episode_0023

After arriving at Sylvia’s bar.

Johnny and Badek didn’t enter the bar, but seemed to be heading somewhere else.

“What, where are you going at this hour?”

In response to my question, Johnny said that the hospital was bad and he was going somewhere else.

Well… since he’s a problem solver, he probably knows at least one doctor who treats people illegally.

“How about at least providing first aid here?”

“No, no. It’s not that serious of an injury so why.”

Badek pretended nothing was wrong, but his expression was a little dark.

Maybe it’s because of the pain.

Meanwhile, Johnny told me and Sylvia not to worry.

He said that he would take care of Badek before it was too late.

“Okay, see you tomorrow!”

Unlike Sylvia, I sent them off coolly.

After entering the bar, I found Martin guarding the bar alone.

“Boss.”

“Woman, were you protecting the store well?”

Martin called Sylvia, but I answered.

I thought if someone heard it, they would think I was the boss, but since I didn’t have enough blood, I didn’t care about the little things.

“Badek, I heard that old man was injured?”

“Yes, I think I was attacked by a troubleshooter I don’t know well.”

“Silvia, then what about the Iron Mask?”

“You may not know it before you know his identity… but it’s different if his identity is Mr. Deokbong.”

Oh, I thought we knew each other a little bit since we worked at Ildong’s office.

Meanwhile, Martin expressed doubts about the object mentioned in our mouths.

“…Why him?”

“Chris, can you explain for me?”

Although it was annoying to the core, I decided to do it since it was Sylvia’s request.

In the meantime, Sylvia headed to the house on the second floor.

“I’m only going to say this once, so listen carefully.”

“Okay, so just say it.”

In response to Martin’s response, I briefly and briefly mentioned what happened today.

“….”

“So Martin, do you know the Iron Mask?”

“No, well… he’s been to the bar a few times.”

It didn’t seem like they were friends or anything like that.

“They say they don’t know how people work.”

huh? Martin said and started cleaning.

I was too curious to just ignore it, so I asked Martin why he said that.

“That guy originally followed the director of the Ildong office better than anyone else.”

For a moment, I wondered if I had betrayed him because of his name.

Although this is a fantasy world, the name Deokbong may be unusual…

What is Deokbong! Deokbong!

But I wondered if there was another reason if he left because of the name Deokbong.

“But why did it happen like that?”

“I don’t know either. Rumors say it’s related to that guy’s son.”

My father’s name is Deokbong.

I wondered how the child felt.

“Hmm.”

“What, is that all the reaction?”

“That’s it! We almost died because of that guy.”

It’s a shame that I, who has excellent regenerative abilities, got hit.

Even if it could regenerate in the first place, the pain of having its limbs blown off would not go away.

“Well, the head of that office might have been like a father to him.”

“Then you betrayed someone like your father because of your child?”

“That will happen.”

They betray their parents for their children. I thought it was something only people could do.

It would be impossible for animals.

***

While I was talking to Martin in the bar’s captaincy, Sylvia appeared.

“Chris.”

“Oh.”

I caught the vampire blood that Sylvia threw with moderate force.

Yes, first of all, quantity rather than quality. There is a saying that the best food is eaten later.

-Zuuuup.

I wondered if anyone would think the kid looked like tomato juice.

Even though it is a sight of a one-year-old blood lord eating a meal.

Ah, I finally felt like my body had energy.

So what followed was a feeling of curiosity that I had not paid attention to before.

“By the way, Sylvia. Are you sure we succeeded in our request?”

“Yes, I checked with Jenny, and I think the salary will probably be paid tomorrow or the day after.”

“But there’s nothing in particular that was recovered, right? At least Youngmin managed to retrieve the iron mask.”

“The researchers we captured had already secured the subjects.”

Oh, is that how it works?

But speaking of subjects, I remembered the white rat I had missed.

Could it be that he is also a test subject?

“It would have been better if it wasn’t for Iron Mask and that strange guy.”

“Still, those two made wise decisions, so there was no major damage.”

Sylvia called the two solvers’ quick abandonment of the request and departure from the scene a wise decision.

It was a wise choice compared to the Conakry office and the solvers who took their side.

“Chris, did you explain it well to Martin?”

“Yes!”

“To be honest, to put it simply, it felt like it was interrupted at times.”

“What?!”

How can you say such dissatisfaction now?

What can I say… Isn’t that a foul?

“No, Sylvia. I explained it properly. It’s just because Martin’s head was filled with poison gas.”

“What?!”

I responded to Martin’s answer as if he were a tai chi expert. Oh, it’s not really tai chi?

“I never imagined I would meet Mr. Deokbong like that.”

“Well, he must have been through a lot during that time.”

Martin’s words seemed to have multiple meanings.

As if a lot had happened to us too.

Helga’s death and my appearance. Plus, Sylvia’s return as a problem solver.

If you think about it, the things that happened to us were also very special things.

“For some reason, I hesitated to attack Youngmin.”

“Oh, that’s right.”

I was beaten without mercy. Thinking about it makes me a little angry?

“Wait a minute… Then we were hit by the shit that the Ildong office gave.”

“What kind of shit are you talking about?”

“Uh-huh, a metaphor, a metaphor.”

When I told him not to accept poop as is, Martin told me to stop talking about poop because he understood.

“By the way, when is that guy named Ilseong coming?”

At my question, Sylvia and Martin exchanged glances and then looked at me.

“Well? They said they would come back soon, so I think they will come someday.”

“What, aren’t you being too indifferent?”

For some reason, Sylvia’s attitude towards that guy named Ilseong seemed cold.

It doesn’t seem like she has a particularly bad relationship with the Ildong office.

“Because I wasn’t there when it was really important.”

“Oh, that’s right.”

So the conversation between the three of us gradually decreased.

“Martin, you can clean up properly and leave work.”

“Yes, I understand.”

I said that and got on top of Sylvia’s head as she went up to the second floor.

Of course, in the form of a baby bat.

***

“Silvia, I have a question.”

“What is it?”

“What would it be like to drink blood in this form?”

“….”

Sylvia looked as if there was any need to think about such a thing.

“No, think about it. Since I’m smaller… wouldn’t I be able to drink the same amount of blood for a long time?”

“Are you saying you want to enjoy my blood for a long time?”

I was just curious, but when he asked me that, it was hard to say no.

I just chose silence.

Sylvia probably thinks my silence means I agree with what she said.

-widely.

As Sylvia entered the front door, I flapped my two little wings and said,

“Anyway, are you going to do it?”

“Good. Instead, I think the first thing to do is wash.”

ah….

“Then can I wash first?”

Sylvia nodded to my question.

Even so, I was in a bad situation after being attacked by Deokbong in the iron mask.

Returning to my normal self, I went straight to the shower room and took off my clothes.

“…Can I just wash this?”

Just in case, I tried to get some of the blood out by sprinkling water on my clothes, which were all stained red.

‘No. Let’s just soak it in water and take a shower first.’

When I turned on the water, the hot water I wanted immediately started pouring out.

Of course, I took the rubber duck from the shower room and went into the bathtub.

– Beep.

Let’s press the head of the rubber duck….

This time too, numerous Rubber Duck clones began to appear.

I reached out for another rubber duck just in case, but I couldn’t touch it.

Because it was a trick using mana.

It would be nice if the relationship here wasn’t as empty as this rubber duck.

An environment where it wouldn’t be strange if you died at any time, that was the city of Maguspol.

Just today, Badek was injured, and I died once and came back to life.

What if someone else experienced what happened to me?

Sylvia, Youngmin, Johnny. After seeing the miserable faces one after another, I decided to just quit.

Instead, I decided to enjoy the cute rubber duck right in front of me.

Once the shower was over, I took great care to dry myself with a towel.

Since I already had a cold, I couldn’t catch it again.

“Is it over already?”

“Yes, I am also small, right?”

“…That’s true too.”

Sylvia then asked me whether I should suck blood before or after showering.

“Oh….”

“You’re not having strange thoughts, right?”

“Because I’m a little tired today. I want to drink the blood first!”

“In the form of a baby bat?”

“No, let’s just leave it as is.”

I sucked the blood of Youngmin and the Grapefruit Orc, and even ate vampire blood, but somehow I felt like it was lacking.

I carefully held on to Sylvia’s white arm.

“Then will you excuse me?”

“Yes, as much as you want.”

Sylvia speaks beautifully, doesn’t she?

Now that I am a woman, there were times when I felt excited when I heard it.

My fangs protruded further than before, and soon they began to pierce her skin and thirst for blood.

A sweet taste similar to Youngmin’s.

It felt like I was eating a sweet snack, but I decided to just suck it in moderation.

“Phew… I’ll just stop here today.”

“It wasn’t a very pleasant experience.”

Come to think of it, it seemed to be Sylvia’s first time having her blood sucked by a vampire.

“Sorry. Still, I have to make a living too.”

“Doesn’t that sound like an old man?”

“Is that so?”

I dragged my tired body and headed to my room.

Of course, I didn’t forget to say good night to Sylvia.

-widely.

When I turned off the lights in the room, I felt a very cozy atmosphere.

Come to think of it, even in the real world, I often heard teachers call me children of darkness.

But what if there’s something reassuring about being in a dark place?

Even though it was actually like that now that I became a vampire.

***

I don’t know exactly when I fell asleep.

It was early morning when I opened my eyes.

Sylvia didn’t seem to wake up yet, so I took out some water from the refrigerator and quenched my thirst from last night.

‘Would you like to drink blood?’

Since I opened the refrigerator, my hand also reached for the vampire blood.

Drinking it like juice in an appropriate cup couldn’t have been better.

“Keuuuu!”

Despite my messy hair, I turned on the TV.

There is a computer, but I just wanted to watch TV. Just looking at the comment window like last time just makes me feel dirty.

“…Huh?”

But on the TV news channels, stories that I had never even thought of were coming out.

The screen showed a fat, human-sized robot and a white rat with its stomach submerged in sap.

‘What, is that white rat the main body?’

When the robot moved its hand, a large group of rats began moving in that direction.

Ugh, what is that!

It seems stronger than my malaria call. That’s a plague call!

“…I guess that rat is the real person.”

“Oh, surprise!”

Suddenly I heard Sylvia’s voice behind me.

Before I knew it, she came next to me and whispered in my ear.

“What, when did it happen?”

“Someone drank blood and made cute noises.”

Can keueuu be considered a cute sound? Even if it’s the voice of a hard-working foreman, it doesn’t matter.

Anyway, I checked the place where that white rat was running rampant.

East, an area located east of Cabrini Green.

“Ah.”

It really seemed like he was the white rat I had missed.

Meanwhile, on the screen, news of various resolution offices participating in the war to resolve this situation began to appear.

“Silvia, how about we participate too?”

“Chris, in cases like this, it’s normal to wait a bit. If the rat swarm is stronger than expected, small offices like ours will suffer great damage.”

“Um.”

Although Sylvia’s answer was disappointing, it did not seem to be wrong.

But Sylvia added, as if to tell me not to be disappointed.

“This might actually be an opportunity.”

“Why?”

“We can take on other requests while other offices are focusing on that work.”

oh! That too. Of course it’s Sylvia!

“By the way, would you like to go shopping for a long time?”

“Why? Want to buy my own clothes?”

“Yes, I don’t think one or two sets will be enough.”

Nothing bad!

So I went shopping with Sylvia.