Chapter 338
The already cold atmosphere became even more chilly at the bombshell declaration that if you guys didn’t cooperate, I would stick to the five main religions, and that I would start hunting road vampires out of resentment.
Lucinil stares at me with his arms crossed as if he is dumbfounded.
“Do you think you’ll be able to return here alive if you talk like that? Aren’t you worth your life? Even if you have Tiamata, do you think we can’t just close our eyes and pick off your head?”
“Ellerith will do something for you. She has always done something for me no matter what.”
“Me, low!”
The one who was most perplexed by my words was Elleris herself.
Because I don’t think I was expecting it to go out like this.
“… … Aren’t you trying to eat your life too raw?”
“Shouldn’t you try? You are free to try to kill me, but you will have to be prepared for what will happen next if I somehow escape.”
I speak fiercely, but I have no real intention of fighting, so I reverse summon Tiamata.
I know that it’s not a good way to touch their ego.
But in the end, I had no card other than threats.
There is nothing to give, and there is no reason for them to cooperate.
If I can get them to help me by throwing away all my pride and begging on the floor, then I can.
But even then, cooperation will not be obtained.
So the best I can do is this.
“To put it into perspective, the Odae Main Church has a lot of power and scale, so joining that side is beneficial. But the reason I came to the Council first was because I thought it would be polite to come to the Council first since, after all, this is the closest neighbor. And if I put on the mask of being the champion of Tuan and become the mascot of the five main religions, I will inevitably have to build a relationship with them, so I can’t.”
There is a bigger customer, but even if I think about it, it seems like trash to say patronizingly that we came here first with the mindset of others.
Galarsch made no secret of his displeasure, and neither did Lluen.
It seemed that the two of them had already grown hostile towards me for making such an outrageous statement. It was the same with Lucille.
“We cooperate.”
but.
Out of the blue, Antirianus has expressed his willingness to cooperate.
Everyone was bewildered.
“… … uh? yes? I beg your pardon?”
However, it was me who was most perplexed.
no.
why?
“Why are you surprised? You said you want to cooperate, and I will cooperate. You are a great being.”
Antirianus was looking at me with a sullen smile. Lucinil looks at the old gentleman nervously.
“Antyrianus, what dirty trick is that?”
“It’s just, isn’t it fun? Didn’t one of the holy relics of the Five Great Gods, even Tiamata, fall into the hands of Archdemon?”
The old gentleman looks at me and smiles.
“It means that you can feel the malice of the gods.”
A demon who became the first owner of Tiamata in history. Even Archdemon.
“Even if the demon king loses everything in vain, even if everything he dreams of is achieved, there will only be fun things, so how can I not follow him?”
I could feel the deep malice in Antirianus’ eyes.
Other people’s misfortune, happiness, sadness, and joy.
Such malice to soothe the boredom of eternal life by visiting it.
“Are you insane? Antirianus.”
At Galarsh’s words, Antirianus just grinned.
I could see why Elerys had told me to beware of Antirianus. He is the only Lord Vampire who said he cooperated with me, but rather, I felt like I was being swayed.
It was fortunate to hear that they were cooperating anyway, but I didn’t expect it to be released in such a bizarre context.
“If someone who has lived this long is sane, wouldn’t that be more of a problem?”
Antirianus’s words, saying that since he has lived a long time without being able to go mad, every decision he makes has no choice but to be that of a madman, was surprisingly persuasive.
“So, the Toyo clan and the head of the household, Antirianus, will cooperate with the Demon King. Wouldn’t there be more interesting things happening than the Demon World War? So, touching the demon lord will be considered touching me.”
“I really don’t know what he’s thinking? Isn’t that right, Lluen?”
“… … Is it a day or two?”
It seemed that this was not the first time Antirianus had done something like this. After Antirianus decided to cooperate, he tapped the table with his index finger.
“Anyway, we immortals have plenty of time. You don’t have to decide everything in one sitting. So wouldn’t it be okay to talk slowly over a few days?”
Antirianus stares at me and says so.
I read the intention to take a short break, cool my head, and have a little conversation separately.
That’s good for me.
There’s nothing more frightening than a favor without reason.
The favors for no reason are pouring in, so it’s more like he’s strangling me.
I felt such a strange pressure.
“you! This bullshit Archdemon kid. Please talk to me.”
Lucinil pointed a finger at me as if it was rather good. Ellerith looked at me approvingly and nodded her head.
It feels like the nicest kid in this place has come to hate me the most.
* * *
Antirian’s intercession brought the Council’s meeting to a halt. No matter what his intentions were, it was clear that his agreement to cooperate had a ripple effect and the atmosphere changed.
Leaving the meeting room, Lucinyl asked to follow and then took the lead without saying a word.
A homunculus vampire with silver hair and red eyes.
lord of demand.
Ellerith had said that Lucinil would be the least harmless of them all, but it was clear that he was the most upset, once it was revealed.
“Where did you learn such bad things? Did the demon king teach you that?”
I ate something similar to padlip, but I didn’t even think about the previous demon king, so I didn’t get angry.
“How can nature do such a thing?”
Lucinil took the lead and looked back at me in front of the window, where the sight of a blizzard could be seen through the window.
“You won’t do anything good like that.”
Lucinil looks at me quietly and speaks calmly.
“It doesn’t matter if Antirianus or I agreed to cooperate with you, Lluen or Galarche would be really angry.”
“It must have been. But do you have any stars? After all, this is the only thing I can do.”
“It’s a demonic reconstruction, it’s Nabal, and I might die before that.”
The ending where he was killed while threatening the Lord Vampire family heads is absurd. However, when Lucinil spoke as if he was warning rather than angry, I was convinced that Elleris wasn’t so wrong after all.
“I was interested in being the heir to Valier, but I will remember you as a strange guy who is very arrogant, unkempt, and full of confidence despite his lack of confidence.”
Because I have a flawed personality, Lucinil seemed to have a very negative perception of me.
“But you should know that the reason I decided to cooperate with you, who made such a bad first impression, was not because you were pretty, but because I personally owed Elleris.”
But apart from that, Lucinil seemed to be collaborating with me.
A debt owed to Elerith.
I didn’t bother to ask what it was. I didn’t even seem to be able to answer. Lucy Neal glares at me biting her lip in annoyance.
“Sheesh, Ellerith must have known I would do this.”
I don’t know what debt I owe. However, the reason Elleris obediently let me into the Vampire Council was because she knew that Lucinil would reluctantly respond to a request for cooperation due to a debt he owed. He said it would be harmless, and it seemed to be in a similar vein.
The head of Demand and Toyo.
Both promised to cooperate with me for their own reasons. Lucy Neal nods his head with his arms crossed.
“Anyway, with this, three of the five families have been promised cooperation, right? So isn’t that enough? Why don’t you go back without bothering me any more?”
It seemed that I had decided that if I continued to attend the council, nothing would be better than getting on the nerves of Lluen and Galarsch.
“If you’re going to do it, shouldn’t you try all the persuasion?”
“Somehow it seemed so. Like a shameless bastard.”
Lucinl clicked his tongue and sighed.
“Follow me.”
Lucinel pulled me back as if it wasn’t something to talk about here.
Leaving the palace buildings, Lucinil walked through the deep snow.
-Whee Oh Oh Oh
Of course, when I walked through the snow on a small subject, my feet got sore, and in the end I couldn’t even walk properly.
“Hey.”
-Paang!
Lucinil stretched out his hand once, and the shockwave exploded, blowing the piled up snow in all directions.
“The Council was probably built in the wrong place. Why did you build a palace in a place like this where it always snows? Do you not understand?”
“… … The head of the household must not have been there when this palace was built, right?”
“This place was built so long ago that there are Sundays and Mondays. I don’t even know when that was. Of course, I did a lot of renovations. It must have been really clunky in the beginning.”
Lucinil grumbled, saying that he had nothing to do with the Council location selection. Through the blizzard, Lucinil leads, and I follow.
“I don’t know if this expression is correct, but I want to know the order of career. Can you tell me?”
“career? Oh, are you asking my age?”
“yes.”
Lucille spreads her fingers as if it’s not really a secret.
“As you can tell by looking at it, Lruen is the first. Then Galarsh, then Elerys, then me, and lastly Antirianus.”
Lucinil and I left the main palace and arrived at a space that could be called a detached palace.
“Oh, even the miscellaneous spirits keep sticking around here. Why is the real place like this?”
-Uhhhh… … .
Lucille clapped her hands as if she was mad at the sound of ghosts crying from all directions, and the ghosts disappeared as if they were scattered in the air.
It’s a bit bizarre to say that vampires don’t like their homes.
“It’s not even a ephemera, and even if I chase it out, it keeps getting twisted.”
A space like a drawing room in a royal palace. Lucille sat down on an old sofa, and I sat across from her.
“I don’t know what kind of plan Antirianus is, but he wants to persuade Lluen and Galarsch, right?”
“If you can.”
“You Archdemon kid. We’ve all lived so long that it’s hard to fathom even if there are some deviations. Is that right?”
“Is that right?”
“How did all of us become vampires?”
It is impossible to be born as a vampire.
All of them have a state before becoming a vampire. Lluen would have been an elf, Galarsh would have been an orc, and Lucien would have been a homunculus.
“Isn’t that all different?”
“It can’t be all different.”
Leaning her chin on the armrest of the sofa, Lucinil glances at me.
“It’s because I don’t want to die.”
The Great Five Lords Vampires.
The only reason they became vampires was because they didn’t want to die.
I didn’t expect that there would be a great reason, but it felt a bit strange that it eventually converged for that reason.
“Antyrianus said he became a vampire after contemplating whether to become a lich or a vampire. He said that living with bones would be more uncomfortable than living without seeing the sun. But if you want to see the sun as a Lord Vampire, you’re pretty lucky because you can see the sun even though it’s painful. Anyway, he became a vampire because he didn’t want to die.”
no.
That’s kind of creepy in its own way, yeah.
“I was a homunculus. A homunculus is an unstable magical creature. I was pretty exceptionally stable, but I don’t know the specific lifespan limit, and death would come one day, and it was so scary to face it. So I tried every method in order not to die, and the last thing I chose was to become a vampire. Likewise, because I don’t want to die.”
Lucille sees me.
Then, as he was about to say something, he shut his mouth.
“Anyway, the specific reasons are different, but in the end I became a vampire because I didn’t want to die.”
Although he did not explain the circumstances of Lluen, Galarche, and Elerith, Lucinil says that the refuge of those who feared death was vampires.
“So your threat is, in some ways, the way that works best for us. Because what we fear most is death.”
The only thing that works for the Immortals, who have probably had everything they wanted for a long time, is threat to their lives. because they are afraid of death
“But that is only possible after all, to a certain extent. We really, really, really, really, really, really, really live a long time. It’s not like we’ve been the only family heads for generations, and families have changed several times. How do you think it happened?”
“… … I don’t know.”
“There’s no way vampires like us were hunted or killed.”
I read something in Lucinil’s eyes.
“Is it suicide?”
“huh.”
ennui.
“Most of the cases where the heads of the five families were replaced. Well, there are other cases, but you don’t know about that.”
Powerful vampires living in hiding far away from the world cannot be killed. It’s because they don’t reveal their existence to the world apart from being strong.
So there is no way the family heads can be replaced in any way other than giving up their own lives.
“What is it, then you are not afraid of death after all?”
It is said that they became a vampire because they did not want to lose their lives, but in the end, if a road vampire feels bored with life after living too long, then in the end, you can’t get anything by threatening your life?
“No, the opposite.”
Lucinil smiles softly.
“I’ve lived that long, and even though I’m tired of living… … .”
There is sadness in the vampire’s eyes.
“There are reasons to still live.”
So, coming back, the current head of households must have at least one reason to live.
The fact that he hasn’t given up on life yet is proof of that.
Lucinil was giving me information.
