175 Episode 68: A Long Night Comes (5) (1/2)
”What do you mean, the Kingdom of Cambus is gone?
”It means exactly what you say. The Canvas Kingdom has already collapsed. Because of that monster...”
”... does that also lead to the reason why the demons that were after you are now threatening our country?
I narrow my eyes and ask the woman. You were intimidated by nature, or a woman looked pale and trembled.
Raini, who saw it, held the woman's hand and put her hand on her shoulder to try to calm her down. The woman stared at Raini with a blue face, but took a big, deep breath with her eyes closed so she could indulge in something.
”... yes. You can't be irrelevant anymore. In the first place, the beginning is in the Kingdom of Palletia...”
”... what do you mean? You think the Palletian kingdom did something to the Cambus kingdom?
”Dear Uphilia, let's move the place first. I think you should calm this guy down and listen to him.”
Raini broke in between where he tried to question me. I took Raini's word for it and breathed consciously that I was in a hurry too.
Then as Raini urged me, I asked the woman to sit down and breathe in a slightly out of popularity. I'm the only one here, Raini, and the acrylics and women that came with me.
Acrylic looked at the woman like she was staring, and she was going to kill her now. A woman who noticed it looked up at the acrylic with no power.
”Ricant's daughter, I somehow understand why you look at me.”
”You don't remember me.”
”... right. If you can't help being resented, you can accept it now. You did something you wouldn't be forgiven for apologizing...”
The woman seemed sincerely sorry for lowering her raised gaze and dropping it to her shoulder. Acrylic, who was shown such a face, bit his teeth like he said he didn't know what to look like, and turned his back.
”May I ask your name first? I am the queen of the kingdom of Uphilia and Palettia.”
”Queen? Heh, yeah... you're the king now. But I'm convinced. You're a spiritual contractor, aren't you?
”... do you understand?
”If they show you that magic, yeah. And spiritual covenants are the ultimate thing we didn't choose.”
I didn't choose the extreme......? I frowned at the words, but a woman looked up and gazed at me and named herself.
”I'm Ruella.... So, what do I tell you from?
”First of all, you're a vampire, aren't you?
”That's right.”
”… then, next. What position were you in in in the Kingdom of Cambus?
”What kind, huh? … well, is it correct to say administrator”
”Administrator?
Administrators, what the hell was managing?
”The Kingdom of Cambus is separate from the Kingdom of Palletia, so your common sense doesn't fit in. I don't know exactly what your common sense is.”
”Still a kingdom, isn't it? Then there is a king, there is a subordinate, there is a people. Isn't it?
”... right. I just don't think the people of the Cambus kingdom were exactly there.”
”No people?
”The Cambus kingdom is a gathering of peoples who had only minimal connections to each other. Nothing. There is no recognition of the same people as each other. Subhuman, yes, subhuman. It was our vampire clan that ruled the subhuman clan in the form of management.”
I opened my eyes to Ruella's explanation. I see it's consistent with what Acrylic says. Only the acrylics belonged to their own clan, not to the Kingdom of Cambus.
And Ruella said it was only the family of vampires who created the frame called the Cambus Kingdom. I mean, the answer you can derive from it is...
”- The Kingdom of Cambus was governed by a clan of vampires. But when it came to governance, I wasn't even aware to say that vampires were allies on the ruling side. Was it only from the shadows that you mastered the subhuman clan?
”That's right.”
Ruella affirmed my answer. That... does seem different from the common sense of the Kingdom of Palettia.
”So why did you call yourself the Kingdom of Cambus, though in that way?
”That's not to interfere with the Kingdom of Palettia.”
”Why?
”Vampires are the shallowest clan of the land that has become the kingdom of Kambas. But we had an understanding of the form of kingdom. That's because the vampire clan was originally a people of the Palletian kingdom.”
”... you mean a vampire who escaped a heretical hunt of the past moved to the canvas kingdom?
”Heh...? You do recognize us that way, don't you?
Ruella laughs sarcastically. Vampires are monsters told as gaga stories, but their source is because they tried to eliminate them by viewing them as contraindications because of the dangers of wizards who sought immortality.