Chapter 373: In the mansi... Immidiate change of plans.
"You did what...?"
Lady Raspberry's face became even paler than it was a second ago once she realized that her daughter seriously just told her that she allowed her familiar to just wander off on his own with no precaution...!
An undead monster who somehow has been recognized as the heir of pride, a title that should be reserved only for the next-in-line avatar of pride!
How... how could she be so stupid...?
Was she not aware that her own mother's health and even life could be possibly saved if they study how come someone like that completed all the necessary steps to gain that title?
As someone who receive the title of the avatar of pride without actually going through the steps of possessing all the necessary skills, the value of such knowledge could not be measured!
And that little cretin whom she wasted her health to bring into the world just let that undead go wherever he pleased!
*slap*
Lady Raspberry's hand was faster than her mouth and her open palm hit against the girl's face with a dry sound.
"...?!"
At first, the little red-haired girl did not realize what just happened.
Only after a second or so when the information about the stinging pain finally reached her brain, her eyes filled with tears as she raised her hand to her reddened cheek.
"YOU USELESS IDIOT!"
*SLAP*
"YOU WASTE OF SPACE!"
*SLAP*
"SOMEONE LIKE YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN BORN!"
*SLAP*
The woman seemed to have lost it completely - she grabbed her daughter's hand and pulled her closer while slapping her face time and time again while shouting in fury.
"...u-uuu...!"
A pitiful cry came out of the girl's mouth as she cowered and tried to protect herself with her arms.
"YOU INCOMPETENT, UGLY CRETIN!"
"AAAGH...!"
Lady Raspberry roared and changed her grip from Cranberry's hand to her hair, pulling on it to force the girl to show her her face to hit again causing the child t scream in pain.
"HOW CAN ANYONE BE THIS STUPID?!"
Lady Raspberry shouted in desperation winding up for yet another hit and...
*SMASH*
"!?!???"
The door to her room got blown apart by a ridiculously strong wind pressure and the second later the little blue undead rushed into the room.
"!!!!"
He said nothing but his eyes widened in absolute horror once he saw the scene of obvious child abuse.
"Ah! He came back! Good, even an idiot like you have some lu-URGH...!"
*WHAM*
Lady Raspberry's face brightened up and she looked down upon her daughter with a mocking smile - until the moment later she got kicked right in the face by the little blue undead she was so relieved to see and her head got slammed against the floor with a dangerous sounding noise.
"YOU REPUGNANT FILTH DARES TO LAY HANDS ON MY CRANBERRY?!"
The undead familiar roar reverberated through the air as he landed after performing the crushing jump-kick, glowing with the mixture of violet and white light thorough his whole body.
"Z-Zombie...!"
Cranberry cried out, trembling, her face dyed deep red with a visible imprint of fingers on her skin.
"!!!!"
Zombie froze looking at her in disbelief - then, without any hesitation, he rushed to her and locked her in a protective embrace.
"I'm sorry...! I'm so sorry...!"
The pleasant coolness of his body was easing the stinging pain in the girl's face but the words he was saying weren't the ones she wanted to hear.
"I'm so late...! This shouldn't have happened...! I should never let this happen...!"
Zombie was repeating it like a chant while biting his lips with such intensity as if he wanted to bite them off...
"...welcome back..."
Cranberry didn't want him to continue blaming himself and instead smiled through the tears, still fresh after getting beaten up by her own mother.
"...I-I'm back..."
Her words made the blue boy finch and he stiffened - he hugged her tighter, making her hide her face between his neck and collarbone, and turned to the woman crawling up on the ground, touching her bloody lips and staring at few broken teeth on the floor next to her.
"You're dead."
The blue boy grunted, staring down at the current avatar of pride, and activated all of his attack skills once more filling the room with vibrant violet light - ignoring the voice of the sealed overseer screaming in his head.
"Raspberry, what was that soun...! WHAT THE...?!"
But then another person appeared and their presence couldn't be ignored - Lord Blackberry.
The bespectacled man came rushing to the room and gasped in shock witnessing the scene he never expected to see.
His daughter crying in the arms of her familiar while his wife lays on the floor with blood spilling from her mouth.
"DON'T JUST STARE LIKE AN IDIOT! KILL THAT MONSTER!"
Lady Raspberry spat blood to the side and shouted while her eyes shone with a white light when she used the power of the avatar, forcing her husband to act.
"...!"
Lord Blackberry instantly frowned and glared at the blue boy and he reached his glowing hand towards him, spreading his fingers as if he wanted to catch him.
"GUH...!"
And once he closed his palm, Zombie felt the unbelievable pressure pushing into him in an attempt to crush him - he recognized the attack at once - it was the same skill that lord Blackberry used during the first playthrough to effortlessly turn a werewolf into a bloody ball the size of a fist - and the same would undoubtedly happen to the boy...
But right before all of his undead juices were squished out, the boy's eyes focused not on the bespectacled man but on the woman still on the floor shone with violet light and...
"Blackberry...! Stop...!"
"...!"
Zombie gasped in pain feeling his bones creaking dangerously under the invisible pressure - which stopped the very moment he spoke the words.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! I TOLD HIM TO KILL THAT UNGRATEFUL THING!"
The enraged Raspberry shouted but her husband didn't even budge - staring at the blue boy in confusion.
"Wh-what did you do to him?!"
Lady Raspberry flinched and stared in horror at the little blue undead glowing with violet light.
"...simple... I merely used overpower skill on you while focusing on the power you have over your family - and thanks to it I gained twice as much power over everyone carrying the Pride surname."
The blue boy explained casually, looking down at the woman with disgusted eyes.
"Th-that's ridiculous! There's no way that...!"
"Shut up."
"...mpfh...!"
Lady Raspberry wanted to complain at the unfairness of the sin-based skill but a single command from Zombie made her close her mouth so fast that she almost bit off her tongue.
"Since I used overpower on a skill that controls the entire Pride family, that includes even someone who married into it, like you. You would know about it if you had any of the skills a proper avatar should have. You fake."
Zombie smirked mockingly while lifting up the girl who was already in his arms, and walking to the window...
*SMASH*
...and destroying it in one kick.
"BARON!"
The boy roared and all of a sudden a very confused red dragon the size of a small horse appeared in the air right in front of him already carrying a crimson-haired girl on his back.
"(M-master...?! H-how?!)|
"Master?! What are you doing here?!"
The red dragon flapped his wings looking around in shock while the crimson-haired girl gasped in confusion.
"Call to arms skill allows me to summon my subject once a day. I got it while Baron leveled up. Now, move a bit, Kopia, I'm going to ride him too."
Zombie shrugged his shoulder and motioned at the humanoid blade with his chin and jumped out of the window effortlessly landing on the red dragon's back thanks to his acrobatics skill.
"You two."
Zombie spoke, glaring at the two adults still inside the mansion.
"I forbid you from looking for us or asking others to look for us in any way shape or form."
He spoke while the overpower skill was still active.
"Baron, will you manage to carry us all?"
Then he leaned down, asking the young dragon.
"(Don't joke around, master! Of course! All three of you are much smaller than me and I got stronger!)"
The confident voice resounded in Zombie's mind making him smirk with satisfaction.
"Good. Then, we're leaving."
The blue boy declared while feeling the red-haired girl clinging to him with all her might as if she expected that he will leave her behind - so he hugged her back in reassurance.
"(At once!)"
Baron exclaimed, trying to make himself sound as grand as Zombie, and flapped his wings gaining height before his body flashed with white light and he accelerated into the distance, leaving the Pride's mansion.
"...I guess that means I can return to my territory for a while... but seriously... they even have a dragon now... so envious..."
Fig watched them disappear and murmured to herself.
"...wait... why are they flying towards my territory...?"
She gasped in confusion once she realized in which direction the group had flown towards.
"Miss! Miss, are you alright?! What happened here?!"
Suddenly, one of the butlers came rushing towards her with haste, looking between the broken window and the maid with a worried face.
"Oh, right, I almost forgot you are here too, Carambola - as you can see, something unexpected happened - we should return to our territory at once and report everything to my father."
The maid shrugged her shoulders and declared with a faint smile.
"B-but...!"
The butler looked around fearfully, cautious for anyone overhearing their conversation - but everyone in the mansion was too busy rushing towards lady Raspberry's room to actually pay any attention to the two of them.
"...whew... fine, you're right, young miss. Lord Rambutan would want to know about this as soon as possible."
He declared with a smile fit for an older gentleman.