A Korean Office Worker Who Became a Nuisance Villainess in a Zombie Story - Chapter 153

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“Mom!”
Melon cried out upon spotting Madeline atop the City Wall.
The Elephants, responding to their master’s emotion, lifted their long trunks skyward and trumpeted a long, mournful call.
“Sister! Mom is over there!”
“…Yes. I see her too.”
“Let’s go! Hurry!”
Melon bounced excitedly, and the Elephants thundered forward with heavy footfalls.
Naturally, the commotion drew even more zombies toward us.
Yujein, seated beside me, gazed anxiously at our surroundings.
“How did Count Sodom manage to come all the way here…? When Yusara disappeared earlier and we were searching inside the Castle, the Count was nowhere to be found, so I assumed he’d been struck by lightning.”
Cyprus, sitting behind us, provided the answer.
“That man never became a zombie.”
“What?”
“Count Sodom isn’t a zombie. Look—he’s holding something in his hand.”
As if only someone with your keen eyesight could see that from here….
“If he’s not a zombie, then what is he?”
“Human.”
“How did he escape the Castle and make it all the way here if he’s human?”
“He smeared zombie blood and flesh all over his body.”
The answer came from Praha, riding the Elephant beside us.
When I turned to look, there was Praha, showing me his profile while keeping his bow trained on the Lord of Sodom, his gaze unwavering.
His thick neck and forearms were already taut with tension.
“That’s how he deceived the zombies’ sense of smell. Making them think he was one of them.”
“Insane….”
Easy to say, but in reality, you’d have to dismember a person and smear yourself with their remains.
That man’s resolve is truly iron-willed.
“The method proved effective, judging by the fact that he made it this far.”
“Indeed.”
We were even fooled by it.
Earlier, when I saw him walking with his nightclothes drenched in blood, I naturally assumed Madeline had become a zombie too.
But that blood wasn’t his own—it was zombie blood.
“W-what do you mean? Smearing zombie blood and flesh on his body?”
“Exactly as I said. Since zombies only detect humans through smell and hearing, if your body reeks of zombie, they’ll think you’re one of them, won’t they?”
“Good heavens…!”
“Yes. Someone actually executed an idea I merely contemplated.”
Do you remember?
When I was first trapped in the Gallery at the Artificial Island Villa, I briefly considered dismembering a zombie, smearing it on myself, and walking out.
That method actually worked. How absurd.
Buuuu—
Soon after, the Elephants arrived directly before the City Wall.
Before the City Wall, now swarming with zombies and Elephants.
“Mom!”
Even as two Elephants thundered across the ground with each heavy step, the Local Lord—who had ignored his daughter’s desperate cries—remained unmoved until.
Whizz—
Thunk.
An arrow shot by Praha embedded itself at his feet, and only then did he lift his head.
His face was caked with dark crimson blood.
“Mom…?”
Melon, who had hesitated for a moment, began waving her hands frantically.
“Mom! It’s me! It’s Melon!”
Pochacha, meanwhile, remained silent.
Madeline, ignoring Melon’s calls, brought the object in her hand to her lips.
It was a magical amplifier similar to the one Mocha had used in the Basement.
Soon, Madeline’s voice boomed out, magnified to tremendous volume.
“If anyone approaches this position, I will open the Castle Gate.”
“What did you say?”
“Did you not hear? I said if anyone approaches the City Wall, I will open the gate.”
Despite the distance being close enough, Madeline deliberately used the amplifier.
So that her voice would dominate everything in a street filled with the noise of zombies.
A cold smirk played across Praha’s lips as he heard the petty yet sufficiently threatening threat.
“Ha.”
“This is no laughing matter. All the corpses gathered below us will pour out beyond Sodom.”
“Mom…?”
“If you understand, turn around quietly and go wherever you wish.”
“Mom! What are you saying! It’s me! I’m Melon! Mom!”
“Ah, even if you try to shoot me with arrows like you just did, it makes no difference.”
“Mom!”
“Go ahead and try. The moment you attempt it, I will open the gate. Shall we wager on who is faster?”
Cyprus, who had bowed his head behind me, whispered.
“Yusara, can you use magic on the Countess?”
“…No. I can’t see her face, so it’s difficult.”
The Local Lord, wary of Praha’s arrows, cleverly concealed his body behind the tower. Magic cannot be cast if the target is not in sight.
“Your Highness! Could we not go to another section of the City Wall?”
“Buildings are attached to all the nearby walls. We’d have to go around for quite a distance.”
“Listen, Countess! Don’t do this—just escape with us….”
“You want to? If I leave, it’s execution.”
Even as this exchange continued, zombies kept gathering below.
It was only because the Elephants were far larger than ordinary Elephants that the zombies hadn’t already climbed up; otherwise, they would have swarmed aboard long ago.
Pochacha, looking down from above, skillfully maneuvered the Elephant to avoid being surrounded too heavily by zombies. But Melon simply stared blankly at her mother.
“Mom….”
“I’m bored—why don’t I just open it up?”
Madeline thrashed about. The megaphone in her hand blazed with light, and its piercing sound reverberated across all of Sodom.
“Hey! These are your daughters!”
Tangerine, furious, bellowed at the top of his voice.
“It won’t work.”
I cut off Tangerine, still watching for any chance to lock eyes with the Local Lord and cast my spell.
“That man turned his own father into a zombie to claim his position. Do you really think bloodline matters to someone like that? His children are nothing but competitors threatening his throne.”
To his eyes, they were merely obstacles to be eliminated.
The fact that he’d never shared the secret about the zombies—something even the servants knew—with his own children proved as much.
A parent drawn with ruthless precision.
“How amusing—the foolish princess actually possesses some insight!”
The Local Lord erupted into wild laughter, then pressed the mechanism to open the Castle Gate as if issuing a threat.
“No one leaves my castle! We all die here together!”
By then, I wasn’t even looking at the Local Lord anymore.
I was staring at the ground.
I grabbed Cyprus’s elbow behind me.
“…Fall back.”
“What did you say, Yusara?”
“Fall back. Move behind us. Pochacha, go back.”
“…Fall back to where?”
“Anywhere! Just go!”
“Got it!”
“Moving back!”
I shouted the same to Tangerine and Praha beside us.
Praha seized the reins since Melon remained dazed.
But the swarming horde of zombies pressed so densely that even the massive Elephant found itself constrained in its movement.
It seemed as though every zombie in Sodom Castle had converged here.
Which meant—
The gathered zombies, unable to advance further, were toppling over one another and stacking into a tower before the City Wall.
‘That’s right. Like World War G….’
If they kept piling up like that, they might eventually reach the City Wall where Madeline stood.
“Retreat! Retreat!”
“Retreat! Hurry!”
“Where to?!”
“Anywhere! Just get us out of here!”
“We can’t! It’s too hard!”
“We’re already too late!”
“We’re surrounded!”
“Can’t we just trample through them?!”
“The Elephant can’t even lift its legs!”
Clang!
“What was that just now?!”
“One of them climbed up!”
“Hahahaha!”
Madeline laughed like a madwoman before our panicked eyes.
Into the megaphone.
Whoosh!
Praha’s sonic arrow flew in the opposite direction, disrupting the zombie, but the effect was minimal.
“It would be faster to kill it!”
“Miss Yujein! Could you perhaps cast magic in the direction I indicate?!”
“Yes, yes!”
“I’ll help too!”
I lowered the bow I’d been carrying on my back and nocked an arrow to the string.
Shooting arrows from atop a swaying Elephant is no easy feat.
But with so many zombies around, even careless shots found their mark.
Boom! Crack!
“What about the City Wall side! The zombies keep piling up!”
“At this rate they’ll climb over the City Wall!”
“If we move, the zombies will scatter and follow us!”
“If only the Local Lord would quiet down for a moment!”
“Hahahaha!”
“Just while he’s looking elsewhere!”
I was about to shout that shooting with arrows wouldn’t work, but I caught myself and clamped my mouth shut in alarm.
No matter what, I’d almost carelessly suggested killing my mother right in front of Pochacha and Melon.
“…You can shoot.”
But it was Pochacha’s voice that gave the final word.
Upon hearing Pochacha’s permission, Praha immediately aimed in Madeline’s direction. Melon let out a wail.
“Sister!”
“Melon, don’t you understand?! That person abandoned us!”
“Wait! The Elephant!”
“It collided!”
“We’re falling!”
“Ahead!”
“The roof! Jump to the roof first!”
“Where?!”
“There, that lower one!”
Without even a moment to confirm what building it was, I simply pointed at the nearest zombie-free structure in sight.
It was more like jumping up than jumping down!
Thank heavens the Elephant is so large!
“Tangerine! The children!”
“Yes, Your Majesty! Leave it to me!”
Upon hearing the command, Tangerine herded the children onto the rooftop like cattle. The problem was our Elephant, who had begun to panic after stepping on the jagged remains of a collapsed streetlamp.
“Yusara!”
“Praha!”
Praha leaped from beside me and crossed the distance in a single bound.
He deftly balanced himself atop the swaying Elephant’s back.
“Cyprus!”
“Understood!”
Cyprus immediately rushed onto the rooftop with Yujein and Pochacha in tow.
“Ahhh!”
Praha placed his hand over mine as I desperately gripped the reins.
“We’re coming too!”
I was worried, but first things first—get him to safety!
As I turned to look at Praha with that thought, a blunt voice dropped from above my head.
“Why don’t you use informal speech with me?”
What?
“You do it with Cyprus.”
I tried to look up at Praha, but he scooped me up and bolted forward, leaving me no choice but to clench my teeth.
“Ahhhhhhh!”
“Yusara! Your Majesty!”
Tangerine, the children, and Yujein, who had arrived first, swarmed around us.
“Where are we?”
I rolled to my feet and surveyed the surroundings.
I’d expected another wave of zombie attacks, but it felt safe here.
Why was it safe?
“…Why are there no zombies here?”
That’s when my eyes met Cyprus’s, who was smiling with a ghastly pale expression.
Cyprus whispered.
“I think I know where we are.”
“Cyprus…?”
“This is… the Temple of the Pleasure God.”
Thud.
Cyprus collapsed.
[Sodom Streets]
-Yusara, Praha, Cyprus, Yujein, Tangerine, MZ12345 (Survived)
-Two Elephants (Safely evacuated, heading to the Arena)

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