Chapter 11
Chapter 11: Entrusting my body to a Vampire!
“Eh? Where did Eric go?”
After she was done with the Wolf Boss, Louise dragged its body out of the forest glade.
It was a split second decision.
Instead of defending, Louise received the Wolf Boss head-on and dealt a decisive blow to its head, knocking him out in one hit.
Amazing.
It was really an incredible feat but I didn’t have the leisure to admire it.
Hearing the disappointed tone in Louise's voice, Suzette muttered in question.
“You were just healing him a little while ago… Anastasia, didn’t you see where he went?”
“A-ah yes, I was a bit distracted by Louise-san’s fight too but… he was somewhere around here―”
“Just when I finally managed to get a cool shot, he just ran off to pee? Well whatever. Should we just clean this up first?”
While the conversation among members of Deard was taking place as such;
“Eh! Mmmmmph! Wafffffffffh!?”
“Wah, h-how come you’re here…!? No, wait wait wait…!”
I immediately covered Carol’s mouth and hid behind the bushes to the side.
I sent her a gesture to ‘shush’ while we arrived at a place a little further from the party.
Carol, who was flailing about with her tiny hands in excitement, instantly understood my gesture and gave a quick nod in reply. Therefore, I slowly released her small body from my grasp and put her down.
She had long straight hair cascading down her back with a breathtaking crimson complexion along with a delicate pale white figure.
Although she was clad in a military uniform of the demon army, it still seemed rather floppy and over-sized on her delicate figure as usual.
“Puwah… You’re so mean, Eric-chan! I was so happy about meeting you after all this time and you just covered my mouth and dragged me all the way here. Who do you even think I came here for!”
This girl with puffed up cheeks is called Carol Vampyrus.
She was a half demon who had inherited the strong bloodline of the vampire race.
And such vampires were generally known to have possessed the greatest magical power within the entire demon king’s army.
In addition to the innate unique skill common to all vampires; the ability to take the form of the entity she had sucked blood from, Carol also possessed another unique skill. The ability of vampires that walk under the sun; the ability to heal injuries by applying her blood to the affected area of the wounded.
Vampires are known to be nocturnal creatures by nature. In often cases, they would reduce to ashes under direct exposure to the sun. But when it came to Carol, perhaps owing to the human blood that flowed within her, she was somewhat able to roam free even during the daytime. Thus her range of activity stretched to about half the daylight hours as well.
And she also happened to be a Battalion Commander.
Although Carol was a year older than him, she was still the youngest to join the demon army at that time.
“... Nee nee~ Eric-chan, are you even listening?”
Carol poked me on the head.
“Ah… um, sorry…?”
“Like I said, I’m asking why Eric-chan was mixed up in a hero party. I haven’t seen you around the barracks lately, so I asked Garlock-senpai about it. But he looked very angry and just said, ‘I don't know’. Then I got so worried and I came here looking for you.”
“Ah… about that, well… there’s a lot going on you see…”
“Hmmm, I don’t understand what you mean by… Ah! Ooh~ I see, so that’s what you mean…!”
Honestly it was really hard to explain my situation.
There’s no way I could just say, ‘I ran away from my abusive superior because I was fed up with the harassment and exhausting workload that kept piling up. And while I was running away, I happened to meet a really kind hero party and decided to just join them’.
However, Carol suddenly came up to me with a twinkling eyes and squeezed my hands tightly.
“It’s okay, Eric-chan. You don’t have to worry, I won’t tell anyone about this! You’re on an undercover mission right now! I get it. You must be infiltrating a naive hero party to investigate the internal affairs of the adventure guild… Hm, as expected of Eric-chan!”
… Eh, is that so?
“But even Gralock-senpai doesn’t know about it, could it be that it was a direct order from the Lord himself? Ah, I’m so sorry, Eric-chan… there’s no way you could tell anyone if it was an imperial order… I'm not really good at guessing things and all..”
Carol bowed her head a little with a relaxed smile on her face.
On the contrary, my face carried a wry smile as I muttered slowly.
“Hey, Carol. What if I—”
“Well, at first I thought Eric-chan turned over to the hero’s side. I’m sorry for being so hasty. But if that had been the case, I would have sucked your blood on the spot to knock you unconscious. And then I would have dragged you back to the demon army and thrown you out to be interrogated by Division Commander Fran. You know, that Succubus clan leader who was famous for being the Princess of Torture~”
“――Hahaha. Seriously, there's no way I could betray the demon king's army, right? Hahaha. Hahaha… haha…”
“Hahahaha..."
"Hahaha..."
“What’s wrong Eric-chan? You look a bit worn out all of a sudden?”
"Well, I wonder why..."
“You must be really tired. I know Eric-chan is a hard worker, but sometimes you work too hard you know. So you must rest a lot too!”
She lightly pressed her finger on the tip of my nose. With an inaudible mutter that seemed to say, ‘Just what am I gonna do with you Eric-chan?’ Carol slowly drew closer with her mouth opened wide.
The sharp canines that grew from both corners of the mouth along with her features shaded in an intoxicating layer of crimson.
Her small figure leaned over my still body, as she straddled all her weight on me.
“...Humu”
Her lustrous lips kissed the nape of my neck as her canines pierced through the flesh and dug themselves into my neck.
“Eric-chan, I’ll reward you for working so hard, hm~”
Carol’s small breath tickled my neck.
Carol sucked my blood while raising a series of indescribable sounds.
Carol, who’s known to many as the Healing Vampire Princess of the demon army, possessed the ability to simultaneously absorb a person’s fatigue along with the poisonous substances with their blood. Thus one would suddenly feel rather clear-headed and relaxed after having their blood sucked by her.
While blood is being sucked out, a substance inducing pleasure would secrete from the teeth of the vampire, giving off a delightful sensation as if you’re traveling across a field of soft fluffy flowers.
“Nnn~... hn...nn~...Pwah!”
With that one last lick, Carol withdrew her mouth from my neck.
She shyly smiled seeing the faint string of saliva being stretched out.
“Yup, I think I removed all the fatigue away from you. And thank you for your delicious sweet blood as usual Eric-chan!”
“Ye-yeah.”
“I’m serious, Eric-chan’s blood is really sweet and delicious you know!”
Carol seemed a little listless as she raised her index finger and released a feeble smile. However, upon seeing the setting sun, she quickly scrambled to her feet, straightening herself up.
“Oh! I have to go back soon. Alright then, let’s keep doing our best together, Eric-chan!”
As soon as her words came to pass, her figure vanished from my sight.
Come to think of it, vampires also had the ability to teleport**.
While I was preoccupied with various wandering thoughts, Suzette approached me while rustling her way through the grass..
“Ah, Eric-san, Why are you here?... We were looking all over for you. Shall we get going?”
“Ah… yes…”
“...What’s wrong Eric-san? Do you feel uncomfortable with anything? You know our way of life is pretty lax here, compared to your old life at the front-lines.”
Suzette randomly threw a rather plain question.
Suzette thinks of me as a former elite who fought on the front-lines against the demon army.
Carol thinks that I'm infiltrating a hero party to conduct an undercover investigation for the demon army.
While I’m just trying to run away and cut all connections with the demon army.
My stomach suddenly started aching out of nowhere…
**The literal translation of the word is, atomize. Which kind of mean that she could scatter her being into tiniest form of atoms and rebuild herself later on. But that's kind of the same concept in teleportation. So I used teleport instead but I wonder i it's alright since it sounds like totally different ability as well. So I might change this while moving forward.
Sorry for the delay, I was feeling bit under the weather. This was originally supposed to be last week's chapter so I will post this weeks chapter soon after I'm done editing it. Enjoy~
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