Chapter 149 – Iona Observation Diary (4)

Kindly, Iona left the lights on, so she could take in the scenery of the lab at a glance.

Experimental tools you don’t know what they are. Large desk. A pile of books stacked on top of it.

Finally, a portrait of Iona flaunting her presence in the center of the wall.

… Oh my gosh.

She hung a picture of herself in a big way.

It was as if an auditory hallucination of ‘Iona appeared!’ Was heard in the portrait.

“Huh.”

It’s a bit absurd, but the lab itself was pretty well organized.

But since I never know when Iona will return, she won’t be able to stay long. She has to do her business quickly and leave.

For that reason, I headed towards the desk first.

After all, no matter how much you look at an experiment tool, you won’t be able to know anything.

To put it bluntly, to the extent that a bloody smell emanates from the bubbling dark red liquid?

Even if it’s not that, it’s like a wizard’s instinct to write down important information. Something will come out later.

“Let’s see….”

The first thing that catches my eye is a book that is open as if I was about to read it, and a note scattered beside it.

First of all, I read the contents of the book.

‘A genius wizard does not bend his knee… !

Pink Lotus squatted down, spreading his legs in an M shape.

It was a really natural and dignified figure.’

“Eh.”

Didn’t you pick up that self-proclaimed genius wizard borrowed from the library the other day?

I’ve been wanting to read it for a while, but it’s just a really ordinary nonsense.

No. Is it an extraordinary obscene story?

Anyway, I don’t feel like there’s a huge secret hidden or anything like that at all.

Well, it might be hidden like a password that you need to know how to decipher, but….

If you think about it, there will be no end. I’ll see if I can get another copy from the bookstore when I’m out this weekend.

Seeing the publisher’s logo on the cover, it seems like it’s not a one-of-a-kind book, but a book made and sold in bulk.

I nodded inwardly, returned to the original page, and reached for the notebook next to me.

The feel of soft and durable high-quality leather. Even if it is enchanted with some kind of magic, I can feel the strange flow of magical power.

Preservation magic if it’s a usable enchantment for notes?

It is a relatively common magic, but the basic price of permanent enchantment itself is considerable.

This notebook alone will probably be enough to buy all the piles of books piled up around you.

When I thought about it, my mind flashed.

Using an item of this size means that Iona cherishes it that much.

A student enters the professor’s lab and steals the professor’s cherished notes?

It’s a stalker at best, but not a spy at worst… ?

I hesitated for a moment thinking if this was right, but in fact it was too late.

If you enter the laboratory, you will be rejected.

She opened the notebook, struggling to suppress her beating heart at the thought that she was doing something bad.

Cheer up.

And the moment I read the contents. She couldn’t think of anything else.

***

-Rod gave me this note as a gift. And he commanded me to keep a diary every day, even for a short time.

He jokingly said it was homework, but the meaning behind it was easy to understand.

It means to sort out the past and live looking to the future. Tomorrow too. The day after tomorrow. The next day too. All the way.

That must be why this note is thicker than it looks.

– I sucked blood for the first time. At first, I felt reluctance, but once I put it in my mouth, it couldn’t be that sweet.

But is that so? It was a little too much.

Fortunately, the woman she kidnapped did not die thanks to her being stopped by Rod.

After erasing her memories and sending her back, Rod spoke to me with her serious face.

They say that a vampire should rule over blood, not be ruled by blood.

But it seems to me that he just doesn’t want to kill the woman from a moment ago.

Just like he shared his blood with me, who had only had a few conversations and didn’t have to become a member of his circle.

Even the same woman looks beautiful, it seems that the heart is also beautiful.

-When I looked in the mirror for the first time in a long time, my face was quite different from what I remembered. On the good side too.

Lord said that his body is gradually turning into a vampire, and he tugged at my cheek.

When I complained about not treating him like a child, he replied that we are now a family with the same blood, and that I am nothing more than Lord’s child.

A person who is normally playful enough to look like an idiot only makes a serious face at times like this.

It was a bit muddy.

Because my family was just pigs who tried to sell their children expensively.

I was lucky enough to be picked up by Lord, but my brother… What happened to Ayla?

I can’t sleep because I’m worried.

-Finally, we arrived at the ruined castle where the clan is located.

Lord Francesca.

A name so famous that even I, a mere country girl, knew it.

I was worried that the Francesca Clan would be scary as well… It was all useless worry.

All of the clan members warmly welcomed me, a newcomer, saying that since the Lord’s blood flowed, it could be said that they were related.

I felt like I was going to cry at the treatment I received for the first time.

I found out later that everyone had a story like me and was indebted to Lord.

Maybe that’s why Lord also accepted people like us into his circle….

Anyway, if a new member comes in someday, I will do the same.

– For the first time I met a vampire from another clan.

From what I’ve heard, it seems that the other clans are quite strict, unlike the Francesca clan.

The feeling that a thoroughly hierarchical society is formed with the road as the pinnacle.

However, it is said that if you have the power, you can overturn the rankings.

Lord, the owner of the blood, is an exception.

Rod can issue a compulsory order to his followers, so no matter how strong he is, he is an opponent that cannot be matched?

Of course, that doesn’t matter to me. None of us intend to rebel against Lord.

“…….”

After that, the story of Iona, the mite vampire, continued for a while.

Anyway, this note. I can see it when I open it It is a notebook whose number of pages has been greatly increased by space distortion magic.

It’s an expensive magic tool even now, as the overall level of magic has risen through the War of the Gods.

To the extent that they would give me a magic tool of this size as a gift before the war….

Did the woman named Rod feel something from Iona? Or, just like Iona said, did she mean to live her life with strength from now on?

“It doesn’t matter either way.”

The story of Iona’s time as a human is not recorded, so I don’t know exactly… It was definitely a pretty gloomy past.

The love of her other clan members and the rude pranks that Rod occasionally shows must have been a great help to Iona.

In fact, Iona, who had just become a vampire, was getting a little brighter as she was delighted and moved by every little thing she did.

A story that has never appeared in H&A. Now, the story that no one knows except myself is recorded in detail in the notebook.

Now I can understand Iona, who was blindly obsessed with revenge.

In the first place, the Francesca clan has a different feeling from the ordinary vampire clan… It must have been a family-like place in a good way.

Since those people were slaughtered, the resentment is pierced to the bone, and even if you want to forget it, you will not be able to forget it.

After sighing with a complicated feeling, she continued reading the note.

In the note, Iona learns magic, learns to fight, learns to handle blood.

That’s how she gradually perfected herself as a vampire.

-I won Dalian again today. Now, aside from Lord, it seems that there is no one stronger than me in the clan.

There’s also the fact that she doesn’t like other clan members fighting… Maybe it’s just my talent.

In just 10 years, she’s all catching up.

Of course, it’s still a faint ability like a firefly compared to Lord.

When she-she wasn’t going to be beaten everywhere, she allowed Rod to roam freely.

During that time, she was only stuck in the castle for training, so she was a bit frustrated. I’m going to pack my things today and start traveling and playing here and there tomorrow.

-The abandoned castle where the clan was located had a barrier that blocked the sunlight with the power of the rod, and I realized how great it was.

Avoiding sunlight and moving only at night was quite tricky.

… I missed the warmth of the sun a little.

– It’s been 10 years since I came out to the outside world, but nothing has changed.

When I went to live with my real parents who had been bothering me so much, they said that both of them had long since died.

Did some noble who originally planned to buy me kill them all out of anger?

It’s ugly.

Just my brother. When I heard that Ayla was missing, I felt a little depressed.

Did the aristocrat take him? I do not know. I wish it wasn’t….

Just in case, I investigated all the suspicious nobles, but I couldn’t find any trace of Ayla.

-There were some guys who started a fight in the middle, so I gave it to them, but this level would be fine.

– For some reason, there were guys who came to catch me, so I hit it again. It’s okay… Am I right?

From here, Iona wandered around for a while, and the contents of the mess were written.

Is this why he was famous even before the War of the Gods?

Iona said that she only wielded power at a reasonable level, but in the eyes of others, she was just a crazy vampire.

That would be the case, no matter how much he got into a fight first, he fanned a large mercenary like a rat.

Or having knights drive their heads in front of people.

The two above became a problem, and when the lord issued a subjugation order, he destroyed the lord’s castle in half and ran away.

Having done all sorts of crazy things, notoriety is bound to build up quickly.

Even at the time, Iona had avoided murder as much as possible, and her survivors spread rumors and notoriety.

I knew that Iona made a name for herself when she was young, but it felt like this….

Anyway, around the time Iona’s notoriety spread throughout the now-destroyed kingdom of Nersia.

– An evil spirit descended.

The prelude to the Great War has risen.