Chapter 6: A Tale of Demons and Angels
Vampires curse God and live by sucking human blood. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Never seeing the sun, and turning to dust when it gets caught in the sun, vampires are always active at night, hunting down unfortunate travelers who are lost under the moon.
One day, an angel came to the mortal world.
She was more dignified and beautiful than any angel, and she was one of God's most beloved children. And the purpose of her coming here was to convey miracles. Angels have cured countless people's diseases, even if they are dying of terminal illness, as long as they are gently touched by the angel's hand, they can be restored immediately.
The vampire also heard the news, and he disguised himself as a civilian and came to seek medical treatment. The angel was surprised by the visitor who appeared in the middle of the night, and of course she saw through the vampire's disguise at once, but she was also interested in the vampire's audacity.
"What are you looking for me?" The angel asked curiously.
"I have a disease that can't see the sun, please heal me." The vampire replied.
"Because of this disease, I have to hide in a dark place, but once it is, I would love to see the beauty of the morning sun."
This is nothing less than an unreasonable demand. Because no matter how great the angel's mana is, it is impossible to change the fact that vampires cannot reach the sun, because it is a retribution given by God, a punishment that will not stop as long as vampires still exist in the world.
"I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do."
"Not once?"
The angel suddenly felt pity for the vampire's chagrin, and she comforted the other party.
"Although I can't let you see it with your own eyes, if you don't dislike it, I'm willing to describe it to you."
Impressed by the angel's offer, the vampires agreed to meet at the castle where the vampires were hiding the next time the first quarter moon rose in the sky.
Time passed, and the angel arrived on time. She sat beside the vampire and spoke in a gentle voice as the sun had risen.
And when they were about to be separated, the vampire said to the angel again.
"I beg your pardon for praying to you again, but once again, I'd love to see the beauty of the midday sun."
The good angel still can't fulfill the vampire's wish, and she makes a promise to meet the vampire on the next first quarter moonlit night.
"Although I can't let you see it with your own eyes, if you don't dislike it, I'm willing to describe it to you."
At the appointed moment, the vampire sat on his side, waiting for the angel to arrive.
The angel was bathed in the moonlight, his holy wings glittering, like a silver cloak, and the dazzling brilliance made it impossible for the vampire to take his eyes off.
The angel sat beside him again, telling the story of the sun in the sky.
Her innocent smile fascinated the vampire, and the vampire couldn't help but speak a third time.
"I beg your pardon for praying to you again, but once it is, I would love to see the beauty of the sunset." "Although I can't let you see it with your own eyes, if you don't dislike it, I'm willing to describe it to you."
The vampire and the angel looked at each other and smiled, this time there was no need for commitment, they both had a tacit understanding to meet on the next first quarter moon night.
Each other is looking forward to the next meeting in their hearts, and each hopes that the moon will soon turn into a first quarter moon. On the moonlit night that he had finally looked forward to, the angel sat beside the vampire and told the story of the sun setting.
When this was over, the vampire said with trepidation.
"Thank you for kindly telling me these things, and if you could, would you grant me one more wish?"
"I do my best."
"I want to see you again, I think as long as I can be with you, the sun is nothing, whether it is the morning sun, the bright sun, or the setting sun. You are more beautiful than the day when the sun shines."
The angel frowned slightly at his request.
"I hope to have your wish granted, but I will end my earthly mission tomorrow and must return to heaven, and I will never be able to come here to see you again."
The vampire could only smile reluctantly when he heard the angel's tactful refusal.
「…… Well, heaven must be very bright and warm compared to here."
Who told me to be a monster that grew up in the dark? This brief encounter should be satisfied.
"I'm sorry."
The angel left the vampire's abode with apologies, and she returned to her own paradise.
God was keenly aware of the strangeness on the beloved child's face, and he asked.
"Son, what are you thinking?"
The angel's mind was nothing more than the lonely vampire.
"I met a vampire on earth who was desperate for sunlight. I could tell from the look in his eyes that he was very lonely, living for hundreds of years in the dark of being far away from the crowd and very sad."
The angel tried to dissect the thoughts of his heart to God.
"Because of that, I really want to help him. I wanted to get close to him and talk to him, and when I said I couldn't see him again, I knew he was sending me away with a very reluctant gaze behind me."
"Forget him, it's not something you should forget."
God commanded the angels as if he had foreseen what was to come, and he told him again.
"Forget him, or you will suffer even more."
The angel obediently obeyed God's instructions, and she decided not to think about vampires anymore, and she went to the depths of heaven and quietly secluded.
The days passed very peacefully, but occasionally the angel would have heartache for no reason.
And the same is true of human vampires.
The angel had told himself that he would not come back, and the vampire still waited in a daze every first quarter moonlit night.
"Maybe he'll show up unexpectedly, or not."
The vampire muttered to himself, but his wait was met with repeated disappointment and blows.
Gradually, the vampire becomes a daily waiting, he fantasizes that an angel has come, and he inadvertently misses it when he goes out hunting. He no longer goes out to suck blood, and his magic is getting weaker and weaker, waiting for an angel to come as if he is consuming his life.
When the other angels learned of the vampire's fate, they reported it to God.
"It is impossible for the sun and the moon to appear in the sky at the same time, and if they have to be together, the angels must be imprisoned in the night forever with each other."
God could not bear to allow his beloved angel to live in darkness with the monster, and he ordered the gods not to approach the reclusive angel or reveal to him the fact that the vampire was gradually dying.
The days passed inexorably quickly, and the vampires' strength was so weak that they couldn't even go out at night.
When the mana is depleted, the vampire sleeps until the power is replenished by the moonlight.
During this time, he was completely unconscious, and he could not dream, he would continue to sleep quietly, and if time could not take away anything, sleep might be able to dilute some substances, at least the vampire could pass the time of missing the angels with sleep. If a priest had set fire to his body, the vampire would not have felt any pain and would have vanished.
He was not afraid of destruction, he was afraid of never seeing the angels again.
He stared at the night sky with empty eyes, and the person he had been thinking about day and night was at the top of that sky, which was the sacred realm, not a place where an unclean monster like him could delusionally enter.
What are the angels doing right now?
I guess I'm playing a harp made of gold in an elegant posture and talking happily to other angels.
I wonder if he will remember the three first quarter moonlit nights that once sat beside him?
It may have been a small episode in the course of a mission for the angel, but for the vampire, the happiness he had received in those three nights was more than enough to offset the loneliness and suffering he had endured for hundreds of years, and with those three memories, it would not hurt to make him live hundreds of years of loneliness again.
It's a pity...... I'm afraid I won't survive the magic of the next hundred years.
The deep sorrow of the vampire is also conveyed to the hearts of the angels.
She watched the sun and moon move in the sky, and the angel often cried in a low voice for no apparent reason, and she felt as if she had lost something in her body for eternity.
How can you simply forget and forget?
Heaven that is too white and shiny, surrounded by angels in bright clothes, gentleness is fake, smile is fake, tranquility is fake, everything makes him sad and wants to cry.
Melancholy vampire, is he looking at the moon and missing me right now?
The long-dwelling darkness was the only membrane that could protect him, he was so fragile, so empty, and yet he turned his back on him, on the vampire who longed for salvation more than anyone else.
The tears of the angels floated on the earth and turned into a sad rain on earth.
"I want to see him."
The angel made up her mind, but she could not go down to earth without God's edict, so she had to sneak away from the border of heaven, but she did not expect that God appeared to her at the moment when she was about to flee.
"My child, why did you leave here?" God analyzes the consequences.
"Once you've gone to the vampire, you'll never be able to go back to heaven, and you'll be attacked like an enemy of darkness by the fanatics, it's terrible."
"Then make me the only light in the darkness, or at least illuminate him."
"Can't you forget him no matter what?"
"If he gives up waiting for me, I'll forget him."
「……」
God was silent, he felt sorry for the angel's resoluteness, and he also lamented the angel's misfortune.
"Let me bless you, child. Although you cannot go back to heaven and live a peaceful life, I allow you to pluck your wings when you can't bear it, and then I will give you eternal peace."
So the angel slowly descended on earth.
It was the night of the first quarter moon, and when the vampire saw the angel flying from the moon's halo, he even jumped for joy.
"Will you stay?"
"I don't want to go anywhere but by your side."
The angels wept as they hugged each other tightly.
They began this wonderful cohabitation life.
The vampire's magic is so weak that he can't get out of the coffin at night, and the angels can only guard him by his side, speaking to him in the moment when the vampire wakes up at night.
"I have nothing, you know. Before I met you, I always thought that there was nothing in the world for me, but because of you, I saw scenery that I had never seen before."
The vampire later said this to the angel.
"The scenery is beautiful, but I'm so uneasy, I'm too happy to be allowed to be a monster like me. I don't know where the scenery along the road will lead, maybe happiness will suddenly stop around the corner." "Are you scared?" The angel took the vampire's cold hand.
"I'm afraid of losing you, so to speak, I think I'm going to lose you in the end, forever, I'm afraid that day will come."
"I won't leave you."
"What if I'm the one who leaves?"
"Will you?"
"No, if I leave, what will you do if you can't go back to heaven?"
"We will hold our hands all the time, and we will not let go."
The angel kisses the vampire's palm and covers the vampire's hand over his face.
One day, a child got lost and broke into the castle, and the angel sent him back to his home in the town, and the news of the angel's residence in the city spread, and many pilgrims and priests flocked to the castle, including those who sought the angel's medical attention.
The angel was only open during the day, and she did not pay attention to pilgrims or priests. A pilgrim who had hit a wall wandered around the city while the angels were performing miracles, and she discovered the existence of vampires.
For a while, rumors spread, some people said that this angel actually lived with a monster, which shows that she was not a good thing, and some people said that the angel would live in the same room with the monster in order to purify the monster.
The high-ranking officials in the town privately decided that because the tourist believers who came in the name of the angel made them earn a considerable amount of profit, they should erase the monster by any means, and he would cause the taint of the angel. They sent clergy to lurk around the castle and lure out angels.
"Oh no, the housekeeper is suddenly ill, please come over immediately."
The angel blinked, and there was a strange sense of disobedience in his instincts, but he still left the castle with his attendants.
The city's vampires are surrounded by clergy armed with crosses and stakes, chanting piercing incantations that force them to wake up.
What's going on? The weakened vampire awoke from his slumber and bit the clergyman's throats with all his might, making his way to the blood.
What about angels? Have you been taken away by these humans? Where is he and will there be any danger?
The vampire evades his pursuers, after all, the terrain is very familiar to him, and soon he hides in a dark corner surrounded by heavy windows.
"Where's the monster?"
"Escape so fast!"
The footsteps of the priests ran back and forth around him. Damn humans! If it weren't for daylight, I'd have all of you die ugly.
The vampire, who had sucked human blood, had somewhat regained his former vigor, and he was planning how to leave with the angel after dark, when suddenly the vampire noticed that a child was stupidly approaching him in the distance.
As long as I suck this child's blood, my strength will be stronger...... He peered silently at the young child, who was getting closer and closer to him. When it was too late, he covered the child's mouth and dragged him into the darkness.
"Woo~Woo~Woo~"
Looking closely at the child, the vampire recognizes him as the lost boy that the angel once cared for. If you kill him, the angel will be sad...... The vampire who thought of this let go of his hand and whispered.
"You go, I won't kill you."
The child's eyes widened and he couldn't believe how lucky he was, and he ran away, but the next moment, the child turned around and glared at the vampire viciously as if he had changed into a different person.
"You are a monster blasphemous to the angels, and killing you is the best gift I can give to the angels!"
The child slammed open the window, and the vampire, who had no time to react, was completely exposed to the sun...... The angel's heart suddenly ached, and he crouched on the ground in pain, and the attendant asked in alarm.
"You, are you alright?"
The angel was keenly aware of what had happened, and she hurried to turn around, and flew back to the castle with her wings spread lightly, and the attendants who had been left behind shouted anxiously, and he did not care for the time being.
It was like a great feast in the city, and a child was thrown high into the sky and then caught, and they shouted loudly, and words of praise for the child's courage and courage came out of their mouths like water.
"I should give you a medal!"
"It's a glory to us, the little hero who guarded our town."
"Ah! Angel!"
Someone noticed that the angel was standing aside, and they took the child in their arms, sat him on his shoulder, and rushed to the angel to ask for merit.
"This kid got rid of the monster!"
"Ask the angel to bless him!"
"This is the most memorable moment of the victory of the divine power over the monster, and we must erect a monument to commemorate it."
The angel lined up the crowd, and she hurried to the pile of dust surrounded by red threads in the center of the courtyard, and there was a loud bang in her head......
"I have a disease that can't see the sun, please heal me."
「…… Well, heaven must be very bright and warm compared to here."
God, how much does a vampire want the sun to shine, and what does the sun give him in return?
The angel cried out loud, and everyone looked at each other, at a loss.
"I don't want to go anywhere but by your side."
After looking around the crowd mournfully, the angel reached out and tugged hard at the white wings behind him. A large amount of blood spurted out, splattering the dust red, and the angel leaned over the dust, never opening his eyes again.
The wind stained the angel's emotions and frantically blew the red dust into the sky.
Perhaps the relationship between these grains of sand ran into their eyes, and the onlookers were in tears as they dispersed.