How To Be Misunderstood as a Villain in a Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter 21. The Art of Deceiving One Another (15)

“What’s a gun?”

“It’s over. Johan. Put down your gun. I’m arresting you in the name of the Elsa National Gendarmerie. As for the right to remain silent… well, I wonder if you can exercise it.”

Virginia stood up slowly, aiming a seven-shot revolver at me that looked to be about a foot long.

“You underestimated Leticia’s loyalty. Not all people in the world are as corrupt as you, Johan. Everyone has values ​​they follow. Something noble that you, a beast driven by instinct, would never know.”

“Get on your knees!”

Leticia forced me to kneel from behind. The cool muzzle of the rifle touched the back of my head. Virginia’s revolver pressed gently against the crown of my head.

“I feel like I want to put a bullet in every bone. But your body is still useful….”

Virginia grabbed me by the collar, stabbing me in the lower abdomen with her revolver. She threatened to blow my precious thing up if I did anything stupid.

“Leticia, why?”

“I’m sorry, Johan.”

Leticia shook her head slowly.

“There is no hard feelings. I just did what I had to do. His Majesty has forgiven me for all my wrongdoings and has promised to treat my family in the East well. He did not want my brother and step-sister to be unhappy because of me.”

“you?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Aren’t you unhappy?”

Leticia turned away instead of answering. Virginia seemed quite satisfied with our conversation at the moment.

“I see. Your weakness. But it seems like you treat your own people well, right?”

“A person like you who ruins a good man’s marriage will never know this virtue.”

Virginia just smiled contentedly and didn’t slap me on the cheek or anything.

“If I were in your shoes, I would be very grateful. After all, I chose you. Since we have already declared our marriage, I will not kill you. However, I do know of several appropriate punishments for a dog that bites its owner. Various punishments that a family can inflict on a family. Camilla Rose, are you listening?”

Suddenly, Virginia screamed so loud that her eardrums were about to burst.

“I’ll tell you a story that you’ll really enjoy hearing! I know you’re a skilled sniper, but I also know that you suffer from loneliness! If you don’t crawl out of here right now, your lover’s penis will be cut in half!”

This crazy b*tch?

– John, get down!

No, over there?

“Don’t shoot!”

I glanced at the cocked revolver. If Virginia had pulled back a little more, that vicious revolver would have fired. Almost as hard as Camilla had shot Virginia in the head. Fortunately, the shot did not come flying.

“How dare you!”

Leticia struck me once in the shoulder with her gun. Then she aimed the gun again and turned to the side. Virginia was in front of me. Leticia was to the side.

“Okay. Okay. Calm down. Calm down. We’ve been married for a while, but we haven’t had much chance to get to know each other, right? But I think we still have a long way to go, honey. What are you going to do? No, what do you want me to do?”

“First, send the zombies back to their original locations. No, with your abilities, you can send even more to the Western Front. And you can infect both zombies and humans. Those affected by your virus become less hostile to each other, right? So, your body will be donated to the National Gendarmerie, and will serve only for Elsa.”

“Wow, is this a living, breathing cure?”

“Better yet, you’ll be a flag. I’ll tie you to a flagpole and go to Römer. After I’ve fed Elsa everything you can shed.”

Something flashed in the direction where Camilla’s voice had come from. It seemed to be the reflection of a sniper rifle scope. Camilla was looking at me. I think it would be better to buy some more time.

“Oh, and you want to take me to Roemer?”

Virginia burst into laughter at my answer. It was a laugh that seemed to say, ‘How’s it going? You got hit too, right?’, which was unpleasantly refreshing.

“What are you so excited and happy about?”

“You don’t know.”

I don’t know if this is the right word, but Virginia really did laugh, covering her mouth like a little girl.

“I?”

“Yeah. You don’t know. A stallion who sows seeds doesn’t need to know that kind of stuff anyway. Don’t worry. I’ll give you as many women as you want. Instead, you’ll be locked in a windowless cell, but I’ll move you to a different location.”

Leticia was visibly shaken, but I couldn’t give her any signals. There was something about Virginia that I didn’t know about.

Getting married means you won’t touch my body. Anyway, declaring that you’re a married couple means you won’t kill me.

Virginia knows that I can infect both humans and zombies.

And Virginia intends to ‘tie me to a flagpole’ and take me to Römer.

He burst out laughing at the words, “Are you going to offer it up?”

I don’t know. I don’t know?

“you.”

I feel a little numb. I feel like part of my head is a little numb. But I need to check.

“You. Are you planning to attack Roemer?”

The National Guardsmen stirred. Leticia was seen flinching. A smile spread across Virginia’s face. I laid out my thoughts one by one.

“Minsk may say they’re going to wage an all-out war, but they won’t be able to send enough troops. If they focus all their energy on invading Elsa, the possibility of a counterattack will increase. However, if you declare war on Römer, the two countries will rush towards Elsa with all their might. Secure the Cybele database. Gather know-how from experiencing a zombie outbreak better than the two countries. And this time, occupy Elsa’s territory and rise again as a great power.”

“okay.”

Virginia admitted.

“I will declare war on Roemer as well. Elsa will become a completely independent nation. Zombies are a problem to the world, but if you are there, you will become a strong ally to the world. Sometimes you eat your own allies, but consider it as food supply.”

I didn’t understand.

“…Don’t you have a family in Roemer?”

“Yes.”

“But you’re going to hit Roemer?”

“Isn’t that okay?”

Again, the reflection flashed. But this time, beyond the reflection, I became curious.

“I don’t understand Virginia’s family at all. You’re just going to file a marriage contract just to establish a contractual relationship, and you’re going to declare war on the country where your family is. What on earth are you talking about?”

“Family is a contract.”

Virginia answered shamelessly. Yes, she was. She was shameless. There was no other way to explain it.

“A contract is made between a couple. The child grows up as the long-term child of the parents. They live according to their greed, and in the end, all that remains is the family name. That’s why I want to ask Helford. Why. Should an individual sacrifice for the family? The family can sacrifice for the individual.”

“You’re crazy. No, your head is out of whack or something.”

It was honestly just nonsense, but Virginia turned surprisingly serious.

“I’m dead.”

It was clear that she was crazy. But Virginia didn’t even laugh.

“My father enrolled me in a private school in Minsk. Of course, I had a fake identity. I grew up there from the age of seven to thirteen, and my only job was to befriend the children of high-ranking officials and take pictures with them in front of their private bunkers.

When I asked why, my father said, ‘Since we are friends, why don’t we plant a tree in front of it to show our friendship?’ And finally, when the war broke out, all my friends and their families were hiding in bunkers. Römer’s bombing squads targeted those bunkers with precision.”

Leticia covered her mouth in surprise.

* * * * *

I felt a strange sense of alienation.

Virginia recounted her past as if she were telling someone else’s story.

Virginia wasn’t crazy.

The Helford family itself was not in their right mind.

I can understand, with a hundred concessions, sending your own daughter to a private school in an enemy country.

But after taking pictures in the underground bunker of a high-ranking official, they chose that place and bombed it?

A child who had not yet reached adulthood. A child who had never been slapped in the face by a Minsk person.

He was used as a scout to deliver shells to his friends and their families?

“What about the surgery?”

It was an irresistible question. But even before I heard the answer, I thought I knew what had happened. Virginia had said that she had also undergone a ‘procedure’. She had probably been caught up in a bombing raid and had undergone a body-enhancing procedure. But the side effects must have been that her hair and skin had turned white. Even if it was a personality disorder, that was a second thought.

“I’m healthy. I decided to call Osborn’s father my father. He gave me new life. But he had a daughter. There was no place for me. A genius of the century who goes by the sinister name of Cassandra. Anyway.”

Virginia lifted my chin with her gloved hand.

“After coming to Elsa, I found a way to turn a crisis into an opportunity. The people of Elsa are simple. They are full of anger and want to vent it somewhere. That’s why they believe in a grotesque god like the goddess of hunger. Instead of learning the patience of the goddess of hunger, they wait for the day when she, exhausted from hunger and thirst, will harvest the fruits of the earth.”

“It’s the end.”

“Yes. The End. You have proven yourself faithfully in the meantime. You have proven yourself among those who are as good as dead. You have gathered the flock of the living. You have finally become their leader. You have saved me a great deal of the work that I should have done.”

“Family is not a tool.”

I shook her hand away coolly. And I just stood up, whether she would point the gun or not.

“I’m sorry for what you’ve been through, but your methods were wrong. Family isn’t like that.”

“My parents did it, so why can’t I?”

“That’s just the clowning of a fool who doesn’t know what’s truly precious. It’s the same reason why you don’t shit on the street even though you can. You don’t know love.”

“Yeah. I don’t know.”

Virginia’s eyes flashed dangerously.

“But you have the power to find something precious to others and destroy it!”

Virginia’s revolver spun like a living animal, right where Camilla’s scope had been. Before she could even say no, the gun was already firing. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. The place where a man had been hiding just a moment ago was completely destroyed as if by a shell.

I tried to push her away, but Virginia so easily squeezed my windpipe with her other hand. I could barely snap my fingers as my vision grew increasingly dark.

Crunch.

“…What are you doing, Leticia?”

Leticia’s gun was pointed at Virginia. Virginia asked emotionlessly.

“Are you betraying me again?”

“no.”

Leticia answered.

“I betrayed you once. So I don’t think it’s right to say again. I told you to come quickly because John was here, to lure you out…”

bang!

Virginia’s revolver spun around and fired in an instant.

Takang!

But a bullet from somewhere hit the barrel of the revolver. The sturdy barrel didn’t have a single hole, but it was enough to change the trajectory of the muzzle. It was enough to narrowly miss Leticia’s head.

“…how?”

Virginia still had one bullet left in her revolver. But she didn’t aim her gun. Instead, she glared at Camilla, who was walking up the hall.

“You’re adjusting the mirror well, you husband thief. Johan, Leticia. Are you okay?”

“No.” “Not at all.”

Leticia and I answered at the same time. Virginia’s pale face turned even paler. There was a small dart stuck in the back of her neck. It was an anesthetic that Cassandra had shot outside the window.

“They say it’s a tranquilizer that can even stun an elephant.”

“You… me… again…!”

Virginia pointed her gun at me, but she fell down without firing her last bullet.