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A few minutes before the vampire kid waved at the priest.

There were two things that bothered the priest.

The first one is….

-Cow!

Every time a huge step struck the ground, the animals moved noisily.

Even the city’s watchdogs, the crows, were no exception.

The cause is a giant.

Beings who have nothing to do without the instructions of a wise man.

The priest’s senses were greatly disturbed by the movements of more than one group of giants.

The life of a vampire hunter was like walking a dangerous tightrope.

Even for ordinary solvers, a single move can mean the difference between life and death.

Moreover, the beings that priests hunt are vampires.

Although he is weak to sunlight… he can regenerate his body as much as he wants as long as he has blood, change his appearance at will, and manipulate others to do his will if necessary.

They are literally like parasites that cling to people.

The priest remembers better than anyone else how great people fell into the hands of parasites because of a moment of mistake.

Now that the hostile relationship between the church and vampires has been resolved, it has become a thing of the past.

“….”

The second is to offend the priest.

It was a group of vampires encamped in the forest where the priest was currently located.

There were more than one bastard targeting the vampire kid.

The little boy may not have known it, but a considerable number of parasites appeared while watching the little boy from a reasonable distance.

-Cow!

The sound of the giant’s footsteps. The movements of the parasites immediately following.

They were hiding behind loud noises, waiting for an opportunity to harm the priest.

But the priest could sense even the slightest sign.

When the priest closed his eyes for a moment and began to pray… the guys rushed in.

“This is why young people.”

Vampires who do not notice the omen of death in the form of death even when it is right in front of them.

Perhaps his reason was clouded by his blood and loyalty to his master.

The priest took action by mocking the parasites.

“….”

Prayer stops.

Divine light emanates from the priest’s hands and feet.

Finally, a halo appears on the head.

Even if the priest didn’t move, the situation was already over.

The parasites suffered from the light emitted by the priest as if they were facing the sun.

“Your journey ends here.”

The priest spoke with mercy.

-Kwasik!

The priest stepped on it with anger.

The heads and bodies of the vampires that were alive a moment ago explode.

There was no need to bury the rest.

As time passed, the corpses of countless vampires turned to ashes and flew high into the sky.

These are things that are simply not enough as offerings to praise God.

However, it was enough to attract better offerings.

It is said that it is possible to replenish as many lowly vampires as possible, but if this much was killed, those in a certain position were bound to move.

The priest’s target was those guys.

If the heavy butt guys show up… we’ll know for sure who’s behind it.

It was clear that it would be so.

The parasite’s blood splattered on the precious priest’s clothes stained the priest’s mood.

The priest noticed that the little vampire’s surveillance had been interrupted while dealing with the parasites.

As the priest returned to his position, the kid looked at him.

The bloody part was hidden in a tree.

When the kid waved his hand, the priest reacted without realizing it.

***

I was the one who waved first.

But I didn’t expect the person who said he was watching me to react so openly.

There was still more discomfort than joy in the relationship.

-Cow!

As the sound of the giant’s footsteps continued, Scylla, who was above my head, trembled.

“Sila, I told you not to worry.”

“Chris….”

I tried to calm Sheila by scratching her head and stomach.

But what was even better was to bring Silas back to her brothers.

It wasn’t just me and my companions who were awakened by the footsteps of the giants.

“Chris!”

“Hey! No problem!”

After calmly putting Scylla down on the floor, I transformed into the form of a baby bat.

He then headed over the head of Astoby, the tallest person nearby.

“Chris?”

“Okay, Silvia too.”

When Sylvia saw me above Astoby’s head, she called my name.

As I carefully sat on Sylvia’s head, she started using the terminal to call someone.

First Adem, then Jenny from the Public Safety Office.

“If this is going to happen, you don’t really need me?”

“Wait a minute.”

“Queunnng….”

Sylvia responded straight to what I said.

Well, since this has come to an end, I guess I should just lie down comfortably.

I was at ease like a bird on a nest with Sylvia’s beautiful red feet.

“That makes it look like a baby bird, not a bat.”

Datihi, who saw me, could not help but say something.

Come to think of it, that guy must have put me in trouble yesterday by giving up his seat to Youngmin.

Unlike David, Datich had no mental debt.

My gaze, a little hostile, turned to Datihi.

Then, familiar beings began to appear from somewhere.

“What?! Wait a minute!”

Datihi must have hated being bitten by mosquitoes so much that he quickly started to run away.

After dealing with the guy who did that, Sylvia’s call ended.

“Silvia, so what happened?”

“I decided to take a chance on the greed of public officials who were impatient for public achievements. I think the probability is low.”

“So? Do you plan on staying here?”

“Yes, Olivia’s request has ended anyway, but no one knows what will happen.”

It was just as Sylvia said in her answer to Cat Mom.

No one knew that a white rat would suddenly come to our side of the sewer.

No, there were swarms of mosquitoes, toxic gases, and the electric sword that Ilseong used. Did we provoke the rats too much?

“Okay, then I’ll go to the forest.”

Astoby said that and headed into the forest alone.

Cat Mom looked at her like that and said that what Astobi and Datihi did before was enough and that she was full of energy.

“Chris, hi.”

“Oh, hello to you too, Youngmin.”

Youngmin said hello to me as I stood above Sylvia’s head.

That too, along with Deoksu, who looks like he’s dying from exhaustion.

“Haaam.”

“What, couldn’t you sleep?”

“There is no way I can sleep with that pounding sound…”

“Well, that’s true too.”

It was to the point where I gave up sleeping and went outside.

Meanwhile, when I saw Youngmin in the morning, I remembered something I wanted to ask.

-Jump up.

This time, it moved from Sylvia’s head to Youngmin’s blonde hair.

“Chris?”

***

“Youngmin, do you like your name?”

“…Why all of a sudden?”

When asked an important question, Youngmin hesitated for a moment before answering.

“No, it’s not an ordinary name.”

“That’s right.”

“But it’s still better than us. You don’t start with virtue.”

“Uh-huh, Deoksu. You stay still.”

The person I asked was Youngmin, not Deoksu.

Looking at Sylvia’s expression, she seemed to be a bit curious as well. Normally, you would have stopped me a long time ago.

“Still, I’m not dissatisfied with my name right now.”

Hey, I think the original name would be better.

As for the last name… I can guess it, but Youngmin’s real name was Ray.

“Do you hate your original name? Or do you really like the name now?”

“If you ask me, it’s both.”

It seemed like something was going on with the family.

There is no need to reveal other people’s painful wounds.

David thought it was Woongi, but was shocked when he found out it was Pongpong.

I decided to stop asking about Youngmin’s name.

And this time, we naturally changed the topic of conversation by asking Deoksu.

As the next few days passed, we continued to stay at Cat Mom’s home base.

There were some new things I learned along the way.

It seemed that Ilsung had entrusted Hromund’s sword, that is, the sword that emits electricity when inserted into the ground, to Yeongmin.

And even a thorough suppression of the rat horde taking place in Miller Town, north of Silverside.

It wasn’t just about killing a bunch of rats.

One day, while I was watching TV, I heard a commotion outside.

“What, did someone come outside?”

“Shall we go out sometime?”

“Sila!”

I accepted Youngmin’s suggestion and didn’t forget to call Silas.

As I went outside, I saw a group camped near the entrance to the sewer.

If you look at their behavior… they were not people who were responsible for maintaining public order.

If you really want to be honest, is it a mage?

“A mage?”

“I think so.”

“Wow! This is my first time seeing that mage!”

Silas was jumping around and moving as if she was curious.

However, I held Scylla in my arms to prevent them from approaching. Seeing that, a mage turned his gaze towards us.

A woman wearing a white wizard’s hat with one end curled here and there and a red cloth wrapped in the middle.

If you look at it up to that point, you could say that he is a mage with a good fashion sense, but…

Her hair was made of snakes.

‘Oh! Is it Medusa?’

Strictly speaking, Medusa is not a race, but it was used as a race name in Dream City.

Hair made of white snakes, red eyes and white eyebrows.

I thought she was an albino Medusa, but her skin wasn’t pale enough to be pale.

She looked at me, Youngmin, and Sheila and looked interested.

“Lina!”

However, when other mages called her, she disappeared with a regretful look in her eyes.

As we were watching the mages heading to the sewer entrance, Sylvia came up next to us.

“It is said that the sewer leading to Miller Town will be blocked with a force field.”

“Are you even blocking the exit route for the rats?”

“Yes, the rats of this city have gathered in Miller Town for a long time… I guess they have decided to exterminate the pests this time.”

Now that I think about it, it seemed like I had seen a terrible image on TV of rats clinging to the entire wall of a building moving all at once.

I never thought things would get so big as the white rat gathered so many rats into Miller Town.

The group of giants and the third ranked group were busy taking care of the rats, but even if they killed them, there were still so many that they would still get kicked.

***

However, once the escape route was blocked, it seemed like the rat swarm suppression was coming to an end in the news.

“Silvia, I think our plan failed.”

“Of course. There was a problem that could not be solved even by the greed of public officials.”

At Datich’s words, Silvia obediently admitted her mistake.

Meanwhile, the cat mom next to her told her not to act like that and said she would not forget to give her the compensation she had promised.

“Olivia, it doesn’t look like the rats will come again, so we’ll just stay until today.”

“Yes, do that.”

Sylvia and Cat Mom. The conversation ended as if neither of us had anything to regret.

But Youngmin seemed sad about breaking up with me.

Deoksu even joked around and comforted Youngmin.

“Chris….”

And so did this one cat.

Sheila was shaken by the fact that she would be separated from me tomorrow. It was like seeing a cat with a broken body.

What was even funnier was that even Sheila’s brothers, who seemed to have grown attached to each other over the past few days, writhed in front of me as a group.

“Ugh! Don’t do that to me! I didn’t decide!”

I shuddered as I saw the cats approaching, twisting their bodies and tails this way and that.

Somehow I ended up hiding behind Astoby.

“These guys! When you break up, you have to do it cleanly!”

Astoby lived up to my expectations and spoke ladylike words to the cats.

“I don’t like it!”

But there was no way. There is no way logic would apply to Cat Mom’s cats.

Sila and her brothers clung to me and Astoby, nimbly throwing their bodies around.

“Hahahaha!”

When I thought about this until today, I didn’t feel so bad.

Before we knew it, dinner was over and night fell.

The sound of the giant group moving was no longer heard.

“Chris, are you sleeping?”

While everyone was sleeping together in the large room, Youngmin broke the silence and asked me in a low voice.

“No.”

Vampires are naturally nocturnal, so they tend not to sleep at night.

Of course, my current body is like that of a child, so once I sleep, I sleep through a storm.

“Do you think my current name is that bad?”

“…A little?”

It was a question that came out of nowhere. But I answered honestly.

Then Youngmin said he would tell me his real name.

“Really?”

Even though I already know it. However, I decided to act a little so that Youngmin would not be embarrassed.

“Ray, Ray Friuli.”

“What, it’s a much better name than Youngmin.”

Was it Friuli after all?

There are several types of vampires in Dream City.

This meant that there were many archenemies of vampires.

Kresnik.

There are vampire hunters called by that name. It is a separate force from the vampire hunters who are dedicated to exterminating vampires in the church.

The legend about them is as follows.

Sometimes, there is a slim chance that a fetus is born covered with an amniotic sac, a membrane containing amniotic fluid, while in the mother’s womb.

A child born that way will either become a vampire named Kudrak… or the archenemy of a vampire named Kresnik.

Kudrak and Kresnik can be said to be archenemies.

In addition, in the world of Dream City, Kresnik’s nemesis was expanded to include all vampires.

There are currently five famous Kresnik families in Maguspol.

Originally there were more, but they were exterminated by vampires.

In particular, there were quite a few families that the second ranked family toyed with and destroyed in the past.

The Friuli family to which Ray belonged was also one of the Kresnik families.

A kid from a family of vampire hunters and a kid with a vampire bloodline. It was a strange combination.

***

I deliberately didn’t react much to Youngmin’s family.

I was just reacting to the name Ray.

Youngmin was relieved by my reaction, but he seemed to have new concerns.

Our conversation didn’t last that long, because I quickly fell asleep again.

If you think about it, it was the perfect opportunity to tell you about my age!

“Ugh….”

While I was stomping my feet like that.

The Blue Heart Office group prepared to withdraw from Cat Mom’s base.

“What, I didn’t do anything.”

“I thought it would happen anyway.”

At Sylvia’s reaction, I scratched my head and turned into a baby bat and headed towards her head.

Then Silas and her brothers started shouting not to go towards me.

I don’t want to go either!

But if there was a meeting, there was also a separation.

I didn’t say empty-handedly that I would come back later.

Honestly, I don’t know if I can do that.

instead….

“I’ll definitely call you during my next request!”

You can’t call Scylla and all of Scylla’s brothers, right?

“Kids! Come here!”

Only after the cat mom gave an order were the cats able to calm down.

“Olivia, you’ve been in a lot of trouble.”

“I am indebted to you. I was the client, so this is natural.”

Even when the cat mom broke up, she was generous.

There were two cars leaving Cat Mom’s home base.

One was the vehicle of our Blue Heart office, and the other was the vehicle of the Ildong office with Deoksu and Youngmin in it.

So we quickly headed to central Silverside.

…But for some reason, the atmosphere in the neighborhood was ugly not only in the northern part but also as it got closer to the central part.

“What, it wasn’t always like this.”

“This is probably because refugees from Miller Town flocked in.”

“I was pushed out by a bunch of rats.”

“They are pathetic.”

Datihi and Astoby reacted to Silvia’s answer.

That’s right. It was a good thing that they drove the rats into Miller Town and dealt with them.

However, in the process, those who originally lived in Miller Town had no choice but to flow into the surrounding areas of Miller Town.

Silver Side, located to the south of Miller Town, was also affected by slumming.

“Wow, this really tastes good.”

Of course it was irony.