10 (Yuzuriha’s Perspective)
I never thought I’d see it again –
the trial to help Suzuha’s brother exterminate goblins as new students.
That’s where we encountered the wandering white-haired vampire.
Outwardly, she was a frighteningly thin, unnaturally beautiful young girl.
Wearing a white dress and a straw hat, she looked like a summer lady.
But her eyes were a deeper crimson than blood.
She was the legendary demon who slaughtered all who laid eyes on her.
The one who single-handedly destroyed a nation.
The one who had razed Suzuha and her brother’s village, as Suzuha had said.
“Why is it here, of all places…!”
Faced with this entity that seemed to condense all the violence and senselessness in the world, Yuzuriha could only utter those words.
In her vision, Suzuha’s brother was engaged in a terrifying duel with the wandering white-haired vampire.
Even Suzuha’s brother, the only one Yuzuriha knew who could defeat it, was struggling.
It was a wandering white-haired demon by the name of Vampire.
“Didn’t that demon have its right arm taken off by Suzuha’s brother?”
There was hell before her eyes.
Her legs were trembling, unable to move.
As a knight, it was impossible for her to aid Suzuha’s brother –
she would only be a hindrance. The only logical choice was to flee, to give Suzuha’s brother a better chance.
But
her knight’s instinct was screaming that turning her back would get her killed.
So…
Yuzuriha could only watch, teeth gritted, the back of Suzuha’s brother who was protecting her life.
“Yuzuriha-san, do you notice it?”
“What?”
“That demon’s right arm…”
“It seems to be regenerating. How infuriating.”
Suzuha, also unable to move, spoke up without taking her eyes off the battle.
Suzuha, with sweat on her forehead, said.
“Look closely, that arm is made of mithril.”
“What!?”
“…That demon must have realized that simply regenerating its normal right arm wouldn’t be enough to fight my brother. So it must have consumed the mithril from this mine to reconstruct its right arm.”
“That’s absurd…”
Even as Yuzuriha denied it, her intuition told her Suzuha’s reasoning was correct.
It made too much sense.
Why else would the wandering white-haired vampire be at this mithril mine?
And
mithril’s affinity with monsters was higher the rarer and more powerful the mithril.
Yuzuriha knew this in her knowledge.
And the opponent is an extraordinary demon. The mithril they produced was of extremely high quality as far as she could tell.
So it’s no surprise that a wandering white-haired vampire has grown a mithril right arm.
“So that’s why this demon has grown so much stronger…!”
Why is the wandering white-haired vampire stronger than ever?
If the demon’s strength was the same as before, Suzuha’s brother, now stronger than last time, should not be struggling.
“…Let’s just stay still. We’re no match for it…”
“That’s all we can do…”
It was fortunate, or perhaps infuriating,
that the wandering white-haired vampire seemed to only have eyes for Suzuha’s brother, completely ignoring Yuzuriha and Suzuha.
So they held their breath, watching helplessly as Suzuha’s brother protected them with unbelievable strength.
Who knows how much time had passed.
Perhaps if the demon had both arms made of mithril, Suzuha’s brother might have lost. It was that close a battle.
But in reality, only the demon’s right arm was mithril, and the increment it provided was just barely outweighed by the growth Suzuha’s brother had attained through training with Yuzuriha and Suzuha.
As Suzuha’s brother gradually gained the upper hand, the wandering white-haired vampire kept ratcheting up its intensity, as if forcibly pushing past its already peak condition.
It was only a matter of time before its limit came.
And then, that moment arrived.
A cracking sound,
as if something had broken.
The wandering white-haired vampire’s right arm exploded in a blinding light.
A huge explosion.
From outside the mine, it must have looked like a torrent of light shooting straight up,
like a volcanic eruption.
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11 (Yuzuriha’s Perspective)
“…Riha-san, Yuzuriha-san”
“Huh…?”
Yuzuriha opened her eyes to see Suzuha’s brother smiling and saying “I’m glad.”
“You…? Is this heaven?”
“I told you before, it’s not.”
“…Huh?”
Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, she remembered –
the wandering white-haired vampire’s right arm exploded in a huge blast.
Yuzuriha thinks for a moment and understands why she is still alive after that big explosion.
‘Ah, that’s why Suzuha’s brother is right in front of me.’
that’s why she’s alive. Suzuha’s brother must have treated her wounds, just like her partner had done before.
“You treated me again. Thank you for saving my life once more.”
“Not at all. But this time, there aren’t even any scars.”
“That’s a bit disappointing, but…did you defeat it?”
“I don’t know.”
Suzuha’s brother looked up at the sky with a bitter expression.
The sun had already risen – she must have been out for hours.
“We couldn’t find anything resembling the wandering white-haired vampire. So it may have fled through the ceiling.”
“I see.”
The ceiling was dozens of meters high, but the demon’s leg strength could have easily cleared that.
Of course, the chances of a body remaining after such a massive explosion were slim.
“In any case, another victory for you. father and Toko will be astonished to hear it.”
“Well, this time there’s no evidence like an arm, so they probably wouldn’t believe it anyway.”
“That’s not true.”
At the very least, Yuzuriha’s father, the Duke, and Queen Toko would believe it without a doubt. After all, there’s a difference in trust and track record.
“Well then, Yuzuriha, can you stand up?”
“Hmm… that’s a bit difficult.”
“Shall I lend you a hand?”
“Thanks.”
As she said this, Suzuha’s brother approached close enough to embrace her, probably out of consideration.
Huh, wait…?
Is… is this what they call the distance for waiting for a k-kiss…!?
Flustered by this sudden stroke of luck, Yuzuriha’s mind raced with knowledge gained from her female knight colleague. Heart pounding, she gently closed her eyes and pushed out her lips, positioning herself for a kiss—!
“Unyu~”
…Unyu?
“What…?”
Opening her eyelids at the out-of-place whimper, she saw a little girl perched on top of Suzuha’s brother’s head.
From any angle, she was unmistakably a little girl.
Hair whiter than snow. Eyes redder than blood.
She wore a summer dress befitting a young lady, but it was clearly oversized and ill-fitting.
“Hey, what’s with this little girl who looks exactly like the wandering white-haired vampire…?”
“…………Who knows?”
*
After that, despite Suzuha’s brother and Yuzuriha investigating various possibilities, they couldn’t figure out who this little girl was.
After all, she only responded “unyu~” to everything they asked.
Her characteristics matched the wandering white-haired vampire exactly, but she showed no hostility toward Suzuha’s brother.
She had her right arm intact.
And Yuzuriha had one thing she absolutely needed to confirm.
“She’s not your secret love child, is she…?”
“Of course not!?”
“I’m joking. Well, not entirely joking.”
Yuzuriha breathed a sigh of relief when this life-changing question was denied.
“Could she perhaps be the reincarnation of the wandering white-haired vampire?”
“I’m not sure… it seems too soon after death for reincarnation.”
“Then, maybe she’s the wandering white-haired vampire’s child?”
“In that case, if the wandering white-haired vampire survived, would she come to take her back…?”
“Please don’t even joke about that.”
“Do you know anything from royal or high noble secret traditions?”
“I’ll check, but I doubt it… after all, it’s a demon said to kill everyone who sees it.”
As Suzuha’s brother continued talking with the little girl still on his head, Suzuha let out a soft “Mmm…” She seemed to be waking up.
“I’ll go wake her up.”
“Yeah.”
Yuzuriha stood up too.
For now, there were too many things to think about.
Later, while giving Suzuha a chop to the back of her head for following exactly the same pattern as her and maintaining her kiss-waiting position even after getting “unyu~’d,” they gazed at the stalactite cave that was mostly blown away in the explosion—
“…Wait, could this be Orichalcum…!?”
Even rarer than mithril, a legendary metal.
An exposed vein of Orichalcum lay before them—
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