Chapter 534 – Uninvited Guests and Guests

000

The problem with the sword was also resolved, and he knew who Gonzalez’s father was.

Well, it wasn’t really that big a deal about who Gonzalez’s father was, but it seemed to come as a surprise to Amelia and Sasha at least.

Slimes are treated as both monsters and beasts, but slimes that evolve by absorbing and digesting a lot of things usually increase their risk exponentially.

In particular, it is said that a slime that absorbs prey full of mana over tens or hundreds of years will soon reach the stage called ‘king’.

Of course, it is very difficult for a slime, which is said to be the weakest monster in the basics, to evolve to that state, and adventurers are dispatched as soon as a slime occurs.

The environment in which a slime that becomes stronger in that way can be born is an extremely limited laboratory or laboratory.

Even in such places, most of them thoroughly managed the slime.

Then, if you ask if slimes have reproductive ability, the answer would be half right and half wrong.

Slime is voiceless. I.E. No gender

It is a species called slime that divides as if creating clones of itself when the area of ​​the body increases to a certain extent, rather than being called an individual by meeting a male and female like other living things.

So, to be precise, Gonzalez was born from an egg injected with the slime’s cells.

The only person capable of such a thing would be Laplace, the man who bred Gryphon.

Now that Laplace is dead, no one knows what will happen to his research facility his, but the fact that he breeds even such dangerous creatures has not changed.

Will the slime that lost its manager starve to death, or will it absorb everything around it and grow into an untouchable monster?

If it’s the latter, it’s a pity for another regressor in the same place – Darwin.

It was also something that could not be easily tackled because I did not even know where they were now.

In any case, all that remains is for Layla to finish analyzing the Elixir of Degeneration in order to awaken Lilim.

As if to get rid of the fatigue accumulated from the events of the day, Cleon was sitting in his room her, holding a piece of wood in his hand and moving his carving knife.

“…”

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t upset.

I’m sorry for Sofia, who answered about Esca, but she couldn’t clear her mind that quickly either.

That’s why, Cleon wanted to move his hand his even a little to clear things up in his mind.

While sculpting like this, he can at least organize his thoughts of her in his head.

Clap, clap, clap, and only the sound of wood being chipped is heard in the room.

As this quiet time, undisturbed by anyone, passed, Cleon was chipping away at his memory and heart his.

At that time.

Smart. A knock sounded, breaking Cleon’s contemplation.

The time wasn’t too late yet, and there was no sign that anyone had returned, so Cleon put the piece he was carving on the desk, got up, went to the door, and opened it.

There, Ilenu, who had finished getting ready to go out, was looking at Cleon with his hand on his waist.

“Cleon. Do you have time right now? …No, speaking of now would be a bit of an understatement. Is it empty tonight?”

“… Ah. For now.”

Cleon nodded at Illenu’s words and looked at Illenu, and she looked at him with a slightly apologetic expression and spoke.

“Sorry I’m taking a break. I got a call from the store a while ago. I think Lionel has to leave the store for other things. If it’s okay, can you help me?”

“I…? I’m not good at cooking.”

When Cleon said that, Illenu shook her head.

“Yeah. I know, because Mr. Lionel said he wanted Cleon to help. Since we don’t have to serve the dishes, all we have to do is pour the wine into the cup and put it on the tray. Oh, of course, I get paid.”

“…I see. If it’s okay with that, maybe it’ll be okay for a change of scenery.”

In a situation where the mental fatigue was greater than the physical fatigue, it was rather a welcome for Cleon if he could do something he couldn’t normally do.

“Okay. Then I’ll follow you. The outfit is…”

“Thank you! The shop has uniforms, so if you’re about Lionel’s size, Cleon should be able to wear them too.”

Illenu bowed her head toward Cleon.

“I guess you liked it. That shop.”

“Eh? It’s not like that… Well, since it’s where I work now, I have to think of it as if it were my own shop. Besides, there’s no other place to work.”

While smiling at Illenu, who seemed unaware of himself, Cleon put only the cloak hanging on his wall over his shoulder her.

“Shall we go?”

“Yes.”

001

Upon arriving at the store, Cleon puts on Lionel’s uniform.

When he tried to put on the uniform, he was confused about where his laces were or how to tie them.

“I couldn’t believe it, because I didn’t know that women’s clothes would be worn before men’s in Eastern countries… “

While muttering like that, Cleon was immersed in a sad feeling.

In any case, when I put that uniform on and went to the counter, Illenu, who was already preparing for sales, looked at Cleon and gave a slightly surprised face.

“It suits you better than I thought. Is it because it’s worn by a big person like Lionel?”

“I don’t know… But if you say so, then so be it.”

Cleon’s answer made Illenu excited and puffed out his cheeks her.

“People complimented me at best, but I’m not interested.”

“Not really, but…”

Looking at Cleon, who shrugged his shoulders as if he was dissatisfied, Illenu sighed deeply, then turned to the table he was wiping and spoke to Cleon as if he was skipping work.

“Yes, yes. Okay, clean the cups piled up there first. The customers will start arriving in a little while.”

When Cleon turned toward it, he could see that several cups were piled up with water in them.

The cups, too small and cute to fit Lionel’s hand, were unique to this Asian country.

“Lionel is also a good dexterity person. These cups are likely to break if the power is not controlled properly.”

“Huh? Ah. Well, it’s been several decades. In the first few years, he broke several cups, so he said he didn’t know how many times.”

“Haha. I see.”

But if he breaks it, he will have to pay for it, Cleon thought the same and started to carefully scrub and wipe the cup.

In the meantime, Illenu wakes up when she hears a tinkling sound, noticing that a visitor has arrived.

And, if you open your mouth to tell me that it’s not yet business hours for the night-

“Sorry sir, it’s not our opening hours yet! Please wait a little longer…”

However, Illenu’s continued words stopped midway.

Seeing Illenu’s behavior, Cleon must have felt curious as well. When he put down the cup he was polishing and checked the appearance of the visitor, what he was standing there.

In a black cloak, pale skin. She had heavy eye makeup, but she was an aristocratic woman in her mid-twenties, somewhere far from the world.

And, her red eyes with her long black hair down.

No matter where you look at her, she doesn’t look like a normal human being.

Furthermore-

Only one part of her pale body her, glistening on her terrifyingly red lips her, was a ‘fang’ protruding from her mouth her.

She looked at Illenu with a very tired expression and tried to open her mouth her.

“Vampire!”

But as she cried out, when Ilenu tried to distance her from her,

“Eh?”

Her vampire her, who made her babbling noise, seemed to sense something hostile to her, and stretched out her arms as if to grab her-

Stepping on her own long cloak, she collapsed on the spot in front of her.

Quadang! Seeing the vampire fall so loudly that she could hear her voice her, Illenu and Cleon stopped as if they were frozen on the spot.

Considering that a heavy silence fell between the three of them.

“…Uh, uheheheeng…”

The vampire who had been pinning her face to the ground lifted her face up as she let out a cry.

There, he saw blood dripping from her beautiful, pointed nose.

“Ha, ha…? Heh, he’s a vampire, right…?’

Illenu raises his eyebrows as if he had never seen such a foolish vampire before asking Cleon.

“…Well…Well. There were characteristics, but what about.”

When Cleon also said that she was not sure, Illenu also cautiously approached her while breaking out in a cold sweat.

She said that if this was acting and that she was trying to fool them, she would be ready to fight back at any moment.

“Hey, you. Are you okay?”

“Oh, it’s not okay… It hurts so much…”

She rubbed her nose with both of her hands, and when she saw that her blood she had burst there, she wept again for her own sake.

Regardless of whether she is a vampire or not, Illenu, who has such a mature appearance and her brain, she seems to be going crazy at the sight of her, looks at her, Cleon, nods her head, and somehow raises her up . .

I couldn’t feel her murderous intent, hostility, or even malice her from her.

All I could feel was… ‘Extreme fatigue’ and ‘sickness’.

“…Ha, ha… I never thought the day would come when we would live and support vampires.”

“Oh, yes… Go, thank you…”

And she bowed her head again, stopping the blood flowing from her nose her again.

“… The wound doesn’t heal.”

Cleon looked at it, and she suddenly realized and opened her mouth.

Hearing her words of her, Illenu also opened her eyes wide and looked at her.

“Really… If you were originally a vampire, a wound like this would heal quickly… Or you wouldn’t bleed from your nose if you fell down.”

Illenu nodded at Cleon’s words her. If so, wouldn’t she be a vampire?

“That, that, that’s because I haven’t had a drop of blood in these days… I’m on the verge of starvation…”

“…”

But at her next words, Cleonion and Illennu also shut her mouth for a moment.

Illennu then took out her silver dagger, which she had hidden under her uniform of her, and brought it close to her.

“As expected, he was a vampire! How did he get in here? There must be a barrier in this capital too!”

“Uh, uh…? Is that so…? That, it just passed…”

She shook her head as if she didn’t know it, a vampire who trembled at the holy energy she felt from the silver dagger.

Illenu narrows her eyes and looks at Cleon without removing her dagger from her.

“What do you think about it?”

“…Well, not all vampires go crazy with vampiric urges. Why don’t you listen to the situation first? Where did you come from and why did you come here?”

She was able to say that because Cleon already knew such a vampire, but Illenu looked at the vampire with a little doubt after hearing Cleon’s words of her.

Then, she casts a spell on her own dagger, and the dagger floats up into the sky, aiming at the vampire’s forehead and being pinned in the air.

“If you do anything suspicious, this dagger will pierce your forehead in no time.”

“Hey!”

A vampire screaming in fear.

However, as if that had nothing to do with it, Illenu asked her a question.

“So? Who are you and where are you from?”

“I-I’m called ‘Pamela’… Excavation of ruins recently started near the place where I was originally buried… Should I say that I woke up because I was stimulated by it…”

“…Excavation?”

Cleon is silent for a moment at her words, then asks the question again.

“Is it near the wilderness and forest to the east from Asteris?”

“Yes, yes! There it is. In that forest, my family’s grave is…”

Cleon covered her forehead at those words and let out a sigh.

It was because she realized that it was herself and her excavation team that had awakened her.

“I’m sorry, the excavation team was probably excavating a nearby laboratory.”

And, when I told Pamela about it, she and Illenu tilted their heads along with her.

“What, is Cleon involved?”

“What… A little bit.”

After answering like that, Illenu said ‘Huh-yeah’ and then looked back at Pamela.

“Well. So. The vampire who woke up was chasing her blood her and came all the way to this place full of people. But he met us without even having time to get up and vampirize.”

As if he knew now, Illenu still remained vigilant.

However, while glancing at such Illenu, Pamela spoke.

“That, that’s not it… Everyone else in my family except me has already died, but I’m the only one who survived… And, feeling the energy of my own people in this city… I came to see if I could get help…”

“—Ha?”

At Pamela’s words, Illenu’s eyebrows wriggled as if he was dumbfounded, and Cleon burst out laughing.

“I think I came looking for you, Illenu.”

“You’re lying…? I’m not your kindred, but a dhampir. I’m a half-blood of a vampire and a human. My main job is to hunt you vampires.”

“So!?”

As if she didn’t understand Illenu’s answer, she jumped up from her seat and stood up.

But when it does happen, it hits her knee against her counter seat and bends her back forward in pain.

And then, she slams her forehead into her counter seat again, and she covers her forehead while making a ‘Oak’ voice.

Cleon and Illenu are also at a loss for words when they see a series of neat body jokes.

“…Anyway, I don’t think you’re a bad vampire. Illenu.”

“…Maybe it’s just a lack of motor nerves.”

At Cleon’s words, Illenu nodded and took a posture as if thinking about something.

But then.

Cuckoo, cuckoo.

Then, when something like a bird’s cry was heard, Cleon and Illenu turned their heads at the same time.

A clock placed inside the store announced that it was opening time.

“…Wait! I was chatting with this guy and it became business hours…!”

“Are you okay?”

“It’s not okay! I said I had a reservation…! That’s why I need Cleon’s help!”

Illenu thought that she had to finish cleaning the table she was wiping, but when she saw Pamela at a loss, she raised her voice and said, ‘Ah, really!’

Then, he takes her and drags her into her clerk’s room behind her counter her, and Cleon watches her for a moment, then picks up the dishcloth she had thrown away and takes it to her dishwasher her.

And then-

When he hears the sound of a jingle announcing the guest’s visit once more, he naturally greets them with ‘Welcome’ and turns around.

Then, standing there.

“Oh.”

“You’re really working.”

Herti, the head of the Dark Dragon Chamber, and Calia, her direct subordinate her, standing next to him.

And-

“Hey, are you doing well?”

He was the owner of the store, Lionel himself, who had left the store to himself and Illenu and said he had other business.

“Isn’t there something going on?”

“I have work. It’s a dinner party from now on. You know, dinner parties are work, too.”

Cleon sighed at his words and nodded his head.

In place of Illenu, Cleon walks out of the counter and leads the three to a table, and Calia nods at Cleon’s attire her.

Cleon feels strange because he feels like he is being judged for something.

On the other hand, when Lionel couldn’t find Ilenu, the original store clerk, he looked inside and asked a question.

“What about Illenu?”

“Wait… Bathroom.”

Even so, it couldn’t be said that he was responding to the vampire for a while, so Cleon said that and then-

I turned to the counter seat and looked at the silver dagger suspended in the air, then inhaled.

Miraculously, they didn’t seem to be visible when they came inside, but it’s only a matter of time at this rate.

While thinking, Cleon somehow covered it with his body.

“This, for now. Until Illenu returns, I will order.”

“Hmm? Ah. No. It’s okay. It’s not that urgent, and it’s not like you’re ordering food.”

Cleon stood in a cold sweat at Lionel’s answer.

“Cleon, you have a guest-“

And, as Illenu walked out from the inside while wiping the sweat from her forehead, her face distorted for a moment when she saw the face of Lionel who had come to visit her, but she soon bloomed.

“Well, the store manager was a reserved guest~”

“Well, that’s right. If you drink at their store, it’s free.”

If Lionel said that while raising the corner of her mouth her, Calia said she would pay for it, but Lionel stopped it and told her to put it in.

“…Illenu.”

“…Why.”

In the meantime, he pointed to Cleon, who had quietly called for Illenu, and the dagger he had pointed behind his back to her.

Then, Illenu made a face as if she was holding her breath, and quickly tried to dispel the magic on the dagger.

However-

“Ah, it won’t work…!”

“What…?”

“Mi-sorry. I must have made the magic a bit complicated…”

Cleon looked back at her with an expression as if he was mad at Illenu’s words her, and Illenu looked at him with her mouth shut for a moment, then-

“Lord, I’ll take your order.”

Then, as if running away, they approached the table.

Anyway, Cleon looked around as if he shouldn’t find out about the existence of this dagger.

Finding a clean black cloth, cover it over the dagger.

‘On the contrary, it stands out more…!’

However, Cleon realizes that such a thing is meaningless and puts on an expression of despair.

And Cleon and Illenu talk quietly, with only the eyes of the two of them.

‘Trouble can’t go unnoticed…’

‘Ah. Of course. Then there is only one way.’

‘ ‘I make them drink until all three of them are drunk, so they don’t notice it…!’ ‘

It was to burn the will while thinking the same thing.