Episode 84. Professor (2)

The episode of Vampire Scion had a structure in which the key characters were clearly confronted with the good and the bad.

The incident begins when Louis Holox, a vampire who hides in Kiruna for some reason, cannot overcome his vampirism and hunts humans every night.

This world is officially known as a race of vampires.

No matter how much Louis Holox’s eyes turned over due to his vampiric desire, he was not a person who could not have expected that if he sucked human blood and left traces in Kiruna, the wizards who valued the school’s reputation would desperately pursue him.

Louis kidnapped the student and carefully vampirized it only in his secret residence.

but. The situation where the smell of blood lingered in the place where the student was said to have been kidnapped was considered very strange to another vampire studying at Kiruna.

After following the source of the smell of blood, another Kiruna vampire, Charlotte Everdeen, noticed Louis’ crime.

She fights with him every night to protect her other friends from Louis, who kidnaps Kiruna students saying that humans with magical powers have a more special taste.

How many nights did you fight with your own people? Charlotte ends up pushing Louis into a trap.

It was a story about how Yuri, who had come to the place where Louie had been cornered at Charlotte’s request, used her own magic to subdue Louis, who had run amok in a corner.

Before reading the manuscript, when I heard the rough plot from Ayoung, I asked her.

‘Charlotte is a vampire fighting bad vampires. It’s like an anti-hero?’

A monster against a monster. I thought it was such a common but charming story, but Ah-yeong shook her head.

‘Because most vampires here aren’t monsters.’

Exactly what Ahyeong said… . Only the tribe called ‘Diffel’ were monsters.

The majority of vampires do not indiscriminately covet human blood, so those like Louis who perceive others as prey were rather mutants in this world.

They said it appears extremely rarely, with reports of discovery being received once every few decades.

In order to minimize the damage that other races will suffer, all vampires who discovered Dipel have lived with the duty to fight against them at the risk of their lives… .

In the past, other ancestors hunted Dipel.

This time, as a full-fledged vampire, Charlotte, who discovered Louie’s crimes, only stopped the evil deeds of her fallen compatriots.

‘Moderation and responsibility are the virtues of vampires.’

A long time ago, when vampires didn’t serve the night god.

Now, there is a strong perception that they are a race that hides secretly in the dark, but it is said that vampires in those days flocked in groups in search of the blood of other races, regardless of the sunlight… .

It would have been reasonable to view vampires at the time as literally monsters, beasts possessed by evil.

Creepy fangs, corpse-cold skin and blood-red eyes with a lust for fresher blood.

They didn’t have reason, and conversation didn’t work.

Although they may have looked similar to other races on the outside, they lived a life that was not much different from other monsters.

However, while they sucked the blood of other races, they also absorbed the mana contained in it.

The only difference was that he instinctively used blood magic, a taboo that causes blood with mana extracted from blood.

‘There is nothing left where the vampires swept through. Except for the dragon, he was the de facto loser of the world.’

however… . After other races declare war on vampires.

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Vampires were powerful, but because of their lack of reason, they could not develop beyond their instinctive powers, and other races squeezed each other’s wisdom and slowly studied their opponents.

Eventually, as time passed and heroes of the era appeared among other races, most of the vampires were exterminated.

‘It was their lord who took pity on that.’

Even on the vampire side, a strange species was born that opened its eyes to reason and wisdom that had been hidden by instinct.

When most of their compatriots are being burned and torn apart by traps and tactics in full view.

Seeing the races protected by other gods, he was estranged.

If there is a guardian spirit who will lend us the will to control our desires and the strength to shoulder the responsibility for our sins.

In exchange for taking the lives of many people so far, I will gladly accept even if God curses me to carry a burden of guilt that is heavier than death for the rest of my life.

‘The one who granted that wish was Esca, the god of the night.’

Since then, vampires have learned temperance through faith, and regained reason by suppressing their instincts.

However, because the scars of their ancestors are clearly visible all over the world, other races still shun them.

As if leaving exile, the end of the world where no one is looking for vampires… . They made their living in the darkest place in the world.

That is Esca Castle.

It was the holy place of eternal night.

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Night is the time for art.

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Just as lovers become free in the dark, everything reveals its true beauty under the veil of night.

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Vampires were a race that lived with such beliefs.

Charlotte’s hometown, Esca, the castle of art and night, lived up to its name, and rumors of its beauty spread widely to other races.

Lanterns and stars, fireworks and moonlight. Goblin fire flying over fireflies and fairies.

As the phrase “a place where a small light shows off oneself” is added to the unique sensibility of vampires, the vampires of Esca Castle also lived a life of always cultivating a calm and serious beauty as if the entire castle was a symbol.

The moon always rises, and when the stars go down, another star rises from the other side… . The home of Esca, the god of the night.

The scenery now felt far away like a dream, so Charlotte woke up early and gathered the blanket over her head.

“I want to go back… .”

Even if the Paideia Dormitory did its best for the convenience of all students, it could not prevent the morning from coming.

The thick blackout curtains were drawn, but the disgusting sunlight from the window somehow found a gap and tried to reach Charlotte.

She muttered as she got out of bed to avoid the ultraviolet rays and sat down on the cold floor.

“This is no different than a prison to me.”

When I walked freely through the dark streets decorated with evening primroses.

I wonder if I will never be able to taste the sense of liberation I felt while breathing the air that night.

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Just like that, a shadow that grew thicker secretly rose from her seat beside her, who was wet with thoughts of Esca Castle.

“Did you cough?”

“Ouch!!”

A male student with black hair emerged from the shadows.

Ale, a human butler who serves Charlotte and a follower of Esca, the god of the night, looked down with pity at her master, who was only poking out from under the bed.

“… Was it that surprising?”

The first time I looked up at her at Esca Castle. Her blonde hair and red eyes, as dark and vivid as a bunch of roses, which she had admired enough to open her mouth for forgetting the manners, were still the same.

Like the ethos of high-ranking vampires who grew up in Esca Castle.

Where did the charisma felt in the eyes of a predator looking down at its prey disappeared?

In front of him, a cowardly girl with a pillow over her head was trembling at the butler’s visit.

“Ale, please knock normally and come in… ! How many times have I told you not to ride the shadows!”

“If others see me, a third-year student, constantly going in and out of a first-year girl’s private room, either I or the young lady will be expelled that day.”

“really? Then let’s pretend I’m expelled.”

“… Perhaps the head of the family will summon me to my hometown, not the lady.”

“right… .”

“Aren’t you satisfied with this place?”

“Of course! You know it because you lived in ESCA. Compared to that… . hahahaha, why the hell did my father send me out to a remote place like this?”

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Vampire society did not have a king, but it took the form of an aristocratic republic in which high-ranking entities living in Esca Castle ruled over other lower entities.

Among the high-ranking vampires, the Aberdeen family was the most powerful force in Esca, and in fact held the command over the vampires.

As the eldest daughter of such an honorable family, and the next head of the Aberdeen family, why did she have to hide in a human school for four years?

Even after several months of entering the school, her father still did not explain clearly.

“My lady, didn’t the head of the family say that this was an escape? Even to me, the atmosphere of Esca Castle was unusual. Just looking at the fact that all the wardens who have been dispatched for decades have been restored-”

“therefore! I have to explain what the hell is going on so that I can lessen my worries and think of ways to add strength.”

Although the tears shed in surprise earlier still seemed to be nothing to say, still grungy.

Ale swallowed such disloyal thoughts and quickly thought of another topic.

“Come to think of it, lady, today-”

“Hey, what did you just think?”

“… Today is the day I promised to meet Professor Dana.”

“uh? Oh right!”

Ale cautiously told Charlotte, who looked up at her watch and was shocked.

“We have five hours until our appointment, so there is no need to rush.”

“What are you talking about, I have to prepare my mind from now on… . Should I practice saying hello? I’m in the position of entering undercover, but I can’t greet you like a vampire-“

While casting a camouflage spell on her eyes, which were already starting to break out in a cold sweat, making them glow blue, Ale continued to worry.

‘Why did you shrink so much?’

It was a complex problem.

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Vampires completely lose their vigour during the day, and all school classes are held when the sun is up.

You must have been exhausted from forcibly digesting a schedule that did not suit your body and continuing a life of being forced to sleep at midnight.

‘Or was he afraid of meeting humans and letting his inner wildness come out?’

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Vampires are a race that wages a lifelong war with the instincts imprinted in their blood, using faith as a weapon.

The fear of a disaster that would happen the moment they let go of reason even for a moment imprison them in constant self-censorship.

Because of this, they live a life of avoiding anything that stimulates their vampiric desire, such as tabooing red, especially clothes woven with red thread, and drinking only blood washed in the moonlight for three hours.

The vampires living in Esca Castle were relatively free from such fear.

They didn’t have to go around in search of prey because they didn’t drink blood directly, and they were supplied with blood by establishing a master-servant relationship with Esca’s followers like Ale.

In other words, it was clear that Charlotte, who had never escaped from Esca Castle, would not have had a chance to develop resistance to the vampirism she felt in front of her prey.

‘Did he suddenly get thrown among humans in such a state, and his anthropophobia developed?’

I reported her situation to the head of the family, but only a disgusting reply came back saying that no matter what happened, don’t come back for a while.

Whenever he saw her desperately pretending to sleep on his desk every break, his heart felt stuffy, but he couldn’t think of a way to solve her problem.

‘I even contemplated whether to reveal her identity to the school and ask for their cooperation.’

Ale had given up on this problem halfway until recently, because it seemed that the pain of the prejudice that followed vampires like a tag would be heavier.

But, suddenly, I asked Professor Dana for advice.

It must have taken a lot of courage for her to leave a note asking her to leave her daily necessities at the door because she didn’t go out the door for fear of bumping into someone in the hallway, and she couldn’t even talk to the maids.

I was happy to see him kicking out the door with his own will.

The counselor… . Although it was a problem that he was a little different from ordinary professors.

‘Of course.’

The bad boy of the Ministry of Magic, Professor Dana.

An eccentric who exploded the entire alchemy copper while making repellent to spray on his chimera, and covered the entire Ministry of Magic with circle graffiti, saying he was trying to draw a perfect circle.

It seemed that Charlotte did not know the story, so I warned her a few more times before Professor Dana’s invitation to class, which was delivered by the miserable assistant in charge.

‘Are you all right? Rumors are circulating among the other Class D students that this note is a trap intended to kidnap human subjects.’

‘I’ll go anyway.’

The lady didn’t break her will after all, there must be a reason for that.

Ale just prayed and prayed that she would come home without any problems.