CH 38

Chapter 38: Vampire, go out for a walk in the evening.

The scenery around me is the darkness of the night and the moonlight.

With the vampire’s eyes, I can see everything even without the moonlight. 

There is a small village that is visible. There are no more than 20 houses. 

There are fields around every house, I guess I can call it a rural area.

From the smell, It seems that there are also several small villages around  … But this is the largest one and nearest to the ruined hut where Kuzuha-chan is living.

Her mother is here. The reason I think so is the two-story mansion in the center of the village. 

Even though the surrounding house is made of wood, only that house is built with brick-like items. It’s like a small castle. 

The scent drifting from the mansion clearly includes things other than people.

…… It is a smell of beasts.

Animal other than man. On top of that, sweet smell that mixing with smell of beasts. 

Perhaps, it is a unique smell that I do not know unless my sense of smell is sharper. What I feel right now is a smell similar to Kuzuha-chan’s smell. 

A smell of someone who is not Kuzuha-chan, which is similar to Kuzuha-chan. Without thinking, it can’t be anyone else but her mother.

I skip the bat wing and go to the mansion. 

There is no-one keep watch when I look from the sky. Because it is a small village, there should not enough people to do that. Although, they might have a guard in the house. 

“It was easy”

The first word when I’m returning to the human form.

Apparently, it seems that long time has passed since this house was built.

When considering that surrounding houses are made of wooden shelves, it seems to have been built in a hurry, in the past long ago …

This house seemed not only old but also looked rough, there were gaps in the closed window. And it was easy to invade from there.

“It’s a gap that you can not enter if you are not fog though.”

It is a gap that mist, liquid, or the like can easy go through. It would be sufficient to prevent people from entering. 

I scarcely smell human beings around. It seems that the number of humans guarding is small. 

Obviously, because it is a countryside, is it natural? This seems that I can walk around in a dignified manner. 

I lightly scoop up my hair that reflects the moonlight, and I start walking through the mansion. 

Night air on the bare skin is a little cold, but it is an obstacle to walk so I have not put out a blanket.

… It would be better for me to get clothes first.

I would like to avoid being treated like a pervert.

Because I don’t have clothes right now so it un-avoid-able, still I don’t want talking around naked..

If there are people like maidens on this mansion, there may be clothes, but looking for other errands is troublesome and I do not know if there is a size for a small child like me. Let’s give up this time.

“Hmm……”

By entering into the mansion, the smell of beasts is felt stronger. 

The scent like getting up from the feet and the floor showed that there is a lower floor here. 

It is the first floor where I am walking. Below this, then that means there is a underground basement.

You have to find an entrance to the basement. Even though I know the general direction with my sense of smell, I can not grasp the exact route. Well, that is troublesome.

If it is outdoors, you should proceed towards the direction where the smell has flowed, but it will not work so indoors. 

There are walls and floors in the surroundings, you can not get there unless you go through the stairs and the door, not the straight line in the direction you want to go. 

I feel a sensory-like sensation. This is what I just remembered today. 

I feel the same as what I felt when playing with Kuzuha-chan. Magical power residue in the air.

“… Is she called me?”

Somehow, I felt that way. 

A small feel like a small child grabbed my hand and pulling me. 

“Is this a dining room?”

The sense of being pulled fingers is still ongoing. Enter the dining room, bypass the table and go further. 

When I opened the door on the opposite side from where I came in, it was a kitchen. 

It is much wider than the kitchen at Felnote-san’s house. I feel that the equipment is in place, so it probably is being built up. 

It is big kitchen. The oven is also large. The refrigerator can be stored twice as much as what was in the Felnote-san’s house. 

The kitchen utensils hooked on the wall attached to the wall are beyond ten with kitchen knife alone. 

The shorter the blades are on the right, the longer ones are left. It is a tidy arrangement.

… She is not here either.

As the irritation to the sense of smell gets stronger little by little, it seems that it approaches, but it is still thin. The sense of magical power has not disappeared, it keeps piercing the skin. 

Looking at the kitchen in moderation, I step forward to the direction of sense navigation. It is a small door next to the cold storage. 

As expected, you can imagine what the next room is like.

“Is it a food storehouse?”

It will be a space to preserve ingredients that need to be kept cold. 

The smell that I feel from the other side of the door is a thing. I guess this is the smell of onion. 

But this door was strangely sturdy for the food storage. 

Three locks. The door itself is obviously made of thick metal. It is as if It doesn’t allow people to enter or leave. 

I understand that food is important, but will we normally do so?

“If it’s not normal, then the things in here may not be normal”

I change my body to a shadow. The shadow is literally a shadow. There is no thickness, and it can enter any gap. Besides, the time is at night, the light is not lighted in the kitchen, so it’s dark. 

I have a high skill level of shadowing I can become a shadow even in the sun, but those who change as they blend into the shadow do not get tired. Shadowing is the most fluctuating change system skill, if it has been set up. 

I can not move forward earlier but I can move as the shadow. I slowly broke into the food storehouse.

The flow of magical power is gradually felt strongly. 

Apparently this person seems to be close to the end.

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