Silence before a storm (part 5)

With Zombie's life signature detection, it wasn't too difficult to find and get to Mary.

The surprising thing was who she came with.

A tall young man with tanned skin and long wild black hair with an orange glint to it was the one to wave at the master-servant pair as soon as he spotted them coming towards them - as if he was already familiar with them even though it was definitely the first time that Cranberry has ever seen him.

She didn't remember his face from multiple hours spent on memorizing the pictures of every single member of the important nobility that she was put through when she was a child, so this man shouldn't have been anyone that important...

Or should he?

"Young lady Cranberry, big brother Zombie!"

The tanned young man bowed towards the red-haired girl and the blue-skinned corpse puppet with extreme satisfaction as if he wished to have done that all along.

"Hello... nice to meet you, sir...?"