Undead Beast Master: Living Solely for My Desires

They quickly brought Lily up to speed.

"So you are saying all this time we were being watched by a raven?" she muttered in disbelief.

"It looks like it," Roran spoke as he massaged his forehead.

"So is it safe to assume that Zack was really being followed?" Zaroth sat on the ground and went back to his fishing.

"I doubt it was going to watch for long…" Zack spoke as he lay on the ground. Now that he was no longer being stared at constantly, he felt like he was going to drift to sleep any moment.

"I think it is safe to assume that the person that has been sent to watch over Zack is some kind of beast tamer like Zaroth," Lily sighed.

"Not necessarily, I impaled my spear in its body and yet it reacted like it didn't feel anything at all. It is possible that they aren't a beast master but something else…" Zaroth shifted his gaze to the calm river.

"Don't worry about it," Zack stated, catching everybody off guard.

"If I knew that there's a possibility I've been watched by a raven, I would've just killed all of the suspicious animals in the area. Nevertheless, thank you for the help. From now on, I am fairly certain that I will be fine on my own."

Before anybody could protest, Zack was out cold, the exhaustion overwhelmed him.

A silence fell upon the river as nobody knew what to say, until Zaroth suddenly exclaimed.

"I caught something!" he spoke as he began to pull the fish toward himself.

*****

The spear was surprisingly light… or maybe the thing was just too strong to care that there was a spear embedded in its body.

"I didn't expect to encounter such resistance… That boy with the white hair, I'm pretty sure he was the one that the salesman gave the pills to, saying that he worked for Elysia."

The raven flew close to the ground so nobody even realized it was there.

"Should I inform the salesman that the boy is a beast tamer? Not only that, but I'm pretty sure that the wolf he summoned was dead."

The raven stopped on the roof of a building, and black matter began to leak from its eyes and mouth as the body of the raven seemed to twitch uncontrollably.

The black mass that exited from the lifeless body of the raven entered into the shaft of the building.

Moving quietly and steadily, it spotted a human sleeping on the couch.

Without hesitation, the black matter exited the shafts as it plunged into the open, snoring mouth of the man.

The man woke up, feeling the alien entity entering his body, but it was too late. It didn't even take a dozen seconds for the man to die as the black entity took control of him.

It already had experience controlling humans, so it didn't take long to adjust. It was now able to move freely with no restraints.

"No, why should I help them in any sort of way? I'm just here for that thing the man they call the emperor possesses. It's not like I'll be rewarded in any way, shape, or form if I helped them by saying one of their potential enemies is a beast master." The being muttered under its breath, its voice lacking any kind of emotion.

The being glanced around the room. It seemed that it was in a luxurious room. It was clear the man had been wealthy before passing away.

"I should go and report that I will have trouble getting rid of that man they call Zack, but that can wait a bit. They will still think that I am on his trail."

The being's thoughts were interrupted as it felt a fragile hand pull on its leg.

"Dad? Are you okay?"

Shifting its gaze, the being saw a small girl carrying a plushie.

'The man seems to have been a father,' the thing thought as it asked the girl.@@novelbin@@

"What do you want?"

The girl seemed startled for a moment by the emotionless voice of her father, but didn't pull away.

"I'm just… I'm scared there are monsters under my bed!" she spoke as her eyes seemed to tear up.

'It will not be hard to kill her, but it would be troublesome if someone figured it out and an investigation began. This is the capital, after all, so they'll take the killing much more seriously. They may even send some Purifiers, and this will be a pain to deal with.'

As such, the being decided to play along for a while.

"Then why don't you ask your mother? I'm busy."

Hearing him speak about her mother, she hugged his leg and began to cry her eyes out.

"You meanie! You know she isn't with us anymore!"

Irritably, the being massaged its forehead.

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'This is going to be more troublesome than it's worth.'

*****

A nice smell reached Zack's nostrils, so he woke up. It was the middle of the night, and the sky was painted with countless stars.

'Reminds me of the book I read not that long ago,' he thought as he shifted his gaze to where the scent was coming from.

Zaroth, Roran, and Lily were standing around a fire as they grilled fish. It seemed they had managed to catch something.

Zaroth was the first one to see him, so he greeted him.

"Hey, you're finally awake."

With a grunt, Zack stood up and walked toward them.

He sat next to the fire, feeling its warmth.

"Who caught these?" he asked.

From the way Zaroth grinned proudly, it was clear who had.

Zack chuckled as his gaze shifted to the beautiful flames of the fire.

It wasn't something he often spoke about, but he loved to watch flames. The hotter the fire, the better.

Taking a deep breath, he spoke. "I… want to thank you all for taking me seriously. I mean, I wouldn't have blamed you if you took me for some lunatic who thought he was constantly being watched."

Zaroth scoffed, "That's what friends are for, right?" he spoke as he handed Zack a branch on which a fish was impaled and cooked perfectly.

Zack took it without saying anything.

'Friends…'

He had been disregarded by his family. No, even worse, he was actively being hunted by them. So much of his life, he had spent looking at people with doubt, wondering when they would stab him in the back. As a result, he never got closer to anybody.

He shifted his gaze to his friends. Lily was petting Silverfang on the head.

Meanwhile, the beast was trying to get a portion of Zaroth's food, so the man began to curse as a result.

And Roran was watching them silently, the bottle of whiskey in his left hand, but he wasn't drinking at all, just enjoying the moment.

Before he realized it, Zack's eyes began to tear up a bit.

"I guess I'm really lucky, am I not?" he whispered quietly so nobody would be able to hear, and took a bite out of the fish.

He was going to forget about his problems today. He desperately needed a break anyway.