The Villainess and I, her Zombie

Claymore Lust, the head of the Lust family and the avatar of Lust, sat on their bed and combed their long brown hair with their fingers.

They looked back at the empty bed and their expression turned sour.

Claymore really hated when their partners left the bed without waking them up.

It was making them feel lonely.

"...did cuddles ever killed anyone...?"

They sighed and stood up letting the thin blanket fell from their naked body.

Claymore stood up in front of the large mirror and looked at themselves.

They pushed up their small perky breasts and made a seductive face.

They struck a confident pose while letting their awoken manhood show off in glory.

"..."

Claymore tilted their head and squinted their eyes while frowning.

"...being a man feels right today..."

He nodded and went to the dresser to pick up the bandages for concealing his breasts.

There was always a lot to do in the morning.

Of course, Claymore could just not chose between the man or a woman, and go around as themselves, but he had a feeling that it wasn't right that day.

"...?"

Suddenly he flinched in the middle of putting on his underwear.

"When was the last time I felt like being a girl...? It's been a while..."

He said to himself concerned.

"Have I been neglecting my lady parts? That won't do..."

He glanced at his womanhood, makeing a mental note to include at least one man as his nighttime companion next time, and finished dressing up.

...

Claymore Lust.

As soon as he was born, the title of the avatar of Lust was bound to be his.

His body was a special one.

In a different world, a body like his would be considered a hermaphrodite or intersex, but in this one, it was known as the Love-blessed body and it came in tandem with an inborn skill known as Love Switch.

The thing was that the Love in the Love-blessed body wasn't the feeling of affection at all.

It was a name.

A name of one of the ancient beasts that the progenitors of seven main families subdued.

Chaos God, Love.

As the legend went, every progenitor dealt with the ancient beast their own way.

First of the Prides conquered and subdued her beast.

First of the Lusts seduced theirs...

...and the child that was born was the first one with the Love-blessed body.

As for the other progenitors...

That's a story for another day.

As for the Love Switch...

When the first child with the unique body grew up, both their parents witnessed the terrifying strength of their child's seduction skills.

There was nothing, alive nor dead, not even the inanimate objects, that could resist them.

Love used their power over the system and created the passive skill that would lock that strength to protect their child from the world and the whole world from the child.

And now, hundreds of years later, the third person with a Love-blessed body appeared and was walking the earth, but without the Love's interferences into the system, some of the properties of the Love Switch got rewritten...

Claymore walked down the hallway, looking through the windows at the horizon.

How long has it been since he went outside?

The last time was probably his visit in Cranberry's home.

Though, then it was her visit to Cranberry's home to be precise.

Back then, he could at least argue with his parents that there's nothing he has to fear outside, but after lady Raspberry Pride was murdered by the werewolves, that was no longer feasible.

He was the precious treasure of the Lust family.

Clear evidence that the stories of old weren't just legends but the actual truth.

For the kingdom's lore-keepers, there was nothing more important than that.

Funnily enough, Claymore actually wasn't in danger.

Why?

Well...

His Love Switch was a bit faulty.

But not in a bad way.

Not for him at least.

Despite Love Switch being a seal that would unlock only in grave danger, as long as Claymore was smiling, his Love Switch would leak the power out constantly.

...and it could fail and open up instantly as soon as Claymore got startled by even the smallest thing.

It was something that system by itself couldn't patch out on its own...

After eating breakfast alone, Claymore was reading through the reports delivered to him by the house steward.

"....oh...?"

One of them picked his attention.

"Cranberry is wreaking some serious havoc..."

He smirked and leaned back in his seat.

"Could it be that she remembers how things were before the reset...?"

Claymore's eyes shone with interest and joy.

There was no other plausible explanation that the avatar of lust could think of at the time.

In the current, updated, version of the world that red-haired girl was supposed to be a spoiled princess-like character with nothing but love and romance on her mind.

But the actual Cranberry was feeling like a bulldozer toppling anything in her path.

She killed the butler in her house, who was a spy of the Envys, but that wasn't that important.

Then she and her undead puppet made a show at the capital and killed off the rising stars of the adventurer world that had the support of the Greed family...

And now she even started traveling the land as an adventurer herself!

Together with her puppet she created a tall two-person party called Superbia and was enjoying freedom like never before.

The two of them have already completed multiple missions and were climbing the ranks at rapid speed.

Although the part where the red-haired girl allowed prince Roan to hang out with her was kind of suspicious...

"If she remembers everything then why didn't she wrote to me, aren't we friends?!"

Claymore called out angrily and threw the report on the desk.

He crossed his arms and pouted.

"Ah, wait... She doesn't know that the members of the Lust family have some monster blood mixed in, and the system couldn't completely change our memories..."

Claymore realized and relaxed a bit.

"Make's sense."

Then he picked back the report and continued to read it.

"Huh...? Zombie did WHAT?!"

He gasped in shock and grabbed the report with both hands, reading it through carefully.

"Envys again... Maybe there is some sort of connection there... what if the system is pushing Cranberry towards them...?"

Claymore rubbed his knees together.

"This is exciting...! I should look into it more! Ah! What if the first part of the global event has something to do with the Envys?! I need to look into this!"

He laughed happily like a child that found a new toy and stood up in a hurry.