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Episode.71 Triche (1)

As we continued riding in the carriage for a while, the sun began to set.

When I left Violet’s territory, the unpleasant red sky became clear, and I felt at ease without knowing it.

The bright sky began to darken.

Illya, who was looking out of the carriage and saying wow, started stroking the back of her hand.

“It doesn’t hurt… I guess there’s something wrong…”

I could faintly hear Illya talking to herself in a low voice.

“What’s wrong?”

【Surely… I didn’t take a wrong turn, right?… Please, tell me that’s not the case… I can’t survive the next two days, any more…】

Chaewon must have heard Illya’s words to herself as she pretended to bite the nail on her right thumb.

“Hi! Oh, it’s nothing!”

Illya hastily hid her left hand behind her back.

【huh? Why is he like that?】

Chaewon looked suspiciously at Illya, who was hastily hiding her hands.

“No, no, give it to me. What is it?”

I reached out to grab Illya’s left hand, which seemed to be hiding something.

“You really mean nothing?!”

Illya, embarrassed by my actions, crushed my left hand with her butt.

‘If it goes on like this, I won’t be able to check… I won’t be able to lift Illya in this narrow carriage…’

【Po, don’t give up! You have to check for anything suspicious, right? This is inside the gate? Don’t let your guard down just because the atmosphere is a little different!】

Chaewon’s words are 100 times more correct in this regard.

Whatever creature is inside the gate, it is the hunter’s enemy.

There may be exceptions… but right now, I felt like I had to check Illya’s hand in front of me.

“Hey, show me.”

“I hate it!”

“I will let you drink my blood, so show me.”

“What are you saying! Your blood belonged to me from the beginning!”

“No… why does my blood belong to you?”

“Aren’t we… like fiancés?”

【Geez, if there was a white-haired crazy bitch here, she would go crazy…】

Chaewon looked at Illya like she was looking at a bug and said.

In fact, Chaewon is already treating Illya like a mosquito.

“… Didn’t you assassinate your father because you didn’t want to get married?”

“Assassination is because it is unacceptable to offer up a healthy person as a living sacrifice!… Absolutely? Absolutely, I am not making this excuse because I want to marry you…”

“Yeah, really?”

Illya seemed relieved to see that I hadn’t said anything since I had argued with her for a while.

“Heung.”

I don’t know what made me feel reassured in this situation.

Illya began to squirm and slowly pull out her left hand, which was sitting on her butt.

I pretended not to be interested, looking out the window and quietly glancing at Illya’s left hand.

As if Illya hadn’t noticed, she touched the back of her left hand again.

【Ah, now is your chance!】

‘I know even if you don’t say it!’

I didn’t miss the opportunity and immediately grabbed Illya’s left hand.

-Tap!

“Oh! What are you doing now?”

I tightly grabbed Illya’s thin left wrist.

“Are you going against this body right now?”

Illya, embarrassed by the situation that had just happened, spoke strangely.

“Let go quickly!”

“What are you saying? I have to check. Let’s take a look… what are you hiding so much?”

“Really, it hurts so much that I can’t let go…”

Without even listening to what she said, I checked the back of my hand, which I had been touching, scratching, and stroking earlier.

On the back of Illya’s hand, there was something red in the center.

“Is it swollen?”

I said that and looked at Illya’s face.

Her face was already pouting with anger.

With her right hand, which was not being held by me, Illya lightly slapped my hand holding her left hand.

“Well, didn’t you say… it was nothing.”

【Hmm… Isn’t this really a big deal?】

“… Wasn’t there something like this before you got on the carriage?”

“Well, how do you know that? Are you a pervert? Is he a pervert? Are you really a pervert?”

【Is this a true story? I didn’t see it like that.】

‘What are you.’

【Ah~ I can accept you even if you’re a pervert… but wouldn’t it be unreasonable if it were too extreme?】

“Well, it’s not that… you know? When he grabbed my neck to drink my blood before getting into the carriage… I remembered seeing a glimpse of it.”

I realized that the situation was turning against me and quickly made an explanation.

“Well, was that so?”

“Yes, that’s right. In the first place, I have no interest in your body or anything like that, so you can rest assured.”

“… It’s good to explain, but… did you really need to add the last word? ”

For some reason, Illya shifted her gaze from me to out the window with an uncomfortable look on her face.

【Kuhk… You did some damage to the mosquito bitch?】

‘No… what’s wrong with you?’

【No~ It’s just that~】

“Anyway, why did it happen like that?”

“My body is weaker than that of other true ancestors, so my body cannot withstand sunlight for even a minute. But… didn’t you reach out of the carriage to show me the world tree earlier?”

“Yes, I did.”

“At that time, the sun’s heat hit the back of my hand… I took it out immediately after listening to Triche, but the back of my hand swelled in that moment…”

“… Just with that-”

“Not just! Aren’t you ashamed of the fact that your skin has become swollen and swollen in just one second? It takes even an ordinary vampire 10 seconds for their skin to swell!”

“Okay, okay, I understand, calm down… I really wanted to ask you something other than this.”

“This is definitely a normal question this time, right?”

“… The previous one was also ordinary.”

I asked, looking outside with my aching head.

“Do all places where vampires live have red skies like your territories?”

“Ah… In that case, only our Violet territory knows that the sky is red. To begin with, my father is the highest ranking vampire, so most of the few true ancestors are in Violet’s domain. Don’t ask me why it’s red. Because I don’t even know why the sky is red in the first place.”

– Grumble.

While listening to Illya’s explanation, the carriage door suddenly opened.

I immediately checked out the window.

The carriage had already stopped, and the slightly red sunset outside had disappeared and there was complete darkness.

“Sorry for interrupting our happy conversation, but I will now prepare for camping.”

Triche opened the carriage door and motioned for me to get off.

There were many things we couldn’t understand as the behavior of a worker, but we didn’t take offense at Trice’s words and just quietly got out of the carriage.

“Then, I will prepare.”

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The sound of the crackling bonfire sounded like the music of Mother Nature.

Warm light and eye-catching beautiful fireworks illuminated the surroundings.

The sight of the flames of a burning bonfire looked like a work of art presented by nature.

Dinner was already over, so Illya rubbed her sleepy eyes and went into the temporary tent made of woven tents with her parasol and went to sleep.

Now is the time for other vampires to be active, but Illya is not.

Like a hikikomori, it looks like night and day have changed.

Still, to humans, it looks like a well-behaved child who wakes up in the morning and sleeps at night, but to them, it looks like he sleeps in the morning and wakes up at night.

Anyway, it looked like it had been raised with honor, but surprisingly, the fact that it didn’t care about where it was sleeping struck me as unique.

Chaewon whined and fell asleep holding Illya, missing the soft bed at Violet’s mansion.

Of course, Illya, who doesn’t know that fact, would be shivering in the cold and swimming in her dream.

Triche and I decided to take turns to be on watch, but I decided to be on watch first.

That’s right, I decided to stand watch first…

“…”

“…”

Triche and I were sitting side by side on log chairs set up near the campfire.

“… You said I would be the first to stand watch? ”

“I understand.”

“… Then why don’t you go in and get some snow? Of these, you are the only one who can drive the carriage, so if you drive while drowsy, it’s a big problem, right?”

“Is there a reason why I have to go inside and sleep just because your guy is on watch? Don’t worry too much. Because it is an ‘occupational disease’…”

“What? Occupational disease? What kind of person… was the maid’s job that required staying up all night?”

“… Isn’t that natural since you work for a nocturnal race? Do you not have even the basic level of intelligence of a human?”

“You’re lying. Are you hiding something?”

Triche suddenly flinched.

“You… how do you do that?”

“Huh? It was just a joke, but was it real? What are you doing bitch? I don’t think it’s right for me to be a user…”

” Bitch… Ugh, you’re making fun of me like this… ”

Triche was lost in thought for a moment.

“… I…”

“Oh, it’s okay if you don’t want to talk, because if you pause like that, the desire to listen will disappear.”

“… Really? Thank you.”

Triche tucked her light purple hair behind her ear.

Maybe it’s because I have early morning sensibilities, but she appears quite attractive in my eyes.

“But why are you doing this job right now?”

Triche stared at the fire for a moment.

Under the light emitted from the bonfire, the light made Triche’s face appear as bright as a light.

The mystical atmosphere and the colors of the bonfire illuminated her skin, making her face shine with a captivating color.

At first glance, it looked like she was dazed by the light, but there wasn’t a single gap in her body.

It’s definitely not an ordinary maid.

“Hehe… Do you want to hear the reason?”

“Well… it won’t be anything grand.”

“It depends on what you think.”

Triche picked up a tree branch that had fallen on the floor.

And then I threw it into the bonfire to cool it down.

“Making the world clean by getting our hands dirty.”

Triche said something meaningful.

‘No… definitely somewhere…’

“That’s all.”

She looked at me and continued speaking.

“I hope you remember… unless we become enemies.”