“Heh. In terms of suspecting Sienna, you scored fairly well, but you’re still a nasty guy! I don’t want to reveal myself in front of that stinky guy right now.”

Seems like a difficult fellow.

While licking my lips, Ruth continued.

“I don’t think a person’s nature easily changes. Even if you lose your memory, Sienna is still Sienna. If she is a friend who says she can’t harm others, even if she is nothing more than a moving piece of flesh like a puppet without a soul, it would be strange for her to suddenly harm others just because she is interested in defeating zombies. It’s strange that she even cares about this matter.”

Although her appearance has changed like that of a gruesome monster, a zombie’s appearance, regardless of its transformation, was human.
“I wasn’t someone who would blink at the idea of killing a being that used to be human. That’s not the Sienna I know.”

“So?”

Ruth, looking at the distant corridor where Sienna disappeared, opened his narrow eyes.

“That… is not Sienna. I know the explanation may be insufficient for you to accept, but it feels instinctive to me. ‘That’ is nothing more than something that has flipped Sienna’s corpse.”

‘Was it just a smoke screen, showing affection for Sienna like before?’

Ruth was not a fool hanging himself for unrequited love.

It was appreciative that he had doubted whether she was a zombie or not by testing her.

‘Zero.’

When I called Zero, he sighed deeply and said as soon as Zero finished speaking,

“Okay. You passed, fatty magician. I’ll reveal my appearance again.”

As soon as Zero finished speaking, Ruth’s silver-gray pupils widened.

“Huh? Sir Zero? How long have you been there?”

Sitting on my shoulder, tapping his staff discontentedly, Zero replied with a grumbling voice.

“Why. Can’t I be here?”

“Oh, no. I just didn’t see you for a while, and you suddenly revealed yourself, so I was surprised.”

Ruth, who greeted Zero with courtesy, was busy being polite.

“Enough with the cumbersome greetings, fatty magician. I didn’t show myself for a while because it was uncomfortable due to the fact that the one who entered the mansion was not human.”

“…I see.”

With Zero’s words accurately pinpointing the fact, Ruth looked grim for a second but soon brushed it off.

“Still, you are better than the other two idiots who couldn’t pull themselves together in front of it like wagging-tailed dogs. Quite impressive. Despite not lifting my protection, you noticed something strange.”

“You flatter me. It’s embarrassing to realize it so late.”

To Ruth, who feigned humility, Zero said,

“Sienna Evergreen. That girl asked if she’s human, right?”

“…Yes.”

“Let me answer instead of the child I protect. The answer is ‘no.'”

“!”

“I could tell with my abilities. She’s not human. I don’t know the principle, but on the day of the ritual, ‘Sienna Evergreen’ died as a zombie.”

At the confirmation of her elimination, Ruth staggered for a moment.

“The one who brought peace to her as the first zombie was my contractor. We clearly confirmed it. Sienna Evergreen died.”

‘Oops. Hey! What if I say that!’

It was Zero who disclosed the truth without hesitation. I gasped, shouted silently with my mouth gaping open, but Zero remained indifferent.

‘If Ruth, Benedict, or Mihail decides to kill me, what should I do!’

No, right now, it’s scarier to hear them say they’re quitting the party!

To my panic, Zero muttered in a voice only I could hear.
“Don’t worry. I revealed my appearance to the chubby magician because I have confidence that I can tell him about this.”

Clashing with determination, Ruth just mumbled quietly, not paying much attention to the worry.

“I… see.”

‘Uh…’

“I anticipated it. Since you, the Kitten Duke, were the only survivor who returned alive from the wedding turned into a battlefield, I thought you might have dealt with a zombie or two before coming out.”

In response to Ruth’s calm words, I was trapped in a question mark hell alone.

“You guessed it…?”

“When the Duke first contacted me, I didn’t think about it. However, it was strange from the moment you confidently mentioned that attacking a zombie’s head without anyone telling you could send them back to being a corpse.”

‘Uh, uh…’

“You wouldn’t know until you’ve experienced it yourself, right? I didn’t think about it until the Duke contacted me for the first time. However, attacking the head of a zombie without being told by anyone could return them to a corpse. I suspected you might have been informed by Lord Zero, but… it seemed that even Lord Zero didn’t completely know about the first-ever disaster, the zombie, on the continent.”

“Ugh.”

Zero, who was quick-witted, grimaced at being seen through the truth too quickly.

“Still, Chubby Magician, you’re not a bad guy. The fairy-blooded and the knight couldn’t keep up.”

“Well… Lord Benedict and the rude knight probably think similarly to me.”

“What did you say?”

Those humans were suspecting Sienna too?

“I didn’t show any signs, but considering who they might be inclined toward at the moment, the answer comes to mind quickly.”

As he spoke, Ruth glanced at me with a sidelong glance.

Well, what’s the matter? Why are you looking at me and saying that?