As soon as Sirin finished speaking, Hiyamaru's fox ears twitched... Then she retorted, glancing toward the door inside the shop as she walked straight over.
"Boss, do you still have any fried tofu... Ah! What the hell?"
Hearing footsteps approaching, Hiyamaru hurriedly opened the door to ask, but before she could finish speaking, a white-haired figure lunged straight at her.
Startled, Hiyamaru quickly stepped back several paces, causing the figure to miss.
Only then... did she clearly see what the white-haired figure looked like.
"It's... a zombie, but only the lowest-level kind."
The figure before them was a white-haired girl. Her face looked somewhat terrifying—not because she was ugly; she could even be considered pretty. What was frightening was her expression.
It was as though it had twisted out of shape!
Having failed to pounce on Hiyamaru, the zombie girl quickly regained her footing and charged at her again.
But in the next instant, a red figure flashed past. Himeko appeared directly beside Hiyamaru and slapped the zombie across the head, smashing the zombie girl into the ground so thoroughly that she could not get back up.
Even if she had not intervened, this little zombie would not have been able to do anything to Hiyamaru. Still, Himeko had acted...
Looking at the zombie girl she had knocked down, Himeko crouched and examined her condition.
There were traces of Honkai energy corruption on her body, and she had long since lost even the most basic human consciousness. Her existence and purpose... or rather, the only things left in her mind were destruction and ruin.
"She really is a zombie..."
Although they had already known she was a zombie, they had not seen one with their own eyes before. Now that they had... they could confirm it with absolute certainty.
But