Ch.244Chapter 244 – Adventure in an Empty House (3)

It had already been a day since the tearful reunion with my loyal subordinates.

“…Hey, guys. I know it’s my fault since I have a criminal record.”

And now I’m lying in bed at some unknown hideout.

“But isn’t this a bit much?”

With Lady Clay on my left and Silver Blaze on my right, both clinging to my arms.

“Say something, you two…”

To an outsider, this might seem like an enviable situation, but for me, it’s anything but.

Because this has been going on for over 24 hours now.

I tried to be clever by saying I needed to use the bathroom to get a little break, but they accompanied me there too, still clinging to my arms.

“”……..””

They just stare at me blankly from both sides.

“Seriously, I feel like I’m going to explode… please just give me 10 minutes alone…”

“…Trying to escape again?”

Thanks to that cold voice from Lady Clay, I quietly closed my mouth as I was pleading, feeling like my arms might fall off.

“Um… Lady. I’m actually human now, you know?”

“…What did you say?”

“…So I can’t give you blood anymore.”

After I revealed the truth in the brief silence that followed, her eyes became slightly dazed.

“So… um… the reason you followed me was because I was a pure-blooded vampire, right?”

“…….”

“So… you don’t need to follow or be obsessed with me anymore since I’ve lost my powers and become an ordinary person… mmph?”

As I was timidly continuing while watching her reaction, I suddenly felt my breath being cut off and had to stop mid-sentence with wide eyes.

– Slurp…

“……!?”

Lady Clay suddenly grabbed both my cheeks and was rolling her tongue inside my mouth.

What is this? A new method of blood-sucking?

But for that, she’s not biting my tongue with her fangs that I can feel in my mouth, and if she wanted to suck blood, she could just bite my neck or shoulder.

There’s no need to do it this way.

“…Puha.”

While I was wearing a confused expression, she pulled her head back with hot breath and stared into my eyes with a bright red face.

“W-what was that about…?”

“…u, uuu.”

“Lady?”

Eventually, she wiped the sticky strand between our lips with her sleeve and quietly avoided my gaze.

“By now… shouldn’t you have figured it out?”

“…Pardon?”

Hearing her words, I momentarily felt my mind go blank and closed my mouth.

“I like you, you idiot!!”

“Ah…”

Lady Clay was actually a tsundere?

That arrogant, privileged woman full of schemes? That can’t be right.

It feels like my basic common sense is crumbling.

“In the end… in the end you made me say it myself… Are you satisfied now?”

“No, that’s… I… didn’t know…”

“Shut up!”

As she stared at me with tears welling up in her eyes and a bright red face, I tried to make some excuse, but Lady Clay’s sharp rebuke immediately flew at me.

– Crunch…

“Agh…”

And a few seconds later, her sharp fangs sank into my neck.

“L-Lady…?”

“…You said you became human, right?”

“Y-yes, but…”

“Then I’ll turn you back into a vampire.”

“Whaaat?”

Surprised, I instinctively pushed her back, and Lady Clay, staring at me quietly, muttered with a slightly trembling voice.

“Well… humans die so quickly.”

“……”

“…If you’re going to live with me for a few hundred years, becoming a vampire is the natural course.”

Hearing those words, my brain overloaded and I wore a blank expression, while she buried her face in my neck and added:

“S-since I’ve chosen you as my companion… you’ll have to accept it.”

As she opened her mouth wide again, I hurriedly spoke.

“…I-I don’t want to.”

“……!”

She was about to sink her fangs into my shoulder but stopped, looking at me with a slightly dazed expression.

“Y-you don’t like me?”

“No, that’s…”

“…I-I’m sorry. I was wrong.”

Then she began to plead with me in a tearful voice.

“F-from now on… I’ll change my way of speaking… and my personality… I’ll try to change…”

“…….”

“M-my authority too, partly… no, I’ll transfer it all if you want… okay? I’ll be good from now on…”

That appearance was so unlike Lady Clay that I felt a sense of cognitive dissonance.

“…I think you’re misunderstanding something. It’s not that I don’t like you, Lady.”

“T-then?”

“I just don’t want to become a vampire…”

As I couldn’t tell her I didn’t like her in front of her, I spoke indirectly, and Lady Clay blinked her eyes for a moment.

“B-but… then… you can’t live with me forever.”

“…We can find another way, can’t we?”

“I-is that so…?”

At my words, her face, which had been flustered for a moment, turned several times redder than before.

“…F-forget what I just said.”

Eventually, she buried her hot face in my chest and muttered in a small voice.

It seemed she had just realized what she had been saying.

“I didn’t know Lady was such a cute person.”

“I said forget it…”

“…Haha.”

As I was patting the back of Lady Clay, who had become unrecognizably cute after two years, with a slightly awkward smile.

– Hissss…

“…Huh!?”

Suddenly feeling a suffocating killing intent from behind me, I turned my gaze to the side with cold sweat.

“………”

What entered my vision was none other than Silver Blaze, staring at me with a cold expression I had never seen before.

“Uh, well…”

“……..”

“So, um…”

Feeling a threat to my life for the first time from this usually gentle and cute girl, I desperately tried to read the situation and find the reason.

“…Sorry?”

I carefully tried to embrace her as she had been left out, but.

“…….”

Blaze just stared at me coldly from within my embrace, even her tail, which usually wagged happily, was drooping.

– Smooch…

“…S-sorry.”

In the increasingly serious atmosphere, I tried to apologize by kissing her cheek this time, but.

“………”

For some reason, Blaze’s eyes became even more clouded.

‘…Whatever happens, happens.’

With that resigned feeling, I closed my eyes and brought my face to her lips.

– Slurp…

Then, just as Lady Clay had done to me earlier, I gently pushed my tongue between her lips.

“”………””

And how much time passed?

“…Puha.”

After rolling my tongue anxiously, worried that it might get bitten, I pulled my head back again and wiped the long strand of saliva with my sleeve.

“…Hehe.”

“Phew…”

Only then did Silver Blaze start wagging her tail and smile brightly, and I quietly let out a sigh of relief.

“Master’s saliva… tastes better than carrots.”

– Lick…

“…I want to drink more in the future.”

As she licked around my lips and whispered with narrowed eyes.

– Growlll!

“……!?”

It was at that moment that another intense killing intent began to be felt from behind me.

“…….”

“…Ah.”

Lady Clay, who had been momentarily neglected while I was taking care of Silver Blaze, was looking at me with a cold expression.

‘…Is this purgatory?’

I realized I was trapped in an infinite loop, but it was already too late.

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How much time had passed like that?

– Rustle…

“Girls, I’m sorry…”

After who knows how many repetitions, with my shirt and pants disheveled and a haggard expression, I turned my head toward Silver Blaze again.

“All of you, that’s enough.”

“…….!?”

At the cold voice that suddenly came from the front, I momentarily flinched and slightly raised my head.

“I didn’t put you with him for this kind of thing.”

Celestia Moran was standing at the door with a cold expression, emitting a chilling aura in all directions.

“…What would a youngster like you know.”

“Grrrrrr…”

Lady Clay and Blaze, who were now holding me on both sides, began to growl fiercely at her, but.

“…What, want to establish the hierarchy again?”

“”………””

“I’m ready anytime.”

When Moran took a step forward with her eyes glowing eerily, the two flinched and surprisingly closed their mouths obediently.

“I’ll take care of Master from now on… you two go outside and keep watch.”

“”…….””

“Didn’t you hear me?”

Then, Moran opened the door wide and pointed outside, whispering in a low voice.

“Get out.”

A few seconds later, the two women slowly got up with reluctant expressions and left the room, giving Moran dirty looks.

“You’ll see… youngster.”

“…Grrrr.”

But Moran didn’t even pay attention to them, just staring at me quietly.

“…Master~”

As soon as the door closed, she immediately relaxed her expression and ran over to my side with innocent eyes.

“Do it to me too.”

“…Huh?”

“What you were doing to those wom… women earlier.”

Eventually, she closed her eyes expectantly.

“Hmm…”

Looking at her with a troubled expression and scratching my head.

– Smooch…

I quietly lowered my head and kissed her on the cheek.

“”………..””

And then came the silence.

“…Huh?”

In that silence, Moran, who momentarily couldn’t hide her cold expression, quietly tilted her head and stared into my eyes.

“What was that just now?”

“…Ah, I-I did what I was doing earlier.”

“No, that’s not it. This isn’t what you were doing, Master.”

As her questioning began with a hint of laughter, I sweated profusely and answered with timid eyes.

“B-but… you…”

“I what?”

“W-well, you’re a child.”

The moment those words ended, the innocent smile that had remained on Moran’s face completely disappeared.

“Me?”

“Y-you’re 14 years old…”

“So what?”

“So… uh… uhh…”

In that explosive situation, as I desperately racked my brain.

‘…There’s only one option left.’

Believing in the innocence of Moran, who was still a child as I said, I decided to use my last resort.

“…Kugh!?”

“…….!?”

Yes, although my body had become that of an ordinary person, the last talent that remained with me.

“Cough, cough…..!”

“Master….?”

It was acting.

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[What kind of tail-dropping lizard are you?]

‘…Shh.’

As I ignored System-yang who had sent me a message with an incredulous look, I rolled around on the bed.

“I’m going to die at this rate… ugh…”

“…….ah, aaaah.”

As I glanced at Moran and started to deliver lines that might help me escape from here.

“No, nonononono…”

“……?”

“Ha, uaah… uaaah…”

In less than a few seconds, Moran had completely panicked and was hyperventilating while pulling at her hair, making me stop my act and look bewildered.

“Y-you can’t… you can’t can’t can’t die…”

“…Um, well.”

“I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry…”

Apparently, I had accidentally triggered her trauma.

“P-please don’t die. Don’t die don’t die don’t die please…..”

[Ugh, you trash.]

“…This isn’t right.”

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“Hmm…”

Meanwhile, at that time. In the Professor’s office.

“…Communication has been cut off.”

The Professor, who had been sitting there waiting for Moran’s success report, quietly hung up after hours of no contact from Moran and stood up.

“Something’s strange.”

Like Sharlotte, it was the moment she realized something unusual had happened.

“…Kyaa!”

“Kakka!”

“Ah, are you hungry?”

However, thanks to her maternal instinct that kicked in shortly after, it would be quite some time before she took action.