(095) Side Story Bats of the dark night
Translator: Tseirp
There were countless bats above Dakyat in the sky.
The black bats blended into the night, making it invisible from the ground. And even if a person saw them, he would probably just think that they are bats and not pay attention to them. Bats that originally fly at an altitude of a couple of thousand meters up were flying at that location. That kind of illogical scene was occurring on the ground and furthermore, that illogical scene was hidden in the shrouds and dispersed.
However, those bats were the reason for the disturbance on the surface.
Vampire Valf.
As the 3rd general of the Demon Lord’s army, he who possesses the power of eternal life was gazing at the situation on the ground with his bat form.
Incidentally, that bat was not Valf’s true body but one part of his split body.
When he transforms into a bat, he splits into 100 bats.
In addition, that was also one of his weakness.
He loses his power of eternal life when he is a bat. Nevertheless, he transforms when he intends to gather information.
When he’s in his bat form, he would no longer burn when bathed by sunlight.
“The day before yesterday was terrible … damn humans …”
Afternoon, the day before yesterday. He transformed and sent 90 of his bat split bodies to fly into the country while the 10 remaining including his true body hid in a cave.
It was then. Somebody released magic into the cave. That magic burnt and destroyed 9 of the split body and his true body also suffered serious injuries.
Due to that incident, he was forced to once again gather the 90 bats throughout the country and gather his strength in addition to requiring an additional day’s rest.
By the way, the identity of that attack was the magic released by Ichinojo towards what he misunderstood as a monster’s cave before he arrived at Ferruit. Naturally, Valf was unaware of that and Ichinojo also did not attack knowing that Valf was there.
Due to that, Valf thought that he would miss the monster invasion and their clash with the soldiers but the monster invasion was late for some reason so he made it just in time.
“Here they come ― ”
With the eyes of the vampire called the King of the Red Night, he would not lose visibility even if he is in his bat form.
His ― their countless eyes gazed upon the battlefield.
The monster herd collided with the human soldiers.
However, the human soldiers moved.
They released fire arrows.
The grassland transformed into a sea of fire in the blink of an eye.
(Foolish. Did they think that would stop the monsters? Those are monsters I bestowed to Korat’s King born from magic. They are not beings that will be stopped by something of that level.)
As Valf had expected, the monster herd was unafraid of the flames and they merely continued to advance forward without fearing the loss of their own life or the reduction of their numbers.
The monsters born from labyrinths are accumulations of miasma after all. Those behaviors are merely the vestiges of the monsters and adventurers when they were still alive and it has been greatly limited by the Goddess’ power. Just by slightly intervening in that process, he’s able to obtain pawns.
Those monsters were not thinking of anything at all. They were nothing more than puppets with the sole aim of reaching the capital of Dakyat, Ferruit.
Due to the unexpected aggression from the monsters, the flames had spread until the human soldier’s encampment.
There was a human saying that there are no monsters that don’t fear fire.
However, that’s not true. Humans are still afraid of fire too.
The flames that they thought they manipulated had run amok and turned to burn the hands of the humans.
The human soldiers had begun to retreat.
The monsters would soon reach Ferruit.
Then, they will rampage across Ferruit and disappear 3 days later.
Korat’s soldiers would visit after that.
The humans will war amongst themselves. The country would fall into ruin.
However, when Korat’s soldiers attack Dakyat, Valf will also use the same gimmick on the labyrinth in Korat.
With the soldiers mobilized to invade Dakyat, Korat would likely not be able to prevent the invasion of the advancing monsters and fall into ruin too.
Why does Valf intend to crush Korat and Dakyat?
There was no reason behind it.
He is of the demon race who utilizes humans as pawns and thinks that it is fine if humans are destroyed.
He laughed inside his heart.
He laughed imagining the slaughter that was about to happen.
Overrun by monsters, warring amongst humans and to further be trampled by monsters.
He laughed at the foolishness of humans.
However, his laughter was interrupted.
( ―! What happened? Did something happen!?)
The monster herd abruptly changed direction.
The monsters changed course towards the south.
What!?
What’s happening!?
(Is this the workings of something that transcends my magic!?)
Having absolute faith in his own strength, Valf was astonished and tried to determine the situation.
(― Tsu!!)
At that moment, Valf felt a gaze.
Somebody was looking at him.
Furthermore, it’s not just looking but somebody was staring at him with obvious hostility.
When Valf searched for the owner of that gaze, he saw them at the land to the south, ahead of where the monsters had changed course towards.
He saw 4 humans.
(Why is she … why is that Devil Kanon’s slave here?)
The first person he noticed was the girl with a pointed hat and mask on ― Malina.
(Malina if I remember correctly. She’s just a girl who possesses the odd job called Street Performer. Did she do something?)
However, Valf reconsidered. She was not the owner of the gaze.
Then, he saw the white haired White Wolf race next to Malina.
The White Wolf race is a tribe with sharp night vision.
It won’t be strange for her to notice him.
However, why was she looking so intently at Valf while he was in his bat form?
Valf pondered and then came to a realization.
(―! Haurvatat! Demon Lord Raritei’s pet!)
There was no doubt in Valf’s mind.
If it’s really her, she would know about his ability to transform into bat form.
(Then, was it her action that caused the monsters to change course? But how?)
Maybe because Haurvatat told them, Malina next to her as well as the weak-looking man and the small girl looked at his direction.
However, judging that it would be an obstacle to his plan if this continued, he decided to kill those 4 people.
Then, Valf’s split body disappeared into the dark night.
In order to return to his true body.
GM_Rusaku
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mecharos
Thank you!
Namae nashi desu
Argh, damn, just there the climax he always appear. Cliff-san I really hate you……
hej
thanks for the chapter
sooo haru is miri’s pet?
hayka
Well she was about 3 when Miri got seal after all so……
Anonymous
Oh wow you just made me realize that they kinda knew each other.
(don’t mind me just power reading this)
blade-kun
This vampire asshole is gonna die XD
Thanks for the chapter.
But does Ichino really look weak?
Angel
He does, and on a side note, if his boss knew that he is trying to kill her onii chan his death would far be less pleasant than if he faces the “weak looking man” and his harem
Caudyr
Oh god, just imagining that…makes my gut almost explode in laughter.
He’s going to die PAINLESSLY by comparison to what would happen if she found out about it. XD
Caudyr
Forgot to add this part, heh…
Then again…watch her show up right in front of Ichino RIGHT when the Vampire shows up to attack him.
Then it’ll be all: “Hey, Onii!”
Vampire: “DIIIIIIE!”
Miri: “…what are you doing to my Onii, peon?” *obliteration*
XD
Therealoddone
He’s just a jobless guy standing around doing nothing but stare at space. What could he possibly be doing else? 😛
Random Internet User (tm)
Thank you kindly for the chapter!
Drift
“weak-looking man’…. Hahaha, ooooohhhhh he is going to be in for it.
Kortodo
I wonder how much XP killing Valf will give? Especially with the XP multiplier.
Will the chapter after the next one be nothing but level up notifications? 😀
IAmViruz
Welp, touching the pet and the weak looking man who was not even mentioned by the vampire sure is a death flag~~
Mesmerised
Thanks for the chapter!
Philippe Spalla
thanks for the chapter!
Irina Akashira
Thanks for the update
Chuo
I thought the author was keeping side stories for more serious stuff, as in plot development and not as in not funny, I mean. We already knew Vaf was behind this since when he hired the kids.
Thanks for the translation ✌.
sergioGM
Hahahahaha poor Valf! They f*ck his ass 😀
Jim
Villain confirmed by author to have no motivation LAME.
Vampires with no motivation should just quit as villains and go back to being lazy NEETs(Not Evil Egotistical or Terrifying) that sit in the dark alone and shun the sunlight.
BatataYacon
Lets recapitulate:
She climbed Mt. Fuji with a skirt and Blazer for her Onii-chan
She jumped off Mt.Fuji for her onii-chan
She almost killed 2 gods for the mere possibility that they didn’t give something good for her onii-chan, and they didn’t even do something bad to him, they even saved him.
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And now. A mere servant of hers is trying to kill her onii-chan…
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Even if he survive the battle he has no future
Caudyr
I wonder what she’s going to say when she finds out Haru (and Carol, soonish?) are his lovers.
It’s hard to pinpoint whether she’s IN LOVE WITH HIM, or just loves him too much as her brother.
Then again, given that she is what they say she is…maybe she’s not actually related to him at all, and just “kind of appeared” in their family tree (which is quite possible, given the fact that they didn’t know that Ichino had a sister, because of who she was before)…
I hope we see her show up soon, though…because it’s already set for her to “appear in that world” now…though WHERE she appears is anyone’s guess, heh. =x
imouto
Noo! Please don’t be like that.
What I want is they’re still blood related but since it’s the otherworld then it’s okay if she becomes Onii’s lover!
*Ehem* sorry for leaking my fantasy.
Striker
I thought demon Lord reincarnated on earth?
SFcipher
Thanks for the chapter.
PastOneHikariToKage
Thanks
Striker
Thanks for chapter ^_^
Seregosa
Valf pondered and then came to a realization.
(―! Haurvatat! Demon Lord Raritei’s pet!)
That moment when you realize that the first thing the mc did upon arriving was fucking his yandere sister’s pet wolf. He’s so done for 😀
GonZ555
Meatbun Delivery~
Thank you for the chapter ( ●w●)
Ah! Bonus Exp event!
*hunts the bats and flaming monsters*
CCaprice
Thanks for the chapter.
Max
R.I.P. Vampire demon.
Darkoneko
so Demons merely shows as monsters in MC’s radar. Even tho they are thinking beings.
…….MC is sexing up his sister’s pet hahahahaha
Hunt3rm4n
Imagine Milis’ rage if she discovered what’s happening to MC right now…
dman
“Pet” huh? Looks like this vampire is looking to die.