Intermission

“I felt like something extremely rude was just said about me.”

good instincts

In the middle of her meal, Severed Head-chan suddenly started grumbling about something.

don’t talk while eating

“What’s wrong, Severed Head-chan”

no body

The brown-skinned girl who was feeding severed head-chan faithfully responded.

Right now I’m separated from severed head-chan. Brown-chan who is still in her teens is currently hugging Severed Head-chan and feeding her.

Hearing Brown-chan’s words, Severed Head-chan frowned.

finish your food

“Stop with the Severed head-chan. You know my name right?”

“Nono. Body-sama calls you that so I’m learning from her~”

head says no, but body says yes

Without any sign of flinching from Severed Head-chan’s glare, the brown-skinned girl that seems to be a foreigner laughed it off.

This Brown-chan is a girl with a hardy history of attempting to steal Severed Head-chan when we had just began our sewer life. (T/N: 剛毅な経歴, hardy history? no idea) She was born in the sewers and our first meeting was when she somehow saw Severed Head-chan I was carrying under my arm as a valuable treasure, so she tried to to steal Severed Head-chan and escape only to collapse with a surprised scream.

Since then, we’ve been living together with Brown-chan to ensure the protection of our secret. She seems to have a lot of potential and is quite useful.

foreign talent?

“Using sama for Body and chan for me……I still can’t accept that.”

“Is that so? No matter how you think about it it’s appropriate. Here, aahn.”

“Mu. ……Aahn.”

nom

Brown-chan is transporting food to Severed Head-chan’s mouth. Without any special sign of resistance, Severed Head-chan opened her mouth and accepted it. After that she chewed and swallowed, where that ingested food disappears to is an eternal mystery.

I could also feed her, but in the past when I teased her by pulling back the food just as she was about to bite down on it, the short tempered Severed Head-chan got mad. After that, Brown-chan has been in charge of meals.

Looking at Severed Head-chan who looks like some animal being fed, Brown-chan’s cheeks loosened into a smile.

pet

“Fufufu~, Severed Head-chan is cute~. Body-sama, can I have Severed Head-chan?”

“Of course not!”

can i have one

Ignoring Severed Head-chan’s instant yell, Brown-chan focused on me with shining eyes.

But in this case, just as Severed Head-chan said, no.

Knowing that it wouldn’t be transmitted to Brown-chan, I conformed with Severed head-chan.

After all, Severed Head-chan is my toy.

selfish~

“Who’s a toy!”

“Is that so~. I can’t have her?”

shame

Hearing Severed head-chan’s yell, Brown-chan perceived my thoughts and her shoulders drooped. This kid loves Severed Head-chan. What a weird taste.

Well, it’s about time.

Judging that the meal was done, I took Severed Head-chan from Brown-chan.

confiscated~

“Hm? Going out?”

never leave your head at home

Yes.

As I answer Severed Head-chan, I fit Severed Head-chan to my neck and returned to a human-like state from a zombie one.

Now I am able to join with Severed Head-chan. Since I got a certain craftsman to work on my neck’s surface, if I wrap a scarf or something around the connection part, I can openly go out as a normal human.

By the way, as for the craftsman I requested to work on my neck’s surface who had said “Even if I die–no. Even if my wife and daughter were taken hostage I will protect your secret”, a trustworthy person who said such sincere words while crying as he vigorously made his oath of confidentiality.

And so even though I’m known as the ‘Headless Empress’, the only one who knows that me and Severed Head-chan can be separated is Brown-chan and that craftsman.

(T/N: The term used of headless can also be interpretted as neckless, so….)

yeah, scarf

“That’s one of the occurrences that confirmed you really are a devil. So, where are we going?”

to heaven

To the Severed-Head chan that so earnestly accompanied me of my trip down memory lane, I send this thought with a smile.

Just going to deal the finishing blow.

TODOMETA

“Finishing blow?”

one hit sure kill

Yes. Remember? Just recently I let Severed Head-chan meet the King.

its an honour

“Ah, yeah. That was fun!”

royal visits are educational

Saying that, Severed Head-chan’s face lit up with a smile.

Since a lot of money is flowing into this country due to the organisation I created, I managed to mix into the tributes Severed Head-chan who was boxed up. It was an offering filled with an element of surprise that was not only for surprising the King but also a chance for Severed Head-chan who had her engagement broken and killed to dispel her resentment.

By the way I sent in Severed Head-chan alone without going along. When I left retrieval to Brown-chan, she happily carried out the plan. Brown-chan is a capable child.

head delivery

“That person was like an idiot, being so surprised. It was refreshing~. But does that have any relation to this?”

revenge is best served in a box

It does. It’s the continuation to that.

revenge never ends

“Continuation?”

and end

To the stupid Severed Head-chan with bad judgement, any further is a secret.

idiots cannot be trusted

“Take care, ‘Headless Empress’-sama”

time to go

Lightly waving my hand at Brown-chan lowering her head respectfully, I left the room.

The neurotic queen fears the shadow of the one who was once her love rival.. The king who became mentally unstable and spouting nonsense about meeting with the talking head of the one who was once his fiancee and should be dead. Due to large amount of capital flowing in from a certain crime syndicate, bribery is rampant in the bureaucracy. The country’s politics are in a mess.

The citizens’ dissatisfaction that arose from these problems has been building up. This country is already like a powder magazine that would explode with a poke.

For me now, even the weapons for those plebeians to wield can be prepared cheaply.

Ok, let’s go, Severed Head-chan.

let the countdown begin

“H, hey. I don’t get what you are saying at all, but anyhow this makes me extremely uneasy. Where are we going? Hey!?”

towards the new year

We are going to set off some dirty fireworks.

In order to give the final push to explode this country’s gunpowder and set off grand fireworks, I skipped out. Without being affected by the uneasy Severed Head-chan, as the body, I walked out confidently.

Once upon a time, a girl who was executed one-sidedly screamed.

in a land farfar away…

“How dare you how dare you how dare you do this to me. I will curse you all now. Those who arrested me, the one who killed me, and all of you that watched and laughed as well! I will curse and kill you all.”

copy pasta

To be able to make such stupid words reality, isn’t it pleasant enough to make you think it was a good thing becoming a zombie?

As expected the lighting of the fuse is something I want to do by my own hand.

on a side note did she need preservatives after all?

“Co, come to think of it maybe we should stop? It definitely won’t end well! Hey! Are you listening!?”

nah how bad can it be?

How could I stop something so fun.

I went out ignoring the half crying Severed Head-chan. The one who met me outside the estate was the kind informant grandpa.

a nice old man

“Oh, young lady. Are the preparations done?”

“Ah, isn’t it the informant geezer! Hey, restrain and confine me now! I’m probably trying to do something unthinkable! For the sake of world peace! Hurry up!!”

“Hahaha! As expected, Headless. I can’t even see a sign of a lie or acting. I won’t be fooled by what you say anymore.”

“Listen to what I say a biiiiiiiiit!”

its a waste of time listening to idiots

As I smiled at the two getting along well, as the body, I looked up at the sky.

Today is a clear day. It’s a good day for the end of this country.

Armageddon should never be covered by clouds

“Okay, empress-sama. Shall we begin a grand festival?”

otherwise you can’t see the end clearly

Yes.

I strongly nodded at the grandpa’s words in my mind.

but some lightning and thunder might be nice

“No way! Cancel that festival. Guards-san! There are suspicious guys here to capture theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeem!”

light and sound effects are important

Severed Head-chan is resisting without knowing when to give up, but the guards in this region have already been bought over.

I definitely won’t let you get in my way. After all, something there wasn’t something that made me so excited even in my previous world.

And so I believe that.

3

“St, stop, don’t board! If you board something will end!!”

2

As I boarded the horse carriage with Severed Head-chan’s lively screams, I whispered the meaning of my own birth.

That’s right. Surely, for the sake of this day–

1

–I became the beheaded corpse of the executed villainess.

boom