chapter 23
23. True Vampire Returns
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Jinjo.
An existence comparable to the progenitor of all vampires.
It was good to say that he was the king of all vampires who had been vampires since birth, not the low-level vampires who were born by sucking their blood.
Considering eternal life as just a curse, unlike other vampires who were once human, they can’t understand human emotions and just imitate them.
Arwen Nosferatu.
She hides her identity from her, and when interacting with her humans or dealing with other members of her household, all of her attitudes are learned emotions. Truly its meaning and essence she does not understand. She can’t understand forever.
She must have thought so.
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Just being together is fun. Once she realized that it was her love, she understood her feelings too. She recognized the five human desires and the seven passions.
And.
She The person who told her about her common man feelings was right in front of her eyes.
“……Who are you?”
“Yes. Now you don’t know. No wonder you don’t remember.”
Rudrick slowly turned his head with a stiff movement like a robot at first glance.
Then, the one who came into sight was a girl who was fully revealed by the light from the light bulb.
Under the light, pale, pale skin with no blood was revealed. Even in the light that fell like a soft light, the purple eyes were shining with a different color.
Her neatly tied hair flowed down naturally, and the neatly dressed black suit contrasted with that girl’s appearance, exuding her foreign charm.
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Jinjo, a girl and the progenitor of all vampires.
The corners of Arwen Nosferatu’s mouth rose slowly, drawing an arc.
“No wonder you are confused. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Arwen Nosferatu…”
And then, I returned to the past.
Arwen, who was slowly taking a break, added as if in a whisper.
“……Returned to the past?”
“You must find it hard to believe. I fully understand. But now I haven’t told a single lie.”
In the cold air, soft whispers tickled Rudrick’s ears.
A sweet whisper like the devil’s temptation.
Looking at Arwen slowly approaching, Ludrick was a bit confused, just like Ludrick.
‘You say this openly from the beginning?’
She knew the moment she heard her name, Arwen. Although she had some intuition from the first time she saw her face in the first place.
She thought that even the fifth regressor, who hadn’t appeared until the end, would come into contact with her in some way sooner or later, but it was unexpected for her to reveal that she had returned from the beginning.
Apart from what Rudrick already knew.
“The fact that I returned to the past to meet you is the truth without even the slightest bit of lies.”
“……hahahaha, that’s a funny joke. If you go back to the past, you said you did time travel. You’re kidding, right?”
“Not at all.”
Ludrick gave you a last chance to fix things.
But Arwen firmly shook her head.
She found her staring eyes a bit burdensome, and Rudrick replied with an awkward smile.
“Return to the past…Well, it could be. But if you’re right, why did you come back to meet me?”
“That’s not obvious——to see you again.”
She was about to say something, but Arwen hesitated, and then she shook her head and shook her head.
No matter how much it was, to say that they were lovers in the past before returning, the conscience that remained in her did not allow that brazenness.
So instead she was forced to turn her direction sharply.
No matter how you look at it, Arwen was full of sincerity, and Rudrick, who had been struggling with her, put on a rather serious expression. Then he said to Arwen, who sat down on her floor and looked at her in a curious way.
“Please sit down first. Let’s talk.”
“Conversation?”
“Yes, it’s a conversation. You said you’ve returned now. Then, let’s talk frankly.”
“……I understand.”
Maybe it was because I didn’t expect Rudrick’s attitude.
Rudrick opened her mouth as soon as Arwen, who couldn’t hide her embarrassment, cautiously knelt down on her knees.
“So my name is Arwen…”
“Arwen Nosferatu.”
“Okay. Then I’ll call you Mr. Arwen.”
“……That’s a sense of distance. Just Arwen is enough.”
“……Well, good. Arwen.”
A rather serious expression.
Rudrick also had complicated thoughts. How should he deal with this mindless vampire who suddenly appeared and detonated a bomb.
In fact, what they know is Ludrick Weiss, whom they met before returning. And the current Rudrick swears to heaven that even if he has been reincarnated, he has never gone through a regression. In fact, the Rudrick they remember is to the extent that he doesn’t even know who he is.
But just because someone suddenly shows a crush on you, there’s no reason to accept it right away.
“Then Arwen, you said you definitely regressed, right?”
“Yes.”
“And you… A vampire.”
“…….”
To Rudrick’s second question, which can be somewhat sensitive, Arwen answered her with a silent nod.
For a mage of Rudrick’s level of skill, it wouldn’t be too difficult to see through the race, unless it’s a special case at the polymorph level.
“Now, Arwen, give me three pieces of evidence that you have returned.”
“That’s easy.”
And to Rudrick’s sharp question that followed, Arwen smiled softly at her, and she replied with a confident expression.
“First, you sometimes use strange words that only you know the meaning of. And second, I know you like to lie in bed doing nothing on your days off.”
“……Huh.”
“And finally, to the fact that you have a kind heart enough to share your blood with the vampires who cheated on you and pretended to be people around you.”
Hearing the answer, Rudrick thought in his heart as if he had realized it.
‘…… Oh, that’s why it got flagged.’
Inferring from Arwen’s answer, the picture was drawn without difficulty.
It’s not just an ordinary vampire, it’s an elder vampire that makes all your hamstrings go numb when you meet it in person. Anyone who tells Jinjo to drink his own blood must be crazy.
And Arwen in front of her probably has a taste for such a crazy guy.
It wasn’t that Rudrick wasn’t blind, but it wasn’t difficult to infer the truth.
Now that’s the last, really important question left.
“Okay, I understand. Well, that’s a regressor.”
“I’m not someone else, so I can’t fool you.”
“Then now the really important question… I understand that Arwen has returned. But why did I come?”
“……That’s it.”
Arwen, who had been answering without hesitation, was speechless.
In fact, even Arwen himself didn’t know. From the moment she realized that she had returned to the past, and from the moment her body shed tears uncontrollably, she had only thought of meeting Rudrick again.
The moment of the reunion was touching, but I didn’t come with an idea of what to do after that.
As she looked at Arwen who was contemplating what to answer for a long time, Rudrick reprimanded her as if she knew that.
“Then did you come here blindly just because you went back to the past? You didn’t even prepare a plan B?”
“……The thought of meeting you was too far ahead.”
“That’s right, other people are good at making excuses.”
“……?”
“There is. There is such a thing.”
Arwen, who had muttered in a crawling voice as if he had committed a great sin, tilted her head, and Rudrick clapped his hands as if he had found a great idea.
“Then Arwen, think carefully. This is the imperial palace, right?”
“I am well aware of the Imperial Palace of the Human Empire.”
“By the way, can vampires roam around in the imperial palace intact or not?”
“……Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult.”
“So I had an idea.”
Arwen started to feel a strange sense of uneasiness as she seemed to have come up with a really amazing idea.
Yeah, apparently Rudrick had such an eccentric side from time to time.
Arwen, who had reflexively recalled her past, began to feel the creeping anxiety, but Rudrick said with a grin.
“Then transform into a cat. Can you?”
“…….”
Arwen, lost for words, put on a visibly puzzled expression. Did she just hear her correctly? She was about to ask again to confirm, but Rudrick calmly continued her words.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s a puppy. If you sneak into the imperial palace in that form, you’ll surely be noticed, so if you transform into an animal, wouldn’t it be okay to pretend that you’re my pet?”
“……Is what I heard right now? Apparently, I heard a strange story about turning into a cat.”
“Or I’ll keep hiding like that? If I get caught, there’ll be an uproar over hunting vampires. It wouldn’t be strange if the imperial palace was overturned once.”
“…Anyway, a little bit of a cat. No, in the first place, if I turn into a cat, isn’t that the story of staying in your room?”
“I’m pretending to be my pet, so where are you going to be? Let’s go in the garden?”
That makes no sense.
Arwen wanted to shout that, but what made her even more unfair was that she couldn’t logically refute it.
In the past, there was a way for her to enter the imperial palace without arousing suspicion from others over the course of three years, but now she can’t stay in the imperial palace if she doesn’t hide herself with concealment magic at all times. No
‘What kind of man said that casually…….’
In the first place, it was embarrassing to live in the same room as a pet, even if it transformed into an animal.
After a long time had passed, Arwen barely opened her mouth, her pale skin completely stained red.
“…Wasn’t that completely cohabitation?”
A voice so small that you can’t hear it unless you concentrate.
Arwen managed to spit out and then covered her blushing face with her hands.