Reincarnated Vampire Princess and Former Hero, Trample Over Mankind - CH 13

Vampire Princess and Meet Up

Translated by AmaLynne

The village burns before my eyes.

My hometown, peaceful until this morning, vanished in the blink of an eye.

This morning, my friends and I discussed our plans for tonight.

My parents who smiled and said,『See you tonight』.

All those happy moments disappeared in a blink of an eye.

『Lean, you should run away with your mom anyway. I’ll catch up with you soon!』

『……Sorry, Lean.』

『I’m here to buy you time to escape.』

『Please, Lean. Let me protect my daughter.』

No matter how much I try to reach out, I can’t reach my dad, my mom, or my friends.

No, wait, don’t leave me.

I…I finally found a place, a place where I belong…!

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「…Ha! Ah…? Hah…hah…」

A crude, improvised, ramshackle house on the site of a former vampire village.

I am currently sleeping there and jumped out of my skin.

…No good, it’s this dream again.

It has been a week today since the vampire village was destroyed by humans.

I’ve already almost finished burying the bodies of my friends, and now I’m spending my day training.

And in the morning, I sleep and…This vicious cycle: I have this nightmare, jump up, can’t sleep well, do some exercise to help me sleep, get tired again, sleep, and jump up again with another nightmare.

This has been going on for a week.

Thanks to this, I have dark circles under my eyes even though I am only 5 years old. No, I’m over 20 if you include the age of my previous life.

Maybe it’s because this is the place where the incident took place. I can’t help but remember the happy times when I was here.

…But there is, of course, a reason why I still don’t leave this place.

The words of Isuzu-sama, who has been interfering with my consciousness.

『When you regain consciousness, please wait for a few days until the Demon King’s army arrives to pick you up.』

Yes, I have been waiting for the demon army to come for me for a long time.

Isuzu-sama arranged for me to stay with the Demon King’s army.

I heard that she also sent word to the『Demon King』. She really is a good Goddess, isn’t she?

She is very different from the goddess Misery, who is worshipped by humans. I’ve never met her, but it’s impossible to have a good image of such a goddess who mass-produces human garbage.

So, I’ve been waiting all week…

「……Isn’t it too late?」

Yeah, I hate to put it this way, but it’s late.

I know I’m not supposed to say this from the standpoint of being picked up, but it’s late.

When people say『a few days』, don’t you usually think of three or four days? Am I wrong?

No, I understand that you took a longer period to give me time to bury my people, Isuzu-sama.

But a week is honestly too long. I’m going to have insomnia if you don’t.

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Anyway, I washed my face to shake off the worst wake-up call and went outside for my usual routine.

…By routine, I mean, well, visiting the cemetery.

I made the graves of over 200 friends, one by one, by myself.

I don’t know how to make graves in this world, so it was like Japan in a previous life.

I built a grave for dad and mom where our house used to stand, but I don’t have dad body under there.

I checked many times after the incident, but I still couldn’t find dad body.

Maybe that human is right and he is exposed to the land of humans by now.

…When I think of that, I almost cry again with frustration and anger.

「…No, don’t cry.」

Yes, turn all these feelings into hatred of mankind.

That’s the power of my special occupational『Avenger』.

『Avenger』increases the advantage over the target in proportion to its feelings of hatred toward the object of revenge.

「……Okay, I’m done with all the cemetery visits. I’m heading for the woods.」

This is also my routine. I go into the forest and just train.

This is how I raise my status and get a body that doesn’t depend on my level.

Haha, just you wait and see, humans.

I’ll kill you all with lots of effort.

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It has been 8 hours since I entered the forest.

I returned to the village after working out a lot, taking breaks from time to time.

During the past week, although my level has remained the same, my status has gradually increased.

Still, it’s a tiny amount compared to the benefit from the level up, but it’s better than not doing it.

At any rate, even if I could only raise my Lv by『1』in a week, if I continued for a year, I would gain『52』, which is the same as my『5』level up now. There is no reason not to do it.

「…I should sleep.」

Once I have visited the grave and finished my training, there is nothing more for me to do.

I’m sure I’ll have that nightmare again…and, half-convinced, I opened the door of the house in a gloomy state of mind.

「Oh, finally? Welcome home.」

「――――――!?」

I jumped back at super speed.

…There was a guest ahead of me in the ribbed house.

I couldn’t see clearly for a moment, but the voice I heard belonged to a woman. But in this world where the concept of magic is well established, it would be foolish to let one’s guard down just because she is a woman… No, I’m a woman too. A girl, if you want.

While I was on maximum alert, a beautiful woman came out of the house in a relaxed manner.

A woman who could be described as a teenager or even a woman in her thirties.

She even looks cute with her long blonde hair and a small tiara.

Also, what’s with those breasts? They’re as big as my mom’s. What is that, in a watermelon outfit?

「…I don’t know why, I feel like I’ve been sexually harassed without even being there.」

…I mean, what am I critiquing!

What if they are enemies…?

Then I finally noticed its distinctive ears.

They were much longer and more pointed than human ears. A race with that trait is well known in my previous world, and again in this world, as it is in its image―――

「…Elf?」

「Yes, that’s right. You Lean Bloodlord of the vampire tribe, correct?」

「Yes, but…」

No, what am I answering honestly?

Speaking of elves, aren’t they the number one ranked (in my opinion and prejudice) non-human race in the harem of human cheat male protagonists in my previous life!

If you were a pawn of the humans…

「Nice to meet you, Lean-sama. My name is Tiana Forrester, a High Elf, and I am the third in the ranking of the Demon King Army’s top brass, the『Forest General』. I am here by order of the Demon King.」

………………………

……Oh, you are the one who picked me up?