variable could have occurred?”

The man, with sharp eyes, scanned the spot where the woman, who was almost human, had left after he had berated her.

“I eliminated the previous variables… But why is something wrong again this time?”

The man glanced resentfully at the ceiling and the sky beyond.

“Don’t disturb me.”

This time, the man was determined to eradicate humans and this world.

If his older brother, the people from the family who had been tied up like dogs, and the gods in the distant sky felt even a bit sorry for him, they should not stop him.

The man carefully examined Duo1 District, where the annoying blue dots were gathered.

“Even among the central nobles, it’s the residential area where the most influential humans live.”

Fortunate humans, as before, would succeed in surviving, set up magical barriers in their mansions, and wait for rescue.

Although the man’s wish was futile, as all the humans in the capital were waiting to die, strangely, the blue dots persisted.

“Why is that?”

The man found the location where the blue dots were gathered in the residential area.

“Search window. Tell me where the blue dots are gathering.”