Chapter 2 Frankness and Kindness
"Actually... I'm not a human either."
After saying this, Qianxia clearly saw Qingqi's slightly widened eyes.
What would he say?
She thought casually, was she surprised by her identity?
As a result, the person who listened to the surprise said in a very understanding tone, as if he suddenly realized: "It turns out that Chinatsu is really not a human being."
"Eh?"
An unexpected answer came to her ears, and this time she was surprised, "You already knew?"
The Qingqi nodded, very well-behaved: "It doesn't count as knowing, it's just...a guess. After all..."
His eyes wandered over her pointed ears, then he blushed and whispered, "I haven't seen such ears before."
When he came out of the Borrowing Hall, his understanding of this strange world was no better than when Chinatsu was a few years earlier, when he was still kind and curious about everything.
Therefore, when passing by the shoal on the seashore, he chose to help this woman who was dressed strangely and even had obvious inhuman features, and brought her back to his residence.
Because he is treated with kindness, he can always treat others with kindness.
After hearing his explanation, Qianxia was stunned, her red eyes showing complete astonishment, like two bright and transparent crystals.
"There are also eyes." The admirer smiled, "The eyes are also very special."
"Like a maple leaf, but more special than a maple leaf. It's red and very beautiful."
He has only seen maple leaves.
In the huge borrowed scenery hall, there are many maple leaves like this piled up in the dilapidated scenery.
Like pieces of beautiful flames.
Being hit by an unexpected straight ball, Chinatsu was a little stunned. She didn't come back to her senses for a long time: "What did you say?"
The doll sitting in front of her told her that she had beautiful eyes.
Among so many malicious taunts, this was the first time she heard such an answer.
——Because of these eyes, she never received any preferential treatment.
She could cover her ears with her hair, but there was no other way to cover her eyes.
Blood hunters are shrewd.
If a person passes in front of them with his ears and eyes covered, he will definitely be suspected of being a vampire.
Then he was shot directly.
That world was very chaotic, the Holy See had long been in ruins, and there was no country to maintain order. The people of the Blood Hunter Association would rather kill by mistake than let go.
In troubled times, human life is nothing, not even a little bit of food is important.
But the admirer said that her eyes, which bring disaster and ominousness, are very... beautiful?
Also said it looks like... maple leaves?
"...Maple Leaf?" Qianxia murmured, "What does that look like?"
The curious person seemed even more surprised: "Have you never seen a maple leaf?"
He thought for a moment: "That's a leaf with a very special shape. It will turn beautiful red in autumn."
"It's early autumn now, and some maple leaves are already red. I can take Chinatsu to see them."
"Really?" Qianxia's eyes lit up.
He nodded.
"By the way, what race are you?" The Qingqi was sitting next to the short boy, his posture was very obedient, and his face showed pure curiosity.
"While you were still unconscious, I asked Niyu, asked Katsuragi, and checked the books Niyu brought back from the book club, but I didn't find any records."
"Are you a monster?" he asked.
monster?
The introduction in Inazuma's Fengmonozhi immediately came to mind, and Chinatsu understood that he was talking about the kind native to Inazuma, but she was not.
So she shook her head: "I'm not a monster, I... I'm a vampire."
She confessed her race, and sure enough she saw doubt in the eyes of the admirer.
"Vampire?" He repeated this new term, and then shook his head honestly, like an obedient student with a blind spot in knowledge, a little sincere, and inexplicably cute.
"I'm sorry, I still don't know much about this world. I don't know what your race is like, but... judging from the name, do you know how to suck blood?"
"...Yes." She looked a little nervous inexplicably, "I'm not a good being. I'm a complete monster. Do you feel scared?"
Just like those people.
"Afraid?" The curious person was a little confused, "Why should I be afraid?"
Chinatsu put the untouched food aside, and finally said, "Human food is of no use to me."
"I drink blood, human blood."
It's not that she can't eat human food, it's just that no matter how delicious the food is, it tastes like a mouthful of junk.
After hearing these words, the curious person's eyes finally became surprised: "Then do you usually only drink blood?"
Chinatsu didn't know how to answer for a moment.
Her thoughts were concentrated, and she considered his question seriously.
If I had to say it...she had actually only eaten blood twice.
The first time was the day she was transformed by her mother. The dying Chinatsu drank her mother's blood as a human in the freezing wilderness.
So her transformation was successful.
The newly transformed little vampire will not change her diet immediately. As the higher species said, her bloodline is not pure and she is just a lower species transformed from a human, so she is inferior to the higher species in all aspects, including taste.
Her sense of taste changes much slower than that of ordinary vampires.
Higher species find blood sweet and sweet, and can taste the different flavors of different bloods, but she cannot.
In the moment after she was transformed, she would feel nauseated even if she smelled the blood her mother gave her.
So she has never had the desire to eat blood.
Instead, she used human food instead until her sense of taste completely faded and she was finally unable to taste the taste from human food.
The second time was on the night when my mother was killed by Blood Hunter.
The mother's red eyeballs, which could be exchanged for bounty, were gouged out by blood hunters, and then she lay on the dirty floor like a ball of lifeless cotton, dyed red by blood that could not be washed away.
And Blood Hunt hasn’t gone far yet.
Because of her survival instinct, she finally overcame her psychological discomfort, came out cautiously, knelt down next to her mother, and took the initiative to suck her mother's blood.
She showed her canine teeth desperately and forcefully, and then pierced it deeply into the corpse. Feeling the strength in her body becoming full again, her eyes filled with tears one after another...but she didn't dare for a moment. Stop.
Until her strength finally rose, she finally hugged her mother, touching their foreheads to each other, imprinting her image in her mind, then turned around and quickly fled the dangerous place.
"Qianxia, what's wrong with you?" Qingqi Zhe came over slightly and looked at her a little worriedly, "You suddenly stopped talking. Are you feeling uncomfortable in any way?"
Thoughts came back.
Chinatsu said, "No, I'm fine. I just remembered... I couldn't taste the food."
Her original intention was to explain, but as soon as she said this, Qinqi seemed to be more panicked than she was: "Yes, I'm sorry!"
Suddenly feeling a little pitiful for Chinatsu, Qingqi thought that as a doll, he could taste the taste of food, but Chinatsu could not.
If you poke her pain point at this time, she will be sad, right?
He didn't notice the tiny details in Chinatsu's words, what was the difference between "I can't taste the food" and "I can't taste the food anymore".
The young man's thoughts were very easy to understand. His face was like a blank sheet of paper, unable to hide any secrets, and even his expressions were so vivid.
"It doesn't matter, no need to apologize."
She looked at Qinqi's fluffy purple short hair. When she came closer, the tail of the hair swayed slightly and looked very smooth.
"Then...are you hungry now?" He was cautious, and out of guilt, he made her hallucinate a cute and well-behaved cat for no reason.
In her world, only high-ranking human nobles can keep cats.
"I'm okay. Although I suck blood, I don't have to drink it every day." She smiled. "I have very strong endurance. I can go without eating for at least a month after eating once."
After hearing this, he breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."
"Why do you think this is good?"
"Because in this case, the time interval between each meal of Chinatsu is long, so it is not easy for others to notice the difference in you."
If she drinks blood frequently, people in the village will definitely look at her strangely.
"But didn't you say that people here don't reject aliens?"
"But I can't fully accept it."
The Qi Qi person's mind is very sensitive, and he can detect whether other people's attitude towards him is sincere.
Many people in the village admired him for his extremely fast learning speed and unexpected strength, but there were also a small number of people who ostracized him because of his talent that was higher than ordinary people.
——What a normal thing.
"It's like the name Enchanter," he said.
Chinatsu was stunned.
She suddenly felt that no, it was not a cat, he was the noble himself.
He is a nobleman who was born in a noble royal court and raised in a high-rise building. He is not stained by the cruel world.
Well protected, pure white as paper.
So his kindness goes without hesitation.
"...Thank you." she said.