Chapter 837 – 837. Vampire Remnants (4)
Blond hair that has lost its luster due to lack of maintenance for a long time.
His haggard face clearly showed a strange expression, as if revealing that he had not been getting enough nutrients.
And two sharp fangs sprouting from her mouth.
That meant she wasn’t human.
“…”
Cha Hanseong held out her hand to the little girl who had just woken up without saying anything.
Without hesitation, Cha Hanseong’s hand stretched out so quickly that it was unrecognizable to ordinary people, but Ju-hong, who was next to him, grabbed his hand and stopped it.
“Hey. What are you going to do?”
“…”
Cha Han-seong did not answer.
He was just staring at the little girl who had become a vampire.
“Ah…”
“Suck!?”
Tia and Letty’s mother and daughter, who confirmed Cha Han-seong’s eyes belatedly, trembled with a startled expression.
In particular, Letty’s reaction was more than that of her mother, Tia.
Was it because he felt the murderous intent in Cha Han-sung’s eyes?
Letty, trembling, hugged Tia tightly and hid her body behind her mother’s back.
“… This child. You are a vampire.”
“… So?”
“Are you asking because you don’t know? Vampires… You have to kill them all.”
“Hee!?”
A cold word that explicitly contains the intent to kill.
Hearing that, Letty shuddered even more.
Perhaps because she felt her daughter’s trembling herself, Tia had to hug Letty even more to calm her down.
“Calm down! You are still, you are still a child.”
“Isn’t the little one a vampire?”
“Yeah, but if you tell me well…”
“There’s no way that’s possible.”
When Cha Han-seong was active with other party members as an adventurer, he could not forget the terrible experience of being attacked by vampires.
It is a memory that cannot be forgotten.
In that memory, there was also a young vampire who could not overcome the vampiric urge and lost his reason and attacked people.
Young vampires in particular were very emotional and simple, so they could not overcome their urges and casually attacked people and greedy for blood.
The incident that happened to the young daughter of Viscount Brawlton named Lety was very unfortunate, but it was impossible to leave her alone as she could become a new monster that would attack and slaughter many of her people.
“But…”
After seeing Tia and Letty’s mother and daughter, Ju-hong looked at Cha Han-seong’s face again and fell into trouble.
He wanted to refute something, but he couldn’t find any reason to stop him.
In her eyes, she just felt so sorry for Tia and Letty.
A girl who lost her domain and family overnight to a monster called a vampire, and was turned into a vampire by that monster.
As long as Cha Han-sung had heard about the habits of vampires, Letty’s future was as if it had already been decided.
However, the reason why he is hesitant to stop Cha Han-seong is because Letty was so pitiful and pitiful.
“No…”
Tia protected her own daughter, Letty, by hiding it behind her back.
“Uh, Mom. Mom…”
“Are you okay. Mom, mom will protect you.”
Her daughter, who is trembling with fear as she searches for her mother, and the mother who protects her.
“…”
Cha Han-seong, who saw the two of them, was also shaken.
“Shit…”
I didn’t want to see something like this, so I just wanted to end it quickly.
Lamenting his own stupidity for not doing so, Cha Hanseong clenched his fists tightly.
The initial determination to immediately deal with Letty was increasingly shaken by hesitation.
“This child is not. I, I’ll be good at it. To keep people from attacking…”
“… It’s not that easy.”
“Please, my daughter…”
“…”
Hearing Tia’s pleading voice, Cha Hanseong finally had no choice but to lose his strength.
After confirming his reaction, which gradually weakened, Tia hurriedly continued her words.
“My daughter… She has never drank human blood.”
“… Yes?”
For a moment, Cha Han-seong asked again with an expression as if he had heard it wrong.
“Letty never drank human blood. She’s never, ever.”
“What is that…”
As if he had heard an unbelievable story, he looked at Letty and Tia’s faces alternately and put on a dumbfounded expression.
A story that makes him crack the common sense he knew little by little.
“Since I became a vampire… How old is it?”
“… One month.”
“…”
It was strange when you think about it.
If an ordinary person becomes a vampire, they experience intense pain while undergoing changes in their body, and at the same time lose their reason and lose their ego due to the vampiric urge.
And by hunting people and drinking their blood, to satisfy the thirst for vampirism, to acquire strength, and to be reborn by acquiring lost intelligence and ego.
This is how the lowest-ranking vampire gradually evolved and continued to grow.
‘But this child…’
But the girl named Letty was a little different.
“… Did she lose her temper or thirst for blood?”
“Yes? Yes. Although she does feel the urge to drink blood, Letty has resisted the urge so far. She never lost her temper.”
“…”
An amazing story you’ve never heard before.
To think that she was enduring the vampiric urge that attacked her intensely and even maintaining her reason, her coldness hardened her face in a different way as she stared at Letty.
“Uh, Mom…”
“Are you okay. Are you okay. Letty.”
The appearance of a slender girl who continues to search only for her mother, trembling with her anxiety, is very different from the vampires Cha Han-seong has seen so far.
‘This… Is it possible?’
It will be possible.
It was because it was real right in front of Cha Han-sung’s eyes.
-There is nothing in the world that cannot exist.
For some reason, I remembered what Eunhyun had said.
Eun-hyeon’s warning not to judge all the phenomena and providence of this world based only on the things she had experienced and learned so far shook the heart of Han-seong, who was firmly determined.
‘Perhaps…’
Wouldn’t there be a way to save the girl who was hit by this irrational disaster right in front of her eyes?
Cha Han-seong, who had been worried, once again made up his mind.
Cha Hanseong bent one knee and sat down in front of Tia, who hid Letty behind her back and looked up at him, trembling.
Cha Han-seong, who met eyes with the two mothers and daughters, carefully opened his mouth.
“I apologize for the sudden rudeness.”
“… ?”
The mother and daughter looked puzzled when the man who had just tried to harm Letty politely apologized.
Cha Han-seong’s eyes, facing each other, contained a firm determination.
Cha Hanseong hid behind his mother’s back and looked at Letty, who was trembling with fear.
“Did you say Letty?”
“Yes, yes…”
“Are you having a hard time?”
“Ah… !?”
She must have been asked an unexpected question, and Letty shook her shoulders in surprise.
What was the purpose of that question?
What do you mean by asking what is difficult?
Are you trying to test yourself?
To the young girl, Cha Han-seong’s question made her think of various meanings, but it was confusion itself that could not confirm its essence.
Letty once again looked into Cha Han-seong’s eyes.
“Ah…”
It was different.
At first, as soon as she noticed that she was a vampire, she tried to kill herself, unlike her eyes that contained her murderous intent.
Now, in her eyes, Cha Han-seong was worried about herself.
The bloody sensation from earlier was not easily forgotten, but for some reason, Cha Hanseong now was not as scary as before.
It was a warm question from Cha Han-seong, filled with feelings of worry, concern, and compassion.
Without even thinking about her intentions or meaning, Letty was already bursting into her tears.
“Huh, huh…”
“Rh, Letty?”
Tia looked surprised at her daughter’s reaction and tried to appease her Letty, but Letty’s tears wouldn’t stop as if her emotional dam had collapsed.
Then Letty opened her mouth.
“Yes. It’s so, so hard… !”
Living on her cold, hard floor for over a month, worrying about her mother locked up with herself, and resisting vampiric urges that boiled over several times a day and every few hours.
There were so many things that bothered her and made it difficult.
‘It’s not that I’m maintaining my reason… Is she just holding out…’
Even her anxiety and fear, even her desire and thirst to drink her blood, she was just holding back.
It was very unusual, but a miracle that was possible because he had superhuman mental strength and patience enough to make it possible.
Cha Han-seong regretted it.
She was trying to end the life she had been working so hard for.
With her utmost apology for that, she spoke to Letty.
“I will find a way. A way so you don’t have to suffer.”
“Huh, huh… Really… Yo. This?”
“Huh. Therefore…”
Cha Hanseong carefully stroked Letty’s hair and said.
“Can you promise me one thing with you? I will never hurt anyone.”
Just one promise.
That alone was enough for Hansung Cha to help Letty.
She laughed out loud at the fact that she was doing things she thought she would never do, such as making a promise to a vampire with whom she had a terrible relationship.
For some reason she didn’t like it that much.
“Then my brother will help you.”
“Yes yes… ! I promise!”
Letty nodded her head with a determined expression.
“Okay! Hey! Good idea!”
As the harsh atmosphere eased little by little, Ju-hong smiled and patted Cha Han-seong on the back.
“… It hurts. It hurts! It hurts!”
“It’s the punishment that made the atmosphere so bad! You bastard!”
“Kkeuk! There is no such thing as a new wave drama.”
Eventually, hearing someone’s voice from beyond the prison, Cha Han-seong and Ju-hong immediately turned their backs, corrected their posture, and searched for the owner of the voice.
A man appeared in a dark hallway where no light shined.
He laughed at Cha Han-seong, Ju-hong, Tia, and Letty’s mother and daughter, saying that there is no other comedy like this.
“You…”
“It is you. The vampire who took control of this entire vassal territory.”
“Kuk-kuk.”
The vampire looked at Cha Hanseong with a giggle without replying.
When he laughed with his mouth open, his two fangs were exposed.
He seemed unwilling to hide his identity.
“I heard a report that food came in after a long time, but I thought two clowns filming a new wave like this came in.”
Cha Hanseong had no intention of continuing to listen to the vampires laughing at them.
“… What are you trying to do with us?”
“What are you doing?”
“Why are you letting me live?”
Originally, it wouldn’t be strange if the vampire ate them right away when he and Juhong fainted.
If you dared to keep him alive and put him in prison, there must be a reason and purpose.
“Because I am quite a gourmet. I like to cook and eat slowly.”
“… Cooking?”
Ju-hong frowned at the vampire’s explanation, which he couldn’t understand.
“I mean. When humans put on their most desperate expressions, they like to eat blood. That’s why they’re keeping those two stupid mother and daughter in prison and waiting.”
“… What?”
Ju-hong moved his gaze back, following the vampire’s finger pointing behind him.
He saw the mother and daughter trembling and remembered the words of the vampire.
‘When humans make the most desperate expressions.’
And she is a daughter who has become a vampire.
Two mothers and daughters locked up in prison.
If you think about it, the answer comes naturally.
That vampire is waiting for the moment when Letty, her daughter, can’t overcome her vampiric urge and drinks the blood of her mother, Tia.
And she had been waiting all this time to drink her blood, savoring the despair of her mother being killed by her daughter in that circumstance.
It’s bad taste.
Disgusting
It was the worst.
When he came to that conclusion, Ju-hong’s body was already moving.
“You fucking bastard!”
