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A garden filled with flowers and grass that emit light by absorbing mana.
There, Karin was lost in thought, looking at the small lake in the garden.
‘I’m a burden. Far from being helpful, I’ve been a hindrance from beginning to end.’
Karin ran her finger over her face’s reflection in the water.
And then sigh.
I was staring blankly at the water again, and then I picked up some rocks nearby and threw them into the lake.
After feeling that way for a while, she suddenly raised her head at the sound she felt.
“omg!”
The feeling of Elder’s senses returning completely was amazing.
Karin sensed the presence of a ‘human’ approaching from afar, enveloped in her father’s aura, and hurriedly got up and hid.
As expected.
It was Dojin who appeared, enveloped in black fog.
Karin was embarrassed.
Although I asked my father to save Dojin, I had no idea what to do when he woke up.
‘Oh, what should I do?’
Karin hid herself in the darkness created by the shadows and stole a glance at Dojin.
Dojin, who had been looking around the garden as if he was curious for a moment, opened his mouth.
“Come out.”
Karin’s body flinched.
Can you see it? Karin felt relieved after looking around.
This is because the place Dojin was looking at was completely different.
‘I’m glad I didn’t get caught.’
Phew. Karin sweeping her chest.
But soon you realize.
That nothing will be solved by hiding like this.
Karin regretted it.
It would have been better to just stay still instead of hiding.
I thought it would be too embarrassing to leave now.
‘Yes. Just pretend it doesn’t exist until the end. Then, when it appears somewhere else, it will look much more natural!’
Dojin’s voice pierced her again as she was thinking like that.
“Not coming out? I’ll count to three. If you don’t come out on the count of three, I’ll just return to the Central Continent.”
Karin, whose hair had turned white, didn’t even have time to stomp her feet.
“three.”
Dojin suddenly spat out the word ‘set’ and turned towards the flower garden exit as if he had no regrets.
Karin saw that and said with her eyes wide open, jumping out.
“Wait a minute! That’s not counting three! Three comes after one and two!”
Karin protests with a sense of injustice.
Dojin turned around again and said.
“Two, one.”
“… … ?”
Dojin snickers at Karin’s stupid expression.
“It’s counting backwards.”
With a face of great shock, Karin pointed at Dojin.
“You fooled me!”
“Who would want to hide then?”
“That, that’s… … !”
Karin, at a loss for words, lowered her head.
Then, after hesitating for a moment, he whispered very quietly.
“sorry…….”
“what?”
“… running away from home, and getting involved with me because of that… and being a nuisance, and putting you in danger… … .”
Karin, who picks up on her own mistakes here and there.
Dojin’s answer to that is.
“Apologies aside, let’s go see the sun.”
It was a sunbathing offer to a vampire.
“yes……?”
“You said you liked trying it. Let’s go.”
“I’m a vampire?”
“You were able to go around so well by yourself, but you don’t want to go with me?”
“That’s not it!”
Okay then.
Karin thought as she watched Dojin speak lightly.
‘The surface of the floating continent is filled with all kinds of monsters. I don’t know, but this person could be dangerous… … .’
But… I wanted to go.
On that hill where I always sat alone, with this person.
‘I, I just have to protect you. You’ve eaten a lot of darkness, so even if you’re under the sun, your abilities will remain the same for a while.’
Wings made of darkness sprouted from Karin’s back as she made up her mind.
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“song!”
Karin grabbed Dojin’s waist and flew up.
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Kuung.
A heavy sound rang out.
It was the sound of a monster roaming the surface of the floating continent being knocked down by a single punch from Karin.
Knock knock.
Karin turned her hand lightly and looked around.
Karin, who had been looking far into the distance with the elder’s eyes, nodded with satisfaction.
“Okay. I think I’ve taken care of all the monsters nearby!”
“…okay.”
She was energetic, but Dojin had a hard time with it.
I knew that the minimum level of the monsters scattered around was 250.
What kind of brute force can send those guys to hell in one blow?
It was a moment where I felt the power of the vampire elder once again.
‘Even right before returning, the Vampire Elder was a monster that even a party of five lower-ranking players could not guarantee victory against… … .’
Dojin looked up at the sky.
It is the time when the moon is setting and the sun is about to rise.
Dojin sat down in a suitable spot.
Then, a wide open snowfield covered with perennial snow and the horizon at the end of it come into view.
The entire world that comes into view is bathed in faint moonlight and has a blue tint.
“Good.”
Dojin let out a small exclamation at the wondrous sight created by nature.
Karin said, sitting carefully next to him.
“Isn’t it? It’s the most beautiful place I’ve ever found. It took me years just to find it.”
There was a brief pause in the conversation.
Karin didn’t know what to say, so she just fidgeted with her fingers and stared at the setting moon.
Then Dojin suddenly spoke.
“I saw your memory.”
“How… is…?”
“You said you used your blood to save me. That must be why you saw the memories contained in your blood.”
“Then you will know. The words I speak, the expressions I make, are all fake. I am just an empty shell imitating a human being.”
Karin was completely exhausted.
Dojin hit the back of her head.
“… … ?”
Dojin frowned and said to Karin, who was looking at him without knowing English.
“Is this a head or a stone? My hands are all cold. Well, that’s why I must have been living with such useless thoughts.”
“What is that… … .”
“Is the heart something special? How great are emotions? When you take them all apart, they’re nothing.”
Dojin said that the things Karin had been looking for for a long time were nothing special.
At this, Karin showed a pointed reaction towards Dojin for the first time.
“That’s… … ! That’s something you can say because you’re human, teacher! You’ve had emotions, feelings, and a beating heart since you were born… … ! You can say that because it’s something you take for granted!”
“no.”
Dojin denied Karin’s complaint and continued speaking before she could refute him.
“Emotions and the mind are both things we learn as we grow up by seeing, hearing, speaking, and experiencing.”
Dojin looked straight into Karin’s eyes.
“Human emotions are also created. Needless to say, speech and facial expressions. Even after growing up, speech and personality change depending on the surrounding environment.”
“… I don’t know. I don’t understand what you’re saying.”
“Everything you thought was a pretense, an act, an illusion, is a part of you.”
“Even though I have another side hidden inside me?”
Dojin’s hand ran over Karin’s head as she asked without any confidence.
“Everyone is like that. Everyone has parts of themselves that they don’t want others to see. I do that, and everyone else hides things from them. The fact that you want to hide that is proof that you’re human.”
“Really… …?”
Dojin nodded his head toward the eyes that were half expectation and half suspicion.
“Yeah. And you idiot.”
Well, from the beginning.
“If you didn’t have a heart, would you have such worries? Because you have a heart, such worries arise.”
“Are you saying that I have a heart no different from that of humans?”
Karin stroked my chest.
I feel like something is stirring inside my chest.
The heart won’t beat.
Even if you concentrate with your elder senses, you can’t detect any physical changes.
There have been so many firsts since I met this person.
“It feels strange. I feel like it hurts here.”
Dojin said, turning his gaze to the moon.
“That’s the heart.”
[Unbelievable Miracle!]
[Affinity with races that were previously impossible to form relationships with has been unlocked.]
[Your connection with the vampire elder Karin Tyrund continues.]
[Due to the connection, Karin Tyrund’s favorability rating has increased by ??? points, becoming ???.]
[Building Relationships!]
[The vampire lord Karnes Tyrund shows you considerable favor.]
[Carnes Tyrund’s favorability rating has increased by 50 points to 50.]
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[Achievement Reward: All stats +10]
[All vampire races have +10 favorability]
[Quest Complete!]
[You have earned 30,000 gold.]
[Level has increased.]
[Improved relations with vampires, who pose a great threat to humanity.]
[The predetermined fate was twisted.]
[A very small number of the conditions for achieving the great achievement
[※The rewards for completing the Fate Quest and the partial achievement rewards for
Numerous messages invaded Dojin’s field of vision.
They all hinted at a new future, a future that would change.
