When night came, the abyss was so dark that it was impossible to discern an inch ahead.
No, this must be the original form of the abyss. A deserted land with no light, no warmth, no space to set foot on.
I came down to the yard with a lamp to check out the idiot who volunteered to enter there. Then, to my surprise, there was a body that came out before me.
“Tirkanjaka trainee? What’s going on here?”
Even in darkness, the parasol with vampires is still uniquely dark. Rather than the absence of light, she was covered in pitch black, which seemed to be the concept of darkness.
Inside, the vampire looked at me with glowing red eyes.
“Yongke also woke up. It looked like he slept a lot at night.”
“a. Only Tirkanjaka trainees who are going to sleep. Compared to 300 years of continuous sleep, my sleep at night is like a twinkling firefly.”
“The words… .”
The vampire smiled softly and looked at me, specifically the golem above my head.
“It’s a cute toy. Are you a golem?”
“This is Captain Abbey, the military signal operator. I’ll ask for your understanding in advance because I’m a shy golem, so I’m not going to pretend to know.”
Golem replied.
“denial. Not because he is shy, but because direct contact with the trainees is not recommended from the standpoint of the observer… . Anyway, that’s the case, so please forgive me even if I don’t say anything.”
“What? The golem speaks for itself without a manipulator… ?”
The vampire’s red eyes widened slightly, then put his hand to his lips and clasped it and murmured.
“Hmmm. It must be a new technology. It’s not surprising now.”
That’s a lie. Because vampires only know of golems they control. Magical communication is the latest literature for her.
“ah. Yes. I’ll do that for once. Rather, why did you come out?”
The vampire avoided my question.
“I have no reason to explain this to you.”
“Is it because of someone coming down soon?”
“… It is true.”
The vampire grunted with a frown on his face.
“You already knew. After all, you said this is a military land and you manage it, right? There is no way that you, who is nothing less than a lord, would not know.”
“It’s not really like a lord. By the way, are you really here to meet someone coming down soon?”
“okay. didn’t you tell me last time If someone else comes, Nana Shay will take care of it from now on.”
“Uh, I didn’t expect it and just said it, are you really going to do it?”
“It is true. Even though I am an exfoliated being in my time, I am entrusting myself here, so it would be a proper courtesy to grant your legitimate request.”
After saying that, the vampire put the parasol on his shoulder and looked up.
hmmm. Of course, since vampires are ancient people, they are not sensitive to such manners. If you are a guest, you will try to do your duty.
But, is that all?
I carefully read the vampire’s thoughts, and smiled bitterly.
“Isn’t that just the reason?”
“… Are you doubting my words?”
“Are you in doubt? Obviously, there must be a part of that feeling. So I felt a presence and came out to meet him. but.”
I have a talent.
A secret story that I found out by reading my mind. But if it’s known that I can do mind reading, I’m bound to be on the lookout from everyone. There is no one anywhere who will welcome me as I stare at my teeth as if pulling a curtain. Rather, they may take the lead and try to kill me.
So I developed a slightly different kind of ability.
“As you know, trainee Tirkanjaka is a vampire, right? The ability to detect blood is at a level that covers the entirety of this Tantalus. No, it’s a tremendous power that can dominate anyone if it’s not in someone’s body. But in other words, unless the blood is flowing out, you can’t capture it so perfectly. For example, me or the immortal trainee Rash.”
That is, what I found out by mind-reading, as if I had deduced it.
So I did some detective work at one time. All kinds of guests came to visit me. You hired me to reveal someone’s secrets.
The request I received the most was dealing with an affair. Hmmm.
“There are probably two cases that such a Tirkanjaka trainee already knew about the intruder. Either the falling intruder is bleeding, or else.”
The vampire’s expression was calm. But that was nothing more than ignoring the truth to come.
I shrugged leisurely and told her what I had read in her thoughts.
“-A vampire who is moving with the power of the founder.”
The one who is falling now is a vampire, no one else.
Did such a vampire come in here? It’s not about avoiding sunlight. Because there are many shades from the sun in the world these days.
There is only one thing the blood of vampires will be drawn to here.
The founder Tirkanzaka. He must have come looking for that mighty blood.
‘Whatever it is, I tried to delay it a little bit.’
The vampire let out a small sigh and said.
“I have some request.”
“Do not worry. I have no prejudice against vampires. If there had been a prejudice in the first place, would you have treated the trainee of Tirkanjaka without hesitation? I will not kill unless the person who comes down is trying to kill me.”
“… It seems to have entered and exited my mind.”
The vampire smiled warmly at my answer like a clearing stream.
“Thank you. for understanding.”
“What? There is a vampire I know, but surprisingly, it is worth living with.”
“guy. Nucksal.”
The vampire, who smiled short and clear, raised its head again and waited for the vampire who was still falling. A heartwarming ending that satisfies even the heart of a vampire.
However, as with all beautiful stories, there were hardships and pains that seemed to break your head.
“What do you decide on your own?”
Out of sight of the vampire, the golem was pulling my hair under my ear. Swallowing out the screams that erupted, I stretched my arms back and ripped off the golem’s arm.
“Then do I decide? It is decided by the Sijo.”
“The opponent is Sijo. The beginning of all vampires, their rulers, and the de facto masters of the five factions, including the Principality of the Red Blood Prince! Are you going to let that meeting happen?”
“no. What do you say? Then I’ll stop you? By what power?”
“Intervene and convince the Sijo!”
“what?”
“If you can’t, just say what the main building is saying. That alone will keep the Sijo silent!”
I’m really If it was that important, they would do it. What do you expect from a single worker?
I groaned, but moved on.
“I see. I’ll try to help out from the side first. But just tell me to defeat the vampire. Military or whatever, I’m just going to throw you in the water.”
“It will be a priority to get this job done well. Unlike you, I am the actual head of this place.”
With the golem hanging from his head, he crept forward and stood near the vampire. And looked at the sky just like a vampire, waiting for an intruder to fall.
Time passed without hesitation. Whether it took time to fall, or what procedures were required, there was no news from the intruder coming down soon after a long time. Me and the vampire just looked at the sky with our necks removed, like children waiting for a shooting star.
As the silence grew longer, a sentimental voice was heard from below the parasol.
“In the distant past, it was a pleasure to look up at the sky in the middle of the night.”
I also responded moderately.
“It’s the same. Even today, there are a lot of people who take advantage of it.”
“okay. Past or present, the sky will still be beautiful. The starry night sky looks like the Milky Way is flowing, so I used to stare at the night sky endlessly without even realizing the passage of time. Because only night was the time to see the sky without any restrictions. Then, after the seemingly eternal night, when the sun god in the distance poked his head out of the great mother’s arm pillow, he hid himself under the ground to avoid the blue sunlight.”
what, all of a sudden
At the sensibility of a 12-year-old girl who even said to a 12-year-old girl to go away, I couldn’t keep up and just listened quietly. Fortunately, the vampire didn’t really want an answer from me.
Words that are spit out with emotion are staying in the wind and wishing it to disappear.
“We just wanted to live, but we had no dignity. I couldn’t raise my head and face the light confidently. Even if they came out and demanded a just judgment, if it was done in the noon square, they had to run away. In the end, we survived, but we were not proud.”
The beginning of vampires and the queen of shadows.
He once felt pity for the dying and turned them into vampires and raised them up, but now he sympathizes with the vampires who were born that way.
And that feeling.
The guilt that ugly parents often instill in their children bites their tails.
why did you make me born
Was it a good thing to have you in this world of only suffering?
Was it a blessing or a curse to give the gift of life to run away, chase, and hide?
It would have been better for each other if we had not been born.
Good parents feel guilty about the fact that they have experienced such suffering, and they suffer from that guilt again. The more you suffer, the more the guilt grows. Like a fire that engulfs itself, emotions are engulfed in darkness and turbidity. In endless pain, they clamor not to fall into the gap between theory and reality.
That’s how the founder Tirkanjaka felt right now.
A vampire was born, but the little god, who was drenched in the sin of creation, suffered with a black parasol in his hand.
“… I thought I would feel a little better if I couldn’t see the sky. So I volunteered to come here. What I miss here is the sky.”
Then, something twinkles in the abyss where there is no starlight. Periodically flashing indicator lights are getting closer. A shooting star, such an artificial light that is too artificial to be called, came to this place.
It looked like something was falling apart.
“You’re pathetic.”
And the intruder fell to the ground.