Chapter 243 – 25. Escaflowne.
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“Yes? Sending two people to the great kingdom?”
“Yes.”
“Hmm… Something is suspicious. What is the intention of asking you to let my family (vampires) go? Are you a hostage?”
“Well.”
Yuri smiled slightly, but the henchman next to her gave a look of incomprehension.
“Why did you agree if you didn’t know?”
“Because I have to be friends with him anyway.”
“… Aren’t you too scared?”
“I am afraid. There’s just no reason to shed blood. There are only about 100 left in the family now, so we can’t sacrifice more.”
Vampires are very few in number.
Each and every one of them is very precious and is a family that should not be lost.
“If a hostage is a sacrifice, then it is a sacrifice.”
“You can’t be sure that you’re a hostage, and even if you are, you have more to lose by bumping into them. And why do you only think that way? We can use them both to gather information and to make plans.”
“Ugh… Still, I don’t like it…”
“This can be happen.”
Yuri also understood that feeling.
So, I was thinking of getting volunteers whenever possible.
Next day.
Yuri also participated in the banquet today.
In the first place, it is polite for her to attend as much as it is held to honor her achievements of her.
She was able to find Aran there.
‘Woman?’
Obviously, the smell and momentum are Aran, but it is the appearance of a woman.
‘Could that rumor be true?’
As his performance in the Athenian War spread, he became famous, and the news that he could transform into a woman was also delivered to each country.
However, most people believed in his ability but did not believe in the fact that he turned into a woman.
Because it was too much nonsense.
Yuri is one of them.
However, Aran in front of her was really a woman.
She approached Aran.
“The rumors are true. That she could turn into a woman.”
“Oh, is it you?”
“Yes?”
Yuri is surprised by the sudden flight of short words.
She was so different from the Aran she knew, that she wondered if she was mistaken.
But even so, she is a duke of a great empire.
I’ve never been able to speak like this.
While she was so flustered, Aran spoke to her.
“I have a question, would you like to follow me for a moment?”
“… However… Joe?”
Aran dragged her unaccustomed to her and sat in her corner seat her.
Yuri sat across from her with her bewildered face her.
“Your Highness Aran, right?”
“Right.”
“The atmosphere has changed a lot.”
“What is it?”
Aran picked up the food on the table and ate it.
It was a fairly casual look.
Yuri felt that her appearance was familiar yet quite unfamiliar.
‘What is this scent? It must smell like blood….’
She sensed the first scent on her nose.
The source is Aran in front of my eyes.
A rather refreshing and mouth-watering scent of her emanated from her munching and eating her food.
‘It smells like delicious blood… Certainly, Aran’s blood was delicious.’
It reminded me of when I was put into Throdia.
At that time, Princess Ekaterina bit Aran out of her greed, and she was driven back by the power she could not handle.
At that time, Yuri bit the princess and stole Aran’s blood, and the blood he tasted at that time was so exquisite that it could be said to be the finest wine.
‘Still, it didn’t smell this strong, but did it taste better?’
It seemed reasonable at first glance, but the taste of blood cannot be changed in one day.
Obviously, even when I met him yesterday, he was no different than usual.
‘Could it be that blood became delicious after turning into a woman?’
She smacked her lips unconsciously.
Whatever the reason, it must have become more delicious than before.
If so, it is natural to taste it.
“What is your real name?”
“Yes?”
Yuri, who was awakened from her wandering thoughts by Aran’s words of her, asked her question, and she slightly frowned.
“What are you thinking? Before God.”
“… Yes?”
“What is your real name? There won’t be Yuri Yuri is not really her real name of her.”
“Ah… Yes. She is not her real name her.”
Answering absentmindedly, she cleared her mind for a moment.
“My real name is Escaflowne. It means ‘the last wing’.”
“Your name is so unique.”
“… What do you mean by that highness?”
“I don’t know.”
“….”
What the hell kind of trick is this?
She was embarrassed by a race she had never experienced.
‘Are you sure. If nothing else, when she becomes a woman her personality changes strangely. Is it a double personality?’
“I have a question.”
“Tell me.”
“Are you a double personality?”
“It may or may not be. I don’t know exactly. Memories are shared.”
“Then how do you turn into a woman? I don’t think it’s just a woman’s dress.”
“If she goes beyond the limit of mana that a man’s body can endure, she turns into a woman. Maybe even if it’s not mana, if she raises it to more than she can bear, wouldn’t it all be the same?”
Yuri nodded her head.
“But. Even if it’s a mutation, there must be a limit. In a way, it is a natural phenomenon.”
“That’s it.”
“But the question remains. For example, if you bite a man and turn him into a snake, his personality does not change. But I think her personality has completely changed.”
“So, I don’t know why either.”
“Hmm….”
Yuri looked at her blankly.
“You’re not taking in men, are you?”
“Are you crazy?”
“Hmm… I have the awareness that I am a man, but my body is a woman… It’s a headache.”
“It’s okay. When I was a man, I seem to think of my time as a woman as a dark history.”
“I think so too.”
“What?”
“Rather than that, didn’t you say there was something you wanted to ask me? I bet you didn’t drag me here just to hear my name.”
“… Right.”
She stared at her glass with her disapproving face, then gently lowered her gaze.
“It’s a simple question. When Vampniel 1 bites human 2 and turns him into Vampniel, and then 2 bites human 3 and turns him into Vampniel, ‘3’ is asking if it can stand up to ‘1’.”
“Aha. Understood.”
This is a problem that a being who has just become a Vampneel is confused about.
In particular, in the case of humans, vampires and monsters, including Vampires, are treated almost as legends, so there was little information about them.
“There are no direct restrictions. It is possible for ‘3’ to kill ‘1’ if conditions permit. However, due to the nature of Vampneel, it is impossible to have a being stronger than oneself under his command his, so that kind of thing does n’t happen very often.
In addition, the actions of ‘3’ cause damage to the owner ‘2’, and if ‘3’ knows the fact and goes ahead with it, he will suffer according to the degree.
In other words, if ‘3’ knows that opposing ‘1’ harms ‘2’, then restrictions are applied. Other than that, it doesn’t matter.”
“It’s complicated. You mean it’s a perception problem?”
“Yes.”
“Then….”
She asked Yuri about this and that, gathering information about vampires and vampneels.
In particular, there were a lot of things I didn’t know about vampires, so it was very helpful.
“Oh, would you like to make a deal with me?”
When the conversation was over, Yuri offered a deal.
“Deal?”
“Yes. They exchange blood with each other.”
“What do you mean?”
“It is symbolic. Blood symbolizes life, so it means to keep the promise we made to each other. Let’s exchange them in a one-to-one ratio.”
“Well… You’re not trying to do something strange, are you?”
“It could be. I want to be friendly with Your Highness.”
Aran glanced at the glass.
Vampires who are skilled at using blood, especially the load, Yuri, asked for blood, so they were wary.
But soon she nodded.
Utilizing Yuri’s blood, you can steal another vampire’s vampneel.
In addition, her blood is a symbol of vampire blood, and she acts as a kind of stake, so the more she holds, the more vampires follow her, she says.
In other words, it is Yuri’s blood that acts thoroughly in the power relationship within the vampire.
“Didn’t you say you would exchange one-for-one?”
“Yes. Ah, but it shouldn’t exceed the lethal dose by human standards. Because that’s too much. About 1 liter.”
“Then let’s change it to 1 liter.”
“Are you okay? No matter how strong you are, it is dangerous if you draw a large amount of blood.”
“Is it Vampneel too?”
“As I said, Vampneel is not a vampire. And even if you’re a vampire, if you draw a lethal amount of blood, you have no choice but to die. It’s just that the amount is extremely large. This is our destiny as life.”
“You?”
“I am a blood suzerain. I can make the blood of all living things my own, so it’s practically infinite.”
“Hey, then give it a little bigger. About 10 times.”
Yuri caught her breath in surprise.
“!! Me, never If you do, the world will collapse.”
“Sheesh.”
Aran grumbled, but nodded her head.
“But where are you going to use my blood?”
“I will drink.”
“What?”
“It was delicious.”
“….”
Aran was thrilled for a moment, and her goosebumps her rose.
She is also a vampire.
Well, Aran felt that the blood was delicious now.
Just keep your human ego as much as possible and don’t drink.
“Let’s do one liter.”
