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I am a vampire. A vampire bloodling, if you want to be specific.
The grand re-opening and rebranding of restaurant Aurora as a fine dining establishnt was not only an extrely hectic day but also a very stressful affair. Though, that much was only to be expected, honestly.
Not only did we promote our restaurant to the senators of Estralia through the rchant guild, but I also inford King Drangleic and his seven dukes about it. With all of them bringing their families to experience this new event, every single table was occupied. Even then, once word spread through the grapevine about it, more people wanted to co in, forcing us to put up a queue.
Beforehand, we accounted for only our VIPs, which ant 21 groups from Gleisvale and eight from Artorias. 29 tables were divided between six waiters and waitresses, which included Svena as the head waitress. But, it beca clear right at the beginning that we needed more help, and thankfully, Lorena and Haati were willing to help out. Apparently, Svena had trained them up in case this would have happened.
Now, while I did say the restaurant was full, I didnt an every senator actually ca or, if they did, in a large group. So senators ca only with each other, while I learned later on so didnt even co in the first place. This allowed other important guests to take their place.
On the other hand, the king and all the dukes ca with their closest family mbers. The test service was so successful they practically couldnt help but admit theyd been waiting for this in anticipation, up until the very mont we opened the restaurant. And its only been a few days since the test.
Once the kitchen had opened, everything happened exactly as you would expect for a busy restaurant. I had thought the kitchen would falter a bit since there were even more people around this ti, but through Tamaes immaculate leadership, they barely had any trouble outside of the dishes not being cleaned fast enough. In fact, the waiters up front were the ones that suffered from the most issues.
Ellaine and I led the musical entertainnt for the night, so we had a front-row view of the senators being baffled at how the Artorian king and his nobles could possibly be here. They initially thought they had sohow been transported to Estralia for the day, but I quickly refuted this, simply telling the senators that the Artorians had entered the restaurant from Artorias, leaving them flabbergasted. I didnt enlighten them any further and just let things flow.
And by flow, I ant letting the politicking and business negotiations begin.
Honestly, it was too boring for to listen to. I couldnt help it. I found their delight over the food far more interesting. It gave a sense of success, seeing as everybody apparently loved the food Tamae and I placed on the nu.
However, pleasantries aside, this was still a political move to make it clear where Artorias stood in my relationship network. Considering I invited the King of Artorias and his seven dukes, it was clear we were good acquaintances at the very least. In addition, I had told the dukes and the King that we needed to find a senator we could safely support, so this allowed them to help out a bit on that front.
After one table left, the next ca in from our queue. A majority ca from Artorias, as the dukes actively bragged about eating at the restaurant trial to their relatives and friends. I made so followers from it, but they were too focused on the food to fully imrse themselves in my music.
Regardless, all I wanted to see was the restaurant being a success. I could tell Saori was quite happy when the service ended, even if it wasnt under her full control anymore. This was her idea, after all. She just couldnt realize it due to her lack of experience managing a restaurant. Whether she will return to the kitchen or not would be a question for the future, but for now, we had sothing else to talk about.
Sitting on a sofa surrounded by nearly everybody else from Aurora was Elrick von Karstein. A mber of the Knights of Aurena, a profession which you could call a paladin or holy knight considering his skill set. A handso man with bright blond hair; the perfect image of a lawful young man in the service of the Goddess of Light.
Well, until you realize this man now had ears almost as sharp as an elfs, dark red eyes, and two fangs protruding from his closed mouth. He still looked like Elrick, at the end of the day, but the fact he wasnt human was a real surprise.
A bloodling? Asaka asked. She was probably the one most shocked by this revelation.
A young vampire who hasnt awakened their full vampiric abilities yet. I hid a lot of information from my ID, but not my age. Elrick spoke slowly and concisely, looking slightly saddened at how Asaka looked at him. I didnt know if he was feeling bad for hiding this information or cause he was found out.
W-When were you transford into a vampire? When were you bitten? Asaka continued, still trying to grasp the situation, but her confusion only led to Elrick himself getting confused as well.
Hmm?
Noticing so misunderstandings were at play, Yorshka asked us if we knew anything about vampires beforehand. Outside of the fact vampires were created by the Goddess of Vampires, Vivachel, all we knew about them was the folktales and pop fiction of Earth.
Once we explained it to them, Yorshka quickly nodded and stated that people couldnt be turned into vampires in this world. Vampires and half-vampires could only be born; they couldnt inject so virus or sothing into sobodys body to transform them.
Vampires are a subrace of dark elves, everybody, Tasianna pointed at her elven ears. Similar to how wind and dark elves are variants of high elves, the vivachaerii elvish for children of Vivachel are variants of dark elves.
Ah so thats why your ears are almost as long as Tasiannas in her elven form, Kazumi noted.
I looked at him from top to bottom, noting how his skin wasnt as grayish as Krymdars. I wouldnt say it out loud, but he didnt really look like a dark elf at first glance. But then again, neither did that vampire woman from before.
So, uhm Kohaku hesitated, darting her head around to see our opinions on the subject. However, she couldnt ask him the question in the room outright, leaving it to Nishio to speak it out.
Sir Elrick, seeing as youve been a vampire for all this ti, why and how did you beco a knight of the church of Aurena? I thought they only tolerated dark mages and dark elves to prevent hostile actions. Why would you join them as a vampire?
Why I exactly joined the church is sothing I would like to keep to myself, but rest assured, my faith and loyalty to the Goddess is far stronger than what I have towards the Goddess of Vampires, Elrick stated with unwavering eyes. I believe my life and destiny belong in the Goddess hands, and I will sacrifice my life for Her if I had to. Mayhaps the priests think of and my race as abominations, but as long as I can keep my [Humanize] up, I will play the part of a holy knight.
Not mayhaps, Elrick. The fact your kind requires blood to restrain your feral urges and control your blood magic makes you even harder to tolerate for the priests and bishops, Yorshka interjected while shaking her head.
Yorshka gave us a rundown of what characteristics vampires had which differentiated them from dark elves, outside of the visual differences. For one, unlike normal mages, every vampire was born with the ability to use blood magic as a racial ability. A compound elent composed out of water and dark at its core, and vampires had amazing affinity for it and could draw out more of its potential.
Secondly, vampires did need to drink blood similar to Earths perception of them. Younger vampires required them to suppress their hunting urges, which could be called a desire to beco stronger. The reason being that the total mana capacity and regeneration of a vampire was directly related to how recent their last drink was. Elricks Mana on his profile was as low as a humans, since he had to suppress his instincts in order to blend in properly.
And lastly, vampires werent weak to sunlight, but they did beco stronger during the night. Like Saoris [Nights Caress] skill, vampires received an increase in stats so long as the moon shone on them. Elrick called it the veil of our progenitor, similar to how dark mages considered the night the warm embrace of Marsven and Edna like a father and mother placing a comforter on you while you sleep.
Of course, a few things from Earth didnt apply to Peolyncian vampires. They werent weak to silver nor were they invisible in a mirror. They could enter houses even without permission, had no problem eating garlic, and they werent any more immortal than a normal dark elf. They just have a ridiculously long lifespan.
Weakness- and resistance-wise, vampires were quite vulnerable against fire and holy elental attacks, while resistant against water and dark. This also applied to the respective component elents, so sothing like my [White Flas] would totally destroy Elrick. On the other hand, blood magic was almost useless against him.
The irony of a vampire becoming a paladin under the church of the Goddess of Light Saori comnted, causing everybody to nod.
Sir Elrick, doesnt it hurt when you cast a holy spell? Shouldnt it be extrely hard for you to level up [Holy Magic]? Tatsuya followed up.
It doesnt when Im wearing armor resistant against holy spells, Tatsuya, Elrick answered with the obvious, causing Tatsuya to facepalm. Haha, dont worry about it. The situation is truly rare, so common sense wouldnt work here. But, yes, without being in my armor, I would not dare cast a holy spell. It is also a wonder that I managed to get my [Holy Magic] up to level six despite my disadvantages.
Elrick clenched his left hand into a fist, looking at it with a wry smile. I probably could have improved faster if I had given in and drank blood to recover, but I considered that a sin. If I had done it, I would not have been worthy of championing the Goddess faith.
The room went silent, only broken once Asaka spoke out.
What about your family? You told your family was part of the Empire and that your sister went to Aleistunum.
We have kept our secret well enough, since we could transform into humans. We also regularly import goods from our races capital, which I cannot tell you exactly as its a secret. I presu the Emperor and those close to him probably are in the know, but since we have served the Goddess for generations, I dont think they consider us a big threat anymore.
Generations?
We cycle out mbers. Those too old in comparison to humans move back to our capital or to other lands. You could say, we enjoy our limited ti, until we have to die like any other human. Similar to any other elf, we vampires have an extrely low birth rate, even if we wed humans, so overpopulation was never a problem.
In a way, that is a very sad life, huh? All these secrets, just to live amongst humans.
Still, while I had my reason, I do have to apologize to you, Lady Asaka, and to everybody else for keeping this secret for this long. I tried to suppress my need for blood for this long, but I couldnt do it any longer.
Asaka had ntioned how Elrick hasnt been looking too good recently. Almost as if he was sick. I had also noticed how Elrick stared at the blood pool after we dispatched the slave bandits during our entry into Gleisvale.
Yorshka then cleared up that Elrick has been drinking mostly the blood of small animals as a way to quench his thirst. Usually, the more mana the creature had in its blood, the better its effects on the vampires. Therefore, vampires didnt need to feed on humans or any humanoids, but could do it on monsters. It was just hard to do it on good targets while remaining inconspicuous.
Looking at Elricks complexion, he probably needs another session soon. It was a dying cartel mber, right? So random person probably wont do it, Yorshka inford us, completely glossing over that Elrick just drank from a human.
However, Elrick didnt. He bowed his head deeply, not bringing it up as he continued his apology. I understand my presence might be dangerous to everybody, as such, I shall take my leave from the company. I shall report that Knight-Captain Yorshka has been more competent than , and therefore, she can keep saint candidate Asaka Hanazawa safe better than I ever could.
As Elrick stood up, Asaka jumped up and stopped him from going away. Stop! she ordered him with an outstretched arm. What are you trying to do? That isnt a reason for you to leave.
It is, Lady Asaka. However, Elrick was stubborn with his answer. As a vampire, I cannot serve you anymore. In addition, I can feel myself waning in strength. As your protector, I have failed too often during our travels together while I havent been able to keep up with the amount of progression all of you Heroes have experienced.
Failed? When? As you can see, Im still alive and havent lost a limb yet.
That doesnt an I am suitable. During the bandit subjugation, you nearly died because I couldnt defeat my opponent. In the Belzac forest, you went missing and I nearly let multiple Heroes die because I was reluctant about using my blood magic. Even today, what did I do to protect you from the bomb? Nothing. It is obvious, Lady Asaka.
He then turned his eyes towards . And, from the look of it, I dont think I fit in this company. Champion Hestia, our goals misalign. I believe it would be best for to leave.
I raised an eyebrow, confused what he ant with that. How so? Havent I told you that Im a champion of Aurena? Im working for her.
But your goal is to root out the corruption inside the church. To banish the demonkin posing as our pope. On the other hand, I am a knight ant to protect her Holiness religious symbol, which is her church. Do I draw my sword against the organization my family has followed for generations, or do I lay my blade down? I cannot fight you, for that would be betraying the Goddess.
What is this sorta internal conflict?!
It was obvious Elrick understood what was going on, but it seed like his heart wasnt fully onboard with our objective despite fighting with us being the correct answer here. If you were dedicated to Aurena, isnt listening to her divine Quest the right thing to do?
If you need blood, we technically have enough of it. Saori sliced open her thumb with her claws and presented it to Elrick before licking it away herself. For our runes, Hestia and I used to fill buckets full of our monster forms blood for Grimnirs use. It is a bit disgusting having sobody drink it the thought of it is not pleasant but it is not a problem in my book.
I find it gross, I gave Saori a weirded-out expression, to which she shrugged and countered by how I let her drink my blood before she evolved. Hey! That was different, okay!
You also let that albino boy, Amadeus, drink a potion made with your blood, Hestia.
Jeez, alright, Saori! Cut it out, will you? Ive just been more conscious about it after Mother drove in the point that I should be careful about letting others take my blood and scales. Besides, youre family to , so I dont really care if you were to drink my blood or not.
In Amadeuss and Saoris case, I did it to help them out, and you could say Elrick needed my help here, too. But, I guessed I was just apprehensive about it. Maybe I was using Mother as an excuse to not give a stubborn dick like Elrick my blood.
I didnt an to reject the thought of it completely, as I wanted to stay neutral here. My impression of him has soured since we t, but as the leader of this company, I didnt want to be biased about it. However, Elricks intuition probably understood my thoughts on him and he turned around, again. This ti, nobody seed to want to stop him
except for Asaka.
Then take my blood. You dont need to go, Elrick. You know, the mont you leave, sobody else from the church will co to replace you. You arent helping anybody by leaving like this.
Thank you, Lady Asaka, but you know I cant take your blood. It will be fine, please, trust . He left the communal room with that final smile.
Asaka clicked her tongue and jolted her head at , glaring at for what I said.
What? I dont care about him after what he did to those slaves-forced -to-be-bandits. Even if they did try to rob us, not like they had a chance. How many of them were actually innocent? I dont care if his thoughts on slaves conflicted with mine, when he killed them in cold blood.
Seeing how nonchalant I was with my dislike of Elrick, Asaka looked conflicted, as if she was singled out. With turning into a less ideal candidate to throw her anger at, she turned to Yorshka.
Why didnt you stop him? You were the only one who knew about it, so why didnt you say anything?
Because this was his choice, Asaka. Calm down. The usually carefree Yorshka sighed and began speaking to Asaka as if she was a child giving a tantrum. The church of Aurena considers vampires almost as bad as grimgarians, you see, and to humans and many other races, grimgarians are nothing more than monsters, even if they were born as a subspecies of the dark elves.
That doesnt answer the question. Why did you let him leave? You know our goal is to bring down the church since they are clearly the enemies here. The demonkins summoned us all to Peolynca and its obvious they are trying to do sothing with our presence here. What exactly it is, we dont know, so the only way we can find out is to support Hestia and Aurora in their mission.
Asaka-san, Tamae chid in. I think Sir Elrick was just trying to look out for us. We are technically already on the wrong side by working with Hesti-chan. If they find out we are planning to take the pope down, we will get all the enemies we could ever wish for. But that is hard to find out, aside from us admitting it.
But learning that Elrick is a vampire is easy, Kyouya added. He couldnt control his urges today and had to drink blood. Sobody outside our group even saw him in the process. Da Yorshka even ntioned how she could sll the blood on him whenever he finished drinking. Isnt that how we know that one lady who ca to the pastry shop was a vampire? Sensei, could you sniff them out?
Saori scratched her nose, looking unsure. Well maybe? I an, I could not sll it before since I was not aware of it, but after learning about it today, I might be able to sense it. It has a strong tallic and charcoal scent, like burning sothing on a pan. There is a hint of sulfur, too. You could probably hide it with garlic or onions, honestly.
And thats how Elrick did it. Yorshka nodded.
Hey, wasnt Sir Elricks favorite food garlic soup with plenty of herbs? Misaki replied, causing most of the students to stare at her in surprise. The irony of a vampire hiding themselves with garlic.
Fuck Asaka slumped down on the sofa, defeated and exhausted. What the hell is with today? First, those two weird elf ladies we t, then that racist attack against our company, and now this crap.
Asaka then pulled out an amulet from her storage and threw it onto the table before us. I dont want to explain this crap, again. What are we gonna do with the damn thing? Its too ominous.
The tal pendant didnt look too out of place at first nor did the onyx-colored catalyst embedded in the middle. However, after I appraised it, this [Amulet of the Blessed Spirit] sent a chill down my spine. If the elf who gave Asaka this item was a necromancer, then she might know about the vampire elf, right? Two followers of Marsvens daughters, and I rembered the vampire ntioning she had a sister.
We really only had one option.
I think we should destro I was about to give my answer, only to be interrupted by a loud voice in my head.
[Keep it with you, honey.]
And we all turned to Ellaine.
K-Klea?! Ellaine stuttered as she looked at the mana rings on her fingers.
[I repeat, I personally believe you should continue wearing that thing. Not openly, mind you.]
What is this demon thinking?!
Are you trying to betray us, demon? Grimnir glared at the rings. We made it clear this amulet ca from a dubious source. Actually, maybe this is reason enough to destroy it! Lad, fetch my hamr!
Right away, Master! Like a puppy, Daichi dashed out of the room so fast none of us could react to the situation.
Therefore, we completely ignored him while Grimnir stood up and approached the amulet, only to be stopped by KleaHatma again.
[I heard you loud enough, dont worry, but I am not trying to ss with you here. In fact, I am telling you to keep this amulet on because I think the outco of not destroying it will be more fun for to watch.]
You know sothing, right? I squinted my eyes, clearly seeing the smirk the demon had right now.
[Do I really need to answer that? Just saying, all you need to know is that the correct choice is to keep it and continue, besides, didnt that elf say shes an ally?]
She did, Asaka confird while scratching her head.
And you ntioned she had a weird accent, correct? Yorshka posed a question that didnt contribute to this discussion, but Asaka confird it anyway. Once done, Tasianna raised her hadn.
Were she also a dark elf or vampire, would they truly want to harm us? Tasianna brought up. I know we need to be careful, but maybe she is trying to help us in her own way?
Help with what? Nishio adjusted his glasses, letting his displeasure at all these mysteries out. Being cryptic only leaves us paranoid. Demon, answer us already. You know what this thing ans, right? Is it a demonic artifact? Huh?
[All you need to know is that this thing wont harm you. Thats all. Just think of this situation as a way to control . I am actually flailing around right now at how everything will resolve! This is getting interesting!]
Urgh
At the end of the day, we decided to heed the demons advice. Maybe it was good, maybe it wasnt. Although, this might be a good chance for us to understand more about her and where she stood. Was she too much of a wild card to control? If so, I will have to force Ellaine to accept Aurenas advice and have her tad completely. Ellaine will get KleaHatmas powers and the demon will be pacified forever. No risks, high reward.
After this discussion, we brought up the mana battery the sneak crew got from the cartel boss, causing Grimnir to stomp his feet. Apparently, the battery wasnt made by the dwarves, ntioning the techniques used in the creation of this battery were unrefined imitations.
Im joining in, Saori. If you are going to that facility, Im going with you! Grimnir pounded his blasthamr on the ground after Daichi retrieved it.
, too! I shall co with you! Like master, like apprentice.
The Magical Biscuit, outside of Tamae, ntioned they would concentrate on fulfilling the Quests they received today to gain money and rank points, leaving the rest of this whole affair to us. I found it the best way to divide our attention for now. They could join once the final raid is planned.
I also asked Saori to lend her shadow pack to spy on the senators, but that was when Gael arrived. He told us the deal with the Layavete cartel was sealed and if he needed help getting dirt on the senators, he would do it. He would bring so help from Shaturein, since helping the Layavete cartel required knowing who the senators really were.
Saori, Tasianna, Asaka, Grimnir, and Daichi could deal with the investigation at the port. I was sure those five could handle it. Hopefully, we could find a lead there leading to Tasiannas and the garms problem.
Therefore, this left Ellaine, Tatsuya, and Kyouya to deal with an urgent Quest coming from two won issued to our company directly. Sothing was happening at their village, and the hunters guild wasn't able to fulfill it. We had enough people to deal with the senator and fae hunter problems, so it wasnt like they couldnt go out and help people.
Yorshka, could you follow them? I asked with worry. Considering the demon, I dont think we can leave Ellaine alone with her. And, Im not sure Tatsuya and Kyouya can stop Ellaine in her demonkin form. Nothing against you boys.
Thankfully, they understood my reasoning and accepted it. They did ntion they wanted to do this alone, but maybe it was better to get so help when they were so far away from the others. They could use the [Room] runes to retreat at any ti, but that ant losing the runes.
Got it, Hestia. Ill keep an eye out for them.
As we were about to end this discussion, Asaka raised her hand up. I would like to join the Quest party.
Wh I wanted to ask for her reason, but I quickly figured it she probably just wanted a change of pace of everything. She did act sotis cold around Elrick, but it was clear she found it sad he was leaving. Sure, stay safe, alright?
Yeah, thanks.
And with that, everybody was dismissed. Now, what exactly was I planning on doing? Well, what I did best.
Mother, are you awake? I piqued my head into Mothers cave, where I saw the twins serving Mother her after-sleep al.
Mhmm! Hestia, my treasure! Do you want to share? Mother waved back at , looking cheerful after her nap.
Mhmm? No, Im good, I refused but still joined her at the table. Anyways, do you have ti for so training and an idea?
Mother giggled, smirking at . What, are you planning on behaving like a humanoid in this case?
I smiled. Mother seed to understand more and more. I could be as patient as needed but
Ti to smoke out the rat. Nobody hurts my friends and party mbers while Im around.
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