In any case, Venelana's stay on Itogami Island was settled for now.
Inside the seaside villa, ti quickly arrived at post-lunch.
"Bokue, if you're free right now, could you bring this to Gasper?"
At the dining table, Rias—busy with cleanup work alongside the other girls—suddenly turned around, handing the young man a plate containing a single serving of food.
"Here—I picked everything she likes. She should be upstairs in her room right now. Just leave it outside her door, knock, and let her know."
"She... eats food?"
Bokue looked at the still-warm al in his hands hesitantly.
"Of course she does. Why wouldn't she?"
Rias blinked with confusion.
"Ah right, almost forgot you didn't know... Honestly, though Gasper's a vampire, she has severe hemophobia—so bad she's never sucked blood even once. She supplents nutrition by eating normal als like us. Plus, vampires aren't limited to blood consumption anyway."
"No, that's not what I ant."
Bokue glanced at the wall clock—only 12:30 PM now.
"I ant vampires usually co out at night, right? She should still be sleeping at this hour?"
"Mm... that's not impossible."
Rias thought briefly.
"Though Gasper's sleep schedule isn't that regular. Sotis she's awake during the day gaming in her room. Just take it up and check—if she's awake, she'll take it inside to eat."
"Got it..."
Scene transition—Bokue had already carried the al upstairs to stand before a certain blonde vampire girl's door.
Right now, basically all the girls were downstairs busy with lunch cleanup. The entire second floor was so quiet not a single person remained.
Bokue raised his hand to knock.
"Gasper, I left your lunch outside the door. If you're awake, rember to co get it and eat."
Bokue's voice wasn't loud—after all, he didn't know if Gasper was actually awake inside.
If she was awake, hearing the knock would probably make her open the door. But if she was sleeping, at least this wouldn't disturb her rest.
So after setting down the al, Bokue turned to leave.
However, just then—
Creeeak—
Before the young man's steps could advance, the door behind him suddenly opened a crack on its own.
Then a small head poked out from below the door's edge.
Eh?
Hearing the sound, Bokue reflexively turned to look—eting eyes with the blonde vampire girl peeking out. Their four eyes t, and he couldn't help but freeze slightly.
"Gasper, why'd you co out?"
"Mm... b-because you knocked saying you brought food..."
Gasper answered while prettily lifting her head from beside the door.
Right now, the blonde vampire girl was crawling on all fours from inside the room, poking out half her body. She wore the school swimsuit Bokue had bought her at Keystone Gate's shopping center earlier—the highly elastic fabric clearly outlining the girl's budding curves.
Though there was still almost no developnt to speak of.
And she still gripped a gaming handheld in her hands, its screen displaying a pause nu.
Clearly before Bokue arrived, she'd been lying on the room floor playing her handheld. Hearing soone bringing food, she was too lazy to even stand up—just crawled right out.
"Um... want to co sit inside for a bit?"
After brief pause, Gasper suddenly asked sothing even she found hard to believe.
But imdiately she added another line.
"I-I'll finish eating really fast!"
Mm... so hearing this, she wanted him to wait upstairs a bit? Then after finishing eating, help carry the dishes back down?
Bokue thought.
Though that wasn't unreasonable. After all, right now Rias and the others were washing dishes downstairs. Plus dayti temperatures weren't that cool—even with AC, the room temperature hovered around 26°C (79°F).
Given a certain ultimate social anxiety shut-in vampire girl's personality, if she left finished dishes sitting in her room all afternoon unwashed, by evening the leftover sauce on the plates would probably start fernting.
So as the door closed, Bokue entered the room.
Pretty much matching common stereotypes about vampires, Gasper's room was quite dim. All curtains were tightly drawn, lights not turned on.
Plus the cardboard box she used as a coffin substitute for sleeping sat right in the room's center.
Since she needed to eat, naturally she couldn't ga simultaneously. Gasper could only place her handheld on the bedside table against the wall, plugging in the charging cable. She herself returned to beside the cardboard box, picking up her lunch to eat.
Honestly, she really looked like a golden hamster desperately stuffing things into her mouth.
Bokue sat nearby propping up his chin, watching for a while.
"Speaking of which, Gasper, you stayed in your room all morning without coming out, right?"
"Mm, yeah..."
The blonde vampire girl battling her al couldn't spare ti to lift her head, only responding unclearly.
"Then why are you wearing a swimsuit?"
Bokue pointed at the school swimsuit on her body.
"Mm, about that..."
Gasper's eating movents paused slightly. She pulled her face from the food, mouth still holding half a chicken tender, thinking briefly.
"Actually, I originally wanted to go out and play. But there were way too many people outside."
"...This ti everyone ca out vacationing together. Of course there are lots of people."
Bokue explained.
"Right, that's exactly why!"
Gasper pouted slightly, looking sowhat aggrieved.
"Because there are so many people outside—many I don't even know—if I go out, I'd have to wear my cardboard box. But outside is right by the ocean. If I went out, the box might get wet from seawater. Even if not wet, it might get sand inside. Then sleeping would be really uncomfortable."
"...So you basically can't go out at all?"
Bokue's mouth twitched.
As long as other people remained outside, absolutely no going out? Truly a permanent shut-in?
"Not necessarily."
Gasper spoke while continuing to pick up food and send it to her mouth.
"When evening cos and everyone's resting, I can co out. Then I won't need the cardboard box and can wander the beach outside."
"How about I co keep you company tonight for a walk?"
Bokue suggested.
Eh?
Hearing these words, the blonde vampire girl first froze slightly, her gaze reflexively drifting elsewhere. Two faint blushes blood on her face—pale as a vampire's.
Finally, she obediently nodded her small head.
"Mm... mm, okay."
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