Volume 3 Chapter 0 (2/2)

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She had rolled off She was collapsed on the floor A girl in a red…yes, a bloody dress was squirs and butt pointed our way, but she was down on our eye level now If her rusty silver hair swayed and she turned this way, she would see us below the bed!!

Go away

Just leave

Don't worry about what's behind you!

Don't ask any weird questions and just leave!!

The red-stained dress writhed as her fingers and toes kept slipping in her own pool of blood

She's not…standing up!?

Is it all over!?

But the Class Rep did not arlic head to her chest

The girl moved

Sheup would be tooI could hear the sound of dragging wet cloth She ers through the gap, pushed it open, and entered the hallway headfirst

I couldn't move for a while

I seriously thought I would find the bloody dress girl s back from just outside the door the instant we relaxed and crawled out from below the bed

The Class Rep must have been the same

She did not move out from the bed, but she did whisper to me

”(Looks like she's gone)”

”(C-Class Rep? What was that???)”

When I asked that far-too-obvious question, the Class Rep relaxed her shoulders just a bit and answered

”(I thought you would know more about those than me, Satori-kun)”

I was confused, so my childhood friend continued

”(A va around this abandoned hospital, the old Peace Committee Convalescent Hospital)”

With that, sos clicked into place

Although there were still plenty of questions, like why the Class Rep and I were in that abandoned hospital and why I had turned into a garlic head But ether

We had an extree

I had the Class Rep as a flag I could not afford to lose

We had the vampire as an absolutely powerful foe

And there was the garlic

…Wasn't that one of the ht and crosses?

”M-Maxwell!! These settings are all ed to hell! Have I been thrown into sooat or a slice of brea-…h!?”

”Shh! Can you not learn, Satori-kun!? Make too much noise and she'll come back!!”

I had discovered a new rule: make a lot of noise and the Class Rep would unconditionally hold htly to her chest But if I went too far, ould encounter that bloody dress girl Don't set up death traps in such weird places!? Are you a monster!? Sniff, sniff!!

And the desperately roleplaying Class Rep had more to say:

”Also, Satori-kun I don't think there'sup Maxwell now Our phones don't have a signal”

Wait, hold on

MyI had to ask before I all-out panicked

Wait, wait, wait!!

”C-Class Rep…?”

”What is it, Satori-kun?”

”Th-this is soame space created by Maxwell, ht? I arlic, that we're in an abandoned hospital, and that

there's an invincible monster in a bloody dress!?”

Are we on earth? I had thought it was as simple a question as that There was only one possible answer

But an aard silence followed It ht not have actually lasted even a full second, but it felt horribly out of place like a slight lag in an otherwise smooth video

And her words delivered the final blow

”What are you talking about?”

Ah, ahhh…

Am I in real trouble this time!?

Maxwell: My user's second forical weapon with especially powerful effects against va properties mean it is viewed favorably by Miss Ayumi, the zombie who uses so many preservatives on a daily basis

Garlic comes in a variety of forht cloves However, the garlic is extrerows further bulbs while buried in dirt None of this can be explained using the traits of the normal perennial plant of the Liliaceae faarlic…?

The ht, a wooden stake, and garlic There are actually plenty of others, such as fire, sacramental bread, holy water, silver weapons, etc, but I think those three are the ones most people will think of

Coarlic does not seem very holy or powerful and it even seems kind of silly, but if you read the world's most-famous vampire novel which is soarlic is used as a convenient tool Not only does a necklace arlic flowers keep the vampire away, but it is also used to protect a home And it seems the actual hunters use it in similar ways

As an additional note, the idea that vaht is only found in later movie adaptations The novel only has the vah the heart is not absolute; after the stake, you have to chop off the head and stuff garlic in the mouth

…The va today actually does turn to ashes in sunlight and dies instantly froet into ”chicken or the egg” territory, but garlic is still a necessary co them Any who mock the old traditions will find themselves in tears later on