OK, so there are consequences having to do with the Curse of the Pharaohs.

Of course there are, why else would I even have mentioned the possibility? Seems like Honest-Abe-kun and Mihashi got a little bit of the curse on their clothing, along with all of the desert dust, and carried it back home. Which has given an opening for Rutentuten-kun…uh, Rutentuten-san…Rutentuten-sama to finally enact his long-simmering revenge on the group of adventurers that thwarted his plans so many decades ago.

He is reveling in the opportunity…and it will all be just so much sweeter once he actually manages to run into some cast member that actually remembers him from that long ago. ._. Gregory, of course, was introduced in Chapter Two, so he might at best have heard of the original group’s expedition to Egypt. And he might have heard only parts of it, at that…depending on who was doing the telling, Gregory-kun might have fallen asleep rather quickly.

And yeah, at the end of Chapter One Rutentuten wasn’t actually out for revenge, since the whole thing ended better for him than it would have without the team’s intervention. But that was decades ago, so he probably just remembers it wrong. Undead pharaohs have a strong predilection towards being vengeful, that might be what makes Rutentuten think there’s some sort of piper still waiting to be paid here.

And, yeah, Gregory should perhaps have a stronger reaction to the presence of a living mummy, even if it’s a living mummy he didn’t know personally yet. But, hey, he’s a former zombie, so he probably feels more at home around the vengeful dead than the average Joe.

More on Monday.