because i'm a zombie

Chapter 3 The Grave Digger and the Boy Who Was Excavated

The smelly soil was covered by two people with shovels one by one, and the gradually thickened soil layer slowly deprived me of the right to breathe air.

"Are you going to... die...?"

My eyes were forced into darkness, and my heartbeat began to calm down.

The terror of death sang carols all around me.

"If there is a next life..."

"Just make me happy..."

So tired, let's end like this.

I closed my eyes and my heart stopped beating.

"Brother, that's all right."

"Well, let's go, the law and order in this area itself is poor, and it is sparsely populated. If we go back and deal with it, no one will find out that we did it."

Under the darkness, the two sneaked out of the mass grave in the suburbs while taking advantage of the darkness.

The wind in late spring and early summer is hot and cold, like a girl in adolescence.

girl...

"Cha Cha Cha~"

The supposedly quiet mass grave suddenly remembered the voice of a girl.

The girl hummed an unknown song, holding a strangely shaped shovel in her hand.

"Heh heh heh~ I am a gravedigger, I want to dig a grave~"

As the girl sang, her actions at this time were officially digging a grave!
What does she want to do?
"Ah, failed again..."

After the girl dug a grave, she lowered her head to look at the rotten corpses inside, then pouted and complained a little.

"Well...but it's okay! Elizabeth will definitely be able to dig out a perfect zombie!"

"Heh heh heh~ I am a gravedigger, I want to dig a grave~"

Humming again, the girl rebuilt the tomb in front of her, turned and walked towards the other one.

Just like that, dig it out, look down, shake your head, and put it back on.

After the girl named Elizabeth did these actions a dozen times, she came to a tomb that looked very fresh.

"This person just died..."

She put down the shovel and squatted down, gently touching the ground of the grave with her right hand.

Fresh, Rang Rang soil.

Elizabeth's face became bitter.

"People who just died can't turn into zombies... Is Elizabeth's mission going to fail again..."

Elizabeth stood up and dragged her shovel to the next tomb in disappointment.

However, after taking two steps, Elizabeth turned around and held the shovel in both hands.

"Try it, anyway, it's nothing to dig one more!"

"Heh heh heh~ I am a gravedigger, I want to dig a grave~"

The unknown song reappeared on Elizabeth's lips. She put down the shovel and picked a place to dig down.

"Zombie, zombie~zombie~~zombie!"

After the soil was completely dug away, Elizabeth looked at the young man lying quietly in the pit with a smile on his lips, and cried out happily!

She made it!

She did it!

She is a qualified gravedigger!

Elizabeth happily jumped twice, and then she glanced at the young man whose face had already turned blue suspiciously.

"It's strange... how can someone who has just died become a zombie?"

"Could it be..."

Elizabeth stretched out her hand and placed it on the boy's cold forehead.

A faint yellow light lit up in the palm of her hand.

A few minutes later, she withdrew her hand, and squatted beside him quietly looking at the boy.

only……

At some point, two tears appeared in her eyes.

"Do you want to be happy..."

Elizabeth stroked the boy's cheek slowly.

Cold and stiff.

"I can give you a chance, become a zombie, forget the past, and live as a zombie."

The stroking hand came to the boy's chest and stopped.

Slowly, mysterious golden runes appeared in Elizabeth's palm and the boy's chest, and they began to spin.

After turning about nine hundred and ninety-nine times, the rune stopped, and Elizabeth's face was covered with sweat.

"Okay, get up."

Elizabeth stood up and waved to the boy in the pit.

However, the boy's body remained motionless.

"what happened?"

Elizabeth squatted down again to see what was wrong.

at this time!

A pair of hands wrapped around Elizabeth's back and pulled her down!

"what!"

an exclamation.

"who are you?"

Elizabeth looked at the boy in front of her who was questioning her, her big eyes were full of excitement.

She really did it!
She's done her job as a gravedigger!
Her wish has come true!

"Ah, I'm Elizabeth."

Elizabeth smiled gently and began to introduce herself.

"I am a gravedigger~"

"Gravedigger?"

The boy frowned and thought about it.

"The gravedigger is...well..." Elizabeth frowned and thought for a while, "Digging other people's graves and turning them into zombies!"

"..."

Seeing the young man in front of her looking at her with a speechless expression, Elizabeth's face suddenly turned red with anger!

"Don't look down on gravediggers!!!"

"Hmph! Gravedigger is someone who only appears once every 100 years!"

"Zombies are indescribable creatures!"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!"

Elizabeth frantically wanted to stand up, but found that the boy's tight hands prevented her from doing so.

"let me go!"

"Ah?" The young man froze for a moment, and quickly let go of his hand.

Elizabeth stood up and hummed to the boy twice.

"Anyway, you have become a zombie, you just accept your fate!"

"kindness."

The boy nodded, and also crawled out of the grave.

"Why can't I remember anything, who am I? What is my identity? I..."

"You have been reborn, as a zombie." The right side of Elizabeth's expression softened.

He stretched out his right hand and stroked the boy's cheek.

"As the one who gave you new life, I will give you a name."

"after……"

"You are called..."

"Rodriguez..."

……

"No."

The boy turned his head away and refused.

"..." Elizabeth, who was rejected, looked at the boy pitifully, "Don't be like this, okay... You are the name I thought of a long time ago... People have always imagined that they can meet their own zombie , and then give him the name of Rodriguez... woo woo woo..."

Seeing the crying girl with pear blossoms and rain in front of him, the boy felt embarrassed and reached out and slowly touched the top of the girl's head.

"Well... let's call it Lloyd..."

"Lloyd?" Elizabeth muttered in her mouth, then raised her excited little face, and nodded heavily!

"Well! Let's call Lloyd!"

Lloyd...

Only now did I take a serious look at this girl named Elizabeth.

Black skirt, white skirt, brown hair with a single ponytail fluttering in the natural wind.

The beautiful and delicate face is smiling happily.

but……

what is that……

I looked like the strangely shaped shovel clutched in Elizabeth's hand.

Could it be that she used this to dig me out...

"Hey, you won't..."

When I was about to question Elizabeth, I couldn't speak anymore.

An inexplicable golden light flashed from Elizabeth's body, slowly spreading upward from her feet.

"you……"

"Ah, it's finally coming..." Elizabeth looked down and laughed.

only……

Why does the smile on my face make me feel so sad.

"You know what... people like us who want to die have only one way to kill us."

"That is……"

"Fulfill your wish..."

Elizabeth looked at the golden light that had spread to her knees.

"I've completed my mission as a gravedigger, so..."

"Don't die please."

I grab Elizabeth's shoulders.

"Don't die, okay..."

"You gave me life, you gave me a name... Are you going to leave me with this person like this?"

"Don't die, okay... stay, I want you to stay!"

However, Elizabeth shook her head.

"I've been waiting for this moment for 95 years... Even if I don't fulfill my wish, I will automatically disappear in the world after five years..."

"Instead of that, it would be better to finish my wish, right, Lloyd~"

"Don't die! Ahhhh!"

I put my arms around Elizabeth's body and hugged me tightly.

"It doesn't matter Lloyd...the gravedigger didn't really die after fulfilling his wish, but turned around and reincarnated as a human being."

"This is the world's reward for us~"

"so……"

The golden light spread to the girl's neck.

"Come to me, I will always wait for you."

"Lloyd, come to me."

spread to the chin.

The girl's head came up suddenly, and her lips pressed against mine.

"Come to see me……"

Disappeared.really gone.

I sat on the ground and touched my lips lightly.

Elizabeth's final softness and warmth.

I……

Will remember it!

"Elizabeth, I will definitely find you!"

I stood up from the ground and walked firmly in one direction.

At the same time, the early morning sun also lowered the first ray of sunlight from the horizon.

(End of this chapter)