Aozaki Aoko Case File

"Victory goes to Akuta Hinako!" the fairy referee shouted, announcing the slim, battered, but undeniable winner of the fight.

"Blood Queen! Blood Queen!" The Fang Clan, who revered strength, didn't care that Hinako was a woman. Her ruthless combat, her unflinching endurance even after being impaled, her incredible regeneration—how could she be an ordinary woman?

Glancing at the defeated Fang Clan fairy on the ground, Hinako sighed. The wounds from her last fight had already vanished. Ever since coming to Fairy Britain, her vampire-attracting trait had made her much stronger—almost immortal.

Previously, after being beset by curses and Moss and forced to self-destruct, she drifted for a while in the empty Sea of Stars before her revival finished loading. Then, using her innate skills, she returned to the planet's surface—Fairy Britain.

At first, Hinako revived in the wilderness near the southern coast. Other than the occasional lone Moss, there were no fairies—she almost thought she'd traveled to Earth's prehistory. Her Chaldea communicator was lost, leaving her quite dejected.

Just as she was about to find a cave and sleep for millennia, fate intervened: she ran into a Fang Clan slaver patrol!

As she was considered a pretty fairy, Hinako was a prime target. The Fang Clan swarmed her, but didn't stand a chance—she slaughtered them with ease, sparing only the weakest to lead her to Oxford.

Arriving in Oxford, Hinako was shocked by a society made up entirely of fairies, but quickly adapted; she belonged to the hates humans camp, and preferred the blunt fairies to the two-faced, cunning humans. So she decided to stay awhile and gather intel.

However, the weak fairy she'd spared was resentful and leaked word to the Fang Clan higher-ups. Before Hinako could settle in, a group of elite fairies came to challenge her, leading to a brawl.

But as a pseudo-True Ancestor spirit, Hinako was formidable—almost at the level of Great Mother or a returnee fairy. Regular high-level fairies were no match; Hinako cut them down like weeds.

At first, some fairies suspected she might be human, but after witnessing her overwhelming magic and regeneration, none doubted her nature. When she showcased her strength, the hero Wryneck himself formally invited her to join Oxford and the Fang Clan army to fight off the invading Moss and curses.

Hinako didn't care for fairy affairs, but needed more information and basic necessities (like a place to stay), so working with Wryneck and the Fang Clan became her best option.

Thus, Hinako's life became simple and monotonous: go out to kill Moss, occasionally fight in the arena, and almost forget she had come from thousands of years in the future.

At first, she found the fairies refreshingly straightforward, but after seeing their cruel treatment of enslaved humans, Hinako grew deeply uncomfortable.

Though she disliked humans and socializing with them, her worldview was still heavily influenced by humanity—especially her hatred of slavery and pointless killing.

For a while, Hinako even considered leaving Oxford for the wilderness. But one day, she noticed something different about Wryneck, the Fang Clan leader.

Wryneck disliked weak humans but didn't enslave or harm them. While he hadn't banned abuse, he always intervened when he saw it.

After some thought, Hinako decided to talk to Wryneck. Coincidentally, Wryneck had also been observing Hinako—a strong, rational wandering fairy who, unlike his kin, wasn't cruel yet was incredibly powerful. He wanted her as an honorary general in the savior's cause.

Here, it's the savior's team and not the Round Table Alliance, because Wryneck hated weak, short-lived humans and only trusted those strong enough to defeat him and share his ideals. So he secretly sought strong, like-minded fairies.

But such fairies were rare until he met Hinako—strong and sane.

They hit it off. After a long, private talk, they understood each other's circumstances and beliefs.

Wryneck was surprised Hinako was neither fairy nor human, while Hinako learned from him about the Round Table Alliance led by figures similar to those in Proper Human History.

Hinako agreed to join Wryneck. At the right time, he would take her to Londinium to meet the alliance, and provide her with supplies, and she would serve as his guest general, fighting alongside him against Oxford's enemies.

Today was Hinako's weekly arena challenge, where the strongest Fang Clan fairies challenged the Blood Queen. After defeating all challengers, Hinako's sixth sense sharply alerted her. She looked up.

There, floating in the sky, was a young woman with long, soft red hair, watching Hinako with a half-smile as if waiting for her to finish fighting.

The woman had been hovering there all along, but only Hinako seemed able to see her… Hinako's heart sank. This visitor was not here with good intentions.