Chapter 4

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“Really, Kouichi is a slacker, isn’t he,” Astrid said while throwing the full contents of the laundry basket into the washing machine on the balcony.

It was broad daylight and the sun was shining brightly, but Astrid, a vampire, was completely unconcerned. Still, she seemed to be wearing a wide brimmed hat, long sleeves, and gloves to guard against sunburn, however.

“He cooks meals rather elaborately, but keeps piling up laundry──”

Despite the grumbling, there was no hint of discontent on Astrid’s face.

If anything, for some reason, it was lax and kept on being lax, on and on. Straight to the point, she was in an extremely good mood.

Leaving Kouichi’s side — that was on hold for now.

At least if the <Demon Hunters’> threat was no longer a serious one, then it wouldn’t become a matter of racing against time. If Astrid were to suddenly disappear, Kouichi would, without a doubt, panic and go to look for her. Were things to go south, he would throw everything away, whether it was his manga studies or his life as a person.

That was — definitely not what Astrid would wish.

So, until he was tired of the relationship with Astrid, until he fell in love with someone else… So until that time came, the blonde haired vampire thought to wait and see.

Ending the relationship could be done at any time.

And she had plenty of time. She could take her time thinking about it.

In any case, she was an immortal vampire after all.

“Like making his master do house chores, his self-awareness as an apprentice kin is……. wait,” Astrid noticed what her hand had grabbed out of the bottom of the laundry basket.

It was underwear, and it was Kouichi’s.

“……”

Although Astrid, of course, did not do anything perverted like sniffing the smell or licking it, she was holding that tightly and absorbed in some kind of deep emotion for a while.

Considering the growing redness on her cheeks, it was perfectly obvious even to an outsider just what she was imagining — or rather, remembering.

“…Well, he’s giving me a lot of magical power so, umm, I can at least do house chores in return… right?” muttering like making an excuse on the balcony where there should be no one else, Astrid tossed Kouichi’s underwear into the washing machine and, by eye, poured an appropriate amount of detergent that was placed on the side, and closed the lid.

“…But, really, even the washing machine has gotten much more advanced in the short time I haven’t seen them. Humans really are amazing at this kinda thing. They’re weak and short-lived compared to vampires, but, like, never lose their ingenuity,” Astrid muttered as if impressed seeing the AI independently weighed the laundry and determined the washing time and quantity of water.

Precisely because of immortality and perpetual youth itself that vampires weren’t concerned with details.

Precise because humans were growing old and dying so easily that they exercised their ingenuity in various ways.

That was why──

“……short-lived, huh”

Astrid let out a short sigh, seemingly suddenly realizing something.

●

Meanwhile at the same time — on the rooftop of a multi-tenant building a short distance away from Kouichi’s apartment.

“…Oh my,” Evangeline muttered as she lowered her binoculars.

“That vampire princess Astrid Bernstein has completely changed. Like a new wife freshly married. At this rate, she might ask ‘Do you want dinner? A bath? Or maybe, me?’ when Hikawa Kouichi-san came back, though. Ah, but the naked apron was already done, wasn’t it”

But as usual, her expression and tone of voice were expressionless.

Evangeline was continuing her task of monitoring Astrid and Kouichi. And of course, continuing the wiretapping with a laser as well.

Evangeline had already collected more than enough audio data as proof that Astrid could get along well with Kouichi, a human being, but she was continuing the peeping like a hobby, half a habit.

This demon hunter was a demon hunter, and despite her appearance, she was quite an oddball.

Anyhow──

“I think it’s also time for me to find someone nice and retire from demon hunt──………Nn?”

Interrupting her muttering, Evangeline took out her vibrating smartphone from inside her pocket and operated it.

“Yes. This is <Silver Pike>”

After giving her codename, the familiar voice of her superior came from the other side of the phone.

As part of the countermeasure against wiretapping, greetings were omitted, and only the business was being stated in a straight to the point manner.

Namely──

“A hard-liner is?”

A person known for particularly radical behaviours even among <Demon Hunters> was said to have disappeared carrying a large amount of anti-vampires equipment.

Although that person not necessarily would’ve gone after Astrid, it seemed to have happened immediately after the data from Evangeline to show the possibility of coexistence between vampires and humans — in other words, the report on Astrid and Hikawa Kouichi’s cohabitation life — was uploaded to <Demon Hunter’s> shared cloud storage.

The report itself didn’t include the address of Kouichi’s apartment, but it did include a number of photos of Kouichi and Astrid. And it was said that very likely their location had been identified from among them, and that person was heading here.

“…This is bad, isn’t it”

Evangeline sighed in an unusually depressed fashion.

Fellow <Demon Hunters> must not stir up trouble with one another. However, the hard-liner would undoubtedly try to unnecessarily mess with Astrid if left unchecked. And in the worst case, if they were to lay their hands on Kouichi, Astrid would most likely, literally, turn into a mad demon and come at the <Demon Hunters>. It was unknown if the person in question was aware of it, but it was obvious even to an outsider that Astrid had fallen deeply in love with Kouichi.

“Now then, what should I do now”

To warn Astrid.

Or maybe──

“……This is pickle, isn’t it”

Evangeline crossed her arms and groaned briefly.

●

In the morning, Kouichi suddenly made a proposal.

“Let’s go on a date”

For a moment, Astrid had no idea what he had just said.

So when she froze and was blinking her eyes for a while──

“Ah, sorry. Do you get it if I say ‘rendezvous’ or ‘tryst?’”

“I’ve been thinking of saying this for quite some time now, okay? Kouichi? But can you stop treating me like I’m elderly?”

“Eh, but you’re two hundred years old”

“I mean that’s true, okay? But I was sealed twelve years ago, so I’ve been adapting and living in the world until then! I can even use a computer just fine, you know?”

“…Certainly. Sorry”

And after a somewhat idiotic exchange or so — Kouichi left for his voicational school for the time being.

He seemed to have a plan for them to take the train from the station to an amusement park several stops away after he was done with his vocational school. It was the so-called “Nighttime Fee,” something of a good value or so where, from five in the evening until the park’s closing, for three hours, the fee would be half of the usual.

As for Astrid, she thought: why all of sudden…

However, “……” she repeatedly tossed and turned around on the bed while letting out a short groan.

She couldn’t calm down at all. There was still more than six hours until their appointment in front of the station, but to also pass the time, Astrid tried to take out every piece of her clothing and lay them out on the bed and the floor.

Astrid had been living with Kouichi for over a month now — rather, since they were living together, she had bought clothes for everyday use during that time. Nonetheless, they were all shirts and jeans, which emphasized cheapness and ease of movement, so there was no clothing to wear for such a “this is an important event!” occasion.

“Hmmm…?”

Setting aside whether she had one or not, she imagined how she would dress for the “date” as Kouichi called it. Were she able to imagine it well, she could just go buy clothes similar to it.

“For example──”

A vampire-like, black skin-tight leather? And add a punk-look silver accessory. Depending on the situation, a tattoo sticker on the face, too…

“……Is it wrong, I wonder?”

I kinda feel like that’s not Kouichi’s liking.

So, the opposite, a cute pastel color dress? A loveable look. Idol-like, or something like that, flashy but cute, and tied up hair──

“…Wrong”

It’s weird, kinda like a costume. There’s no vampire-ish in it either.

In the worst case if I get laughed at by Kouichi, I don’t think I can recover.

So a luxurious dress that looks like it can be worn to a ball? The sparkly ones with lots of gold and silver thread, and spangle. With a rose corsage or something?

No. There’s a thing called TPO, I guess. It’s different when taking a taxi to the place, but if I get on a train looking like that, I would only stick out like a sore thumb.

“It’s… it’s hard, unexpectedly?” Astrid folded her arms and groaned.

As a matter of fact, she had never been on anything called a “date.”

In the first place, even living for this long with a human — although only a month — was the first for her. Of course, she knew what kind of tryst a pair of lovers would commonly have in public, but when she tried to apply it to herself right now, she felt something out of place.

After all… she herself was not a human.

“Humans are, so fussy about every trivial process, don’t they…”

Humans, who could live long but only for a hundred years at most, wanted to go through all sorts of processes of one day finding a mate and mating with one another. Animals were far more reasonable in this regard──

“……”

Her own words… there was something out of place even about it.

She tried to pick up a tuft of her long blond hair that she was proud of.

In these two hundred years, its color had not even faded, and it had retained its glamour, the very essence of youth itself. Although she at times self-mockingly referred to herself as a two-hundred-year-old hag, there was not even a single strand of gray hair in her hair.

Cycle of life was the way of the world. All things in nature would repeat the cycle of birth and death.

And vampires were left out of that natural process.

‘Someone who was lacking.’

No longer did she think of it as painful nor sad — however, “……?” Suddenly there was a “tock” sound.

When she stood up and looked at the glass door facing the balcony, she found something white and round lying on the floor. It looked like a rolled up scrap of paper, but judging from the sound it made when hitting the glass door, it seemed to be something a bit heavier and harder──

“──What’s this?”

When she opened the glass door and picked it up, she found that it was a pebble wrapped in a piece of paper.

She unwrapped the piece of paper and saw that there were some words written on it──

“…That dhampir. When was she born?”

Not a letter affixed on an arrow, but a stone. Even though there should be plenty of ways to get in contact, like a phone call or emails.

For the record, so that she would be able to fully make use of his tablet and computer at home, and so that she could easily keep in touch with Kouichi while he was away, he had created an email and even social network account for Astrid.

No──

“…Phone call or email is no go, I think”

There was a possibility of information leakage. It could be wiretapping or hacking to snoop on it. An organization with such a long history and such deep ties with governments should be more than prepared to handle something like that.

Evangeline as well, despite how she appeared, might have her position in the organization in quite jeopardy. Anyhow, she was a half-demon in the midst of <Demon Hunters> after all. Any action that looked like it might benefit vampires and sell out the organization could immediately be deemed as a betrayal.

‘Hardliners, some going amok. Potential for attack. Be vigilant’

That was the message scribbled on the paper.

●

In the past, they said “three months salary.”

This was about the price of an engagement ring.

“……”

The existence of the paper bag in his bag was strangely worrying him.

As a student, it was impossible for him to be able to take out three months worth of salary, much less readily able to buy an expensive item that cost several hundreds of thousands, and he also didn’t have the credibility to get a loan.

His parents and him were estranged due to various reasons, so it was difficult to ask for more than tuition and living expenses.

Moreover, he had used a great deal of his living expenses for Astrid’s clothes and stuff. Honestly, he was pretty broke right now. Since last week, he had been cutting back on one side dish for dinner.

So, he would have to use the money he had saved up from his irregular part-time job — the money that he had originally planned to use to buy a game console.

And a silver ring was relatively inexpensive — he could buy them, but he was hesitant to give an item made of silver to a vampire.

But when it came to gold or platinum, the price would skyrocket at once. There were surgical stainless steel rings and such lately, but it was too cheap, or rather, somewhat stingy — making him hesitant to give them as an engagement ring.

In the end… he bought a platinum ring with a small but pink diamond for less than 30,000 yen.

He had no idea whether this was expensive or cheap for the occasion of proposing to a vampire who had been living for two hundred years. Probably, this was cheap. And by an incomparable amount.

However…

…Like, trying to tie her… I’m so miserable, aren’t I…

Astrid was not a human.

Astrid’s life was likely to be manyfold of Kouichi — could even be tens, hundreds, or even thousands times larger.

So, even the possibility was high that for her, living with Kouichi was no more than a temporary whim.

It would not even be weird that one day, without a warning, she suddenly disappeared.

That probably would have not worried him at the beginning. Although she was his first love, and he had fallen in love at first sight with her, she was a vampire and was supposed to be a nuisance who had suddenly stumbled into his home. Were she to disappear, then it would just be a matter of returning back to his old life.

However… he was making love to Astrid over and over again.

It made him fall for her more and more.

There was a feeling of “like” originally, but the density of that feeling kept on getting thicker. And it was still going even now.

I don’t want to leave her, he thought, I want to stay together with her for the rest of my life.

But this was a one-sided selfishness on his part, as he was sure to die before she did.

He might be laughed at by her that he had lost his mind.

He might even be asked, “what good is it gonna be for me listening to your selfishness?”

That was why — this ring was something akin to a bribe to get her to listen to his selfishness. Kouichi didn’t know how meaningful such a common discussion, like bribe or engagement, would be to a vampire who was supposed to be outside of human sense of values, but this was all he could think of.

“……”

He checked the existence of the paper bag inside his bag, and then the small box inside it.

While doing so, once every several minutes, Kouichi was waiting in front of the station for his beloved vampire girl to come.

That was why, perhaps, “────!?” Kouichi was late in noticing something was strange.

The sight of people in front of the station — they were disappearing as if they were evaporating.

And the front of the station became deserted, devoid of noise.

Neither the buildings nor the sunlight had changed, but everything that moved had ceased to exist.

It was a barrier. Just like last time, the feeling of a barrier set up by Evangeline.

However──

“Evangeline-san?”

“……”

A moving shadow showed up immediately in front of Kouichi.

Black overcoat and hood pulled over the eyes. The same as her in that regard, but he could tell at first glance that it was a different person. The shoulder width was different. The height was different. Probably the thickness of the breast as well. If Evangeline was a cat, then the one in front of him was a tiger. One size bigger.

Moreover──

“──You must be, Hikawa Kouichi. Astrid Bernstein’s, sacrifice”

The voice that drifted out from under the hood was a low, husky voice of a man.

“Y-you are──”

“Vampires must be killed. Exterminate all the demons from this world, that is our mission, our dearest wish”

Then his overcoat fluttered in the wind.

Standing there was — a large man, holding two automatic rifles with bayonets on both sides and for some reason wearing a featureless white mask.

●

“……Is it that?” Astrid tilted her head.

Matching the newly bought outfit she wore for the date, the black ribbon on her proud blonde hair swayed softly with her movements

She knew immediately that the meeting place with Kouichi had been covered with a barrier.

“So this is one of those… created roughly, isn’t it?”

It was crowded with people in the evening in front of the station, but when she looked with eyes filled with magical power, she could see the scenery in double. The original scenery in front of the station, and the scenery in front of the station that was deserted as if it was in ruins. The latter was a subspace created by some kind of magic — a pseudo space detached from the causality of the world.

Probably it was constructed with talismans or something affixed in several places.

“So — now what?”

By nature, she would have to be invited by the practitioner to enter a barrier.

And then she saw a small “crack” in the space in front of the flower bed in front of the station.

It couldn’t be seen unless one had a demon eye or a tool for seeing incorporeal things, but it was too obvious of a blatant “invitation” for those with such “eyesight.”

And of course, what awaited was not a warm welcome, but likely a trap.

“Kouichi…”

When she peeked through the crack, she could see Kouichi standing there.

Kouichi was not on this side. He was on that side.

In other words, most likely as a hostage, or a bait.

“…So you think I’d willingly jump into such a blatant trap?” Astrid said, shrugging her shoulders.

“Looks like, I’ve been thought of as a big idiot,” Astrid said, turning her back to the “crack.”

She let out one sleepy yawn, as if to say, “I don’t care about a hostage or something, I’m a wicked vampire after all, kay?”

And then──

“No, well, that’s right, though!?”

Astrid made a half rotation in the next moment.

Flipping the hem of the mini pleated skirt she had just bought, she shot a side kick that carried her momentum towards the “crack.”

Along with a hard crashing sound as if she had kicked a glass, Astrid plunged into the barrier. The moment she got in, the “crack” behind her disappeared without leaving any trace as if it had been waiting for this.

And then──

“Kouichi!”

“──Ast!”

Having his name called, Kouichi was surprised and looked towards Astrid.

He, however, shook his head and continued, “Don’t come here! It’s a tra──.”

“I know! Get down!”

She screamed and kicked the ground, leaping very high into the air.

Landmines — no, claymores — that had been placed behind a streetlight and a vending machine, as if to flank her from both sides, were hurling iron balls at her with the sound of an explosion, but Astrid was no longer there.

“──Silver pebbles?” Astrid muttered as she looked down at the iron balls clashing and creating sparks below her.

Immediately after she landed, this time a rush of bullets was directed towards her.

“────!”

Astrid dodged the rain of bullets by ducking down, going all fours.

She then continued to make a half rotation.

And finally, Astrid came face to face with the person who had been shooting at her from behind.

“──A hard-liner?”

Wearing a white mask — more like a helmet that covered half of the head — a large, muscular body that was wrapped in many ammo pouches, and carrying automatic rifles in both hands.

The automatic rifles were fully equipped. In addition to the same type of bayonet as Evangeline’s, they were equipped with an optical sight, laser sight, and even a grenade launcher. Most likely also wearing chainmail and a vest with a bulletproof plate.

Overly equipped that it must not be laughed at.

As a human, even this couldn’t be said to be enough to fight against an advanced age vampire.

“Vampires must be killed,” the masked man said.

“Exterminate all the demons from this world, that is our mission, our dearest wish”

“…That so? Must be tough,” Astrid said as she evaluated her opponent’s equipment.

Most of the automatic rifles’ bullets would probably be silver tipped. The bayonets must have been silver-plated and given some kind of magical enchantment. And he would stop his opponent’s movement through simple physical might, such as shooting a lot of bullets and also throwing grenades depending on the situation, and then rush up to a vampire in the middle of regenerating, and stab the heart or cut the neck with a ceremonially consecrated bayonet. And then as precaution, he would pour oil on the body to incinerate it and scatter the ash in the ocean.

That would be the overall tactic. The fundamentals of anti-vampire tactic, basically.

The mask, no, the helmet on the head was perhaps a countermeasure against demon eye and demon voice. As expected, it seemed to be impossible to mentally control him and drive him away with a loud rebuke or a look.

“Kouich, are you hurt?” Astrid asked out loud with her eyes still on the “enemy.”

“I’m fine! I’m all right! So──”

“Then can you take shelter somewhere over there? Ah, it’s better to be behind a vending machine or inside a concrete building if possible. Automatic rifle rounds can easily penetrate something like normal house walls, okay?”

Even a vending machine itself was not very bulletproof, but it held a lot of cans and bottles with liquid inside, so there was a good chance that it would protect him from bullets and shrapnels──

“You can’t, Ast, run awa──”

“Huh? Run away? Who would?” Astrid bared her fangs and smiled ferociously, and the bullets were once again fired at her.

With light steps, or rather, happily like dancing, Astrid avoided those — but, “vampires must die,” a barrage of bullets also rained down from Astrid’s avoiding direction.

The reason for the two rifles. A pincer attack by barrages of bullets.

Neither to the right nor to the left was an escape, and escaping forward or backward would also be useless against bullets.

So naturally──

“──!!”

Astrid jumped once again.

Then she would attack her opponent from the sky — but, “──must die,” along with his muttering, the gun muzzle — no, the muzzle of the grenade launcher attached under it sprung up.

“────!”

Poomf. Two grenade were shot together with somewhat dumb sound.

Although she dodged the first shot by twisting her body, it was impossible to make such an immediate drastic evasion in the air where there was no footing. So for the second shot coming straight at her, Astrid hit it with her fist.

A flower of explosions bloomed in mid-air.

“AST!!” Kouichi screamed while running into the back of a vending machine.

However──

“I guess, it’s a bit — effective, huh”

Astrid let out a short groan while regenerating the small wounds from being hit and brought crashing down to the ground by the blast.

The fragments of the grenade seemed to have been mixed with silver that had been subjected to a magical ritual or something, making her regeneration go slowly. This degree of injury was not a fatal wound or anything for a true ancestor vampire, but she was unable to even stand up due to the fragments that were still embedded in her knees.

And then──

“Vampires. Must be killed,” the man rushed towards Astrid and thrusted his bayonet at her.

The blades crossing from both sides landed on Astrid’s white neck.

●

Not good. Astrid would be killed.

It should not be so easy to kill an immortal and perpetually youthful vampire, however… The opponent was likely to be one of the <Demon Hunters> who was an expert in killing non-humans. Moreover a hard-liner who put the annihilation of demons as priority. If he didn’t have a prospect of killing Astrid, he wouldn’t have set a trap and waited for her in the first place.

Is there anything I can do…!

If a mere student aspiring to be a manga artist like himself were to throw a punch, it would either be dodged or he would be hit back, and that would be the end of it. No. Maybe getting shot and done for. If he were to thoughtlessly intervene, he might be pulling Astrid’s leg instead.

Throwing something? But unfortunately there was nothing that could be thrown. Even it was unlikely that throwing his bag or his shoes would hit, and it would have not dealt much damage either.

“……”

With bloodshot eyes, Kouichi looked from side to side looking for something.

And then, he — found it.

Affixed behind a vending machine, hidden from view — a sheet. A complex piece of paper written full with what could not be described as patterns or words.

“Is this, A TALISMAN!?”

Kouichi put his hand on that piece of paper to peel it off, but it was attached so strongly that it didn’t look like it would come off. It could’ve been strengthened with magic or something.

He scratched and clawed it, but it didn’t budge. In the end, some of the nails were ripped off, leaving only a trace of Kouichi’s blood on the talisman.

However──

“……Ah”

Realizing something, Kouichi hurriedly took out his pencil case from his bag.

●

“Vampires, must be killed”

The man repeated the same phrase like some kind of a broken record.

Because of the mask, his facial expression couldn’t be seen, and his voice and tone were so suppressed that the hue of his emotion was completely invincible.

But — unlike Evangeline’s lack of expression, it was clear that the man’s “lack of expression” had something suppressed behind it.

It was probably a simmering, growing hatred, hatred, and hatred. It was not something that Astrid knew or was interested in as to why he hated vampires, no, as to why he hated demons so much.

But surprisingly, in some cases, it was also because they were taught so.

Just like witch hunts of the past, the zealous acts of war by various religions, and the suppression of paganism.

At any rate──

“I don’t really get it, but are you gonna be satisfied if you kill me?” Astrid asked, aware of the two bayonets seizing her own throat from both sides like scissors.

“Then, well, I’ll let you kill me. Just don’t lay your hand on that boy. Good?”

If it weren’t because of Astrid, Kouichi would be just an ordinary person with a latent magical power.

If the connection with Astrid was severed, the <Demon Hunters> would not pay any special attention to him.

Or so she thought──

“…Vampires, must be killed,” the man said from under the mask, “those who side with vampires as well, must be killed.”

“…Eh?”

“Anyone connected with vampires, all must be killed”

“You…!?”

She reflexively raised her right hand — however — Astrid froze at the feeling of the bayonets digging into her throat. The bayonets would decapitate her faster than she could hit it.

“Vampires and humans, coexisting?”

The masked man prioritized being proud of his victory over decapitating Astrid.

“You must not be so foolish. A different creature. A different existence. We can never understand one another. After all, our lifespan is different. It is impossible for an immortal and perpetually youth creature to understand the sense of values of humans, who are based on finite life. The same applies in reverse. Humans and demons will never mix. They must not associate,” the masked man said without pause.

“……”

Astrid tried to object — but kept her mouth shut.

“Vampires, must be killed,” the muscles in both of the man’s shoulders swelled.

With brute strength and one breath — he would forcefully decapitate her.

No good. She shouldn’t have looked down on him. As far as she could tell, he was a human unlike Evangeline, therefore she was looking down at this demon hunter. He was using guns, but judging from the reflexes and physical strength that allowed him to keep up with a vampire’s physical ability, he was undoubtedly a well-trained soldier, or perhaps a soldier who had been strengthened with some kind of drug──

“…Vampires, must be…”

“──Hey, you”

──Suddenly, a voice called out.

It didn’t belong to Kouichi. It was a man’s voice that Astrid had never heard before.

The next instant, two police officers could be seen behind the demon hunter.

“So, is that some kind of cosplay? And the guns? Replicas?”

“Can you come with us for a bit?”

One of them had his hand on the demon hunter’s shoulder, and the other had his hand on the pistol on his hip. The police officers didn’t seem to think that the demon hunter’s automatic rifles were the real thing, but they were preparing for the unexpected.

“……Vampires, must be…”

“You, what’s your name? Actually, can you take off this helmet for a bit?”

“Do you have a driver’s license?”

The officers called out to the demon hunter in rapid succession, not letting him speak.

In contrast, the <Demon Hunter> fell silent through his words and remained frozen and motionless. He must be surprised that the barrier had been released unnoticed by him. As a result of him being too absorbed in hunting the vampire in front of him and neglecting to pay attention to his surroundings, he hadn’t noticed it until just now.

The organization and activities of the <Demon Hunters> were concealed from the general public. But even though they were conspiring with the government, there was no way that such a secret was being shared to police officers at the end of the line──

“We have arrived at scene”

“The reported individual is carrying what appears to be two replica guns — and what appears to be bayonets. He is suspected of violating the Firearms and Swords Control──”

The number of police officers had increased to nearly ten in a flash.

The first two might have come from the police station in front of the station, but the others were probably called in by radio from the nearby police station as backup. It was a staggeringly quick response.

Not to be underestimated. Japanese police officers.

Furthermore──

“……Vampires, must be…!”

The demon hunter twisted his body as if to say “aarrgh, let go!”

However, “resistance confirmed! Failure to obey lawful order!” immediately after, the officer who had his hand on the <Demon Hunter’s> shoulder — suddenly — swept him off his feet.

The large body of the demon hunter was easily toppled on the spot, and the two automatic rifles rattled, making a sound.

He was still holding the rifles — but — it might be a mistake for the demon hunter to be so fixated on the vampire hunting weapons. In a point blank range where the shoulder could be grabbed, not only holding a long rifle was mostly useless, it became a hindrance instead. Even the reserve magazines all over his body had taken away his body flexibility and held him back now that it became a close quarter situation.

As a result — he was easily toppled over by a police officer who most likely had a high level of judo under his belt.

Truly, flexibility sometimes beat stiffness.

It would become difficult to reverse the situation at this point.

“Hey, this is the real thing!!”

“Violation of Firearm and Sword Control Law! Suspect was caught red-handed!”

The police officers were suddenly abuzz.

In the meanwhile──

“Ast… Over here…!”

She noticed Kouichi beckoning to her from his hiding place — while some of the police officers were busy trying to pin down the <Demon Hunter>, Astrid ran to his side.

“Kouichi… Are you okay? Are you hurt?”

“I mean, that’s my line actually…”

“Oh yeah, the barrier suddenly just got released, but don’t tell me, was that your doing?”

“Ah, yep, probably,” Kouichi nodded.

When she looked at where Kouichi was pointing, he saw a talisman on the back of the vending machine.

Moreover, that talisman… had a trace of having been done something, or rather, a trace of scribble. Not the original thing written on the talisman. It was no wonder that the barrier was collapsing.

“I mean, I couldn’t tear it or peel it off. When I tried to claw it, I bled a little,” Kouichi showed her a thin paintbrush.

The red-black tip was probably because he used blood for the ink.

What was added to the amulet was a scribble with Kouichi’s blood that contained an abundance of magical power.

“I just thought, like, if I wrote something with my blood and the meaning changed, maybe it could nullify it. You know, the same as an electronic circuit shorting out if you pour water on it,” Kouichi smiled wryly.

For a moment, Astrid looked between the talisman and Kouichi, eyes wide open and dumbfounded, then, “amazing, really, you’re really amazing, Kouichi,” she said and smiled.

●

It was a little delayed because of the incident in front of the station… but they managed to get into the amusement park while it was still open.

“…In the end just what was that, really?” Astrid had been talking about that demon hunter for a while, looking astonished.

But now — when it was time to play at the amusement park with Kouichi, she seemed to be completely absorbed in it, like she had forgotten all about that guy.

“I once got in a car and zapped down the Autobahn at two hundred kilo an hour, you know!? But this is, something else!”

Excited when she got on a roller coaster.

“I’m used to falling, but, you know, being tied down so you can’t move is scary instead, right!?”

Surprised when she got on a freefall.

“I was wondering what so fun about it, but, my-my semicircular canals, he-hey, stop spinning it!!”

Getting motion sickness when she got on the teacups and turning the wheel with Kouichi.

At the beginning, she was smiling and pompously saying, “a date at an amusement park, you’re still just a kid, huh, Kouichi,” and yet, at some point, she was enjoying the amusement park with all her might, even more than Kouichi.

And…

“……It’s not to sneeze at, isn’t it? Amusement park. Let’s come here again!” was the evaluation about the date at the amusement park Astrid gave at the restaurant affiliated with the amusement park, where Kouichi had made a reservation in advance.

“I’m so glad you were enjoying it,” Kouichi said with a wry smile, sitting down across Astrid.

The walls of the restaurant were mostly made of glass, so they could enjoy the night view of the amusement park illuminated by dazzling decorative lights while having dinner. It might be an exaggeration to call it a “superb view,” but it looked like eating in the middle of a starry night sky, which was truly breathtaking.

However, there were no guests beside Kouichi and Astrid… perhaps because the price was more expensive than the family restaurant right outside the amusement park, or maybe because it was almost closing time.

“Life is, in the end, killing time, is what they say, right? For something like us, then it becomes very important just how much time we can kill, you know?”

“Now that you mentioned it, thanks to manga, anime, movies… thanks to the works of the entertainment industry, there are fewer evil vampires scheming world domination, isn’t it?”

“Yep, that’s right. An amusement for eternal boredom — something like that,” Astrid showed a bitter smile.

And then──

“Eternal boredom… huh,” Kouichi suddenly muttered to himself.

An immortal and perpetually youthful vampire.

Some said that life was just killing time until you died — but then, how would those forced to kill their time endlessly feel going through that eternity?

“What’s wrong?” Astrid tilted her head.

Kouichi showed her a vague smile as if to gloss it over.

‘You must not be so foolish. A different creature. A different existence. We can never understand one another. After all, our lifespan is different. It is impossible for an immortal and perpetually youth creature to understand the sense of values of humans, who are based on finite life. The same applies in reverse. Humans and demons will never mix. They must not associate’

The words of the demon hunter from some hours ago were shaking Kouichi’s mind.

Indeed. She was a different creature.

Certainly. She was not a human.

That’s right. The guarantee to be able to understand one another — was none.

Between a human and a demon.

Between a man and a woman.

Between himself and someone else.

“──And, so what?”

“Kouchi?”

Astrid frowned at Kouichi’s muttering.

At that time — she said it.

‘Then, well, I’ll let you kill me. Just don’t lay your hand on that boy. Good?’

She feared the end of Kouichi’s life, which would surely be lost one day, more than her own eternal life.

An ordinary human. And an immortal vampire.

Perhaps it would be a little too self-conscious, or better say… too intoxicated by the situation they found themselves in to say that it was a love where both sides were putting their lives on the line.

“──Ast. Err, here, I wonder if you’ll accept this,” Kouichi reached into his bag and pulled out the small jewelry box directly from the paper bag.

Without opening it, he pushed it towards Astrid.

She was──

“………Eh?”

Frozen with a puzzled look on her face.

Then a waiter came and silently put down their plates of food. Reading the situation, the waiter put the plates at the edge of the table, avoiding the front of Astrid where the jewelry box was placed.

Before long──

“Wh-what, i-is this?”

“Well, how about opening it?”

“I… I see?”

Astrid went to open the jewelry box with a somewhat shaken expression on her face.

What was inside was — needless to say — the pink diamond engagement ring Kouichi had bought.

“Kouichi, this, this is, umm, is this really?”

“Honestly, you might be thinking, what am I thinking after only month or so”

Kouichi showed a wry smile, feeling embarrassed as to be expected.

“You might be thinking, just what am I thinking, still a student brat”

“N-no, that’s not what I was thinking, ok?”

“Certainly, because I haven’t become anything yet, I can’t say ‘let’s get married’ to you, though. But, if someday I can achieve my dream and become a manga artist, no, even if I can’t become a manga artist, if I can make up my mind and become someone — then at that time”

“I-I mean, wait, Kouichi, you can’t lose your mind!!”

Then in fluster, Astrid continued, “you and I are — I mean in the first place, even today, a <Demon Hunter>…”

“I’m not losing my mind, you know. How rude,” Kouichi said, his mouth pouting.

“Astrid, I love you, and I want to marry you. I want to be with you always and forever. But I’m not in a position to ask you to marry me boldly yet, so I thought, maybe we could at least get engaged”

“…That is”

“Is that a no?”

“……”

Hearing such a straight, inexplicably straightforward, and yet inexplicably sudden confession from Kouichi, Astrid was at loss for words for a while, however, “……really… you are really…” her amber eyes blinked a few times.

From those round and cute eyes of hers — teardrops spilled over.

“H-huh?”

Looking flustered, Astrid wiped her own eyes with the back of her hands.

For a while, Kouichi watched her flustered state in silence, but──

“──I love you. Please get engaged to me. Is that a no?” he asked again.

“……”

Astrid, she hung her head down — she groaned, her face turned bright red up to her ears.

And then──

“It’s… it’s not… a no… you know?”

She said it.

Shortly──

“……”

Clap clap clap clap. The dry sound of applause welled up.

One. Two. Three. Four.

When they noticed it, several waiters from the restaurant were surrounding Kouichi and Astrid at a distance, smiling and clapping their hands as if to bless them.

●

They couldn’t contain their feelings until they reached home.

So they dashed over to a hotel near the amusement park, checked in, and entered their room — immediately after, they embraced and repeatedly kissed each other; continuing to tangle up like that, they flopped down on the bed.

They undressed each other impatiently; as if that time was too precious to lose, they started raining kisses down each other.

On the lips. Cheeks. Ears. Forehead. Eyelids. Then on the neck──

“……!”

“──What’s wrong?” Kouichi asked, noticing that Astrid shuddered for an instant.

Already having had sex with Astrid many times over, Kouichi noticed that it was not a shudder from pleasure. If anything, it was a reaction akin to surprise or fluster.

“The curse is… Ah, it’s nothing, okay?” She plugged up Kouichi’s lips, as if to seal off any further questioning. Again and again, she opened her lips and pecked, licked, and then sucked his lips — alternating between his upper and lower lips.

Passionate and intense — a vampire’s kiss.

Astrid kept on kissing, as if to say: “if it’s Kouichi’s body, I can lick everything.” While responding to it, Kouichi took off her blouse, skirt, stripped off her underwear, and caressed the white body that was spreading out from underneath.

Not to mention the breasts — he wanted to caress every part of her body.

Touching it, groping it, kneading it, licking it, biting it, sucking it.

It was still not enough even after all those things. He was irritated.

“………….N……….. nahh……”

The more he touched Astrid, the more sensitively she reacted, causing her to leak out mute gasps.

He was getting accustomed to it. He had such a feeling.

At the same time he was getting accustomed to pleasuring Astrid, Astrid was also starting to get wet in response to Kouichi’s fingertips, body odor, or maybe even his voice and gaze. As a result of the accumulated acts, the mere touch of Kouichi’s fingers on her bare skin made Astrid more sensitive in preparation for the pleasure to come.

He was happy. That was a positive thing.

At this rate──

“Kouichi…”

Astrid looked up at Kouichi with wet eyes and reached for his penis — already erect even before they had entered the room. She must be wanting to use her mouth and hands to caress Kouichi’s thing.

However──

“…Ast.” Kouichi pushed her down on the bed and put his mouth on her vulva.

Her secret place was — not just the indecent lips and clit, but also all of the skin around that area — already dripping wet, flushed, and hot. And the mere touch of Kouichi’s breath made Astrid squirm.

“Ko… Kouichi?”

“Can you let me?” Kouichi said to Astrid — who was leaking a puzzled voice between her panting — and sucked on her overflowing love juice, deliberately making noise.

“No, th-the sound — hyah?”

The direct pleasure as well as the sound coming to her ears made Astrid realize that she was being licked by Kouichi. Not letting her get away, Kouichi held at the vampire girl’ thighs who was trying to separate herself from his tongue, perhaps thinking that she herself wouldn’t last long.

“Yo-you can’t, okay? Kouichi, going like that, ah, no-no, I can’t, I’ll cum, instantly──”

“It’s fine to cum. My cute Ast. My beloved vampire. Go cum all you want.” Kouichi then played with her swollen clitoris with his tongue, deliberately slowly.

“I-I don’t wanna be… the only cumming. Umm…. It-it’s lonely… you know?”

“Ast…?”

“Ko-Kouichi, you have to, feel good… too”

Astrid moved forcefully to pull out her thighs out of Kouichi’s arms and made a half-turn on the bed. Lying side by side, they latched their mouths on each other’s genitals like an ouroboros.

Astrid’s labia was quivering faintly, anticipating another caressing from Kouichi’s mouth. That was just so cute, so Kouichi aggressively inserted his tongue into her secret cleft and teased her labia with his lips.

“Ah… ahh… aahhh…”

Astrid was holding Kouichi’s penis in her mouth, but she no longer seemed to be able to do so when he attacked her, making her involuntarily pull her mouth away and let out moans.

But on the other hand, her feelings to feel good together with Kouichi seemed to be strong, so she lovingly caressed Kouichi’s penis with both hands and rubbed her cheek against the glans.

“Ugh…”

The penis already fully wet with Astrid’s saliva erupted in pleasure even with a somewhat clumsy cheek rubbing.

“So-sorr… it’s… coming…!” Along with his warning, Kouichi shot out his semen as hard as she could on Astrid’s face, which had loosened up in pleasure. The penis quivering from the intensity of the ejaculation was hitting Astrid’s cheek and nose — that gave another pleasure, squeezing out the semen remaining in the urethra.

Pouring his semen over her face and golden hair — splurrt, splurrt — Kouichi let out a short breath.

This was not good. He would have to get Astrid cum rather than himself.

Again, again and over again. To the point where Astrid wouldn’t be able to leave Kouichi’s side.

She would end up suddenly disappearing again, just like twelve years ago — such imagination put Kouichi in dread, making him desperate to “tie down” Astrid with sex.

They got engaged. He also confessed to her.

But that’s not enough to tie her down, was how he ended up thinking. quickly, once more, I have to get erect, he thought while looking at Astrid.

On the other hand, “……Kouichi…” Astrid was meticulously scooping Kouichi’s semen that had been dumped on her face with her finger and bringing it to her lips. She inserted her semen-covered finger into her lips — sliding it in and out like giving a blowjob — and swallowed everything without wasting a single drop.

Although he was supposed to be used to seeing such an act from her, Kouichi could feel his penis regaining its hardness just by looking at it.

“Kouichi… come?” Astrid pleaded to Kouichi with her amber eyes growing moist.

And of course, Kouichi didn’t say no.

Kouichi hung over Astrid who was waiting with her arms and legs outstretched.

He placed his newly rejuvenated, hard penis on her fully wet vagina. At first, for about two or three times, he moved the glans to trace the shape of her clit, giving stimulation, however──

“Don’t… don’t tease… me… I still…”

“I guess so,” Kouichi said, but Astrid still hadn’t finished her words.

The intermingling they just had earlier was no more than a foreplay. So Kouichi took one deep breath and thrusted his hips out, holding Astrid’s thighs.

Schlop — the overflowing love juice became a lubricant and helped with the insertion.

“Hahh… ahh… Kouichi… your dick… is going… in… inside me… ah, wow… so full… my… my… aahh…”

“Yeah… I’m sticking it in. I’m just sticking it in, but it feels, so good”

Astrid’s vagina squirmed, creating a pleasure even before the pounding started. Moreover, Astrid wrapped her legs around Kouichi’s body, pushing his ass closer with her legs from the knee down, as if to say: “deeper, all the way to the entrance of my womb; come, keep going in” — “scratch my naughty meat with your dick.”

“……”

Even just by staying still, Kouichi might’ve even been able to cum, but that wouldn’t do.

“I’m gonna move…!” Kouichi bit his lips and began to swing his hips.

Telling himself in the corner of his head: don’t get monotonous… don’t just swing your hips…, Kouichi went to slam his hips into Astrid’s crotch. For an instant, he thought to himself that he might be going too hard, but as if to tell him to go harder, Astrid pulled in Kouichi’s ass with her legs instead.

The so-called “Clamping Koala”1 in R18 manga.

This was a position that would not allow the man to pull his penis out, making him pour his semen into the woman’s innermost place at all costs. This also expressed the willingness to get pregnant — and give birth to the other person’s child.

“…Ast…!”

Kouichi occasionally added rotation and varied the intensity while watching Astrid’s reaction.

Like how he should thrust to give her the most pleasure.

Like what kind of rhythm would get her most excited.

Thinking back to her reactions up until now, he would make Astrid cum a lot with the culmination of those. That was Kouichi’s goal for tonight.

“Ah… ah… Ko-Kouichi, Kouichi, it feels good, shoou good…!”

When losing any leeway from feeling too much, Astrid’s speech would become twisted and somewhat childish.

It was just so unbearably cute how she appealed to him — how she pampered him. Such beautifully shaped boobs, shaking with each thrust of Kouichi — even though she was more than two hundred years old, she was as adorable as an untainted young girl.

“Ahnn… ahh… amaz-amazing… your dick is so, is so”

“Even your pussy, Ast; it’s squeezing, it’s sucking me…!”

“I mean, I mean, Kouichi… you are… ahn…”

Seeing Astrid’s boobs shaking as if inviting him, Kouichi buried his face into that valley. While feeling the breast skin caressing his cheeks, Kouichi clung to her and frantically swung his hips.

“Ast, Ast, I love you, I really love you, I will always love you──”

“Kouichi…”

strid’s voice sounded somewhat troubled, perhaps that was just his imagination.

The sight of her with balls of sweat all over her body and moaning under the hotel’s dim light was immensely sensational, and at the same time, gave Kouichi a certain sense of accomplishment.

At this very moment, she was his and his alone.

Tied with her, becoming one, sharing the good feeling, and rising to great heights together. A world of just the two of them. An orgasm of just the two of them. No distinction between human or vampire existed there; only a man and woman clinging to a single pleasure.

“Ast…”

While driven by emotion — biting her breasts; kissing and sucking the nape of her neck leaving hickeys — Kouichi wrapped his arms and legs around Astrid.

The feeling of ejaculation was approaching.

This time he wanted to cum together.

“Aahh, Kouichi, I’m gonna cum, c-cu-cumm… ahh, cum-cumming…!”

“Astrid…!”

Astrid was convulsing and arching her back under Kouichi; Kouichi, clinging to her, finally shoved his dick as deeply as possible into her pussy and ejaculated.

They stayed in that position for a while with their body shaking, and then──

“……”

They went to kiss each other’s lips at the same time and hugged, tightly wrapping their arms around each other.

●

After all that had gone, Kouichi cummed six times, and Astrid four times.

For some reason, Kouichi made love to Astrid with even more fierceness than usual, and that seemed to be precisely why he used up a good chunk of his stamina after just one interecourse… So, after his sixth ejaculation, he looked literally like he had completely expended all of his energy and laid down limp, falling asleep.

“……”

Even when Astrid got herself up, there was no sign of him waking up.

With a sigh, she began to put on her clothes that had been tossed aside.

It was a black blouse and pink pleated skirt that she had painstakingly chosen for her first date with him. They were wrinkled in places, perhaps because they had been taken off roughly.

“……”

She dropped a single kiss on the sleeping Kouichi. Lastly, she tied the black ribbon on the blonde hair she was proud of.

After that, Astrid opened the hotel’s window and slipped outside.

With her magical power filled up plenty, she interfered with gravity and walked straight up the vertical wall to the rooftop.

And over there──

“…….What are you doing?”

Was Evangeline, waiting.

It was not like they had a particular appointment or arrangement, but she was guessing she would probably be nearby. She even might’ve peeped on their harmonious affair earlier in some way, but she had already lost all the motivation to complain.

And this would probably be the last time.

“What do you mean, what?”

“No, just that, he is still sleeping, but you look like you are getting ready to leave,” she said — a half human, half demon — without expression and reservation.

“……”

“Do you plan to leave him?”

“I’ve had it planned from the start,” Astrid said with a sigh. “If words like ‘I love you’ or ‘let’s get married’ come out, it’s the end they say.”

“Why?”

“Why………. You are asking ‘why’!?!” Astrid said, frowning slightly.

Despite the way she complained, however, the current her was somewhat powerless.

She knew. Even Astrid herself was aware that she was severely down in the dumps.

However──

“Even if a human and a vampire get married… it’s only gonna bring tragedy, right? Like you”

“How rude. Don’t just refer to other people as a tragedy,” Evangeline said. “My parents were happily married, you know? My mother passed away first, though.”

Evangeline’s parents: her father seemed to be a vampire and her mother a human.

Despite the fact that he could turn her mother into his kin at any time, he didn’t; her father stayed with her mother as she grew old, and seemed to even have intentionally used his shape-shifting ability to make his appearance grow older.

Evangeline said they were truly chummy until just before her mother died — to the point that the daughter, Evangeline, felt embarrassed when she saw them.

“…Then, why are you hunting vampires or anything like that?”

Maybe to stand up against her own cursed bloodline.

Astrid tried to ask, but──

“Because the pay is good,” Evangeline so easily replied. “Since it’s a secret society, there’s all kinds of and many secret tricks-like perks; it’s treated as a religious organization, so you don’t have to pay tax, you know?”

“……Ho-how low…”

A vampire who was using a washing machine and frolicknig around at an amusement park, and a <Demon Hunter> who was concerned about tax — which one was the low one, well, it could be a delicate point.

“Besides…” Evangeline suddenly said, tilting her head. “If I find a vampire-human couple who looks to be doing well like my parents, it would make me more likely to extend a hand, wouldn’t it?”

The face that had been expressionless and frozen like it had been that way for a decade, right now, appeared to have a faint smile on it; maybe it was Astrid’s optical illusion.

“How haughty for a half; ‘extending a hand’ to a true ancestor or something…”

“I don’t mind if you call it aid, cooperation or anything, though.” Evangeline then looked down at her feet — she turned her focus to the room directly below her, where Kouichi was probably sleeping.

“At any rate, you also like him, right? You love him, right?”

“That’s──”

“You noticed, didn’t you? His bloodsucking prevention spell is temporary, so it’s no longer in effect as of today. You could’ve sucked his blood and even turned him into your kin at any time, couldn’t you? But why didn’t you do it?”

“That’s──”

“Maybe because you thought you wouldn’t be able to stop yourself if you sucked it?”

“……”

“If it was to replenish your magical power, then you should’ve asked him to donate his blood, no? The spell only prevented you from sucking blood directly from him with your fangs — only preventing turning him into a kin; we can’t prevent all the way to his spilled blood from being licked or sucked after all”

“……”

“That means, regardless of the reason, you’re capable of controlling yourself; you are not a ‘demon’ we have to hunt. If you were to turn him into your kin, probably he would also turn into a vampire who has self-control — you, of all people, would never allow him to go out of control, would you?”

“You’re talking like you see right through me…”

“Am I wrong?”

“…No, you are not,” Astrid admitted, shrugging her shoulders.

“Then there’s no need to be afraid any more of dragging him into your way of life — into the path of continuously being hunted by <Demon Hunters> and fighting them. And the example of you two will also influence the change in policy of the <Demon Hunter’s> organization”

“I’m feeling there will be more overbearing idiots showing up like today, though?”

“Regarding that, well, I apologize,” Evangeline said. “ Regarding that hard-liner, I think he will be charged with arbitrary conduct. He brought with him a lot of things on his own as well; with that, we could put a hold on the entire movement of the hard-liners──”

“I can’t even grow old and die like a normal person, and you think I could be with him forever?”

Indeed. “Someone who was lacking” was different from “someone who was not lacking” in many aspects.

They were different beings; they were different — so it was difficult to just even walk side by side.

“We can’t even walk through the same time, you know?”

“Are you the one to decide whether or not you can walk through the same time?”

“──Eh?”

“Did you think my father and mother couldn’t walk through the same time?”

“……”

“My father at least made the effort, you know? My mother also looked satisfied until the moment of her death. My father is protecting my mother’s grave in a rural village in Dalarna to this day. In the past, a hard-liner view seemed to be stronger than now, so my father didn’t make my mother his kin, but… even now he still occasionally smiles and says, ‘I should’ve sucked her blood and made her my kin’,” Evangeline said, shrugging her shoulders.

“…Is that, so?”

“You know, Astrid Bernstein. I wish for vampires and humans alike to be happy. I wish for happiness for both humans who fell in love with vampires, and vampires who fell in love with humans, so that I can be proud to say to anyone that my birth was the proof of my parents’ happiness,” then Evangeline smiled, this time clearly.

“I beg of you, please don’t be scared of becoming happy together with someone”

“……”

Astrid looked up at the night sky for a brief moment.

Before long──

“Really, you’re so haughty… A little girl about fifty years old or so, facing a true ancestor vampire over two hundred years old, and what’s with that smug attitude? What’s with that?” Astrid said with a wry smile appearing on her face.

●

Half unconsciously — he tried to hug Astrid’s body, who must be beside him.

“──!!?”

His hand just caressed an empty space, unable to confirm her soft body.

Realizing it, Kouichi instantly sprang up on the bed.

“AST! ASTRID!?”

With a scream-like voice, he called the name of his beloved vampire, only to be replied with a cold silence.

The inside of the hotel room should look the same as it did when he entered the room, but the mere fact that Astrid was not there made it seem so horrifyingly dull, or rather, unreal.

Although it had only been a month or so since he got to know her — no, since he got reunited with her, he couldn’t immediately recall just how he had been living previously.

Kouichi had even thought: I was born into this world to be her partner. That’s why, all the time I have spent without her was just kind of a preparation for the time I would spend with her.

And yet──

“AST! ASTRID!”

Kouichi looked around the room while repeatedly calling her name, but he still couldn’t find her figure anywhere in the room. Not even her clothes. The very trace of her existence was completely gone──

“…No way”

Kouichi and Astrid’s time living together was something temporary; something like playing house that would one day end — he realized that was just the sort of thing Astrid would think. For a vampire who was living in a different time than a human, it may be just a momentary whim; nothing more than a moment of comfort, such a thing was.

So that she wouldn’t disappear, Kouichi talked about the engagement, gave her a ring, and even tried to tie her down with the pleasure of sex. The last approach was already very, very questionable… or to be exact, there was no way a young man who had been a virgin until just a month ago could have done such a thing.

In any case…

“So cruel…” sitting on the floor, Kouchi muttered.

Had she tried to say her goodbye, Kouichi would have tried to stop her at all costs. So she just kept her mouth shut and left. That way it wouldn’t be hard for either of them.

Even he understood it — such logic.

“You’re so cruel, Astrid…”

“Who are you calling cruel?”

Hearing the voice, Kouichi raised his face in an instant.

He looked and saw the contours of a person’s shape rising from the wall of the hotel, as if something was oozing out. Astrid, who was emerging out from the wall, finally separated completely from the wall and stood in front of Kouichi.

And stark naked for some reason.

For a moment, she was staring at Kouichi with an amazed expression on her face, but──

“──Ah, oops” she muttered to herself after looking down at her own naked body.

“Eh? Wh-what?”

“Normal clothes can’t permeate through walls”

It seemed that when she was returning to the room from outside of the hotel, only her body slipped through the wall, and her clothing was dropped outside.

“I have to pick it up late──”

“Ast!!”

Without letting her finish speaking, Kouichi rushed towards Astrid and hugged her.

“I was worried. I thought you had disappeared, I really…”

“……Ah… Err.” Astrid scratched her cheek and was looking in the other direction, however. “Actually, I was just, gonna go and disappear, you see?”

“AST!?”

“Well, but you’re too, you know? So panicked, umm…”

“THAT’S OBVIOUS!!” Kouichi shouted while hugging Astrid. “I CAN’T CONTINUE LIVING WITHOUT YOU, ASTRID!! I’LL DIE IN AN INSTANT, YOU KNOW!?”

“WHY’RE YOU SAYING SUCH A MISERABLE THING SO CONFIDENTLY!?” After she shouted back, “……Geez, you’re really losing your mind, Kouichi,” she said with a sigh.

“I’m a vampire, you know?”

“I know,” Kouichi replied to Astrid’s self-depreciating words in a tone of voice as if to say: so what?

“I suck blood, you know? Like, chuu”

“If you’re fine with me, go ahead”

“Err… I’m rather selfish, you know?”

“I know that, too”

“Nnn~…” Astrid then seemed to be fumbling for something to say, however.

“Do you get it? I, no matter what, can’t be with you for life, a human — we can’t walk through our time together from beginning to end, you know?”

“Well, nobody’s perfect,” Kouichi used a line from an old — monochrome — movie that he had watched previously in the lesson at his vocational school.

Astrid frowned for a moment──

“But you don’t understand… I’m a man”

“That’s not how it went, right? And with my boobs and crotch to see like this. Actually, the order of the lines is reversed, no?”

“……”

“……”

“‘Some Like It Hot’… I watched it in America at its first release, you know… It’s been half a century, or actually more than sixty years, though”

“Sorry.” Kouichi kissed Astrid.

“Nn…”

Without refusing or escaping, Astrid responded to Kouichi’s lips.

Even though he had kissed her countless times already, it was like he never got tired of it. Just the touch of her lips already made him throb, just like the first time. He got lightheaded when he stuck his tongue in. With moist kissing sounds, devouring each other’s lips felt absolutely heavenly.

Kouichi licked Astrid’s fangs — with the tip of his tongue.

He hadn’t done that since the one time he did it.

It’s okay. You can suck it. If you want to suck on it, just sink your tongue into my tongue, Astrid.

If I can be with you, even if you turn me into a vampire, I’m sure it’s gonna be wonderful.

Loaded with such meaning — he caressed her fangs.

Kouichi had the conviction that the message would be conveyed even without words.

“…!!” Astrid’s body shuddered just from having her fangs licked.

Kouichi kissed normally again while pushing Astrid against the wall and playing with her crotch with his right hand.

He stroked, pinched, and spread her labia — already starting to get wet as usual — with his fingers.

“……Nn”

Astrid’s long breath was hot.

She also reached out her hands and grabbed Kouichi’s erect penis.

Precum was already leaking out from the glans; as she rubbed that against her palm, she slowly stroked his penis up from the balls sack to the rod and then to the glans; lovingly, again and again.

It wasn’t intense, but the subtle stimulation spread throughout Kouichi’s penis, making his spine shiver.

“Feels good?” Astrid asked with a somewhat mischievous smile on her face.

“…Yeah, very”

“Really? I’m happy, you know?” Astrid then kissed Kouichi’s nape of the neck.

The nape of the neck — the place where vampires sucked blood.

Kouichi’s body tensed up for an instant as to be expected, but it was not out of fear or disgust, but rather anxiety towards experiencing something for the first time.

However…

“……”

Chu, chu — only kissing sounds could be heard, but not the feelings of her fangs digging into his neck. No feeling of pain, and no feeling of hard teeth in the first place. All Astrid was doing was kissing him.

Just how did she feel about Kouichi’s reaction──

“Kouichi… I understand your resolve… That’s why, I’ll do the same, okay?” Astrid said as she slid her body down and put her lips on Kouichi’s nipple.

“Ah… Ast…”

“Fufu… You moan like a girl, huh? I’m… happy,” Astrid said, noisily sucking Kouichi’s nipples in alternation.

Playing around with Kouichi’s hardened nipples, squashing them with her tongue, and smiling delightfully from watching him pant in pleasure; as if to say: I always get the same thing done to me, so I’m returning the favor.

After caressing Kouichi’s nipples with her lips for a while, “Kouichi… if you die, I’m gonna follow you,” Astrid said, as if she suddenly remembered it.

“…Eh? Ast…”

“As expected, it’s gonna be hard to cut off my head myself, though. There was that holy water that Evangeline gave you, right? I can just freeze that, turn it into an icicle, and stab my heart or something. Can I die with that, I wonder? Anyway, I’m not gonna let you go on your death alone, so don’t worry”

“Astrid… ah…”

Astrid’s lips kissed Kouichi’s chest again — and went down to around his navel and down to his lower body. Kouichi shivered at the feeling of her tongue slowly approaching his lower abdomen.

“So, Kouichi…?” Astrid said, lovingly rubbing her cheek on Kouichi’s penis. “If you feel sad for me… live as long as you can, okay?”

“I-I’ll do my best… ah, ah, Ast, that, feels… good…”

Astrid’s tongue was slowly licking the boundary between the glans and the rod. With every sweep of her tongue, Kouichi felt an indescribable sensation of pleasure sprung up inside him.

“If you were about to die half-heartedly… I’ll turn you into a vampire, okay…?”

“I… I don’t mind… if you do it… now… though…?”

“Nope. First, live properly, fully, and completely as a human. Lived it to the fullest. And then thinking about whether to stop being human or not is after that.” Astrid then screwed the tip of her tongue into the hole on the glans and sucked it.

Kouichi moaned at the sensation of something passing through his urethra even before any semen was released.

Before long──

“…Kouichi”

Standing up quickly, Astrid leaned her back against the wall and showed him the fingers of her right hands opening her vagina. Klish — pulling the labia to the left and right, she exposed the empty space hidden inside her flesh──

“You see, I want you to pour your seed into my deepest part; again again and again — until I’m pregnant”

“…Until… preg… nant”

Kouichi gulped down his own saliva.

He had been ejaculating into her vagina again again and again — actually, they had never used any contraceptive in the first place, though. Astrid’s current gesture tremendously stimulated Kouichi’s sexual desire.

I wanna shove it in. I wanna pound her with my dick and dump all of my cum into her pussy.

“Kouichi, I wanna give birth to your child. I just thought: I wanna leave behind in this world proof that you and I truly loved each other”

“Ast…”

Kouichi nodded and held up Astrid’s left leg to make it easier to insert. She raised her left leg high — as if she were balancing in a Y shape — supporting herself with her right leg, and both hands on the wall, waiting for Kouichi to come thrusting her.

“I’m sticking it in…!”

Kouichi held up his penis from below and inserted it into Astrid’s vagina.

“Nnnn… ah…”

“……Ugh”

The tightness was amazing.

Astrid’s vaginal walls were squirming like never before, wrapping around Kouichi’s cock and tightening, and leading it deeper and deeper.

“…A true vampire like me is, you see… ‘someone lacking’… you know…” Astrid spoke up in between her panting. “Ability to ‘be born from a parent’… ‘grow up and grow old’… ‘die a perfectly normal death’… like you, like humans have… we don’t have it… I… since I was born… already in this form… and no… parents either… I’m such a monster, you know…?”

“Ast…?”

“But… even if I’m like that… if I… could get pregnant with your child, then…”

If she could have, give birth to, and raise a child between her and Kouichi, then.

It meant that one of her many “lacks” would be filled.

She would be taking one step closer — towards humans.

If she could take one step closer, maybe she could get two steps. If she could take two steps closer, then three steps. If she could take two steps closer, then four steps. Thus, filling the “lacks” and erasing the gaps.

Just why she didn’t notice it until now after living for two hundred years.

Just who decided that a different being should remain a different being.

That vampires couldn’t get close to humans — that they couldn’t become human, had anybody proven it? Even though humans could become vampires? How could one say the reverse wouldn’t be possible?

“…Fuh… nn…”

Kouichi swung his hips, pounding Astrid diagonally upwards from below.

Perhaps because her body was slanted, her breasts were slightly tilted to the right side, swaying and changing its shape along with Kouichi’s pounding. He looked, and saw her nipples bouncing around in a very sexy way — wanting to make it more naughty, Kouichi grabbed her right breast with his left hand and began to knead it.

“Ah… Kouichi… my breasts… my boo… my boobs are…”

“What? What’s, with your boobs?”

“If you touched them while pounding me… I feel… too much…”

“Feel lots of it, Ast”

“Ah, yo-you can’t, I’m gonna cum, I’m gonna cum quickly…!”

“I’m also gonna cum soon, so we’re even”

“Th-that’s not the prob — hyah… ah…”

Astrid seemed to lose her composure right after the insertion, so her voice trailed off into a scream and a sob-like shudder. Unlike her usual, somewhat composed self, this was, probably, the alluring figure of the vampire princess that no one but himself knew about.

He was so happy, moreover feeling so good that he felt like his head was going crazy.

“I’ll pour it inside you, again and again. Again and again, no matter the position, I will do my best, to get you pregnant, so, I──”

So intense that the love juice was foaming up, Kouichi’s cock was going in and out of Astrid’s pussy. Each time his glans rubbed the inside of her vagina and his pubic hair hit her clit, the pleasure continued to build up, one level after another.

To keep the orgasm away even for a moment longer to savor it, Kouichi squeezed Astrid’s breast and attacked her nipple relentlessly with his fingertips.

“Ah, yo-you can’t, I’m gonna cum, cum from my nipple… uwh… Eve-even though, I wanna cum, with your dick, with your semen, filling me, ah, ah, but I’m gonna, cum with my nipp──”

“Astrid, I love, I love you so much”

“M-me too — Kouichi, Kouichi…!”

As Kouichi swung his hips, he leaned his head forward and kissed Astrid’s chest, and her neck.

While sucking hard on the nape of her neck — while leaving behind hickey, he bullied Astrid’s breast so hard and hard as if to leave behind the shape of his fingers.

But Astrid didn’t seem to be in pain, rather, she gave a high pitched moan.

He kissed the vampire princess’ neck and put a hickey on it.

Feeling a subtle sense of achievement at such a perverse act, Kouichi accelerated the movement of his hips.

“Ah, wa-wai… too… intense… your dick, has become, really, really big since a while ago… ah, I can’t, I can’t, already, can’t — hyah, aahh, aahhh”

“I’m… cumming…”

“Kouichi…!”

Kouichi shot a strong creampie as if to say: get to Astrid’s womb.

Kouichi was satisfied after confirming in his hazy pleasure-filled consciousness that Astrid’s leg stiffened up strongly in his arm — that she also had cummed.

And then──

“Kouichi… Kouichi…”

While deliriously calling his name, Astrid sat there, rubbing her back against the wall with a swooned and lax expression like some kind of a young girl. Kouichi also sat down on the floor with her, and then Astrid got down on all fours and buried her face between his legs.

“Ast──”

“More, fill me up lots, until it overflows, okay?” Astrid said, taking Kouichi’s penis into her mouth, And she sucked out the remaining semen in the urethra strongly and powerfully.

“Fuahh…”

The pleasure running through his sensitive penis that had just cummed made Kouichi raise a scream-like voice.

While watching his state──

“Kouichi… I love you. I will always love you,” Astrid said with upturned eyes after pulling her mouth away from his penis.

TL notes:

^1. The original was 『大好きホールド』 which means “Daisuki Hold,” but I went with “clamping koala” instead; sounds more fun. It’s basically like this:

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