Chapter 8: The Fool Who Lives in the Middle
After getting the wayward Martina, Nagi turned her gaze back to the now quiet Ellie, who was now quietly staring at the delicate fireplace with red jewel-like eyes, her side face slid into a beautiful arc to the pointed chin, caressing the sideburns under her bangs, and the vampire girl who didn't know what to think gave people a strange beauty.
Hmph, we're really beautiful. Nagi suddenly thought a little narcissistically, well, after all, Ellie looks exactly like herself. In other words, why should you mention yourself first?
"If you have any requests, you can quickly put them forward! It's not because I value you stupid vampire, I just don't want Martina's soul to take advantage of it!"
Poked Ellie's face lightly with his hand, soft and smooth like a freshly cooked scallop to the touch, Nagi deliberately raised her voice and said to Ellie very contrivedly, in fact, she was just complaining to Martina, who had just lost her face!
"Well," Ellie put her index finger to her lips a little, and her two rabbit-like red eyes circled twice in their sockets, as if thinking about something, "Indeed, it would be too cunning for Sister Martina to play what she likes." ”
"Speaking of which, is it really okay to get this kid on? She's a vampire, and she looks too much like you. ”
At this time, Martina raised an objection again, although the performance time is tomorrow night, even Ellie, who is a vampire, can act without hindrance, but unlike ordinary people, whether it is her identity or appearance, it is really the object of gossip, and if the vampire race is exposed, there is still a punishment knight lady with a broken body and an attendant Shota who is taking care of this seriously injured person who is not very well received by the academy in an extremely tangled mood!
"Hey, this is indeed something we don't think about......"
Nagi just wanted to catch a few strong men at first, of course, the more the merrier, and Ellie was naturally counted as a head in Nagi's crew, but, if you think about it carefully, sure enough, Ellie should not be exposed in front of the public, whether it's good for her or everyone.
"Well, I'm sorry, we shouldn't have ......"
Scratching his head in embarrassment, Nagi said to Ellie a little embarrassed, sure enough, the request he just made would make Ellie very embarrassed, and it was not easy to refuse herself.
"No, I'm going. ”
"Well, then you don't have to- what did you just say?"
I want to follow Ellie's words, but Nagi suddenly realizes that the meaning that Ellie wants to express seems to be not quite the same as what she made up in her brain.
"I'm going, Martina and Sister Nagi, thank you for thinking so much about me, but even if it will trouble everyone, I want to appear in this drama as a vampire. ”
Turning her face to look at the two of them who looked surprised, Ellie, whose face was lit by the blazing fire on one side and was bathed in darkness on the other side, said seriously with her resolute expression.
"Uh, that's ......."
"No! How can you be so messy! If someone knows you're a vampire, you're in danger at any time!"
Before Nagi could figure out how to answer Ellie, Martina jumped up from her cushion like a leopard, threw Ellie to the ground, and interrupted Nagi with great force, rebuffing Ellie's request.
It's not because I'm afraid that the Inquisition knows about the secret vampire and pursues, whether it's because of the confidence in her own strength or because she still has the protection of the head of the academy, Martina is not afraid of getting into any trouble, but Ellie is different from herself, she is a vampire, the public enemy of mankind, even if she can be protected in the academy, but she can't be her bodyguard for the rest of her life, as long as Ellie takes a step out of the academy, the people of the Inquisition will swarm like vultures that smell the smell of corpses. Ellie is still too weak, maybe she is already strong for ordinary humans, but she is still far behind those real powerhouses on the pan-continent, and such strength does not allow her to have the ability to protect herself in this world.
"Just be honest with me in the magic tower. ”
If Ellie must be trapped in this academy or even this dark magic tower forever in the future because of such an insignificant matter as drama, what difference is there between her and a prisoner? As long as she is not registered on the list of the Inquisition, Ellie can live happily and incognito in this world as a human being.
"Didn't you ever want to kill me? Sister Martina. ”
Stretched out her hand and gently grabbed Martina's fist waving in front of her, opened the tightly held small hand little by little, and then slowly interlocked her fingers with her palm, Ellie smiled, but tears flowed uncontrollably from the corners of her eyes.
"I ...... now, too"
"I want to kill you monster!" is not the cannibal demon recorded in the book, after living with Ellie, Martina realizes that the vampire she once wanted to completely wipe out from the world is actually a flesh-and-blood, kind and sensitive, living like her, a person in the world, not a monster!
"I have a dream. ”
Gently pushing the fingers of the two of them against Martina's chest, even through the other's warm, sweaty little hands, Ellie's vampire's sensitive nerves still clearly felt the pulsation of Martina's vibrant heart. Just as she would never sweat, her heart would never pulsate, what was life? She didn't even know if she was really alive.
"I want people to judge a person not by race but by character, I want people to be exposed to misunderstandings and hatreds about us, you should understand, even if we don't kill a person and don't convert him into a low-level vampire, we can eat, and the mortality rate of being attacked by vampires is extremely high, mainly because of their own excessive resistance to the teeth that were originally pierced into the veins slipped into the arteries. ”
We don't know if that's the case, but you never seem to have found the right vein, and although it was out of place, Nagi suddenly remembered Ellie's previous two previous experiences of spurting blood everywhere, and I don't know if she has improved now.
"As long as it is fresh enough, the blood of human beings can also be used as our food, and don't your doctors also use the method of bloodletting to cure diseases? It's just that we don't think the blood of patients is disgusting, so we never think that thing is big." ”
Phlebotomy is the dirt method of the country doctor who is not magical, it doesn't count, it doesn't count, it still gives us a good use of potions or a holy magician, ah soul light!
"Humans and vampires can coexist!"
Suddenly raising her voice, Ellie shouted out the words.
"Even if you say so......"
Martina's face showed a deep sense of helplessness, people's misconceptions about vampires are deep-rooted, not to mention that most vampires are evil, even if they can fill their stomachs without sucking people dry, they will use torture methods to kill those who could have survived.
"But even if there are few, few, or just a few fellow vampires like me, I can't leave them alone and escape reality here. ”
The painful feeling of being squeezed between a vampire and a human shuddered like a nightmare every time I think about it.
"Let me go, someone has to be the forerunner, I don't want to be an ancient vine that dies in a deep well, even if it's a vampire, I want to be friends with the sun, let me be a black rose that blooms in the sun, Sister Martina. ”
Martina looked at Ellie's face, bathed in the firelight on one side, buried in the darkness on the other, she was in the darkness but longed for the light, the one who survived in this gap was the first awakened vampire, this intermediate of history, can it really bloom?