In the deep and dark basement below Duke Keaton’s residence.
Upon descending with a lantern, a zombie corpse we had dispatched was lying on a spacious metal table.
Rus and Michael turned their heads towards me as they heard me coming down the stairs.
Due to my strong insistence, to prevent the potential risk of infection, they were examining the zombie wearing cloth gloves and handkerchiefs instead of masks.
I too, cautiously approached, covering my nose and mouth with a handkerchief and wearing gloves.
“Have you found anything out?”
Dinner had been handed over by the servant, but since this was kind of like working overtime, I brought some simple snacks.
The snacks were fluffy white bread, butter and jam, cheese and thinsliced ham to insert inside, and squeezed fruit juice. Considering the teetotaler Knight Michael, I left out alcohol.
Rus and Michael glanced at the snack basket I had brought, and then focused again on analyzing the zombie.
“Nothing yet.”
“Progress is slower than expected.”
Both of them answered my question. It was regrettable that no results were found, but seeing them absorbed in their work was reassuring.
「Hmph. Even I, a former government official, couldn’t find the cause of the zombie outbreak, but do you think those guys would know just because they are submale leads in the original work?」
Why are you picking a fight again?
This kid, Zero. He’s the top when it comes to showing pride in strange places.
‘Rus and Michael, don’t look here, okay?’
While the two were concentrating on analyzing the zombie corpse, I gently stroked Zero’s tiny head with my thumb.
‘Calm down. After all, they are my party members you’ve chosen, and precious comrades who we will have to fight zombies with in the future.’
「You didn’t like them much either.」
‘Well, that was only when they were rude to me. As long as they treat me normally, it’s no problem.’
I won’t keep quiet if they behave rudely.
For me, as long as they don’t cause problems, it doesn’t matter, but Zero grumbled with an illtempered attitude.
「Be kinder to me, your partner! Stop singing about rewards, rewards all the time.」
‘Hmm…….’
But Zero, if you had only paid the rewards that could motivate me on time, would I have sung for rewards?
However, if I said that, the delicate and sensitive possessed partner in charge would undoubtedly become very angry.
‘You’re a precious comrade to me too.’
「……Really?」
The eyes of the golden hamster grew wide.
Even though it’s your boss’s fault that I was dragged into this world to suffer, Zero was undoubtedly a comrade who helped me.
‘Yes, yes.’
「Hehehe.」
As I was calming Zero down, I felt a gaze.
“What are you laughing about alone?”
It was Rus, who had been trying to extract information from the zombie with all kinds of magical formations.
Even after traveling without rest and arriving at Duke Keaton’s residence, immediately proceeding to analyze the zombie, his eyes were dark as a panda’s.
Yet he noticed something seemed off!
‘Indeed, a man who was a male lead candidate is different.’
I said, pulling a fatigue recovery potion from the basket I had discreetly brought.
“Hmm. I’m excited because it’s our first victory against the zombies.”
Rus’s plausible reason was “Is that so?” but then he frowned at the fatigue recovery potion I offered.
“Thank you for your kindness, but I only consume potions I make, so it’s fine.”
「Oh, look at the way he talks!」
“…….”
Ah, I see. Very well.
My extended hand felt awkward. His bad attitude remained.
“I’ll just put this away then…….”
As I was about to gather the basket, a large hand reached out and grabbed it.
“If it’s okay, I’d like to have this.”
“……Huh?”
Michael pulled out the fatigue recovery potion.
“I’m tired too. ……Is that not acceptable?”
“Ah, no. It is, it’s totally fine.”
It was okay since I had planned to keep watch together, so it was fine for Michael to have it too.
“Then let Sir Michael have it all…….”
The contents of the basket were about to be handed over to Michael when Roos urgently grabbed me.
“Wait a moment.”
“Eh?”
“It’s… not that I disliked the potion that the Duke gave. I didn’t mean to ignore the effort; I just refused it because the potion I made fits my constitution the best.”
I didn’t refuse it because I disliked you.
My heart that was previously hurt was restored by the small added words.
“What? That was the reason? You should’ve said so.”
“…I’m sorry. However, I’d like to eat the snacks you brought.”
“That’s good. Then the two of you share them. That’s why I brought them in the first place.”
“…Understood.”
Huh? Somehow it seemed Michael spoke in a quite displeased manner?
「I feel it coming, I feel it coming.」
‘What nonsense.’
「The friend without tact, step away.」
Zero was spouting some incomprehensible nonsense again.
I ignored him as usual and rolled up my sleeves to join the zombie analysis.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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