Chapter 649 – Trial and Return

000

In front of the lighted monitor, Kanon was quietly looking at the buttons.

Normally, I would have been watching the sequence of screens passing by quickly, chasing the material of a novel I was writing, and documenting their daily lives one by one.

After she provided information about Gaios to Cleon and his friends who had been visiting this place, she never operated the camera or checked the newly recorded video again.

What kind of change of heart did you have? If so, it would be better to say that there is.

“…Uh…”

What she can’t press with her hand raised is a button that disables all functions of her cameras.

When this button is pressed, Asteris and all cameras installed around it that are connected to this shelter will be disabled.

Then, it becomes a story that she can no longer see the outside world through the camera, so why is she putting her hand on a button like that?

‘If I press this, I have to go outside by force…’

Yeah, as Kanon went through things with Cleon and other people she had recently met, she was trying to grow herself, albeit a bit.

Giving up the cameras you need to spy on other people and going back to talking to real people.

For her weak-willed self to take a step forward, she thought that even a little bit of coercion like this would be necessary.

‘Let’s press… Press… Press, press… Press…!’

As she took a deep breath, tightening her trembling fingers… Such a situation that all she had to do was put her hand down a little.

She closed her eyes tightly as if she couldn’t bear to watch the button being pressed, and slowly lowered her index finger for tens of seconds – no, several minutes.

“Puhaa!”

Kanon, who had been holding his breath and repeating conflict after conflict, let out a huge breath and soon opened his eyes and removed his finger from the button.

‘Ugh… I’m sorry everyone… It’s impossible to go out like that right after all…’

I could have gained courage and let go of my fear of meeting people a little, but it was too much to change so easily and so quickly.

That’s right, I’ve been living in here for hundreds of years and haven’t even taken a step outside.

Her originally white skin turned even whiter, and she might burn to ashes on the spot if she gets hit by sunlight like a vampire.

After Cleon’s party left, he made up his mind to go outside until now.

He continued to ponder whether to press this button or not, suffering alone and finally giving up and sighing.

I repeat this, but the decision in my heart is not easily decided.

In the end, after spending the day like that, Kanon’s mental state was already in tatters, so he had no choice but to sigh.

‘Well, well… I said I’d come again next time… Well, if I ask you to press it instead, I might be able to go outside…’

While putting off the problem again like that, Kanon brooded over his weakness that he couldn’t do anything with his determination alone.

“Lights off.”

When she says so, a ‘beep’ sounds in response to her voice, and the lights in the shelter go out, leaving some of them behind.

You may not be able to give up the fact that you don’t have to get up and walk around to turn the lights on and off one by one.

‘If I go outside, can’t I somehow take this light with me?’

Slowly, sluggishly, Kanon walked over to the futon he didn’t know when he laid it out and lay down.

When she quietly and slowly begins to relax her body, in the rush of drowsiness, a picture of herself imagining her life after leaving the shelter is drawn in her head.

First, she goes to the Dark Dragon Company and reveals that she is the person responsible for the Great Sensei Kanon.

Then, can you save your house from the Dark Dragon Company? Because it is also necessary to write a work.

If you need money, you can use the money you have saved so far.

Then, let’s build a mansion that is wider and bigger than the shelter we live in now, and hire someone to do all the housework instead of a robot.

And he, while concentrating only on his work, would take a walk around Asteris from time to time.

A bit of a celebrity-like life, waving, signing autographs, or shaking hands with fans who recognize them on the road.

‘Yeah… Not bad. When I think of a bright future, I suddenly get motivated…!’

After all, goals are important.

If you think so, the sleep that has been flooded with your heart pounding with anticipation for the possible future will recede.

“Sureuk,” He said, raising his lying body once more.

The light is still off, but the monitor’s light is still on, and although it’s a little dark underneath, there’s enough light to see the button, so you can see the ‘camera discard button’ that shines without difficulty.

Once again, loitering, slowly walking back to the button, placing a finger on it.

“Sup…”

I took a deep breath and-

“Paha…”

Exhale.

If you repeat wet-ha-ha and take a few deep breaths, what you picture in your head is a golden celebrity life.

A life where you can become a popular person and be asked whether or not by everyone, while living your life as you wish!

It seems that someone is chasing you, but if it’s your own money, you can build an invincible fortress-like mansion as you like and hire knights there to protect yourself.

Truly, living like an aristocrat.

“Goodbye, lonely life in the corner of the room… And, welcome! My new aristocrat-“

“There is something I want to ask you.”

“Kankiyaaaaak!!!?”

Kanon let out a scream unimaginable from a human at the sudden, low, dreary voice that came from behind.

In the end, I couldn’t press the button and jumped up, but when I looked back, I saw something like black smoke wriggling in the dark shadows.

And, a pair of red lights floating in between looked like the creature’s ‘eyes’.

“Who, who are you!?”

Of course, it didn’t look like a ‘human’, but there was no difference that a voice came from it, so when Kanon asked that question, the fog answered.

“You don’t need to know who I am. The question will be mine, elf.”

“Hee…”

Kanon shrank while letting out a screaming voice in an overbearing attitude.

“I heard that you have the technology to search all around this Asteris. There is something I want to find. Cooperate with me.”

“Uh, why did that… More than that, how did you get in…!”

“The question is, I said I do, Elf. There is no third.”

“Ugh…”

From the attitude of the fog, Kanon, who could sense that it was absolutely not empty talk or bravado, finally stopped talking and closed his mouth before nodding his head.

“What I’m looking for… Is a vampire with black hair and red eyes. He is in his early teens…”

“Huh, a vampire…?”

At the voice that came out of the fog, Kanon stood up while muttering that.

Why are you suddenly a vampire? How are you supposed to find such a fantasy species?

‘Huh… Come to think of it, I think I heard in a book I read a while ago that vampires can change their form into fog and move around… Then this fog is also a vampire…?’

In other words, this fog told him to find out if there were any people of his own kind among the images of Asteris taken through the camera.

‘Ugh, I swore I’d never peek into other people’s lives with a camera.’

Even though she thought that, she didn’t have enough courage to disobey the fog’s command.

She said that she wouldn’t let her go, but she must have the power to kill herself at once.

‘Wait… Speaking of vampires… Lately, even around Mr. Cleon…’

Anyway, moving her hand, she starts to record her camera.

Since she was checking the daily life of Cleon, who was tentatively chosen as the main character for the next film, she will remain as a video if it is a record of the people she recently met.

It was a black-haired, red-eyed woman talking with Cleon and a white-haired woman in an old tavern.

Certainly, her fangs sticking out seemed to leave no doubt that she was a vampire.

“I, there… I found it… The only vampire who recently appeared in Asteris… Is this person.”

While saying that, when Kanon reported to her mist, the mist quietly watched the video and then spoke.

“Are you kidding me?”

“Yes!?”

To the voice of the fog filled with anger to the point of not knowing why, when Kanon spoke in a panic from the bottom of his heart, the fog spoke.

“You said you were in your early teens. But no matter where you look at this, isn’t this in the mid-to-late 20s!”

“Even if you say that…”

Even if you keep looking through her records, you won’t find any other vampires besides her.

When Kanan looked at her fog with her face of regret, her fog didn’t say anything for a while, then came out on her video and just looked at her in motion.

There was no sound coming out, but the way she tripped on her cloak and fell down, and the way she talked to Cleon and Illenu while her tears welled up.

Her behavior was not that of a vampire no matter how you looked at it, but looking at her like that, she wondered if her own long life was finally over, right in front of Kanon, who was trying to put her thoughts together.

Her haze was a quiet muttering.

“Um, clumsy… Really, is she…?”

When Kanon trembled in front of him muttering in a half-doubtful voice.

Eventually, as if it couldn’t be helped, the fog slowly drifted through the air and moved toward the exit.

“Hey, wait a minute! What was it!?”

In the end, Kanon raised his voice as much as possible and said that, as if he couldn’t stand it, and the moving fog suddenly stopped, and then he turned around and looked at Kanon.

“Third.”

“Swimming? Ah.”

Was it maintained even after the business was over!

If you think the same thing, the fog slowly changes its shape, and transforms your body into a mist with the silhouette of a muscular man who is as tall as 3m tall, like a giant.

And, looking down at her with her overbearing attitude, he said:

“I warned you. And you broke it Then, even if I die from now on, there will be no disagreement.”

“That, like that…!”

The black mist coalesced and transformed into a giant human fist, and soon it fired a powerful punch straight ahead.

Bang! And thinking that he heard a very heavy sound, Kanon naturally collapsed on the spot without saying anything.

To be precise- the fist that he swung didn’t reach Kanon and hit the ground right in front of her.

When Kanan’s body, which was really mistaken for being struck by her fist, hit the ground, the black mist that transformed her own body returned to its original form.

“Hmph… It’s not even worth killing. Well, let’s say you earned the price of your life in return for helping me.”

Leaving Kanon, who had already passed out and showed no reaction, the mist uttered those words and disappeared toward her exit.

‘Also…’

However, she was up.

However, her heart was still crying as if it had completely collapsed from fear.

‘I’m scared outside! Home is the best!’

001

‘Shall we go out soon?’

Cleon got up from the bed in his room as he folded the book he was reading to make a crackling sound.

When I organized what happened today in my head, time passed quickly, but there was still a lot of work to be done.

When Cleon tries to leave the room, Galatea and Caliburn move and fly by themselves as if to remind them not to forget, and get caught on Cleon’s waist.

It was a thankful thing to hang on both sides so that the center of gravity does not lean to one side.

As the sun passed over the horizon and the sky began to darken, Cleon approached the front door in silence and sat down and put on his shoes.

“What? Where are you going?”

Then, Lila asks Cleon from the living room side with only her face sticking out.

“Huh. It’s almost dinner time, so I’m going to meet Amelia and Sasha. Bourbon as a bonus.”

The two of them were entrusted with escorting Bourbon, and now they will be at Daza’s forge.

Quon is in the middle of preparing dinner in the kitchen, so she will be out by now and will be ready for dinner when she comes back.

“Huh. Shall I go with you too?”

“Are you okay. I’ll be back soon.”

While politely refusing Layla’s offer, Cleon got up from the front door and tried to open the door. When he felt the presence in front of the door, his body stopped for a moment and his breathing tightened.

“What’s the matter?”

“No… I think there’s someone in front of the door.”

When Cleon answered Layla’s question, Layla’s expression became serious for a moment, and she came behind Cleon, concentrating her magical energy on her fingertips as if preparing for the unexpected situation. It was

“How many?”

“Two. I don’t feel any hostility.”

“But be careful.”

After the conversation between the two people, whose hands and feet fit together, Cleon also took out the magic sword from his waist and held the doorknob with his other hand.

Take a deep breath for a while, and open the door while matching the timing with Lila-

Drooling! In a situation where it wouldn’t be strange if the door moved with great force while making a sound, and swords and magic were pouring right in front of my eyes.

Cleon sees.

In front of him, with a girl from the East (with horns on her head) with an urgent expression on her face.

An unscrupulous, cat girl wearing only one coat and nothing underneath.

“Wait, you-“

And when Cleon met her eyes with the horned girl who had come looking for him, he remembered who she was.

She first went to visit her shrine and was about to return, but she tried to take away the ingredients for the medicine she bought.

She was, after all, the girl with whom he and her Gears were made.

And, as if Aisha recognizes herself as well, she opens her eyes wide and opens her eyes to say something before—

“Hey, hey… Hyung…”

“…Brother?”

Hearing the voice of the cat girl (half-naked) calling her name, Cleon looked at her face with a strange expression.

She thought that maybe she was someone she had met before, but she had no memory of it at all.

But the title ‘Brother’ is definitely…

Cleon looks at the girl once more, thinking that he hasn’t seen Schrödinger recently.

It’s a face I don’t know…

“Cleon, aren’t you an enemy?”

“Ah. Not the enemy but-“

When Cleon said that and moved to the side, Layla could see the two of them.

“Noble man… And what is that?”

“Could it be that Hyung and Sister Laila don’t recognize who I am…”

Schrödinger tried to point a finger at the two people who didn’t recognize him as if he was a little resentful of them-

With a beeping sound, he fell to the ground.

“Hey, hey!?”

When her Cleon catches her as she falls and tries to wake her up, Aisha, startled by her fall, calls her name.

“Schrödinger!”

“Schrödinger!?”

Cleon, of course, was surprised.

And-

“Wait… If you pass out at the front door, you won’t be able to go outside…”

As if the conversation between the three is going well, when Layla makes a dull expression, you can see the faces of those who come out from each place to check the noisy entrance.

And what they see-

It was Cleon holding a half-naked cat girl in his arms.

“Sleep…”

Right before Cleon explains the situation.

Instantly, the energy of jealousy stronger than anywhere else on the continent was sensed, and the space was swept away.