Chapter 171 — Part 2

There was no sign of the other guests of the inn nearby, the only sign of their presence came from within the rooms. After waiting for His Highness and Charles to enter their room, I turned to face Selina and the others. By the way, Selina and the others’ room was the one next to mine.

「Now then, it would be bad to let His Highness’s consideration toward us go to waste. You four, are you tired? Diadora, you were obsessing over something in the strawberry dish, was there something that caught your interest?」

Of course, it goes without saying that the four women, even Dramina, who had been moving around under the sun, were not the least bit tired yet.

Diadora had disguised herself to look as much like a human as she could by tucking the thorns of her Black Roses inside her dress or within her hair, but realizing that she was now being watched, she shrugged her shoulders with a bit of embarrassment.

「Strawberries and roses are, in human terms, like relatives. That’s why I was thinking that there’s nothing a strawberry can do that a rose can’t do too」

So she felt a sense of rivalry toward the strawberries. But is there nothing a strawberry can do, that a rose can’t also do?

Thinking back to the strawberry dishes and the strawberry alcohol that we consumed just earlier, everyone except Diadora tied to imagine replacing all those strawberries with Black Roses.

Black Rose wine, or Black Rose jam, or using a Black Rose sauce in a stew, or in some kind of steamed dish… Hmmm.

Lynette, who strongly adores Diadora, furrowed her brows just a little as she asked Diadora a question.

「Diadora, tell me if I am not remembering correctly, but Black Roses have a multitude of effects, such as being severely toxic, and hallucinogenic, and an aphrodisiac, to name a few. I am not mistaken that you were thinking of creating a dish similar to those from earlier, but with those Black Roses?」

There was the taste and the high cost, and so on, to consider, but first and foremost, the thing I was curious about most was the effects of the Black Rose that Lynette had just mentioned.

Because it is so powerful, there are many strict regulations on using Black Roses to create products, and it would require professional qualifications.

It seems Diadora herself was stuck on that matter, as she let out a big sigh mixed with a lot of sadness.

「That’s true, but I guess those effects are the problem, huh. I’m already used to adjusting the effects of its perfume, but this is the first time I would try processing it into something else, and the effects might end up being stronger than I thought.

An aphrodisiac jam that makes you lose all reason after just one bite is only going to end up getting prohibited. It’s not the manufacturing process of the Black Rose, but the way to make the rose change a little and then bloom. It would be more fruitful to try harder that way」

「I’m glad you have more self awareness about the problematic points of the Black Rose than I thought, Diadora. But if you mess around with the Black Rose too badly, then it might lose what makes it special in the first place」

「For now, let’s cover that up using some creativity and some trial and error. It’s not like I have to produce results by tomorrow or the next day or something, so I’ll just take it easy. Well then, Dran, have a good night」

「I shall sleep on the floor. Originally, I should not be leaving Master Dran’s side for even a moment, but the same goes for Diadora and Selina and Dramina too. We should bear with it for tonight, and settle with just having the room next door」

「Yeah, good night, Diadora, Lynette」

If anything happens, they can always break through the room walls and infiltrate my room, or so Lynette, no, even the other three as well, were fully prepared to do if need be, and I felt a little bashful from knowing that’s just how much I am loved by them.

Selina was about to follow Diadora and Lynette into the room, but she cutely turned her head and called out to Dramina.

「I will go to sleep soon too, but what will you do, Dramina? Your day starts when the sun sets, after all」

As Selina said, when the sun sets, the atmosphere around Dramina is distinctly different. But it’s not as if her appearance changes.

It’s just that when the sun, whose rays of light seem to bless all things on this earth, sets beyond the horizon, her blue veins, which could be seen through her pale skin, shimmered with a light radiance, and her eyes filled with a vivid red color, flickering bewitchingly like fire in the light.

It might be strange to say that a vampire without a beating heart has vitality, but as an immortal being who welcomes the time of the moon and the night, Dramina was filled with vitality.

「I was thinking of walking around outside for a bit. Please don’t try to stop me because you think it’s dangerous for a woman to walk around alone or something like that.

The darkness of night is the same no matter where you are on earth, but when something is living within it, then the darkness contains a different component.

What lurks and breathes and brews in the darkness of this city, with this history of bloodshed, hatred, and discrimination? I want to go and feel that on my skin」

Fumu, so Dramina is thinking about this city in her own way. It’s easy to imagine what lurks in the dark side of this city, but I hope it’s nothing worse than what she can imagine.

According to His Highness, the influential power of the kingdom does not reach this area much, so we don’t know much about the anti-imperial activities of the natives here. In that way, we don’t know what could be hiding here.

「I see. The wind that blows through this city, and the moonlight that shines here, and the coiling darkness is your ally. I know that there is no need to worry about you, but be careful not to push yourself too hard」

「Yes, of course. Well then, Selina, I will return before the sun rises, but I will be going out for a bit now. Have sweet dreams」

Dramina smiled softly, and then gently hugged Selina, and then me.

「Yes, please take care. If you come across even a little bit of danger, please return right away」

「Yes, I’ll do exactly that, Selina. Definitely. Well, until tomorrow morning, farewell」

Dramina separated from me, who she had hugged last, and then she suddenly disappeared, like a shimmering heat haze on a summer day. That was the special ability that vampires possessed, to turn their bodies into a mist or haze to move around in.

Dramina’s presence moved to the rooftop of this inn, and then after I felt it quickly disappear again into the city where the third class subjects live, I turned my gaze toward Selina.

「Dramina, she left now」

「She probably has some things of her own to think about. She’s the only one out of all of us who has a history of sitting on the throne of a kingdom, after all」

Selina kept the door to the bedroom half open as she turned her body toward me, with a look full of sorrow on her face.

「If I think about what we knew before we came to the empire, and then the things we saw and heard after we got here, I’ve come to understand that the reason why this war is starting is because of factors both inside this country, and out. Do you think you’ll have to get involved in it too, Dran?」

「Those members of the Twelve Winged Generals may be included as well. I don’t want to have to move away from Bern Village. There is another suspicious case going on in the north too. Besides, I don’t like fighting either」

「Hmm, in the north, and in the west, and in the east too, huh? It’s truly unfortunate that the whole world just can’t be peaceful」

「I also just want to live peacefully together with Selina and everyone else, that would be the best. But things won’t go that way, so I’m troubled」

「That’s really true. But I think that we must not be negligent, and do our absolute best so that we can make it happen that way」

「Fumu, you’re absolutely right, Selina. I’m not alone, I have you and everyone else, so my heart feels at ease. So for now, it’s important that we get some proper sleep, and rest our bodies first」

「Fufu, yes, that’s right. Well then, good night, Dran. It’s not like anything is going to happen tonight anyway」

It’ll be alright, I answered Selina, and that night, we were finally able to get some sleep.

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  1. ranomeinon

    You’d think that, since strwberries are the fruit of the plant, she’s try to replace it with rosehip, not roses themselves…

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