C16 Night of the Living Dead.

His name was Roe... a simple and insignificant blacksmith who lived in the village of Carne during the last attack.

He was a 24-year-old carpenter who was happily married to a weaver woman with whom he had three daughters and a son, but unfortunately, they were all dead. His entire life ended during the attack.

It was a sunny day when it all began. Roe was working in his workshop on a commission from the village chief, his children were playing outside with the rest of the people while his wife went to the village market to buy some food. Roe was finishing sharpening a butcher knife when chaos broke out outside. Knights were attacking the village, causing chaos and looting everything they found. Roe's heart raced as he tried to find his family amid the chaos. Unfortunately, one cannot worry about the well-being of others when one is in danger. As Roe ran down the street, he didn't notice the knight approaching the corner until the last second. The world seemed to slow down for what seemed like minutes as he watched the blade of a sword fall directly towards him. The memories of his life crossed his eyes as desperation quickly filled his being.

Then everything turned black and a scream of pure pain echoed through the place, but it wasn't Roe who was screaming. The blacksmith blinked in surprise when the black mass that was covering his vision was a person? Wearing black armor and a monstrous shield, however, Roe had little time to pay attention to such details as the girl disappeared in an instant with the cry of [Cover move]. Was this one of the so-acclaimed martial arts? This girl... was she an adventurer who had decided to save the village?"

No matter how much beautiful thoughts tried to surface in his mind, Roe couldn't afford to be distracted in this emergency situation. He stood up and, with his heart pounding, began to search for his wife and children, hoping that the angel had arrived in time to save them. It was then that he arrived at the village square and discovered the so-called angel surrounded by a group of soldiers, only to scream some sort of ability into the air and the next thing he knew, he was paralyzed on the ground. The only thing Roe could do at that moment was watch as the "angel" piled the bodies of villagers and knights into two piles while beginning to cannibalize the knights' corpses with a look of total enjoyment on their face. This couldn't be anything but a nightmare.

Luckily, the villagers would be saved by the intervention of Enri, and the man-eating girl left the scene bathed in blood, leaving little behind her. However, Roe saw her in the square, his wife dead with her eyes open in an expression of terror, holding one of their daughters who was also dead in her arms.

Roe hated the man-eating girl, but he was also too terrified of her to do anything. When the Kingdom's knights arrived, he thought that this nightmare would end, but instead they rode alongside the monster that had grown feathered wings towards a new enemy that surrounded the village.

Then the girl showed her true identity. The sky turned purple as acid rained down on the village and its surroundings, poisoning everything that stood beneath it and forcing the villagers to take refuge inside their homes while the Armageddon was unleashed upon the enemies. Then the monster's true form was revealed, a horrific and indescribable being several meters tall with multiple limbs and a face with nothing but a mouth full of sharp teeth.

The result of that battle was terrible, the knights of the kingdom and the enemies were annihilated. The monster returned to the village with the wounded warrior captain and a handful of the knights who had accompanied him on his adventure. It was Roe's duty to forge the shackles to contain the monster in place. With the help of his surviving sons, he melted the weapons and armor of the devoured knights into the thickest chains he could make, hoping, but not blindly believing, that using the metal of the dead in battle against the monster would restrict its abilities.

If there was one thing Roe wished for, it was that at least that day wasn't sunny. He begged the world to mourn with him the death of his family, his fellow villagers, and his land now contaminated with poison.

As night fell, Roe watched as the warrior captain helped with the bodies of the deceased as if he hadn't been injured just a few hours ago. With a strange pain in his chest, Roe left his house and helped move the villagers' bodies to graves elsewhere. There were barely any attacker knight corpses left to bury. With a heavy heart, Roe took his wife's corpse in his arms and placed it gently in the grave he had dug for her. He didn't know where the monster was, but he didn't want to know... His mind couldn't handle it.

And then a large black portal opened in the center of the village, and monsters walked the earth. Things taken from nightmares and skeletons walked, but they all shared a strange similarity. From the largest and most terrifying demons to the most repulsive bugs, each and every one of them wore either a red or brown suit with small, cute horns on their heads.

However, leading this procession of a thousand demons was a great skeleton in the most prominent red robe and on his shoulders... the monster. The smile on its face disgusted Roe, and Gazeff quickly drew his sword, somewhat confused.

Then the man eater girl stood on the shoulders of the skeleton and projected her voice throughout the village with the power of her lungs.

"Villagers of Carne Village! Rejoice, for Christmas has arrived! Come out of your houses and celebrate! It's time for a festival!"

As she said this, the skeleton passed a strange wand to Maple, who with a strange smile on her face shouted, "Christmas is here!"

Maple then waved the wand in the air and the air was filled with light, while sparks rained down on the village. At this point, all the villagers were hypnotized by the display of power when suddenly the graves began to move and from the depths, the dead rose with new life. Roe blinked in surprise as color returned to his wife's face and her chest slowly began to move with the rhythm of a slow breath.

Incredulous, Roe touched his wife's cheek, who stirred in her sleep until she opened her eyes.

"Roe, is that you?" Tears began to fall down the blacksmith's cheeks as he hugged his wife who was awakening from death. "I... Roe, I had a nightmare, the village was attacked when..."

At that moment, the head of a girl emerged from the grave next to hers. "Ew, I have dirt in my mouth," the girl said. Roe's eyes turned incredulous at what he was seeing, while his wife stood up suddenly with an irritated face. "Hey! Jima! What the hell are you doing buried? Look at you, all dirty! Oh, you naughty girl, you'll see what's coming to you."

Roe's daughter began to shake her head in panic. "Wait! Mom, I swear it wasn't me, MOOOOOOM!"

At that moment, the grave behind his wife moved and a relatively young woman pulled an arm out, then another, until she unearthed part of her torso. "Who was the idiot who buried me? I know I'm dying of a disease, but wait until I'm really dead, damn it!"

Roe blinked without understanding. "Mother?"

The woman looked at Roe somewhat confused. "Huh? When did you grow up so much, Roe? Weren't you only 14 years old yesterday?"

At that moment, a mature and robust man jumped out of the tomb to the left of the woman and hugged her, crying and kissing her cheek. "RUMINA! You're alive!"

Roe's mother slapped him with a small scream as she escaped from the grave. "Kyaaa! A perverted zombie!"

The man in question rubbed his cheek while still crying. "Yes, this is the woman I married," he said.

Rumina raised an eyebrow. "Bob? You turned into a zombie. I suppose that's better than you cheating on me with my twin sister..."

At that moment, from the same grave as Bob, a woman identical to Rumina rose up and stretched. "Huh? It's already morning."

Rumina's gaze turned cold. "Bob, darling, would you mind telling me why you were sleeping next to my twin sister?"

Bob started to sweat. "I-it's all your son's fault! I told him that when I died, he should bury me next to you! H-he must have gotten confused about the grave."

Rumina's cold gaze landed on her son, only to notice that he was crying heavily. "Honey, what's wrong?"

Roe was crying uncontrollably. "I-it's... Mom, Dad, how are you alive?"

They both looked at each other before shrugging, then Roe heard the sound of chains behind him and saw the monster with an unusually trustworthy and seductive smile on his face. "Didn't you hear me earlier? It's Christmas! It's time to celebrate with family!"

A warm but guilty smile settled on his face as he put his hand in a black vortex and pulled out several reindeer headbands. "Here, a gift."

Jima, Roe's daughter, took one of the headbands and looked at the members of Nazarick with a look of pure amazement, noticing that they were dressed in reindeer and Santa suits. She screamed with excitement. "Mom, Mom! I want that red hat!"

Maple placed a hand over her heart as if she were injured while watching the dead rise from their graves.

Gazeff looked at the monsters with genuine surprise on his face, this time it was certain, he had gone crazy. The dead were rising from their graves and everything seemed like it was taken from the craziest fantasy tale in the world. A group of monsters arrived in the village, proclaiming the start of a festival, reviving the dead and distributing abundance among the stunned villagers.

Gazeff saw the villagers crying with their families, he saw little Enri hugging her father and mother while her grandparents greeted her. Generations and generations of people came out of the cemeteries to join their acquaintances, and Maple discarded several dull wands as she descended from Ainz's shoulders and began to profess "Christmas."

For his part, Gazeff also noticed how a little dark elf dressed as a reindeer stood on the roof of a house and began to cast a spell that drained the poison from the ground, leaving everything shining like it had never done before.

He walked in front of Maple's rival and was surprised when the greeting he received was to put a red hat on his head without warning.

"Jo Jo Jo, you have a complicated face, Captain Warrior."

"Ainz Ooal Gown?" Gazeff asked with audible confusion. Ainz suddenly froze when he heard his name called and looked at his clothes before clearing his throat (non-existent).

"Rejoice, Captain Warrior, Maple has brought Christmas to this village and revived the dead."

Gazeff scratched his head. "The Knight of Absolute Destruction reviving the dead? Someone capable of destruction and creation is a complete threat to the world."

Ainz tensed at his words and patted him on the shoulder (not before deactivating the Touch of Death). "To quote Maple, 'anything is possible at Christmas,' so submit to the magic of Christmas and enjoy this festival of giving and sharing. That's right, let yourself be carried away by the magic of Christmas and fall into this wonderful dream that seems to never end."

After saying that, Ainz took some hot wine from his inventory and handed it to the Captain Warrior. "I hope to see you at this banquet."

After that, Ainz left followed by death knights carrying tables full of food, gifts, and the highest quality wines.

Gazeff looked stunned, then smelled the wine in his hand and took a sip, nodding slowly. "So I'm subdued by the magic of Christmas... I see, what a malevolent magic. I suppose I have no choice but to go along and enjoy this supposed Christmas." Gazeff smiled, not caring how unreal all of this was, and joined the banquet among the monsters, enjoying a meal with a "normal" girl with a serious face in a Santa suit and rectangular glasses. They both chatted lightly when they met under a mistletoe, and Yuri Alpha, the deputy leader of the Pleiades, let out a tired sigh, then tilted her head and gave him a kiss on the cheek that left Gazeff surprised, after which she explained the tradition.

Gazeff was stunned, even more so when he saw a great lord of evil (a large demon) give a passionate kiss on the mouth to a girl standing under a mistletoe, just to see Enri running towards him and giving him a flying kick while yelling, "Get away from my sister, pervert!" Gazeff took another sip of his wine, only to realize that it had run out, and decided to take more to endure this madness.

That night, Christmas came to Carne Village.

Author's Note:

Officially Christmas is over, now only the after party remains XD This time I wanted to be inspired by the writing style of Overlord, in which we see everything from the point of view of the poor people who have to deal with the Overlord invasion, but how to say this.

This may be very happy for now but I can only have nightmares about the butterfly effect this shit will have. In fact, I'm sure the butterfly effect is so great that following the same path as the original story would be stupid, but I'll still rescue several events. By the way, Nazarick is defenseless, does nobody want to conquer it while everyone is out partying? Also, I'm surprised at how quickly I released this chapter (I only finished Tanya's chapter yesterday), I guess I was inspired, never underestimate the power of a good coffee in the morning my friends.

However, that leaves me more time to work on my Magnum Opus: "Chainsaw Bocchi". I wish you luck and I'll see you in three more weeks with another chapter of Maple in Overlord.

Sincerely,

"I love Bob's infidelity to Rumina with his twin sister..."

J-More

P.S. no postscript for now C:

P.S.2 The whole story of Roe and his family is completely invented without any bases in Overlord or anything really.

P.S.3 ¿Should I do a section of answering reviews?