Chapter 25 (1/2)

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Chapter 25 – Edim and Miscalculations

“Intruders! Don’t let theet away!”

“Disintegrate, you traaash!+”

“Gobaaaagh!”

I continued onwards, using ic bullets to clear the way of mercenaries…

One after another, I slew them and slew them

But by the tis had doubled

I was breathing hard, and there were still so many of them

On any other day I could have ht…

Even though I was feeling a bit better after Jessica’s blood it was a far cry fro fully recovered

After all, I couldn’t kill her, so I only took a little

I needed so much more

“W-What are you…?”

“I-, I knohat she is T-That strength can only mean a vampire She’s a demon!”

Tsk!

So they realised

If the Fiend realised that a de then there was a chance that he would run

I had to hurry

But having realiseda distance and firing ical bullets from afar now

Kuh, nothing could be worse

My strength was being drained and having Jessica here wasn’t helping

She was as good as useless after all

Actually worse than useless since I had to protect her too

“This is as far as we go, Jessica You have to escape first”

“No! How could I leave you when you’re so exhausted!”

“U-Umm, you know That’s kind of why I want you to leave It’s actually pretty hard fighting while protecting you”

“S-Sorry for being useless…”

“It’s fine, just go!”

“Y-Yeah… Yeah! I should go call Tilea-san after all”

I told you not to do anything unnecessary!

Anything but that!

I’ to be executed by the leadershi+p, you know

“Jessica, you should leave Tilea-sa… n out of this”

“B-But…”

“I’ll be fine, Jessica If it gets too dangerous I’ll leg it You should… Ah, right You need to look after the rest of the girls who escaped the prison The guards will probably catch some of them”

“T-There were some kids after all…”

“See?”

“Okay Got it Leave everyone to me”

“I’ll be counting on you”

“Don’t die, Edim”

With that, Jessica disappeared down the stairs

Phew…

That was one burden gone

I sighed in relief

Ordinarily I would have looked after her myself

She belonged to Camilla-sama after all

But a direct order from Tilea-sama took precedence, and I would have failed the mission at this rate

Trying to achieve everything would haveboth

It wasn’t optimal but it was the best I could do

There was another benefit to having Jessica gone

I didn’t have to stick to huer

I let my instincts as a vampire take over

A happy suards

“Guahhh! S-Save mee!”

I was going to drink my fill

On any other day I’d never touch blood like this

It tasted disgusting of course, but for tonight I wouldn’t waste a drop

If Ithe Fiend it would be most satisfactory

“Just dieeeeee!” somebody screamed

I had been taken off guard, andtowards me from a blind spot

Tsk!

damn trash!+

Because I had been in theblood I was slow to react

I was trying to dodge them, but a feould probably hit

I had to bite my lip and tried to endure as they hit me, but to my surpise…

…It was the small fry ere bloay

Those were ic bullets!

Had Dalf come for me…?

Had he been worried about my health?

I hadn’t forgotten that Ortissio had injured him too

It was impressive that he had come as reinforcements

If I was being honest, I wasn’t confident in taking on both the Fiend and Nyger, depleted as I was

As expected of my most trusted subordinate

I turned a gaze of trust to him

“Dalf, you did well in com――”

“It is I, Jayjay”

“Is so the matter, Edim-sama? I have infiltrated this mansion alone on Dalf-sama’s orders”

…Well, it wasn’t what I was expecting, but he was still a second-order vampire of my line

“We break through in one go, Jayjay”

“Understood”

We ic bullets

It iain the importance of support

We were ress

Before long we entered a much better decorated area

This would be the Fiend’s room then

It was a luxurious place

All around, I could see signs of unnecessary spending

Well, not that it coround Empire, but still…

“Jayjay, your role is to hold Nyger back I will use that chance to assassinate the Fiend”

“As you wish However…”

“Oh? Do you lack confidence in doing so?”

“No, milady, I simply wanted to ask what the consequences were if I failed to simply hold him back and defeated him by accident”

“…That’s quite bold of you Nyger has served ht-hand-man”

“Ha ha ha Ediical history is literally my speciality You needn’t remind me”

Kuh, he was like this as a teacher, and beco a vampire hadn’t fixed that at all

Always thinking he was more capable than he really was

“As long as you understand I only need a er’s attention!”

“Understood Today is the day that Nyger dies”

I wasn’t exactly confident about this, but tier issue was that it would be a close call on my own

Relying on Jayjay was my only real choice

I entered Gordon’s room and looked around

Four to the left, three to the right, five in the back…

And there were now people co up the stairs behind us

Worse, each of theer than the rabble we’d seen previously

It made the job a lot harder

It wouldn’t be a bad idea to kill them off first, but…

“So you’re the demon that’s invaded my estate,” smirked a man with the face of a scoundrel

So this was Gordon the Fiend…

In that case, the old er

There was soer from the rabble

Jayjay was going to struggle

The Fiend needed to be put down quickly so that I could help fight Nyger

Otherwise things would end badly for Jayjay

“Jayjay, buy me time Hold out for one minute”

“Understood”

With that, I closed in on the Fiend with lightning speed

I intended to usemana in one attack

A single stroke to slay the Fiend, and then Nyger

“Wha-!? Fast!”

“Slow”

Before he could even raise his sword, my hand was at his neck――

“Guuh!”

I had been attacked from behind

What happened?

I turned around only to find Nyger firing ical bullets

Wha-, it hadn’t even been ten seconds!

What was Jayjay…?

“E-Edim-sama M-, My sincere… Guhah!”

S-, So useless

I asked him for just one minute

For him to have fallen within ten seconds was…

Nyger had cut off all four of his limbs

A human would be dead for sure, but as a vampire he was still alive

Not that I would care if somebody this useless kicked the bucket

Actually I’d prefer it that way!

“Don’t er aimed at the fallen Jayjay

“Hah?” I scoffed, “Are you trying to take hie? By all means, kill the eyesore”

“Huhu, it appears that he doesn’t have much worth as one”

Nyger laughed fearlessly

I considered him

Jayjay ree kin of er had taken him down instantly

If I considered the strength of the earlier er that I should be wary of, not Gordon

“Va your dirty feet into my mansion!” Gordon spat