A Korean Office Worker Who Became a Nuisance Villainess in a Zombie Story - Chapter 133

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Two tall actors with reasonably handsome features.
Their faces were painted to accentuate their features, swords hung at their sides, and they wore flamboyant costumes.
The stage held nothing but these two men—no decorations, no props.
Soon, a horn pipe sounded to announce the beginning of the performance.
After a brief silence, the older of the two men opened his mouth.
“You dared to betray me with both my wife and my daughter at the same time?”
Oh, what a melodramatic opening.
Yet the younger man gave no response.
Had he forgotten his lines from nervousness?
Unable to wait any longer, his scene partner kicked his shin, and only then did he stammer out his next line.
“W-well, you also betrayed us with our grandmother!”
“…That’s not true! The one I betrayed you with was your grandfather!”
“Oh…”
What Shakespeare had the audacity to write such drivel and unleash it upon the world?
“Then who is the father of the child my wife bore!”
“I don’t know! Isn’t it you?!”
“No! I… I… I’m incapable of fathering children!”
This was getting progressively worse.
“I-is this really something children should be watching?”
Yujein whispered beside me in bewilderment.
Glancing over, I saw that Muffin and Cheese were completely entranced. Cheese was using her tiny hands to cover her younger sibling’s ears.
Even Tangerine, who seemed unflappable in most situations, had her mouth agape, apparently shocked by the sheer audacity of Sodom’s theatrical sensibilities.
“Well then, we’ll simply have to marry that child to our grandmother!”
“Hooray!”
“I support that love!”
Perhaps we were the only ones taken aback by this shocking development—marrying the illegitimate child to the grandmother—but the people of Sodom erupted in cheers, stomping their feet in wild celebration.
‘But what about the grandmother’s consent…?’
【At eighty years old, she was forced into a political marriage】
What kind of web novel title is that?
By then, the two men on stage who had been grappling and growling at each other suddenly tumbled to the ground together in a tangled heap.
At that point, I gave up watching the performance.
I turned to the Local Lord, who was drinking and watching with apparent interest from a diagonal angle.
“Have you found Muffin and Cheese’s family?”
“We are still making inquiries.”
“Surely it shouldn’t take this long.”
Despite the accusatory tone in my voice, the Local Lord’s leisurely smile remained unchanged.
“My apologies. The information the children provided appears to be inaccurate.”
“What of the Guard Corps commander? What did he say about my younger brother?”
“Unfortunately, the Guard Corps commander took sick leave four days ago. He’s gone to a nearby city for recuperation, so we may need to wait a bit longer.”
“….”
He slipped away like a loach.
When I had nothing more to say and closed my mouth for a moment.
“Fine, then let’s duel!”
“Agreed, let’s settle this once and for all!”
“I’ll stake the lives of my entire family!”
“And I’ll stake the lives of my entire family!”
“The victor takes everything!”
The two male actors, who had tangled and rolled across the stage tearing their fine clothes to shreds, bellowed their lines with theatrical resonance.
The younger actor, his shirt buttons completely torn away to expose his chest, heaved heavily. Even from this distance, I could see his chest rising and falling roughly, his eyes reddened.
Despite my frustration at the Local Lord’s dubious attitude, I had to admit the acting was quite competent.
‘To think he could immerse himself even in such a script.’
At first, he seemed nervous and trembling.
Soon, actors playing the roles of the two men’s families ascended the stage.
A grandmother, a grandfather. And a wife.
“Didn’t you say earlier there was also a daughter and a newborn?”
I whispered to Yujein, seated beside me.
Before I could hear her response, the duel between the two men began.
Unlike their masterful delivery of melodramatic lines thus far, the sword fight between the two men was clumsy.
‘Perhaps it’s because I’ve seen Cyprus and Tangerine fight.’
It felt less like choreographed acting and more like a brawl—just haphazardly clashing weapons.
It was almost laughable how obviously they were ordinary people who’d never held a sword in their lives.
“Die!”
“Die! Please!”
Yet their expressions and lines were utterly desperate.
Then.
Thud.
The younger man’s blade pierced through the other’s neck.
The thin blade, crafted for thrusting, clearly passed through the opponent’s throat and emerged behind it. The blade caught the sunlight, glinting brilliantly.
“Ugh… ugh….”
The man struck by the blade soon crumpled.
Simultaneously, soldiers who burst from behind brought their axes down upon the heads of the defeated family.
Blood sprayed.
“Wahhh!”
“Wahhhhhh!”
“Hooray!”
Applause and cheers erupted fiercely.
At first, I thought it was an expertly executed special effect and makeup….
It wasn’t.
The old man with his skull split in half was dragged away by the two soldiers on stage. The man with the pierced neck as well.
A trail of blood was drawn along the path where the corpse was dragged.
The victor, who had dropped his sword and was breathing heavily, startled at the soldier’s prod from behind and bowed to the audience.
“Roooar!”
“Whoosh!”
The cheers grew even more intense.
“What in the world is this?”
The moment the first man’s blade pierced through the other man’s throat, Praha, who had already risen to his feet, drew his sword and pressed it against the Lord of Sodom’s neck.
Even with Praha’s blade at his throat, the Lord of Sodom continued to smile.
“Oh my, I forgot to mention it. This is our Sodom execution ceremony.”
“An execution ceremony?”
“Yes, does the Capital not publicly execute those who commit heinous crimes? We do the same here.”
“….”
“You need not worry. They are all criminals sentenced to death. Before executing the condemned, we put them on stage for an impromptu performance, and the victor receives a commutation of sentence.”
By doing so, the Lord explained further, they provided entertainment for Sodom’s citizens while instilling awareness that crime must not be committed.
“Praha.”
Just then, Cyprus called out to Praha.
I clearly saw Cyprus signaling to Praha with a gesture of his hand.
Somehow, the Lord’s soldiers had already surrounded us.
“….”
I slowly surveyed my surroundings.
People clapping and cheering, lifting their children above their heads and waving them about.
Even Melon, who appeared to be around the same age as Muffin, was laughing innocently and delighting in the spectacle.
Only our party could not laugh.
* * *
Four days passed after that.
“Did you verify the records, Praha?”
“I did. No issues.”
Praha shook his head with a dark expression.
Praha and I were returning from having personally verified the crime records and trial documents of those who had been “executed” days earlier.
We scrutinized them carefully in case they might be falsified, but the documents were flawless.
The people who died days ago were indeed criminals of Sodom.
“I thought they would be enslaved captives!”
Tangerine whispered.
Her tone was as usual, but her volume was distinctly lower.
She was mindful of the servants of Sodom Castle who might be passing beyond the carpet that concealed the door.
At first, I thought the servants who approached us offering snacks and massages were trying to seduce us, but that was not the case.
They were watching us.
“It’s impossible to know for certain. The documents are intact, but there’s no guarantee that the documents’ owners match the people who were executed at that time.”
The documents don’t have photographs embedded in them, nor are they stamped with fingerprints.
They could be reusing a single document.
“Anyway, why is it so hot…? It seems to grow hotter as time passes.”
Beside me, Yujein’s cheeks flushed as she tugged at my sleeve, swaying it back and forth.
“Saint, are you feeling too warm? I have some cold alcohol prepared for you!”
“Oh, it’s fine!”
Yes, like this.
The servants listening from outside to conversations we share privately inside the room and responding—it felt far too much like being watched.
Cheese, resting her head on Yujein’s lap, blinked her eyes listlessly. Beside her sat Muffin, who had ventured out two mornings ago claiming she needed to use the lavatory, only to lose her way in the Corridor, now staring blankly ahead.
“It seems they’re trying to get us drunk on alcohol.”
“Yes, once we’re intoxicated enough, they’ll recommend medicine.”
“…If we said we wanted to leave Sodom right now, would they stop us?”
“I’m not certain, but there’s no need to provoke them recklessly.”
There were reasons we harbored such dark suspicions.
First, the Local Lord kept postponing our requests with endless excuses.
Finding Muffin and Cheese’s families, finding my Younger Brother, cooperating in uncovering clues about the zombie outbreak—all of it.
Meanwhile, he constantly pressed alcohol and tobacco upon us and shoved pretty servants into our room.
Wherever we went, they followed us as a bonus.
I’d considered slipping away without notice, but no matter how capable Praha, Cyprus, and Tangerine were, there was no way for them to smuggle us and the children out of this city surrounded by such towering walls.
Gazing at those distant walls, now feeling like a prison, I sighed.
“Sigh.”
That evening.
A single note lay upon my bed after I’d bathed.
[I know the whereabouts of your Younger Brother.]
[Sodom Castle]
-Yusara, Praha, Cyprus, Yujein, Tangerine, Muffin, Cheese, Cheese’s Younger Sibling (Alive)

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