We arrived in Lencia at the same time as expected. It was around the time the night deepened.
I haven't been able to sleep right over Neguseau because I've gotten pretty fast so far.
To be honest, I'm pretty sleepy, so I just want to get some sleep once and then get on with solving it.
- That's weird.
The village is too quiet.
The time slot is late at night, a small village on a scale. I know it's common to be quiet, but this is going a little too far.
I can't even feel the signs of people, not just the sound. The village is quiet enough to say silence.
Even the smell of sweet flowers, a space that accentuated the creepiness, was there.
"Mr. Renge, is this...?
"... sorry. If I hadn't done this, I wouldn't have done it."
"... what do you mean, it is?
Kuzha, who is held by me in the figure of a fox, brings up a question mark, but I had some anticipation.
After all, something went wrong.
"Hih......!?
I held a little fox of nostalgia and flew to jump. Step onto the soft dirt ground and land just a little bit in the air.
"Neguseau, stay away"
"I understand."
We have connections to each other, so we don't have to go into details to convey our intentions. At a time like this, it's very convenient to have a contract.
As I say and wish, Neguseau leaves the village. Then when she opened Kuzha out of her arms, she quickly returned to her human form.
Kuzha is on alert with her tail and ear hair upside down. That's just the move so far, he understood that the situation is dangerous now.
"... sorry"
With an apology, Mr. Renge sees us.
What has been directed at this one was clearly an unfocused eye. The golden eyes, like honey, are not lit by will.
The trouble was worse than I expected. I can think about it. [M]
... Probably manipulated by something.
The honey eater was being manipulated by bandits, she said.
If the only thing that could be manipulated was honey eating, the situation in front of me is convincing.
What I'm not convinced of is why you brought me here.
If we can get the villagers to do what we want, how did you get us here when it's just dangerous to call the outside world?
In fact, Mr. Akisame moved the honey eaters when he came to inspect them, which should be to hide his existence.
I don't know why you brought us here until you uncovered the cover-up.
"Mr. Alger, that guy..."
"Yeah, I'm probably being manipulated. I'll cure you."
I hold hands while answering Kuzha. [M]
It's unclear if it's because of the curse or the magic, but Mr. Renge is obviously under some influence. If we get rid of that, we'll know a little bit about the situation.
Practice magic and be ready to use magic.
Feeling the magic flow through your body is something you've done many times since you were reincarnated. You can say you're no longer used to it.
All you have to do is spin the words that are key to activation. Take a breath and say...
"- You'd better stop, wouldn't you?
"Huh...!?
My spine got cold.
The concentration is foggy in an instant, canceling the magic that I almost activated.
The voice that stroked my ear was a terribly hot, trance-like voice.
Turn back in the direction your voice spoke.
And I saw gold.
Good evening.
The gold laid in the darkness of the night was the colour of hair in two pieces.
A girl with blonde hair coloured with bat-shaped hair decorations at all costs, dark at night and on a black dress. Her eyes are as red as blood, indisputably indicating that she is just like me.
The fangs peeking from a grin distorted to crack white skin are also, after all, vampire-specific pointy things.
She looked at me as she narrowed her red eyes to melt them loosely.
That gaze is more sticky than hot. It was a gaze like I'd never felt before.
... What is it, this guy?
At the moment I met my eyes, I felt dangerous.
Blurring, and trembling to the tip of my ear. The night air feels slightly cold.
You can say that you look the same girl as me, that's also a beautiful girl in the world. Quite the opposite of me in silver, I think she's a golden, perfect girl.
But it is obvious that the contents are not such an adorable thing as a girl.
I can't even say it's a girl, but she seems more heterogeneous than me.
Is it your instinct as a vampire, or something else? Feeling the obvious danger, I frightened myself.
Knowing or not my nervousness like that, the golden vampire talks to me with terrible pleasure.
"If you try to un-curse that child, you'll die, won't you? That's the kind of curse."
"... you, what?
"Yes, me. You want to hear my name! Yeah, well, then you should listen carefully, my bride! Because from now on, every day, I'm going to call you with love!!
Saying something I don't understand, flipping her dress, she danced at night.
You take steps to jump, and you come right in front of me in a good mood.
Almost the same height. eyes of the same color so that they are ejected directly from the front.
"Elsie, that's my name."
"Huh...!
What was told was a familiar name.
Elsie, the name of the vampire who cursed the hot springs, I heard in Sacramento Zaca.
She must still be the one who created this situation, too. Of course, you let Mr. Renge bring me in.
What can I do for someone so dangerous that there's a bounty on them?
He sounds like he's talking about a bride or something, but I just don't get the point.
All I know is that the person in front of me is dangerous. I don't know what I would do if I moved in a detour, so much so that I felt that way.
"... you are!!
I can't move. Unlike me, there was a fox that could move.
She knows where Elsie works. And I was clearly angry at it.
Kuzha finishes her separation in an instant, and she becomes three.
Three foxes, triple fighting power. A blow from multiple directions surrounded him to devour the gold.
"Aha... that's intense"
The other person's mouth was distorted with a grin and disappeared.
Fogging. The inherent ability of a vampire, which I am familiar with, is activated and the target disappears.
Kuzha-chan and the two Bushiha-chans, who lost their targets, immediately interrupted the attack and looked around.
"Where......!?
"This way, this way"
Fun voices pass into the darkness at night.
What I heard was in the direction of Mr. Renge. The fog gathers and Mr. Elsie takes shape again. On the horse, show up to lean next to Mr. Renge.
Mr. Elsie, who appeared, crawled his fingers pleasantly on Mr. Renge's cheek with his vain eyes.
"Calm down, let's talk a little bit, shall we?
With that said, her fingers are attached to Mr. Renge's neck.
Thin fingers. But it's obvious that it's not as powerful as it looks.
I'm sure it's quicker for her to focus on her fingers than for me or Kuzha to do something.
"... Kuzha"
"... yeah, I know"
Let's talk. What an invitation you're using, but the truth is, it's just a threat.
Mr. Renge doesn't matter to me, but I can't take responsibility for the loss of his life.
There's only one thing we can do right now.
A golden vampire laughed as he saw us.