Chapter 105: School Life (part six)
Today is my first holiday since my enrollment.
When I got up in the morning, there were both Tirnanog and Palug who returned last night.
The three of us had a simple breakfast with tea, boiled egg and toast, and at the same time, we decided to start a meeting that also serves as a status report.
“Well, first of all, please give me your report, Tir.”
『Umu. For the moment, there is no sign of a monster that is likely to hurt her soon.』
“That’s great.”
Hearing Tirnanog’s words, I stroked my chest in relief.
It is good news that it turned out the dangerous magical beasts and phantom beasts are not approaching.
If Beatrice is already being targeted because I am out of the death route, I would feel too terrible to look at her.
『The woman named Beatrice is diligent and also has a good lifestyle. Because of her cautious personality, she will never jump into a dangerous place by herself. However, there is one thing that worries me.』
“What is it?”
『I felt a vague but frequent presence mixed with hostility. There seems to be someone else watching the lady beside me.』
“Do you know the identity of the observer?”
『Unfortunately, I do not know exactly who it was because they cleverly blended with the crowd. If you use a demonic eye, you can trace the traces of their magical power.』
“I see……and tracking them down is difficult, huh.”
『Umu. But, it was a human presence after all. It wasn’t any dangerous monster that you are concerned about.』
I threw a peeled soft-boiled egg into Tirnanog’s mouth.
It seems that he’s happy with the moderate amount of salt and the right degree of boiling.
I thought that attaching a guard on Beatrice was just my needless anxiety, but it may have been a good precaution in hindsight.
Even if it’s trivial, I should keep track of the disturbing information.
However, all things considered, what is their reason to keep watch on Beatrice?
Is it a personal thing or do they want to pick a quarrel with her family? Is it possible for me to intervene in the first place?
Since there is not enough information, it seems I should just wait and see.
On the other hand, Palug seems to be the most bloodthirsty among the three of us.
She swished her tail left and right for a long time as she radiated uncontrollable anger.
“The vampires seem to have resumed their contamination of the altars in full-scale. Their underlings are increasing.”
“No way……is that okay? Isn’t it hard to distinguish them?”
“If they are an inexperienced vampire, you can easily distinguish it if you get used to it.”
Vampires retain the blood and soul of the people they prey on inside themselves.
By regenerating those flesh, blood, and soul, vampires seem to be able to reproduce the figure and personality of another person.
However, it is said that it’s a different story for young and new vampires.
For example, even if they turn into a person they preyed on, they seem to be unable to reproduce the personality of that person well.
It seems that kind of vampires can be identified by the accumulation of small details, such as a sensation gap.
For example, the difference in sensation of pain.
Since their sense of pain becomes diluted, they run without noticing their sprained feet.
Lift a pot without noticing that it is boiling hot.
They will exert power that goes beyond the original’s physical ability and destroy the body.
And thus, since it gets broken, they finally notice and regenerate it.
It seems that we can reveal such unnatural behaviors and traces by observation.
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“Because of that, it will be fine for now.”
『But, from that manner of speaking, you sound like you consider the eventual struggle to be unavoidable.』
“Well. After so many years, vampires become better at impersonating. No, rather, it may be that only vampires who succeeded in impersonating can continue to exist for a long time.”
A vampire that has passed through the years can reproduce human behavior perfectly.
Until in the end they don’t even know that they are a vampire.
Then, at some opportunity, they will regain their consciousness as a vampire and kill again.
A vampire, who is mixed in among the people, had devoured a man while still assuming the shape of a human and defiled the altar.
Although half-baked vampires can’t even hurt Palug, combined by the effect of polluting the altars for a long time, it is a different case.
Because there is a possibility that she will weaken once again when the supplementation of the power of faith is cut off.
“The perpetrator of this incident seems to be aware of the existence of their pursuers. They are quite cleverly hidden.”
“Has the existence of angels been exposed?”
“As you’d expect, they probably haven’t noticed me yet. While making them misrecognize me, I will narrow the net bit by bit, but it looks like it will be a long-term battle.”
『Umu. Be careful, and proceed with caution.』
“Yes, I will thoroughly smoke them out, and I will definitely crush them.”
Palug’s voice contains a quiet anger.
From the story so far, quite a few people were preyed on by the vampires.
Since they have suddenly turned bolder even though they were hiding up to a few years ago, I’m also worried about the reason.
“Well, I will ask for your help again today.”
『Umu.』
“Hah~ I guess I should do my best~ I wonder if I should go for a moment to recuperate my spirit……”
This ‘spirit recuperation’ seems to mean going to see Auguste’s figure.
Incidentally, it seems that she learned the location of the large stable where Auguste passes frequently on the first day.
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The first periodical meeting ended that way.
After the meeting broke up, Tirnanog went to the Central Dorm to guard Beatrice and Palug went to the large stable.
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After sending off the phantom beasts, I also started my holiday plan.
In the morning, I have an advance arrangement to receive magic tools from Harold.
Since I have free time from the afternoon, I plan to explore the Phantom Beast Museum this time.
I finished dressing up easily and headed to the alchemy workshop building in the academy.
Harold who receives the same lessons as the upper grades has a private workshop dedicated for him on the first floor of the workshop building.
When I peeked inside through the gap of the door that was opened a little bit, various things were randomly piled up.
They have been allocated there for a week and were left in a state of neglect.
It appears that there is a previous guest.
Blond hair like wheat straw, a man in his prime year who is rather overweight but seems to have a fit body.
It’s the teacher in charge of Golem Engineering, Otfried Schlammberg.
He and Harold were talking about something while looking into a bunch of documents at hand.
“That’s why the list of stones needed for restoration will look something like this. I think if you place an order in this format, the stone dealer will be able to accept it more smoothly.”
“Ooh, as expected from Harold-kun. It will be a pleasure to be able to do it so quickly. Humm, I will order it immediately.”
Oops, it seems that it is just about to end.
My eyes met with Schlammberg’s who came out after finishing his business and I greeted him lightly.
He smiled and started talking to me jovially.
“Good morning, Erica-kun. Well, your previous report on Advanced Golem Engineering was wonderful.”
“It’s my honor to be praised by you.”
“This year’s freshmen are really full of unique and youthful ideas. When you are in the upper grade, why don’t you try majoring in Golem Engineering? I will be waiting.”
Schlammberg said what he has to say quickly and left without waiting for my answer.
Harold seems to have noticed me, he urged me to enter the workshop with a gesture.
“Morning, Harold.”
“Yeah, good morning. My bad, I kept you waiting.”
“No, it was just in time.”
“Haha, I guess that is good then.”
A long table with alchemy tools lined up, cabinets filled with things, lots of stacked boxes, a case of tightly packed bottles of potions.
And, a sofa with familiar design.
His workshop has the same configuration as his Wunderkammer in Knot Reed.
I sat on the sofa while Harold sat on the chair in front of me as usual and broached the main subject.
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