Volume 1 Prologue (2/2)
”If you keep doing stupid things, Nosferatu will come flying to bite your neck!”
”Stop……!”
The boy s.h.i.+vered and s.h.i.+elded his nape with both hands.
The Nosferatu were a frightening vampiric race that featured in folklore of the Republic of Zirnitra. Additionally, there were many other mysterious blood suckers such as the Upir, Nelapsi, and Strigoi; all of these creatures were basically non-existent except for one of these. Children shrunk at the mention of the name. [2]
His father and mother took the opportunity to drink nearby distilled spirit (Zhizen). [3]
” Being a pilot is but a pipe dream for cowards scared of vampires”
”T-there's no such thing!”
”Well then, what do you think happens when Nosferatu takes flight throughout the night?”
”Eh……”
The boy imagined a scene where he was confronted by a monster in the sky with a millet colored body. [4]
”Haha, are you scared?”
”I'm not scared!”
The boy objected as his face turned beet red.
”Eat garlic everyday, wear a necklace with a cross, and you'll be okay! Besides, I'll shoot them down if they decide to come!”
His mother and father exchanged looks and laughed.
”Why are you laughing?! d.a.m.nit. When I grow up, I'm going to be a pilot and travel to the moon's surface, and the two of you won't get a ride!”
”A trip to the moon? That's decades away.”
”Come to think of it, isn't there a legend about a vampiric race which live on the back of the moon?”
”N-no way! I'll go to the moon and prove that's a lie!”
The boy looked up to the moon which was rising in the window beside him. His indigo eyes twinkled from its s.h.i.+ne.
”I'm definitely going.”
Footnotes:
1. Aronia: It's chokeberry lol. /wiki/Aronia
2. So, this one was a bit tricky though I understood the underlying theme: they were all slavic vampire-related creatures.
3. Spirit basically just means alcohol-particularly things like rum, whiskey, and brandy.
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