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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Yuziro
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Michelle instinctively understood what the owner of the red eyes was.
Because she understood, she couldn’t stop her body from stiffening.
‘Demon…?’
It was definitely a demon.
And she had encountered a major disaster.
As soon as their eyes met, her body froze as if petrified.
Her instincts were warning her in that way.
Blood-stained lips.
Among the different races of demons, her opponent was a vampire.
Sensing the danger, she rummaged through her mind.
She dug up all the information that could be helpful in this situation.
What was written? Surely…
“…Hello.”
First, when encountering a demon, try speaking to them.
And—
“There are quite a few noticeable humans today.”
What came back was the indifferent answer of a man.
Second, if the answer comes back casually, it’s a mid-to-high-level entity, so run away unconditionally.
It’s impossible to communicate.
She had hoped it would be a low-level entity that couldn’t communicate, but it seemed hopeless.
This was a serious crisis.
Remaining frozen in place, Michelle observed the other party’s demeanor.
The appearance of a vampire with blonde hair and red eyes was enough to make her blood run cold.
Especially when he wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth.
“I’ll just go back.”
Being fond of reading, Michelle naturally had access to books about demons.
Compared to the highly violent dragon demons or wolf demons, vampires were quite rational.
In other words, all their actions were driven by ‘purpose’ rather than ‘impulse’.
He wouldn’t act impulsively, so let’s not touch on his purpose.
Maybe she could survive.
She slowly began to back away.
If communication worked with a stronger opponent, it was best to resolve it through dialogue…
The vampire, who had been rolling his eyes while wiping his mouth, spoke softly.
“Just going back?”
“Yeah. I really am.”
“Why do you think that one died?”
The tip of his sharp nails pointed at the corpse that resembled a dead tree.
Michelle calmly continued while backing away.
“I don’t know. I won’t bother with it.”
“No.”
A whooshing sound.
‘When did he…!’
By the time that sound reached her ears, the vampire was already at a nose-touching distance from Michelle.
He pressed his face close and muttered in a low voice.
“Ah~ That one said the same thing as you.”
“What?”
“They begged me to spare their life, saying they would keep what they saw a secret. In the end, I killed them anyway.”
He gently ran his fingernail along Michelle’s soft cheek.
From the horizontally drawn line, red blood flowed.
‘He’s saying there are more dead people besides the intermediate class student.’
…If one of them was a professor, it meant this guy’s skills surpassed those of the academy’s professors.
Stay calm.
Stay calm.
“It’s best if you stay still. That’s the least painful way to die.”
The fangs approached the girl’s soft neck.
Michelle took a deep breath and slowly pulled her uninjured foot back.
It was a moment that required more caution than ever.
“…No.”
Swoosh—!
Just as the sharp fangs were about to pierce, she thrust a telekinetic wave concentrated with all her mana into the guy’s chest.
“Hmm?!”
With a sound of rupture, the distance between the two greatly widened.
Michelle immediately ran without looking back.
She had to survive.
No matter what.
‘A tragic accident where a female student was attacked by a demon’
She refused to be forgotten after barely staying in the newspaper for a few days with such a title.
“…You crazy human bitch!”
The vampire chased after her, filled with murderous intent.
With telekinesis, she could assist her legs to run for about fifty steps.
She had to plan the most efficient route.
“Huff!”
Even while running, Michelle busily moved her hands.
Cleaning supplies left in the corner, scarecrows that could serve as targets for magic, anything that could block the path and make a loud noise, she dropped them all.
Clang! Crash! Thud!
Objects in the training ground hit the floor, making a ruckus.
But the more the vampire’s path was blocked, the more he began to rampage.
He easily leaped over them, narrowing the distance with Michelle.
‘…My mana consumption is seriously inefficient.’
Telekinesis was fundamentally not a magic meant to be used while moving.
If you could freely move your body, why use telekinesis? Just move directly and hit.
You use telekinesis because you want to utilize something other than your body.
‘But now…’
The situation was really bad.
It wasn’t easy to control objects while having to concentrate all telekinetic power on her legs to run.
“Ugh…!”
The distance had greatly narrowed.
The guy’s nails grazed several parts of Michelle’s body, inflicting wounds.
She felt her blood-soaked clothes sticking tightly to her body.
Upon smelling the blood, the guy’s eyes sparkled even more.
The murderous intent felt from behind was incomparably stronger than before.
Fifty steps were too few to escape.
Michelle’s balance crumbled.
‘No.’
At this rate, she would be pierced.
Pierced to death by those sharp nails…
“Watch out!”
Someone shouted.
With a thud, Michelle’s body rolled on the ground.
Four claw marks were carved into the spot where Michelle had been standing just a moment ago.
It was a sight that made one’s hair stand on end just by looking at it.
“…Charlotte.”
The one who had tackled and fallen with Michelle was Charlotte.
The child who should hate Michelle to death.
Charlotte.
“I heard a loud noise and came to check.”
She wasn’t pleased at all.
Michelle’s face twisted.
“How stupid can you be? I made the loudest noise possible so you could hear and run away.”
“…It sounded really desperate.”
Ugh.
She couldn’t deny that.
The desire to live was an unavoidable instinct.
“Let’s run away. Professor Adrian said to run if we see a demon.”
“Shu…”
But there was no time to retort.
The enemy charged at the two girls once more.
Michelle quickly reached out to ward it off.
If she designated the opponent as the target, she could at least pin them to the ground with telekinesis…
But the opponent spun in the air and easily escaped the point Michelle had aimed at.
As if the telekinesis was visible to him.
“…He dodged it.”
A chill ran down her spine.
She had heard countless times that demons were dangerous, so she knew it well.
But she had been confident.
She had thought that if she actually faced one, she would be able to hold her own to some extent.
But the result was so miserable.
“You’re being a nuisance! I’ll gouge out those eyes first!”
But it seemed Michelle wasn’t the only one who had misunderstood Charlotte’s intention.
Another person’s shout was heard.
“By the flow of light!”
A unique, gentle shout.
Along with Isabel’s voice, a white protective barrier unfolded before their eyes.
Of course, the effect wasn’t very impressive.
With a clang, the enemy’s nails shattered it the moment they touched.
“Ah, aaah!”
Isabel, feeling a sharp pain in her shoulder, collapsed to her knees.
Before she knew it, sharp nails had pierced her shoulder guard.
“Get away!”
Michelle pushed the enemy away with telekinesis.
As the opponent distanced himself, flesh was torn from Isabel’s shoulder, and blood flowed profusely.
“Everyone! Are you okay?”
Lotten belatedly joined them.
The blonde vampire alternately glanced at the four students huddled together as if embracing each other, then smiled with satisfaction.
“Wow. The prey is increasing on its own.”
It was literal.
It was no different from four rabbits huddling together in front of a tiger.
“We need someone to buy time while Isabel heals. Charlotte and I will do it.”
“What?”
“Michelle, you provide support with telekinesis. You can do that much, right?”
Lotten adjusted his glasses.
The students also knew well that the situation was desperate.
Nothing had changed by gathering together.
It was still a hopeless situation, and there was still no solution in sight.
But…
‘It’s different.’
She couldn’t pinpoint exactly what was different.
But it was definitely different.
What meaning could there be in this measly act of four people huddling together?
How great could it be?
Yet it felt like a completely different situation from before, and different options came to mind.
‘I have to do it.’
The noble bloodline of the Meinens family and the epithet of genius that Adrian had said suited her whispered to Michelle.
Do what came to mind.
…There was no reason to refuse.
The disgraceful attempt to run away was on par with the withdrawal form she had written.
Finally, Michelle rose from her spot.
“I’ll do it alone. You guys get out of here. Run away or whatever.”
“We couldn’t even handle it when we all charged together! How can we leave you alone and go!”
Isabel shouted.
But Michelle simply spread her palm.
She assumed the stance for telekinesis.
“You’ll be a hindrance if you’re here. I told you.”
She hadn’t healed her wounds at all.
The power of her telekinesis would have weakened compared to before, not strengthened.
Michelle would definitely lose.
But even so.
“…I said I hate group activities the most.”
There were things the next head of the Meinens family had to do.
That confidence startled the other three.
Her usually unpleasant tone of voice didn’t sound unpleasant at all this time.
Lotten pushed up his glasses.
“Can’t be helped. Let’s trust Michelle. I’ll go to the professor’s office as quickly as possible. I can transform into a hawk.”
“Then Isabel and I will try sounding the alarm…”
One by one, the students were getting a handle on the situation.
An indifferent voice fell before them.
“That male professor you mentioned. Are you his disciples?”
Just hearing that much suddenly felt ominous.
The four of them froze in place, waiting for the next words.
“Give up. There won’t even be a corpse left by now. The Queen herself took action.”
Charlotte began rummaging through her mind.
The intermediate class professor was a woman, and the advanced class professor was also a woman.
The only male professor who would still be here at this hour was Adrian.
“…The professor is dead?”
Charlotte asked, her eyes narrowed to slits.
“Of course. There won’t even be a trace left that he existed.”
Whoosh—
The moment his words ended, fireballs poured from Charlotte’s hand.
“Hahahahaha!!! Why are you doing that? Are you angry?”
As if a fun game had begun, the vampire leaped into the air and leisurely dodged.
Bang—! Bang—!
Not a single one of the many fireballs hit properly.
“How… How could you!!!”
Hahahaha—
The guy’s laughter filled the training ground.
Charlotte was being thoroughly toyed with.
He would land on a light fixture, and when a fireball flew, he would climb onto another light fixture to dodge.
The light fixtures attached to the training ground ceiling shattered as they collided with the fireballs.
Darkness began to descend even inside the brilliantly bright training ground.
“Stop it, Charlotte! If the lights break, we’ll be at a disadvantage!”
Isabel grabbed Charlotte and stopped her, but it was meaningless. She was already out of her mind.
“Die… Die! Die!!!”
Veins bulged on the girl’s forehead.
Even with her trembling hands due to anger, she continued to spew out fireballs.
Finally, the moment the last light was lost.
Squish—
“Ugh…!”
A savage sound of something piercing something.
At the same time, Charlotte collapsed to her knees.
Surrounding Charlotte, Michelle, Isabel, and Lotten stood back-to-back.
In this training ground that had lost all its lights, the only remaining light was the opponent’s red eyes.
“All the humans who died today followed the same steps as you.”
A mocking voice was heard.
From the side, from above…
No, from below? It was impossible to specify where.
The red eyes disappeared and reappeared in a different location.
“First, they pour out magic in anger, then they beg for their lives, and then they resign themselves and accept death.”
“Shut up.”
“Shut up?”
The red eyes disappeared.
And then they reappeared in front of Michelle’s nose.
“Eek…!”
Startled, the girl unknowingly flinched.
“From now on, you’ll be much louder. I’m already looking forward to how loudly you’ll scream. Don’t worry too much. It’ll be easier if you resign yourself. In the end, you’ll definitely die!”
Michelle bit her lip.
She had to do something somehow.
Somehow.
But what should she do?
Adrian would have provided an answer.
But now there was no Adrian to give an answer.
Michelle recalled her memory.
Adrian’s body was already abnormal.
Wasn’t he coughing up a lot of blood? In that state, if he encountered a demon, he must have died.
And no matter how much she hoped and wished for him to be alive, a dead person wouldn’t come back.
‘…If only I had greeted him even once then.’
Why didn’t she do something as trivial as a greeting?
Why did something as trivial as a greeting weigh so heavily on her mind and make her feel so miserable for not doing it?
So she had to do something.
Somehow, something.
It was the moment Michelle had just made that determination.
“The demon who will die today will also follow the same steps.”
A familiar voice penetrated her ears.
A chilling voice with no intonation or emotional inflection.
Forgetting the situation of having an enemy in front of them, the students’ heads turned back in unison.
Golden eyes.
The eyes of that man who always stood at the lecture podium were shining in the darkness.
“Hmm?”
The blonde vampire tilted his head.
What’s that? It doesn’t seem to be a student.
The clothes he’s wearing are different from the ones in front.
But it’s also ambiguous to call him a professor.
Doesn’t he give off a completely different vibe from other professors?
Right, like a -.
“What are you?”
“Doesn’t matter.”
“What! You insolent bastard…!”
The golden eyes began to approach the red eyes.
“Already angry, I see.”
The tall man passed by the students standing in a daze.
At the same time, a strong scent of perfume pierced their nostrils.
…Definitely his scent.
“Don’t worry too much. It’ll be easier if you resign yourself.”
“……”
“In the end, you will definitely die.”
Soon, the students’ eyes also began to glow.
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Finally, we’re gonna see him battle.
Thanks for the chapter!
Drained the Queens blood…