Chapter 150 – Iona Observation Diary (5)

By the time Iona’s notoriety spreads throughout the kingdom of Nersia.

– An evil spirit descended.

The prelude to the Great War has risen.

The thought gave me goose bumps and I felt like someone was staring at me.

I looked around just in case, but all I could see was a large portrait of Iona.

“Was it an illusion….”

I think I was too absorbed in reading it.

But there is no time to breathe. Because I have to read all the rest before Iona comes.

Anyway, thanks to my excellent memory, I will always be able to recall the contents I saw once, so I increased the speed of turning the pages a little more.

Sarak.

-Evil spirits are overturning the entire continent of Eurelia.

In the face of violence, which is the power of God itself, I and Lord would be nothing more than children.

Many died fighting, or succumbed and became cultists.

What should we do

Should I continue hiding like this? Or in the middle of discussing whether to run away to another place.

An envoy from the Levantine Empire has arrived.

– The Union of Humanity.

No race or past grudges matter. An alliance solely to defeat the evil spirits.

It seems that the kingdom of Nersia has already entered into an alliance.

We decided to go in too.

From now on, human blood can only be drunk by mutual agreement, but… Still, there is something about being able to walk under the sun again.

In the first place, the Francesca clan wasn’t as blood-crazed as the other places, so it wasn’t a huge disadvantage.

Of course, dealing with evil spirits is terrifying.

Fortunately, that part was said to be handled by a new hero.

All my clan has to do is take down the cultists so they don’t get in the way of our champions.

Any amount is possible.

As always. Rod’s judgment would be correct this time as well.

– I met my sister Ayla in a very unexpected place.

Prince of the Levantine Empire and King of Nersia. And Lord Francesca.

While the party was in full swing, the three of them gathered together to celebrate the joining of the alliance and discuss the future.

Isn’t the crown prince of Nersia suddenly introducing Ayla as his attendant?

In the process of recapturing and restoring a castle that collapsed during the war, it is said that he found Ayla trapped underground.

Since I became so famous, the crown prince noticed that there was some kind of relationship between Ayla and me, so he protected and brought me right away.

Since Francesca Clan’s joining the alliance was on the rise, it must have been an ulterior motive to gain points from me, who was like the second-in-command of the clan….

How is it? The important thing is that I met Ayla again anyway.

I don’t know her biological parents, but I have no ill feelings towards Isla.

I don’t know if it’s a sense of camaraderie, relying on each other and enduring the bullying of their dog-like parents.

I hope I can get along with Ayla again like before.

The Crown Prince said that he would create a place where they could share their gatherings separately.

Thank you.

-Ayla didn’t tell me what happened in the past 10 years. However, some guesses were possible.

Isla… Because you look so much like me She must have been thinking of using it as my substitute.

If I hadn’t met Lord, I would have been no different from Ayla.

She invited Ayla to live with her now, but she refused, saying she wanted to repay the crown prince for her kindness and that she would stay as her attendant for a little longer.

Do you like the crown prince?

I don’t think it will end well. No matter how much my brother is, there will be no royal family who will marry a woman who has lived as someone else’s plaything for 10 years.

Of course, Ayla knows this better than I do.

I just need to smile and support Ayla’s choice.

– After joining the alliance. They began to clash with the forces of evil spirits in earnest.

Thanks to the support of the other allied powers in the rear, somehow they were able to block it without any problems.

Ayla took advantage of her position as the crown prince’s attendant and my younger sister, acting as a bridge between them.

At first, she was dark, like she would die soon, but as time went on, she gradually brightened her expression.

Thank god. Is it because he told me the story of Lord every time we met?

He always has a lot of fun stories because he is a person who is always jolly.

For some reason, when she met Ayla, the crown prince kept interfering….

Well, it must be for the solidarity of the alliance.

-As the war intensifies, the front line is gradually being pushed back.

Even if she was worried about it, she asked if it would be okay for her to run away to the Francesca clan.

But she couldn’t answer right away. Because the owner of the clan was Lord, not me.

Of course, when I asked, Rod readily agreed.

She told Ayla how she could enter the abandoned castle, the stronghold of Clan Francesca.

It was the first time Ayla had smiled so brightly since their reunion.

It’s safe no matter what happens with this.

-Cultists are not enough, so now even monsters are coming.

I didn’t believe in the good god even if I died, so I thought I would lay down so easily against the evil god.

Arrogant bastards.

By the way, since there is not a day without blood on the body, instincts run amok from time to time.

I’ve been holding on somehow until now… I’m worried that I might bite my ally’s nape.

If that happens, the position of the vampires who joined the alliance will be narrowed. Of course, it would be a nuisance to Rod as well.

I felt sorry for her distress and Ayla offered to share her own blood.

As long as there is a mutual agreement, you can directly vamp as before.

Ayla’s blood was sweet.

– Something went wrong.

The blood that always moved according to will is choking. Even mana is hard to conjure magic.

All blood magic and normal magic are blocked.

Is it because you’ve been working too hard these days? Or maybe it’s because I’ve been directly vampiric for the first time in a long time yesterday.

I stopped by the headquarters to say that I will take a day off today.

… Then she overhears the unbelievable news.

Has the kingdom of Nersia been captured by an unknown cardinal-level cult?

All the leaders died and only the servants succeeded in escaping?

The inside of her hair turned white.

The headquarters said they would take a day off, but they couldn’t stay at the front any longer.

We have to go to the castle where the clan is located.

In case of this, you did a really good job of telling Ayla how to get through her barrier.

She says she only killed royalty and nobles, so Ayla, a servant, will be fine.

She will definitely be waiting for me in the ruined castle along with other clan members.

-It’s too late.

The scent of blood that wafted out as soon as it passed through the barrier made my nose crooked.

It wasn’t the smell of human or monster blood.

Darker and better aged… Okay. I sensed that it was the smell of vampire blood.

I grabbed her trembling hand and headed towards the throne room where Rod was supposed to be.

In the middle of the hallway, burn marks in the shape of a person, and large piles of ashes.

Instead of rotting and returning to the earth, the vampire’s corpse turns into ashes and returns to dust.

The reason why I can’t see the other clan members….

No, no.

I shake my head, but the ominous imagination doesn’t stop.

I ran like crazy, as if I was being chased by something.

The moment I open the door to the audience room I arrived at.

Cultists filled the audience room. And I saw Ayla standing between them.

I saw Ayla sticking her hand into Rod’s heart.

-Curse me in the past.

The day I became a vampire If only I had asked Rod to save Ayla.

When I’m out and about building a reputation. If you investigate a little deeper and find Ayla first.

If only I could control the charm so perfectly that the crown prince would not like me.

If I hadn’t told Ayla how to get past her barrier.

If only I hadn’t sucked Ayla’s blood and had arrived earlier in her normal condition.

I… If only I had noticed Ayla’s jealousy a little sooner.

If so, would something have changed?

I do not know.

What is certain is that the still-breathless Rod saved the helpless me with the last of his strength.

And that it was not my fault and that he died after comforting me.

Only that was certain.

The corpse of Lord, who had not lost his smile until the last moment, burned and turned to ashes in an instant.

No matter how much I held the ashes blown by the wind in my hand, it was vainly slipped out through the cracks of my fingers.

However, there was something that remained undissolved.

It was the jewel necklace that Rod always wore because of its pretty color.

Did you say that what was originally a transparent crystal was dyed dark red with Lord’s blood?

He ruminated on the legacy of the one remaining rod around his neck.

Now I am Francesca.

I am only Francesca.

“No what… ?”

Suddenly, there is so much information coming in that my head is spinning.

I knew that Iona’s clan was annihilated by the cultists.

But it wasn’t because of the war, but because of her brother’s betrayal?

Even the sister’s name is Ayla? Jealousy in the circumstances… So, I guess I became a narrow-minded believer in usurpation.

I remember that there was a name of Ayla among the high-ranking believers of narrow-minded usurpation.

Cardinal. Ayla staring.

In H&A, only the name was mentioned, but it was not a boss that actually appeared.

That’s why she was a person who didn’t care much….

A. Could it be the same person? How could a human from the past who was more than 300 years old still alive?

I’m not a long-lived species like Iona or Iris.

No matter how much she becomes a high-ranking priest of evil spirits, unless she is an apostle, she cannot escape the passage of time.

Right now, even in the Protestant Church, the pope changes every 100 years.

Even if he lives longer than others, it is said that it is only that much.

But… It bothers me so much that the name and denomination are the same.

Are you really a different person? If she is the same person, who Iona is looking for….

It’s been a while to continue the question and answer question after question.

Jerk jerk.

I was awakened by the sound of small footsteps outside the door.

Has Iona returned already? No, she’s been around for quite some time already. She was so focused on reading that she just didn’t notice.

My body moved at the same time my thoughts reached this point.

I returned the notebook I was holding to the same angle as the beginning and quickly looked around.

There is nowhere to hide. What do you mean, there’s only a desk and lab tools in that guy’s lab?

Fortunately, there is no way at all.

This desk. It’s unnecessarily large, so the empty space underneath seems wide.

There is no more time to hesitate. Using the sound of the doorknob as a signal, I quickly hid under the desk.

Clap-

Hehehehe~”

Not long after, Iona returned to the lab singing her song.

Rob’s ability blocks her presence, but if she’s as strong as Iona, she should be able to spot it.

Iona focused on her magic, thinking that if she felt even the slightest suspicious, she would be caught.

She is not smart enough to hide it blindly. She should operate with the feeling of assimilating with the surroundings as normal and natural as possible.

Did it work?

Fortunately for Iona, she doesn’t notice my presence and she sits in front of her desk.

“Whichchacha….”

But her euphoria did not last long.

It was because she had an intuition that something was wrong with the appearance of her skinny calf pushed in front of her eyes.

A student who secretly sneaks into the professor’s lab, peeps at the diary, hides under the desk and peeks at the calf?

This… Am I right?

I don’t think….

Jureuk.

A cold sweat ran down her spine.

I will turn