I don't like the gods, I want to be a hero

These things are still fresh in his memory, and even Keno knows that when facing such an opponent, the existence of a strong army and strong men who can fight against it is very important for a country.

"The existence of the army and the strong is related to the continuation of a country..."

The father was preaching to his daughter as usual, but he suddenly stopped while talking.

"Maybe as royals, we have a way to protect the people besides the pursuit of power. Maybe it is a special way to acquire magic that can make everyone happy, but...uh~~"

The father worked hard to move his facial muscles, as if he wanted to leave a kind smile on his daughter Keno, but doing so made him look more like a flesh-faced psychopath, and reaped the disgust of his wife and the fear of his daughter. It doesn't serve any purpose other than expressions.

"Although you may use other means to recruit strong enough to protect the kingdom, you cannot stop your pursuit of power."

"You must know that people can only get enough peace of mind under the protection of the strong. Compared with things such as charm, wealth, and affinity, the leader's personal bravery is always the most direct and most visible. Peace of mind..."

"Moreover, powerful force can protect your own safety at any time, which cannot be given by any external object."

It was hard for Keno to imagine that the father, who was not restricted by his words and smiles, had the same gentle tone as his mother, but this did not prevent her from being delighted by it from the bottom of her heart.

"In short, take this as a suggestion from your father. The future path will ultimately require you to make your own choices."

Father used this sentence as the end of the topic, and the maid also saw the timing and brought three after-dinner refreshments.

Keno licked the tea with a little milk with her tongue, and suddenly found that her parents were staring at herself like this.

She tilted her head in doubt, this is not uncommon, as long as she enjoys snacks, she will be stared at by two people, especially her father who rarely sees each other, the frequency is much higher than that of her mother.

'Have I broken any etiquette? '

Thinking of this, Keno carefully glanced at her father's expression, there was no sign of anger, but that's right, if she was rude, she would have been reprimanded and corrected by her father long ago.

Since he had done nothing wrong, Keno was happy that his parents paid so much attention to him, but at this moment, his father suddenly spoke.

"Does Keno have any plans for today?"

"Arrangement?" Keno wiped off the biscuit crumbs from the corner of his mouth, and then naturally licked the part mixed with sugar into his mouth.

"We will be learning magic from breakfast to lunch, and then we will be guided by Mr. Beran as usual."

"Can I have a look at your studies today? That interests me."

'Father is coming to watch my magic learning? ' Keno couldn't help feeling surprised, while the mother next to her laughed outright.

"Is there anything strange?" The father, who had never thought this laughter would be so harsh, frowned.

"It just doesn't feel like something you'd say."

"That's what I thought, so I just said it. What do you mean it doesn't seem like I would say it?"

"I'm sorry, honey, hehe... I'm really sorry, please don't be angry." The mother finally stopped laughing under the glare of the father. "Keno and I will wait for your arrival."

"There's no need to wait for me... To be honest, I don't want to disturb Keno's education."

Because of the mother's serious attitude, the father lowered his tone in embarrassment, but he didn't want his mother to laugh out loud because of this.

"Hi!!!" The father, who was furious and angry, knocked on the table without grace...

.........

After finishing the warm little comedy for breakfast, Keno came to her mother's room with various teaching materials.

As the strongest magic caster in the kingdom, no one is more qualified than mother to guide Keno's magic...except for the soon-to-be father.

Keno's current main training is to close her eyes, and then feel the fluctuations when her mother uses magic with her heart. This is the most effective but rarest educational method for magic casters.

Because not many magic casters are willing to let another colleague figure out how their magic power fluctuates, which will cause every kind of magic he casts to be seen through by others in advance.

But if it is between mother and daughter, there is no such concern.

However, even with such good teaching conditions, the girl didn't pay attention. Instead, she kept distracted because of her father's previous agreement in the restaurant.

'What will my father think about my studies? '

Even though they understand that they may be severely reprimanded for their occasional distractions, the rare parent-child activities are still highly anticipated by girls.

However, just when the girl was looking forward to it, an indescribable thing more powerful than the mother's magic power suddenly spewed out like a wave.

Pain, great pain invaded Keno's entire body.

As if something was tearing her soul apart, Keno lay down on the ground, unable to even make a sound due to the pain.

Tears flowed continuously, and in her blurred vision, she could see the maids also fell to the ground, and their expressions were distorted and deformed by the pain.

Mother!Mother!

Keno struggled to find her mother's location, but found that the powerful mother had also encountered the same situation. Her expression was also constantly distorted due to pain, and her forehead was also covered with sweat.

But even so, she still gathered all her magic power the first time she found her daughter.

"Armor strengthening!"

The mother cast the highest level of magic she could master on Keno, but the pain that didn't help the girl at all, her twisted and trembling petite body already explained everything.

"Defense against evil!"

The pain that hit Keno did not lessen.

"Turn into an undead!"

As a high-ranking magic of the 'spirit of the undead', it allows the caster to obtain various characteristics of the undead for a period of time.

However, even after being cast with this ambiguous magic, the pain on Keno's body still did not improve.

"No... no! I have to... have to..."

The mother clenched her lips tightly, and the bright red blood gushed out immediately, but she didn't care about it, she just held onto Keno's arm tightly, and dragged her daughter on all fours, like a wild dog with a broken leg. Climb to the door.

The maid at the side let out a thick, inhuman roar. She stood up staggeringly, leaning her body on the door while grabbing the doorknob, and pushed the door open with her own weight. With all his strength, he fell heavily to the ground.

The mother endured great pain, and it took a few minutes to cover the distance of only a few meters, but she had no intention of giving up at all.

At this time, the figure of his father who looked like he was several decades old appeared at the door, and he, who had a warrior side, could still keep his body upright.

But that's all.

"Dear"

"It's okay, I'm here."

The father came to the mother and daughter staggeringly, and poured all the magic power into his body, pressing the mother and daughter under him as much as possible.

If this sudden change was caused by some kind of unknown magic, wouldn't it be possible to help the mother and daughter reduce their contact with magic as much as possible by doing this?

The father held such an idea, and the mother seemed to understand the meaning of the father, and then activated the magic power of the whole body, and together with the father, hugged their daughter tightly.

The severe pain all over her body didn't decrease in the slightest because of her parents' actions, but the strong love gave her the courage to fight against the severe pain, as well as her infinite anger towards the people behind the scenes.

Who is that...?

why...?

'To do such a terrible thing? 'Thick questions kept appearing in Keno's mind, but her consciousness gradually began to blur under the severe pain...

Chapter 3 Responding to Despair

"Really, doesn't it mean that the undead can't dream at all?"

In the slightly dilapidated bedroom, the girl slowly straightened her head from the desk lying on her stomach, and then rubbed her scarlet eyes habitually.

"But speaking of it, the undead don't even need sleep."

The girl shook her head, and stopped worrying about the spirit of the undead. She put away the shabby magic book in front of her, and greeted the two people sitting beside her.

"Good morning, my lord father and lord mother."

But the parents who have always cared for their daughters did not respond...or in other words, they have no way to respond now.

The father's solid and majestic muscles began to shrink, and the mother's plump figure was extremely dry, and what made people feel even more depressing was their terrifying, distorted faces as if they had lost their souls——

They have become undead, and they are still the lowest level of zombies without self-awareness.

The unknown powerful magic turned all the living beings in the entire royal city into low-level undead, but due to inexplicable reasons, Keno became a higher-level existence, and thus successfully preserved his sanity.

"Although I don't know if this is due to the credit of my father and my mother, but as long as I am still conscious, there is hope for the whole Fasilis, right?"

Keno began to take care of her parents' appearance, this was the decision she made after overcoming the extremely uncomfortable feeling facing the undead——

Even if physical changes were unavoidable, she wanted to do her best to maintain the majesty of her parents as kings, just like they did for her when the cataclysm began.

"There is also Nasta, who will run around if you don't pay attention."

After taking care of her parents, Keno found Nasta who was staggering somewhere in the palace, and skillfully carried her to where her parents were.

Unlike the parents who kept quiet all the time, the maid transformed into a zombie would always run around like this.

Keno once naively believed that Nasta, who behaved differently from her parents, was affected by the residual obsession in her heart, and even made up an epic love story in her mind that even death could not separate the two.

But after Keno spent a day wandering around with Nasta, with the idea of ​​fulfilling her own maid even if the world was doomsday, she sadly realized that her efforts were useless.

Maid Nasta doesn't have any special obsessions, and all her actions are just wanderings unique to low-level undead.

In contrast, the two parents who quietly accompanied Keno were really outliers among the low-level undead.

After finding Nasta, Keno started cleaning the former maid.

Because the maid had been running around, it took Keno a long time to get rid of the extremely messy hair.

This work was actually meaningless, after all, no matter how Keno took care of it now, the maid who couldn't stop wandering would eventually mess up her hair at moments when Keno couldn't care.

But Keno still persisted, partly because she couldn't just watch Nasta, who was more like her sister than a maid, wandering around alone.

On the other hand, the act of helping relatives tidy up their grooming will make Keno sincerely feel happy as he becomes an undead and gradually dies down.

Girls like this taste.

The spirit controls the body, and the body can in turn affect the spirit. If the body of the undead continues to exist, then sooner or later, the existence named Keno will become a nightmare for all living beings.

But it is precisely because of this seemingly 'meaningless' behavior that the girl's spirit can remain active for a long time, and through the interaction with her relatives, the feelings that belong to humans are almost completely maintained.

In other words, as long as these three relatives who have special meaning in the girl's heart still maintain their own 'existence'.

Then, the girl named Keno will only be a cursed human who has been turned into an undead, and will never become a "god of death" who has completely lost her feelings in the endless death.

Although Keno actually doesn't know this now.

"I never thought that it would be so troublesome to take care of my hair. It was really hard work for Nasta before." Keno, who had successfully arranged the maid's hairstyle, wiped off the sweat that didn't exist, and then nodded with satisfaction at her masterpiece. nod.

"Next, it's time to collect books. I hope I can gain something today."

After waking up from the arms of his parents, he found sadly that all the creatures in the royal city had been turned into irrational undead, and even he himself lost the body temperature and pulse that represented life.

Before Keno, there were two completely different paths.

One, leave this city and seek help from other people.

Second, stay here, and try to find out the truth of the matter as much as possible, and find a way to save everyone.

These are two completely different paths, but as far as the result is concerned, Keno chose to shoulder the responsibility of being a royal family—she must do her best to save everyone who has been turned into the undead.

This is a decision the girl made after careful consideration.

It is true that asking for help from others is relatively simple, and it seems to be more useful than Keno working alone.

But the Hongtong people themselves are the existences that are best at magic among the human species, and their mother is the top magic caster among the Hongtong people. Keno doesn't think that anyone can solve the magic that even his mother has no resistance to.

Secondly, although Keno himself did not hate the living, it was common knowledge among all races that the undead would attack the living because of their hatred.

In other words, once he left here, Keno would most likely be attacked by others for exposing his identity as an undead.

Moreover, those creatures who are afraid of the undead are likely to choose to kill them directly instead of trying to save the residents of the royal city, even if they understand that these beings were transformed into undead by magic.

Having figured this out...or in other words, Keno, who had no choice but to start his own action.

She first collected all the books in the palace, and gathered all the books that recorded such as magic, alchemy, and belief.

Thanks to the existence of her parents and her status as a royal family, the girl collected a mountain of books that made her feel hopeful from the bottom of her heart. Driven by this "hope", Keno began to eagerly absorb the books recorded in the books. All kinds of knowledge.

She engaged in various researches, trying to unravel the effect of undead and restore everyone to their original state; she began to train herself, and climbed to a higher magical realm in order to deepen her understanding of knowledge...

For several years, or more than ten years, Keno absorbed the knowledge of magic day after day. Except for cleaning, studying, and researching her parents and others, she almost gave up all daily life activities.

It is also thanks to this high-level undead body that her body and spirit can sustain this kind of study that is almost penance.

But thinking that everything he encountered now was caused by disasters caused by unknown undead magic, Keno couldn't feel any gratitude at all.

However, the magic that turns the living beings in the entire city into undead is a 'miracle' that humans can master. Even though Keno searched through the entire collection of books in the royal city, she couldn't find any information about that disaster at all. clues.

In desperation, Keno had no choice but to venture out of the royal city, and started to study all kinds of books that were judged to be "possibly useful" in the surrounding areas, and today was the day she planned to leave the royal city again.