I've come to see you again, Professor
I've come to see you again, Professor
"Butler?"
"Just in time. I am in the process of searching for a successor to serve my Master-nim."
"That's a bit..."
I immediately showed resistance to the head butler-nim's suggestion out of nowhere. Being a butler meant living as a slave by Professor-nim's side for life, didn't it? I wanted to live freely meeting various women rather than being bound like that, so I promptly refused.
"A shame. Master-nim views Ja-geun-nim quite favorably, you see."
"Me? Oh, surely not. When I saw her earlier, she just told me to get to work and disappeared."
"Hmm.. even speaking to you.. it's certain that she's taken a liking to you. Normally, Master-nim wouldn't even exchange words. She'd maintain an expressionless demeanor or immediately respond with blood magic."
"So that was her way of showing she liked me."
Was this some classical literature where hidden meanings lay in Professor-nim's actions and words? As expected, the more I got to know Professor-nim, the more peculiar she seemed.
"Nobles receive basic education from birth. To maintain dignified and noble grace, you see. For Master-nim to mingle words with a commoner is equivalent to wishing to maintain friendly relations."
"I see..."
The Professor-nim I knew didn't seem to go to such extremes, but apparently the Professor-nim seen in everyday life differed from the one I knew.
"Then may I ask one favor of you, Ja-geun-nim?"
"A favor? I'm not becoming a butler though..."
"Hoho, it's not about being a butler. Instead, if I were to disappear, I would like you to show a little care for Master-nim."
"For Professor-nim? Is something wrong with you, Head Butler-nim?"
"No. It's exactly as I said. I am but an ordinary human, so I've grown old like this. In comparison, Master-nim still maintains the appearance of a young girl."
"That's true. Professor-nim is a vampire, after all."
"When I first began serving Master-nim, she was just as she is now. So I suppose I ought to say I'm worried. The time for me to gradually age and die draws near, but Master-nim has much time left to live, so she needs someone to stay by her side."
"And that person is me?"
"That's correct. You, Park Ja-geun-nim, are the only person Master-nim has genuinely exchanged words with recently."
This was exactly why the head butler-nim had suddenly suggested I become a butler. He must have always carried the thought that his remaining days were few, and sought to prepare for the future.
"Didn't Professor-nim ask directly?"
"Master-nim already considers me her last. She wishes for no more people to suffer harm because of her."
Just like Professor Scarlet. Having placed the blood curse on herself and desiring death, she was already considering standing alone.
"It's just heartbreaking.. Even being a vampire, the essence is still human. Living alone in this world would be lonely. For humans are animals weakest to loneliness."
I nodded at the head butler's words. I'd experienced it myself a few times—when I was alone in my rented room jerking off, a sudden depressive mood would hit me. No matter how much of a Professor-nim she was, I figured it'd be hard for her to enjoy solitude.
"Certainly.. if the Head Butler-nim were to leave, I'd be worried about Professor-nim being alone in the mansion. Even the carriage and attire, the Head Butler-nim takes care of everything.."
"You truly think similarly to me, Ja-geun-nim. Do you really not wish to become Master-nim's butler?"
"Haha.. I don't have the confidence for that."
The head butler Alfredo-nim sent me a look of regret.
"Master-nim is coming."
"Huh? She's coming?"
"Yes, the sound of her footsteps is calm yet confident. She has just exited the meeting room and is walking down the corridor."
To recognize someone from the sound of footsteps alone—what an incredible head butler-nim. Truly, having spent so much time together, I could indirectly feel the sincerity of the head butler-nim.
-Clunk, creeeak.
"I have been waiting, Master-nim."
"You spoke much needless chatter, Alfredo."
"My apologies, Master-nim."
As if she had been listening to the entire conversation in the room, Professor-nim scolded the head butler-nim the moment she arrived. The head butler-nim had said it all with Professor-nim's best interests in mind, but Professor-nim didn't want that and was giving him a warning.
"Alfredo. Step outside for a moment. I must give him his reward."
"Understood."
He bowed politely and exited through the door Professor-nim had entered. Then, her crimson eyes looked at me.
"Pay no mind to what Alfredo said."
"Understood. But may I ask just one question?"
Professor-nim nodded slightly.
"The Head Butler-nim wishes to remain with Professor-nim. Is there no way for you to go together?"
"It is not as easy as your casual words make it sound. Alfredo also wished to become a vampire, but I refused."
"Why did you refuse?"
"If one only looks at such an ideal future, it might be possible, but a vampire's impulse is not so simple."
"Just how strong is the impulse.. is it to an uncontrollable degree?"
"I'll tell you plainly. If you drink my blood, you go mad. I have witnessed countless times an ordinary knight lose himself and become a monster craving blood."
"If one drinks Professor-nim's blood, they become a monster?"
"That's correct. Once they transformed, I had to kill them all with my own hands. Seeing them crave blood more than the loyalty they once held for me, I realized it. That my blood is cursed blood.."
The vampire Professor-nim who had placed a curse on herself with my blood. It seemed she hadn't summoned me with simple thoughts. Having experienced and repeatedly failed over decades, centuries, perhaps she had come to despise herself by now.
"Do not concern yourself with that matter. More importantly, you want.. that again today, I presume."
[Reward is being granted.]
Professor Scarlet unfastened her Gothic Lolita attire herself and faced me expressionlessly.
The thought of feeling pity for Professor-nim instantly flipped to the thought of being turned on.
'Gulp.'
She had grown. The curse she'd placed must've had tremendous effect because her body had developed further compared to when I first saw her.
"Do you dislike that I seem like an easy woman?"
"N..no! I truly like you, Professor Scarlet-nim!"
"Even empty words aren't bad."
"I mean it."
How many women are there who strip and toss their clothes aside before me right this instant? I'm not such a picky eater as to already spout ungrateful complaints.
At my age in my mid-twenties, I wasn't even in a position to call a woman with pallid skin an easy woman.
"Professor-nim, please share your emotions with me."
In sync with Professor-nim's exposure, I also stripped off my clothes one by one and approached her. Seeing that Professor-nim, with her grown body, now reached up to my lips, I slightly bent my knees to match her height.
"...Must I really."
"Yes, I told you before. Sex is communion, communion."
Professor-nim slightly bit her lower lip to the point her two fangs showed, then released it, and placing her hand on my cheek, she began using blood magic.
As Professor-nim's cold blood flowed connecting with me, I felt the isolated sensation deep within her dark heart.
The terror I'd felt the first time I made love to her. It was like the loneliness of being left alone in the deep sea.
With that sympathetic heart, I caressed Professor-nim's face.
"Even after doing it like that last time, your heart is still dark."
"It must mean your heart is likewise weak."
"If that's true, I'd like to fill it with more perverted thoughts today."
"You speak just like a bloodsucker drunk on my blood."
"Haha really? When one becomes a vampire, do they harbor thoughts of dominating women and such?"
"It's similar. I was once like that too. The feeling of boarding an unstoppable carriage and racing until death."
"So Professor-nim was a greedy one like me at first."
"I had many desires, but I lost many things."
"Still, there must be some things you've gained too."
"There were.. the terror and screams of people who didn't want it, and a tomb-like mansion, I suppose."
"That's chilling."
"Yet you still like this cursed body?"
"Well, of course, because what I meant was it's so chilling that it excites me."
"You pervert."
At Professor-nim's final words, I gave a small smile and lowered myself further below her.
"Would you spread your legs just a little?"
"You make me do vulgar things."
"Right now, it's the reward I want for finishing the document organizing."
"The reward for the summoning can't be helped.. even if I appear humiliating.."
Using a tone of dislike while calmly holding her own thighs with her hands, she slightly exposed her genitals.
"I still can't see. Please spread them wider."
Expressionless yet bashful Professor-nim. It felt like a waste that only I could see this—should I say I wanted to show Professor-nim this sight of herself? The thought that a mirror would be nice came to mind, when I happened to remember the phone in my pants pocket.
"Just a moment, please stay just like that."
"What are you scheming? I just received a seriously lewd feeling."
"That? You'll know when you see."
I grinned wickedly and picked up the phone, opening the camera function.
"Don't move and stay right there."
-Kimchi~ click.
"What are you doing."
It was Professor-nim frowning along with the shutter sound. Even so, she kept her lewd posture to the end.
"I wanted to show Professor-nim the doll-like sight too."
"Are you insulting me. I am not a doll."
"I mean you're pretty like a doll. Look."
I approached Professor-nim and showed her the photo of her naked body taken on the phone.
"Is this truly my appearance? It's utterly vulgar like a prostitute."
"But it's just pretty. Still, Professor-nim's eyes are quite discerning. It really is so vulgar I want to insert right away."
"You.. you really like this cursed body that much."
"Like it enough that I can't even say it's bad? Hoho."
A god-tier adult beauty? If it were my world, I'd be reported immediately and end up in handcuffs. Of course, now she had a slightly more grown appearance due to my blood, but even that was dangerous.
But in this world, it didn't matter what I did to Professor Scarlet-nim. Because this isn't Korea.
"Don't laugh like a pervert."
"What can I do, I like Professor-nim."
The slender body type is superb, but that innocent charm as if lacking in sexual knowledge is so irresistibly attractive.
"Don't show it to any other bastard. It's only us two."
Professor-nim let out a sigh at the sight of herself spreading her own vagina in the phone, and spoke to me like she was informing a student.
"Of course. I will absolutely look at it alone."
"I can't bring myself to trust that.."
"Please trust me! I'll stake my life to protect it!"