5
On the way to the room with the knight, Hiroto and his friends met a fascinating woman. She was the woman who had been by the side of the lord when he first visited the castle.
Young.
However she doesn’t give the feeling of Castle lord’s wife.
[That, Madam?]
When he asked after she passed by, the knight laughed out.
[She is the caretaker of this castle.]
[Caretaker?]
When you become the lord of a castle, a young woman is assigned to take care of your personal affairs. Generally a beautiful woman is chosen.
Hiroto turned to look toward Souichirou.
[You must be thinking if I become the castle lord,I will choose a blonde woman, right?]
[Shut up]
He denies.as expected,he seems to have thought so.
If I were to become——-
Mimia figure appears in his mind.If it were me, I would want her to be a thoughtful girl.
The room was small, but there were two beds available.It was much better then Mora’s fort.
The knight left and Hiroto put down his bag and lay down on the bed.
Finally,he was alone with souichiro.
[I’m so nervous that I don’t get sleepy at all. I wonder how many hours I’ve been up.]
Souichiro did not answer.He must be the same as himself.
[We will say goodbye to Solum today.I wanted to meet Mimia one more time.]
[Did you like that mummy girl so much?]
[That girl,is definitely cute if bandages were removed]
[Vampire girl was also beautiful.]
Souichiro’s ears turned red .it seems she was to his liking.
Hiroto thought of Mimia.
After all, was parting at that bridge the last time? He wanted to meet and talk a little more with her.
Maybe they are in contact only for a while.But she left a lasting impression on him. Even though he had only met her once, she remembered the favor of giving her shelter from the rain and took the trouble to bring him something to drink.
Thanks to her, he was able to quench his thirst. She also came to see him off when he left the village after taking credit for my work.
I think she is a delicate child. Her sister was like that too.
He shook his head.
The more he wants to meet her, the more depressed he feels.
(I should go out or something.)
[Church, let’s visit it out.]
Hiroto got up.
[See?]
[The Spirit Light. Let’s compare it to the church in the village.]
[There must be a church in Solum too, right?]
[You are a strange guy.]
[From the long time]
Souichiro smiled.
[From the long time]
6
The lord of the castle went back to his room with his caretaker.He must have been left for fun.
When he was alone, anger welled up in Centerio’s chest.
That man was annoying.
An ignorant man from another world who doesn’t know the way of the world. A man who thought he was going to die and have his blood sucked out by the vampires anyway, now he was taking credit for it and arguing against it.
What’s even more annoying is Urkan-sama empathizing with that man.
(I’m the household hold.its as if he is the head of household)
He is an unpleasant man, Centerio muttered.
I will not forgive him.
Do extra things in spite of being a stranger. It would have been better if he just let his blood be sucked by a vampire and died quietly.
The reason he called Deferente was because a village that pays tribute to Solum Castle had complained. They said that they were being attacked by vampires.
The vampires usually feed on the blood of beasts. However, due to lack of food or on a whim, they sometimes suck the blood of humans. Therefore, they do not coexist with humans.
First of all, I don’t want to send knights to a village. That’s why he summoned the Deferente. If it didn’t work, he could just get rid of him. If all goes well, they can take him to the Archbishop and let him return to his world.
It was only until about twenty years ago that the Deferente was useful as a replacement for the lord of the castle.
Nowadays, castle lords summon them to deal with troublesome matters.
The quality of the deferentes being summoned has also declined. It is said that this is because too much reliance was placed on them and too many were summoned, or because the first deferentes was too great.
In the early days, relatively old deferentes were summoned, but nowadays, young deferentes are often summoned. The occasional older one was just a disappointment. Perhaps it was just a coincidence that good deferentes were summoned in the early days.
At any rate, the big names that once changed this country have not appeared.They are just people in a different world, people who are no different from us.
He thought that Hiroto was one of them.Some of the Deferentes are dead, some have turned into monsters. Hiroto, too, would be turned to dirt after one night.
But…
The other party was a deferente that could do his work.
He captured the vampire alive and brought them back to the castle to sign their names.
Of course, it was unlikely that such a thing would make the vampires keep silent.
It was probably to stop the villagers from getting angry.
That’s why the man brought her to the castle and made her sign the document.
Indeed, the vampire was most likely the daughter of the chief. There was no way a normal vampire could write. What the man said was a good argument. He’s probably right.
That’s why his stomach is upset.
Why am I being told by a newcomer who just came recently?how can he lose in a war of words? Isn’t that just completely shameful?
He’s been humiliated in front of the most influential people in Secundaria, and this time he has been humiliated because of that stranger,is that how it is?
That man doesn’t understand anything.
Elves are an extraordinary existence for this world.Elves neither lives in poor towns nor visit them.The towns elves don’t go are made to be abandoned from any property.
Elves have strong connections with each other. When an elf settles in a new town,other elves donate money to that elf.
The money is used to dig wells, connect elevated water systems, build high churches, and bring high technology and culture to the town.
The elves have advanced technology which hybrid people don’t have.The elves have high level of mathematics which hybrid people don’t know and they keep it a secret.
They tried to teach it once but the level was so high that hybrid people couldn’t understand.
I guess that’s the way it is. Most of the elves belong to the upper class of this world. There are many elves in the royal family.
That’s why they consider calling elves.if elf comes to this town,then un-progressed and grey world will be able to change.
However, on the contrary they were humiliated.Then here again, this humiliation.
It is said that Solum is a town of mummies and skeletons.
If the story of this time spread out,then no one will come to this town as it will be known as a town where vampires visit.
That boy is a troublemaker.
He was impudent since the first time he meet.if leaves alone,he will definitely become a sore spot in his eyes.Tomorrow, I’ll drive him to Secondaria and get rid of him.
7
As Hiroto and others came out from the castle gate of Solum castle,they met a skeleton with a very conspicuous figure.
It was Calavera, the captain of the garrison.
[Are you already leaving?]
He called out to them.It seems like he thinks Hiroto and others are leaving the town.
[We are going for Spirit church sightseeing.]
[Church]
[I was wondering how big and different it is from the village church.]
[You are a strange man.]
A green ball expanded horizontally in Calavera’s eye socket. He seemed to have smiled.
[I will guide you.]
Souichiro shakes his head in panic but Hiroto considered asking for favour.
Calavera left his horse to his subordinate and walked ahead.hiroto quickly lined up right next to him.
Souichiro continued with a three metre gap between them.
[I re-evaluated.]
Calavera said it suddenly.
[I haven’t thought you could capture a vampire alive.]
[It was thanks to Mummies.]
[Mummies?]
Hiroto told him the full story of capture.
[I have heard the bandage are good but——-]
[Why does everyone hate them?]
[Skeleton clan doesn’t hate them particularly.]
[So only humans hate them?]
Calavera didn’t answer.He was just passing by a human in solum.
[Is it true that the vampire race doesn’t attack mummies?]
[It’s true.I heard bandages come in Their way of drinking blood.]
[Mummies don’t wear normal clothes?]
[I’ve heard of them looking enviously at the clothes in front of the tailor’s. But clothes are expensive for them.]
Hmm, Hiroto nodded.
So because of that when he praised Mimia,she get embarrassed?
[You guys said that that vampire is the chief’s daughter, right?]
Calavera changed the topic suddenly.
[What does calavera think?]
[I also think so.]
[Why so?]
[Because she can write.No any random vampire know how to write.Getting her away from village was correct else she would have been definitely killed and if you killed a chief’s daughter,then retaliation is sure.Even though saying that, if she was released without doing anything, she will definitely kill villagers.]
[It was helpful to have an expert say that. I thought so and brought her to the castle.]
[It’s regrettable that you guys are leaving this town tomorrow.]
He was a little happy to hear that.
When he first met, he was in charge of bringing Hiroto in. It was not a good first impression. But now the human – no, was it a skeleton – was expressing his regret.
Calavera turned a corner.
He held out his hand to the right.There was the Solum’s spirit church.
It was as big as a three-story building.As high as three story buildings in Solum town are only the Castle and the spirit church.
At the entrance of the church, a shallow ditch about 10 cm wide was dug. Water is flowing.
(a barrier?)
Hiroto and the others followed Calavera into the Spirit Church.
Unconsciously, they looked towards the ceiling.
The white walls covered the ceiling of the church, which was ten meters high. To the left and right, there were side aisles with columns, and in the center, the nave spread out like an arcade. At the end of the nave, waiting in the inner sanctum, was a tall pedestal, five meters high.
At the top of the five-meter-high bronze pedestal was a ball of light the size of a tennis ball.Moras spirit light was as big as golf ball.It’s much bigger than that.
The light was blinking like the light of a firefly.
[It’s like a European church.]
Soichiro gave his impressions.
[Except there’s not cross.]
[In exchange,there is spirit light.]
Both admired.
But calavera was different.
[It’s somehow strange.]
He approached the high ground with a suspicious expression.
[What’s wrong?]
The people praying were also looking at the elevation anxiously.
[This is Calavera-dono.]
The one who raised his voice was the priest of this spirit church.
[Since when is it in this condition?]
Calavera inquired.
[It was shining brightly in the morning, but suddenly it started to look like this—–.]
The spirit light flickered on and off like a midnight signal.
It was a cycle like shining-disappear-shining-disappear.
[It’s different from Moras.]
Hiroto agreed with souichiro.
[That was not blinking like this one.Moras spirit light feels like getting brighter then a little darker.]
Souichiro agreed.
Calavera turned to look towards Hiroto and others.
[Those people are?]
[They are Deferente.]
[Speaking of which they have captured the vampire—]
Calavera nodded and the priest held out his hand to Hiroto.
[I’m honored to meet you. It’s the first time I’ve met Deferente in my life.]
The priest shook hands with Hiroto, and then with Souichiro.he seems to be a considerably nice person.
[I’m deeply sorry for calling you to this world against your will.please forgive my discourtesy.]
Priest bowed his head.
Soichiro opened his mouth. He seemed to be trying to say something, but it didn’t come out.
[Why is it flickering?]
[That is….]
[Don’t tell me it’s a curse?]
Calavera whispers.
[I don’t think so. There are also Deferente who were summoned, the reason why the spirits get angry is—–.]
[Is seirei-sama feeling sick today?]
The priest shook his head and asked the other way around.
[What about the lord?]
[No.as far as I know——-]
Calavera’s reply was interrupted by the voices of the townspeople who had come to pray.The speed of the flashing lights had obviously slowed down.
The time when the light was off was longer than the time when it was on.
[Seirei-sama, do you mean to not appear here anymore—-]
[Please pardon if we have committed any crime.we will do anything.]
The people of the town all lay down.
In the tense atmosphere, Hiroto and others looked around the inside of the church.
The time it was not shining has increased longer again.
It shines brightly then goes out.spirit light didn’t blink for a while.
Forgetting the time,it blinked and went out again.
[Seirei-samaa…..!!]
Sorrowful voice leaks out.
The Spirit’s light intensifies a bit and then goes out in a flash.
[Seirei-samaa!!]
The townspeople’s voices took on an even sadder tone.
As if responding to their pleading, spirit light feebly brightens again.
[Please don’t go away, Spirit.]
[Please, let there be light in Solum…]
Immediately after that, a ball of light shone, then the church turned dark even though it’s daytime.
A Commotion raised up.
The ball of light the size of a tennis ball on the elevation has disappeared. The area where the Spirit Light had been was now a black void.
[Seirei-samaaaaaaaa!]
Sorrowfull voices raised out.
[Please, please, please forgive me!]
[Please Let me see you again!]
[Seirei-samaa, seirei-samaaaa!]
The townspeople rub their foreheads and scream desperately. However, the spirit light does not return. The ball of light has completely disappeared.
The priest turned pale.Calavera was also trembling.
[Seirei-sama isn’t coming anymore!]
[It’s the curse of seirei-sama!]
Priest desperately shouted out for Frantic voice to calm down.
He’s just resting for a while! He’ll be back soon!!.
But no one paid attention to the priest shouting.The church had turned into a place of lament and shouting.Dozens of townspeople ran out of the solum’s church while screaming and despairing.
Each and everyone started lamenting out “seirei-sama isn’t here anymore”.The voices of the women joined the cry. The women waiting to fetch water at the well were screaming.
One person held his head and screamed.
[Someone, please do something! The water has run out …!]
5
On the way to the room with the knight, Hiroto and his friends met a fascinating woman. She was the woman who had been by the side of the lord when he first visited the castle.
Young.
However she doesn’t give the feeling of Castle lord’s wife.
[That, Madam?]
When he asked after she passed by, the knight laughed out.
[She is the caretaker of this castle.]
[Caretaker?]
When you become the lord of a castle, a young woman is assigned to take care of your personal affairs. Generally a beautiful woman is chosen.
Hiroto turned to look toward Souichirou.
[You must be thinking if I become the castle lord,I will choose a blonde woman, right?]
[Shut up]
He denies.as expected,he seems to have thought so.
If I were to become——-
Mimia figure appears in his mind.If it were me, I would want her to be a thoughtful girl.
The room was small, but there were two beds available.It was much better then Mora’s fort.
The knight left and Hiroto put down his bag and lay down on the bed.
Finally,he was alone with souichiro.
[I’m so nervous that I don’t get sleepy at all. I wonder how many hours I’ve been up.]
Souichiro did not answer.He must be the same as himself.
[We will say goodbye to Solum today.I wanted to meet Mimia one more time.]
[Did you like that mummy girl so much?]
[That girl,is definitely cute if bandages were removed]
[Vampire girl was also beautiful.]
Souichiro’s ears turned red .it seems she was to his liking.
Hiroto thought of Mimia.
After all, was parting at that bridge the last time? He wanted to meet and talk a little more with her.
Maybe they are in contact only for a while.But she left a lasting impression on him. Even though he had only met her once, she remembered the favor of giving her shelter from the rain and took the trouble to bring him something to drink.
Thanks to her, he was able to quench his thirst. She also came to see him off when he left the village after taking credit for my work.
I think she is a delicate child. Her sister was like that too.
He shook his head.
The more he wants to meet her, the more depressed he feels.
(I should go out or something.)
[Church, let’s visit it out.]
Hiroto got up.
[See?]
[The Spirit Light. Let’s compare it to the church in the village.]
[There must be a church in Solum too, right?]
[You are a strange guy.]
[From the long time]
Souichiro smiled.
[From the long time]
6
The lord of the castle went back to his room with his caretaker.He must have been left for fun.
When he was alone, anger welled up in Centerio’s chest.
That man was annoying.
An ignorant man from another world who doesn’t know the way of the world. A man who thought he was going to die and have his blood sucked out by the vampires anyway, now he was taking credit for it and arguing against it.
What’s even more annoying is Urkan-sama empathizing with that man.
(I’m the household hold.its as if he is the head of household)
He is an unpleasant man, Centerio muttered.
I will not forgive him.
Do extra things in spite of being a stranger. It would have been better if he just let his blood be sucked by a vampire and died quietly.
The reason he called Deferente was because a village that pays tribute to Solum Castle had complained. They said that they were being attacked by vampires.
The vampires usually feed on the blood of beasts. However, due to lack of food or on a whim, they sometimes suck the blood of humans. Therefore, they do not coexist with humans.
First of all, I don’t want to send knights to a village. That’s why he summoned the Deferente. If it didn’t work, he could just get rid of him. If all goes well, they can take him to the Archbishop and let him return to his world.
It was only until about twenty years ago that the Deferente was useful as a replacement for the lord of the castle.
Nowadays, castle lords summon them to deal with troublesome matters.
The quality of the deferentes being summoned has also declined. It is said that this is because too much reliance was placed on them and too many were summoned, or because the first deferentes was too great.
In the early days, relatively old deferentes were summoned, but nowadays, young deferentes are often summoned. The occasional older one was just a disappointment. Perhaps it was just a coincidence that good deferentes were summoned in the early days.
At any rate, the big names that once changed this country have not appeared.They are just people in a different world, people who are no different from us.
He thought that Hiroto was one of them.Some of the Deferentes are dead, some have turned into monsters. Hiroto, too, would be turned to dirt after one night.
But…
The other party was a deferente that could do his work.
He captured the vampire alive and brought them back to the castle to sign their names.
Of course, it was unlikely that such a thing would make the vampires keep silent.
It was probably to stop the villagers from getting angry.
That’s why the man brought her to the castle and made her sign the document.
Indeed, the vampire was most likely the daughter of the chief. There was no way a normal vampire could write. What the man said was a good argument. He’s probably right.
That’s why his stomach is upset.
Why am I being told by a newcomer who just came recently?how can he lose in a war of words? Isn’t that just completely shameful?
He’s been humiliated in front of the most influential people in Secundaria, and this time he has been humiliated because of that stranger,is that how it is?
That man doesn’t understand anything.
Elves are an extraordinary existence for this world.Elves neither lives in poor towns nor visit them.The towns elves don’t go are made to be abandoned from any property.
Elves have strong connections with each other. When an elf settles in a new town,other elves donate money to that elf.
The money is used to dig wells, connect elevated water systems, build high churches, and bring high technology and culture to the town.
The elves have advanced technology which hybrid people don’t have.The elves have high level of mathematics which hybrid people don’t know and they keep it a secret.
They tried to teach it once but the level was so high that hybrid people couldn’t understand.
I guess that’s the way it is. Most of the elves belong to the upper class of this world. There are many elves in the royal family.
That’s why they consider calling elves.if elf comes to this town,then un-progressed and grey world will be able to change.
However, on the contrary they were humiliated.Then here again, this humiliation.
It is said that Solum is a town of mummies and skeletons.
If the story of this time spread out,then no one will come to this town as it will be known as a town where vampires visit.
That boy is a troublemaker.
He was impudent since the first time he meet.if leaves alone,he will definitely become a sore spot in his eyes.Tomorrow, I’ll drive him to Secondaria and get rid of him.
7
As Hiroto and others came out from the castle gate of Solum castle,they met a skeleton with a very conspicuous figure.
It was Calavera, the captain of the garrison.
[Are you already leaving?]
He called out to them.It seems like he thinks Hiroto and others are leaving the town.
[We are going for Spirit church sightseeing.]
[Church]
[I was wondering how big and different it is from the village church.]
[You are a strange man.]
A green ball expanded horizontally in Calavera’s eye socket. He seemed to have smiled.
[I will guide you.]
Souichiro shakes his head in panic but Hiroto considered asking for favour.
Calavera left his horse to his subordinate and walked ahead.hiroto quickly lined up right next to him.
Souichiro continued with a three metre gap between them.
[I re-evaluated.]
Calavera said it suddenly.
[I haven’t thought you could capture a vampire alive.]
[It was thanks to Mummies.]
[Mummies?]
Hiroto told him the full story of capture.
[I have heard the bandage are good but——-]
[Why does everyone hate them?]
[Skeleton clan doesn’t hate them particularly.]
[So only humans hate them?]
Calavera didn’t answer.He was just passing by a human in solum.
[Is it true that the vampire race doesn’t attack mummies?]
[It’s true.I heard bandages come in Their way of drinking blood.]
[Mummies don’t wear normal clothes?]
[I’ve heard of them looking enviously at the clothes in front of the tailor’s. But clothes are expensive for them.]
Hmm, Hiroto nodded.
So because of that when he praised Mimia,she get embarrassed?
[You guys said that that vampire is the chief’s daughter, right?]
Calavera changed the topic suddenly.
[What does calavera think?]
[I also think so.]
[Why so?]
[Because she can write.No any random vampire know how to write.Getting her away from village was correct else she would have been definitely killed and if you killed a chief’s daughter,then retaliation is sure.Even though saying that, if she was released without doing anything, she will definitely kill villagers.]
[It was helpful to have an expert say that. I thought so and brought her to the castle.]
[It’s regrettable that you guys are leaving this town tomorrow.]
He was a little happy to hear that.
When he first met, he was in charge of bringing Hiroto in. It was not a good first impression. But now the human – no, was it a skeleton – was expressing his regret.
Calavera turned a corner.
He held out his hand to the right.There was the Solum’s spirit church.
It was as big as a three-story building.As high as three story buildings in Solum town are only the Castle and the spirit church.
At the entrance of the church, a shallow ditch about 10 cm wide was dug. Water is flowing.
(a barrier?)
Hiroto and the others followed Calavera into the Spirit Church.
Unconsciously, they looked towards the ceiling.
The white walls covered the ceiling of the church, which was ten meters high. To the left and right, there were side aisles with columns, and in the center, the nave spread out like an arcade. At the end of the nave, waiting in the inner sanctum, was a tall pedestal, five meters high.
At the top of the five-meter-high bronze pedestal was a ball of light the size of a tennis ball.Moras spirit light was as big as golf ball.It’s much bigger than that.
The light was blinking like the light of a firefly.
[It’s like a European church.]
Soichiro gave his impressions.
[Except there’s not cross.]
[In exchange,there is spirit light.]
Both admired.
But calavera was different.
[It’s somehow strange.]
He approached the high ground with a suspicious expression.
[What’s wrong?]
The people praying were also looking at the elevation anxiously.
[This is Calavera-dono.]
The one who raised his voice was the priest of this spirit church.
[Since when is it in this condition?]
Calavera inquired.
[It was shining brightly in the morning, but suddenly it started to look like this—–.]
The spirit light flickered on and off like a midnight signal.
It was a cycle like shining-disappear-shining-disappear.
[It’s different from Moras.]
Hiroto agreed with souichiro.
[That was not blinking like this one.Moras spirit light feels like getting brighter then a little darker.]
Souichiro agreed.
Calavera turned to look towards Hiroto and others.
[Those people are?]
[They are Deferente.]
[Speaking of which they have captured the vampire—]
Calavera nodded and the priest held out his hand to Hiroto.
[I’m honored to meet you. It’s the first time I’ve met Deferente in my life.]
The priest shook hands with Hiroto, and then with Souichiro.he seems to be a considerably nice person.
[I’m deeply sorry for calling you to this world against your will.please forgive my discourtesy.]
Priest bowed his head.
Soichiro opened his mouth. He seemed to be trying to say something, but it didn’t come out.
[Why is it flickering?]
[That is….]
[Don’t tell me it’s a curse?]
Calavera whispers.
[I don’t think so. There are also Deferente who were summoned, the reason why the spirits get angry is—–.]
[Is seirei-sama feeling sick today?]
The priest shook his head and asked the other way around.
[What about the lord?]
[No.as far as I know——-]
Calavera’s reply was interrupted by the voices of the townspeople who had come to pray.The speed of the flashing lights had obviously slowed down.
The time when the light was off was longer than the time when it was on.
[Seirei-sama, do you mean to not appear here anymore—-]
[Please pardon if we have committed any crime.we will do anything.]
The people of the town all lay down.
In the tense atmosphere, Hiroto and others looked around the inside of the church.
The time it was not shining has increased longer again.
It shines brightly then goes out.spirit light didn’t blink for a while.
Forgetting the time,it blinked and went out again.
[Seirei-samaa…..!!]
Sorrowful voice leaks out.
The Spirit’s light intensifies a bit and then goes out in a flash.
[Seirei-samaa!!]
The townspeople’s voices took on an even sadder tone.
As if responding to their pleading, spirit light feebly brightens again.
[Please don’t go away, Spirit.]
[Please, let there be light in Solum…]
Immediately after that, a ball of light shone, then the church turned dark even though it’s daytime.
A Commotion raised up.
The ball of light the size of a tennis ball on the elevation has disappeared. The area where the Spirit Light had been was now a black void.
[Seirei-samaaaaaaaa!]
Sorrowfull voices raised out.
[Please, please, please forgive me!]
[Please Let me see you again!]
[Seirei-samaa, seirei-samaaaa!]
The townspeople rub their foreheads and scream desperately. However, the spirit light does not return. The ball of light has completely disappeared.
The priest turned pale.Calavera was also trembling.
[Seirei-sama isn’t coming anymore!]
[It’s the curse of seirei-sama!]
Priest desperately shouted out for Frantic voice to calm down.
He’s just resting for a while! He’ll be back soon!!.
But no one paid attention to the priest shouting.The church had turned into a place of lament and shouting.Dozens of townspeople ran out of the solum’s church while screaming and despairing.
Each and everyone started lamenting out “seirei-sama isn’t here anymore”.The voices of the women joined the cry. The women waiting to fetch water at the well were screaming.
One person held his head and screamed.
[Someone, please do something! The water has run out …!]
