Chapter 213
Chapter 213
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 213
Chapter Title: The Vampire at the Door
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Where do you live?
A phrase you often hear online.
Not scary at all.
"Because we'll never actually meet."
Even the person saying it has no intention of coming over.
They're just expressing their anger with those words.
SoonDeadVamp: I figured out where you live
Judak*: What
Judak*: No, Teacher, what do you mean
Judak*: Teacher?
But this was different.
It was good that SoonDeadVamp had returned to normal.
But it was bad that her memories from the split had come back with her body merging.
"Of course, there is a bunker..."
This is my world that I created.
But the bunker's greatest advantage wasn't its sturdiness.
Impossible to pinpoint the location.
Buried underground, no one can find it.
That was practically its main function...
"But if SoonDeadVamp comes and pounds on it?"
I could block it.
Penny's here, the dryer is here, and Sloth is sleeping soundly in the warehouse.
But it would announce to every being in the world that I'm here.
"Should I run away now?"
Unfortunately, the visitor arrived faster than I could ponder.
*Knock. Knock. Knock.*
A knocking sound came from above the bunker.
Even though I'd disguised the entrance as a cafe, she'd found it.
I started to grab a shotgun but stopped and slowly went up.
"You're not here to kill me."
She just wanted to kidnap me and turn me into her personal blood bag.
"Not bad."
I could keep gallerying.
She'd even feed me three meals a day and clean my room.
The indefinite imprisonment was the downside.
[Shop]
[Voice Modulator] - 20p
"Who is it?"
So I used the voice modulator.
Tech that could fool modern people.
The machine recognized my voice and output the voice of a cute half-elf academy girl instead of my usual one.
"Judak, I know you're in there."
But it didn't work at all.
So I tried a fake name.
"Lord Judak? I'm Lux."
"Another one of your weird gadgets? I know it's you, Judak. I can feel it all over you."
But neither modern tech nor SoonDeadVamp's senses could be fooled.
In the end, my final choice was.
"..."
To exercise my right to remain silent.
More precisely, I was racking my brain on what to do.
Enemies are easy to deal with.
Just shoot them.
But blocking someone with no hostility toward me was incredibly hard.
"You're worried, right?"
Then SoonDeadVamp spoke from beyond the door.
"I'm not planning to force you this time. Just do one thing for me."
"No. I don't want to. Don't do it!"
"It's true. Don't you trust sis?"
Words I absolutely couldn't trust.
'The bunker getting breached is just a matter of time anyway.'
SoonDeadVamp was weak in prolonged fights but had top-tier single-target attack power.
It would open eventually.
But instead of brute force, SoonDeadVamp chose to wait.
"I'll wait."
"..."
"I get it. You can't let your location slip. I don't want to make things hard for you."
*Ding!*
Then a notification popped up.
It was from the admin chat room.
SoonDeadVamp: (crouching and V-sign meme)
SoonDeadVamp: I'll wait nicely
DragonWillDie: What are you waiting for?
DragonWillDie: Wait, no way
FullElf: Judak, so when exactly are you putting the commoners on the marketplace?
FullElf: Day 1 of praying for the commoner market!!
"Hmm..."
Everyone just saying their piece in the chat room, and SoonDeadVamp sends a proof pic.
She really planned to wait by the bunker door until I opened it.
The problem was, it wasn't bravado.
To SoonDeadVamp, who knows how many years she's lived, a month or a year is nothing.
"Ugh..."
The situation was awkward.
But there's always a way.
[Destruction Gallery Wiki]
[Category – Vampires]
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4. Vampire Weaknesses
Not a well-known race, so little is known, but they hate garlic.
Having it works.
"Looking at the Destruction Gallery Wiki, huh."
A feature I'd once added to the gallery.
[Peeled Garlic 200g – 2p]
So I immediately bought garlic from the shop.
I needed insurance too.
As I slowly opened the bunker door, I saw SoonDeadVamp with her head buried in her knees.
"...Judak?"
Did she not even imagine I'd open the door?
Her mouth slightly agape in surprise was impressive.
But why were her eyes closed?
Anyway, I warned SoonDeadVamp firmly.
"I've got garlic here?"
"..."
"And it's peeled garlic."
I have no hobby of getting kidnapped.
If things go south, I'll turn devilish too.
Then SoonDeadVamp snatched the garlic from my hand.
*Crunch crunch*
"I like garlic."
Even with her pronunciation all mushy, she chewed it defiantly like she was showing off.
"No, isn't this not supposed to work?"
Thinking about it, it made sense.
A worldview where even ordinary people and great hunters starved equally.
Food couldn't be a weakness.
At least not for SoonDeadVamp.
Then I suddenly noticed her eyes were still closed.
"But why do you keep your eyes shut?"
"Oh."
SoonDeadVamp said it casually, like it was no big deal.
"Seems like the power I gave you is from the Outside."
"Huh... What?"
"And when we merged back, I felt it. Someone sharing my senses."
I blinked blankly for a moment at SoonDeadVamp's calm voice.
Then that means you can't come to my house.
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SoonDeadVamp had always been an enigma.
Her floating ruined castle, her immortal body, being the only vampire.
But SoonDeadVamp told me everything one by one.
"So, you were the first victim of a witch hunt."
"Yeah."
SoonDeadVamp had once been human.
And she was branded a witch by the church and burned at the stake first.
As she was burning to death, power was given to her.
And the power whispered.
"It told me to kill all humans."
[Kill the humans]
I realized right away.
"So the Outside gave you the power."
At that moment when her whole body was aflame, SoonDeadVamp had no humanity left.
So she destroyed the kingdom.
Not content with mere destruction, she ripped the entire castle into the sky and bound it.
That was SoonDeadVamp's home, the ruined castle called Maria something.
And all this happened long before the Great War.
"So the Great War wasn't the first invasion?"
That's when I realized.
The Outside's invasions didn't start with the Great War.
Far earlier, they had tried to start the Great War.
Through SoonDeadVamp.
"I just did what the whispers told me."
Of course, SoonDeadVamp killed people.
No, killing wasn't enough.
She turned them into vampires and locked them in her floating castle.
The vampires were trapped in her castle for ages, slowly dying in agony and becoming fertilizer.
Up to there, it went as the Outside intended.
If SoonDeadVamp had swept up the surroundings too, it would've been perfect.
"Only at first."
Until SoonDeadVamp suddenly sealed herself and fell asleep.
The kingdom that tormented and harassed her was one whose name we no longer knew.
And SoonDeadVamp finished her revenge.
And committed no more murders.
"Why?"
"I hated being controlled."
Humans were repulsive to SoonDeadVamp.
But she decided to wait.
And when she awoke again someday, if the world was still the same, she'd move then.
"Of course, the whispers didn't leave me alone."
The power given to SoonDeadVamp turned into a curse.
She had to drink blood.
The urge for blood dominated her body.
A penalty prepared in case she resisted.
But SoonDeadVamp ignored the whispers completely and fell into a long sleep.
"Ah, so that's why your speech was..."
It showed on the surface.
Severe translationese was the cause.
And when SoonDeadVamp awoke to the world.
"The world had changed a lot."
- Dawn Elf Lewd Pics Dropping
ㄴ Fuck, don't post that shit
ㄴ No dwarf lewds?
ㄴ (Eye-gouging knight cone)
- Marketplace Pepper Tuna Sales Prayer Day 3
- Tuna, what is this? So fucking tasty lol
- Killed an orc, proof...jpg
A gallery full of dopamine and fun.
The world had gotten harsher, but the vibe was way better than before.
People obsessed over lewds more than killing.
They started reading essays instead of feeling depressed and lonely.
"And at the center was you, Judak."
I appeared before the flustered SoonDeadVamp.
'Judak*: Wanna try being a mod?'
Hearing that quietly, I blinked.
"Timing's spot on."
She'd lived a more glamorous life than I thought.
Then SoonDeadVamp grabbed my sleeve.
Looking at her like that, I felt strangely pitying.
"You've wanted my blood all this time because..."
Vampire side effect.
SoonDeadVamp grabbed my sleeve again.
That's why she came with her eyes closed.
"You're important to me."
"Hmm..."
"I like you."
I also adore my unpaid slave mods.
As I stared at SoonDeadVamp, she slowly spread her arms and asked.
"Can I hug you just once?"
All for this reason.
"Sure."
I permitted it readily.
If she wasn't going to kidnap me or reveal the location, no reason to stop her.
SoonDeadVamp hugged me tight.
So close I could feel her breath.
She hugged longer than expected, face buried in my chest.
"But didn't you say senses are shared?"
Then a sudden doubt hit me.
Even if eyes closed are fine, isn't touch shared?
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"No good clothes here."
In the ruined wasteland.
Pride eyed the clothes scattered on the ground with dissatisfaction.
"There's nothing intact to begin with."
"..."
"Why no clean, stylish suits?"
Pride turned her head as she said that.
The old man sitting in the corner, Greed, answered grudgingly.
"This place has been here forever..."
"Whatever. Wasn't talking to you."
"..."
Greed clamped his mouth shut.
Even if curses boiled inside, not voicing them was key.
"It used to be so glamorous back then."
"Mm."
"Miss those days."
Pride muttered to herself softly while comparing torn and ragged clothes.
Pride suddenly looked at her reflection in a mirror.
Her obsession with clothes bordering on fixation... maybe all because...
"Huh?"
Then it happened.
A sudden warmth seeped into her whole body.
Pride tilted her head.
"What is it?"
No one around.
No bold enough being nearby to prank with magic.
"Then..."
Only one possibility.
The girl beyond the world.
The only one with power like hers, who recently started sharing senses.
She'd half-given up since the girl kept her eyes closed all day.
"Finally in the mood to cooperate?"
Pride smiled coldly.
She hadn't liked that the girl resisted the whispers despite her vast power.
"But this much, I can forgive."
It took long, but admirable she'd come around now.
Maybe sharing Judak's info.
The world's great secrets.
"Come on, share what you're feeling with me too."
Pride spread her arms wide.
Eyes closed, focusing on the sensations fully—that moment.
*Squeeze*
"Wha, what?"
And the vital info Pride felt first.
Was Judak's embrace, suffocatingly tight.
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