The Vampire Is an Academy Honor Student

Chapter 053. natural enemy

Early moning.

Laura opened her eyes to the sunlight streaming through the window.

“… … .”

Maybe it’s because it’s been almost three days since I’ve slept properly.

Even after waking up, the fatigue was still there.

I trudged out into the living room and looked around.

“… gone.”

Faye was summoned to the guild last night, and the two of them who lived together until just yesterday are gone, so it feels empty.

However, unlike yesterday, there was no anxiety.

It was because Lian did not respond to the summons in place of Fei, but made a promise before leaving.

‘I’ll help you. In my own way.’

‘… … .’

‘Your brother will be safe.’

There was no explanation, but the moment I heard those words, my heart calmed down like magic.

Is it because of the nature of the person itself?

I trust you strangely.

“… I need to sort it out.”

To clean the room they shared, Laura opened the door and entered.

However, the room was neatly organized without any special cleaning.

It’s neat enough to believe that the events of the past were dreams.

Feeling a strange sense of loss at this, let’s stare blankly inside for a moment.

“huh?”

I found a bag in the corner.

I opened it to see if I had forgotten.

“… really.”

Inside the bag was a letter and a considerable amount of money.

And in the letter, there were two short lines written in a beautiful handwriting.

[Add to tuition. And forget about us]

“… … .”

A small smile formed on her lips.

“yes.”

After answering alone, she muttered inwardly to Lian, who didn’t even know where she was now.

Thank you.

and.

“I don’t think I will ever forget.”

I will not forget this grace.

* * *

Two days after the warning order came down on Eden.

With Noah and I ahead of the monster wave, I had reached the depths of the mountain range with a dangerous atmosphere.

“… !”

Noah, who climbed the tree and looked around, pulled his head forward as if he had found something.

“What do you see?”

Noah nodded and jumped off the tree.

After landing lightly, he comes right up to me and writes something to me.

-I found it. Oak.

They said they found an orc village.

“The number is.”

-About 200.

“It is appropriate.”

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It was only a few hundred meters away, so there could be orcs standing guard around it.

I killed the presence as much as possible so as not to be noticed and moved towards the village.

‘… … .’

A few days ago, he said he would help Laura, who asked for help for Fei, but he did not participate in the punitive force instead of Fei.

It’s because me and Noah have to be there, because there’s a limit to what you can do because you’re paying attention to others.

So, rather than that, I decided that it would be better to clear the village of monsters so that they wouldn’t even think of invading before the turn to the subjugation team.

‘Because I said there are about 23 villages in total. Half is enough, right?’

If you mess around with that, you’ll be able to pass enough time before the Knights arrive.

It would be impossible to do it alone, but with Noah together, it is possible.

“Let’s finish quickly and go back.”

“… … .”

Later, I heard from Laura that the knights who are coming to support this time are Ian’s knights.

And I never wanted to run into him.

‘Because it’s a family.’

No matter how well he disguised himself, it was unlikely that he, who had good eyesight, would not be able to recognize his brother’s face.

Didn’t Noah have a history of being caught by hunters in the first place?

I didn’t want to leave any possibility behind.

‘Support will arrive in a week.’

And since I heard that story two days ago, now there are five days left.

‘About 3 villages a day… .’

Both me and Noah are not inferior in terms of stamina now, so there is nothing we can’t do if we move quickly.

With that thought in mind, let’s move closer for a while.

He stopped walking as soon as the Orc colony could be seen with the naked eye.

‘found.’

Originally, it would have penetrated right away and actively induced a melee, but this time it took a little while.

What the young man said as soon as he came to his senses in the hospital.

‘I was sure there was a monster, right?’

It was not directly confirmed, but I thought it was probably an Oak Road.

Because there was nothing else that could come to mind other than this powerful object that exerts influence on the monsters throughout the mountain range.

And the battle against the Orc Lord cannot be guaranteed, no matter how much Noah is with him.

Although his ability is excellent, he has a characteristic that makes the surrounding orcs stronger.

But at those words, Noah’s mouth turned pointy.

“… … .”

“why.”

It seemed that the two of them felt bad when they said that it wouldn’t work for the orcs, but if it didn’t work, it wouldn’t work.

‘There’s no need to do it in the first place.’

Ian, who arrived later, will cook for him.

“Let’s go in and have a look.”

arrows were fired at the protests.

In a safe location, I was going to check with an arrow to see if there was an Orc Road.

Whoa… .

As I calmly chose my breath, the trembling of my body subsided to the extreme following the routine, and my eyes opened clear.

“… … .”

The distance is quite long, but the target is so wide that it is difficult to miss.

“… One at a time.”

Paang!!

He fired arrows imbued with blue mana at the vigilant orcs.

* * *

late night.

The village, where about 200 orcs lived together, was immersed in darkness and was silent.

When even the only guards awake were nodding off from the cold winter wind and drowsiness.

ping… !

“… ?”

At the faint sound from far away

One vigilant orc opened his eyes.

In the middle of a dream, I looked around.

It was almost at the same time that the upper body of a fellow orc next to him was blown away by an arrow that flew from somewhere.

Perong!

“… !?!?”

Power that would be believable even if a bomb exploded, not an arrow.

One of the surviving orcs hurriedly blew the horn that was strapped around his neck.

Woo-woo-!

“Kuruk. An intruder, an intruder… !”

Perong!

The guy shouted loudly at the barracks, and his upper body exploded before he could even finish his words.

“… !”

tremendous power.

The surviving orcs hurriedly ducked and looked at their son-in-law.

It was to specify the location through the direction the next arrow flew.

however.

“… ?”

The intruder made no response.

Until some time passed and all the orcs sleeping in the barracks woke up and came out.

“Kuruk. How soon?”

“They are both dead.”

“Kuruk. Did you just kill the two of them and run away?”

Although the orcs who came out later said that, groaning at the death of their own people.

The opponent did not run away.

“No?”

“… !!!”

After approaching without anyone noticing, he drops from the sky and swings his sword.

Spark!!

With a single sword strike, the heads of three orcs flew into the sky.

Soon, hot blood spurted out from the smooth cross section with the high blood pressure unique to orcs.

“There are only junk mobs.”

“Kureuk?”

junk mob?

I don’t know what it meant, but somehow the thick eyelids of the orcs trembled as a reflex in the feeling of being ridiculed.

“this… !”

But still for a while.

Belatedly, the Orcs spewed fierce speculation and shouted.

“Kuruk. appear!”

“Kill!”

It looked pretty strong, but there was only one opponent.

Digging alone into a crowd of nearly two hundred is close to suicide.

That’s why I thought it would be easy to win even if a few people died, but that was a mistake.

Chow!

“Kureuk! Elf!?”

“Kuruk. There is one more!”

The opponent was not alone.

In addition, the individual’s ability was also at a level that could not be approached.

Whoaaa!!

“Cre… .”

The blood that drained from the bodies of the dead orcs was condensed into bright spheres.

The strength drained from the hand holding the stone axe, and my body shook.

‘why?’

Why do you feel this way?

I raised my head in confusion.

Our eyes met the intruder who was staring down this way.

‘ah.’

The moment they met eyes that were redder than monsters, they instinctively realized.

I have met my nemesis.

That you can’t win as long as it’s made of flesh and blood.

Paaa… !

This changed to conviction when dozens of Orcs were swept away in one fell swoop by waves of blood shot in all directions.

The survivors thought as they received the blood and flesh of their fellow countrymen dripping down on their bodies.

that you have to run away

“… !”

“Ku, kureuk. Do, run away!”

The Orcs, who were born as a natural fighting race and had never been shaken, became frightened and began to run away.

With only one thought to live, they scatter in all directions.

Of course, he had his reasons.

Because there were only two opponents, and the surroundings were very dark.

So even if some died, I thought most would be able to escape alive.

It didn’t take long to realize that this was a grand illusion.

f*ck!

The sound of finger snapping echoes.

Chow!!

The wounds on the bodies of the fleeing orcs opened and blood fountains poured out.

The snowy mountains were stained red with the hot blood of the monsters.

As a result, out of 200 orcs, only about 10 survived.

“… … .”

Roan looked at the village where there was no presence, and said.

“let’s go.”

“… … .”

That night.

Three orc colonies were wiped out by just two intruders.

* * *

The guild was summoned, and the adventurers built a wooden fence in the village in preparation for the upcoming battle and made up their minds.

But now after 3 days.

“… … .”

“Why aren’t you coming?”

There were only a few things that came down in fear from time to time, and there was no sign of a large-scale monster wave.

“Could it possibly end like this?”

“or not… .”

A 21-year-old adventurer Ark, who was in charge of the group, said in a cluttered atmosphere.

“Don’t be alarmed. There are still a few days before the knights arrive.”

However, a week passed without anything happening.

The knights led by Ian Karziel arrived in Eden.

* * *

“Nothing happened?”

“yes. Sir Ian.”

“… … .”

Ian frowned at Ark’s words, as if he couldn’t believe it himself.

I came to support day and night to call that it was urgent, but there was not a single battle that was not worth it, let alone casualties.

“I don’t think this is a false report.”

“… … .”

As Caliburn said, they had evacuated the residents and even made a fence.

It must have been sincere that it was urgent.

It’s just that the monsters didn’t move as expected.

“For now, we do our job.”

“yes.”

I felt uncomfortable about something, but I didn’t change what I had to do anyway.

to subdue monsters.

Ian led the knights into the mountains in search of monsters.

And saw.

“uh?”

A village that has already been attacked by someone and has been razed to the ground.

Judging by the decomposition of the corpse, it had been less than a week.

and.

“Captain. This… .”

“okay.”

The adjutant, Caliburn, frowned as if she noticed something.

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Although he didn’t finish talking, Ian was able to infer the omitted words enough.

Ian looked around at the bloodstained surroundings and spoke in a calm voice.

“It is him.”

When Hwaran and about a hundred demons were suddenly found dead.

Because it was very similar to the traces I saw then.

“How do I do this?”

By the time he almost gave up on the investigation, the discovered traces made his head complicated, but Ian did not confuse his priorities.

“I finish what I have to do first.”

“yes.”

The search continued.

But all they found was a group of frightened orcs and gnolls.

It was only the Orc Lord that showed a bizarre degree of hostility.

Doubts amplified.

‘why?’

The hostility of the Oak Road was directed towards Ian.