I became a vampire princess and then a dragon girl?

"Hoohoo, isn't it beautiful? Lucia, it's time to go to bed."

"Ok!"

§109 The Mystery of the Holy Sword

Some time passed after I coaxed Lucia to sleep.

"Ok?"

Hearing the subtle sound of the tent curtain being lifted behind her again, Eve had no choice but to quickly write down her current thoughts on a piece of paper before putting down the pen and paper again.

Now she has returned to her business and is optimizing her magic again.

Developing new magic and optimizing old magic are all somewhat mysterious things. Sometimes, even if you think hard about it, you still have no ideas. But when you are just killing time, you may suddenly have a flash of inspiration.

So in order to prevent herself from forgetting her inspiration later, Eve quickly wrote down her current thoughts and then looked at the tent behind her.

"Ah, Viya, what's going on?"

It was somewhat similar to the scene where Lucia peeked in just now, except that this time the protagonist who peeked in was Ilvia.

"..."

Without saying a word, Ilvia just silently ran to Eve, leaned in her arms, and closed her eyes silently.

"Ugh…"

Looking at the girl in his arms, Eve shook her head helplessly. It seemed that she would not be able to adjust the magic any further.

Thinking of this, Eve put away the paper and pen on the ground and began to gently pat the girl's body in her arms to make her happy.

Although she didn't know why, Eve felt that Ilvia's mood seemed a little wrong.

After a while...

"Eve."

Ilvia in the girl's arms suddenly whispered Eve's name.

"Ok?"

"I just seemed to have had a dream."

After saying this, Ilvia hesitated for a moment and added another sentence.

"A very strange dream."

"Hmm? What kind of dream was it? A dream with lots of people on the street and lots of boxes?"

Eve remembered that Ilvia had seen her previous life in a dream, and thought she had scored again.

"No."

Shaking her head slightly in Eve's arms, Ilvia suddenly pressed herself tightly against Eve, making her feel a little itchy.

"It was a very sad, very sad dream..."

He paused slightly, as if recalling the dream he had just had.

"Everyone in the dream is dead..."

“…Is it, Biluo?”

Gently hugging the person in her arms, feeling the girl's warm and delicate body, Eve chose to ask after hesitating for a moment. After all, this was the most likely answer.

"Um…"

And Ilvia's weak response confirmed her guess.

After all, there has been no record of Ilvia waking up since the Demon God Crusade, so the battle she was talking about could only be that one.

No one knows what happened in the blue sky at that time. All people can see is that the demon disappeared after the battle, the dark age ended, and the remains of the demon flew to various places in the continent and turned into the abyss, leaving a disaster for thousands of years.

Disappeared along with the Demon God were all the holders of the Holy Weapons, and even the Holy Weapons other than the Holy Sword were cut off.

"But, it's different."

"The dream just now was different."

"That doesn't seem to be my memory."

Ilvia continued uncertainly, recalling the dream she had just had.

"I...seem to have been born from a wish."

"'Want to survive'"

"That's the wish."

Eh?

Eve was a little surprised to hear Ilvia say this. Does this mean that Ilvia might not be the holy sword that had experienced the battle against the demon?

Perhaps she is a completely new being born to carry the First Holy Sword's wish to survive?

This can clarify a lot of things, such as why Ilvia has difficulty revealing her true form and why her memory is incomplete.

After all, she is just a top-level weapon elf that was born not long ago, and was born based on the existence of the same level. Considering the possible losses during the period, it is naturally difficult for Ilvia to show human form.

Then her behavior of constantly absorbing her own magic power might be to replenish herself?

As for the memory issue, it can also be explained. Even though she inherited many things from the previous holy sword, Ilvia is a brand new existence after all, so naturally she will not have all the memories.

After a brief thought, Eve gently lifted up the girl lying in her arms, looked into her blue eyes and spoke firmly.

"It doesn't matter whether Weiya is a holy sword or not. To me, Weiya is Weiya. You are my weapon spirit and my partner. No matter what Weiya's past is, that will never change."

"…Um."

It was quite rare that Ilvia, who had always been shy, actually showed shyness.

Before she could keep her eyes on Eve for long, she looked away first, and then she managed to squeeze out a tiny response, the voice so soft that it was almost inaudible even in this deserted snowfield.

However, under the bonfire, the bright blush on the girl's face betrayed her mood.

"Hoohoo."

With a light laugh, Eve stopped teasing Ilvia, who was feeling down.

"So, Viya, do you want to sleep here tonight or go back to the tent?"

"…tent."

After a brief silence, Ilvia chose to go back to the tent and continue sleeping, somewhat unexpectedly to Eve.

It seems that even she, who is always shy, felt a little embarrassed after she showed her shyness.

Or is it because Ilvia always looks like a nobody that she cares more about these things?

Well, she should have preferred to sleep next to Eve.

"Good~"

Smiling, she ruffled Ilvia's smooth long hair, feeling the touch of the hair sliding across her fingertips. Eve moved slightly closer to Ilvia and brought her little face, which had turned to the side, back to her.

Looking at the blush that had just faded from the girl's cheeks, Eve gently placed a light kiss on her smooth forehead.

"Okay, let's go to bed~"

Finally, after patting the girl on the head, Eve was about to sit back by the campfire but was suddenly stopped by Ilvia.

"Huh? What's wrong? Did Viya change her mind?"

"..."

Without responding to Eve's question, Ilvia leaned towards Eve and her thin red lips accurately touched Eve's red lips.

"!"

After being stunned for a moment by Ilvia's sudden attack, Eve began to respond after coming to her senses.

Under the starry night, beside the campfire, two figures quietly embraced each other in the silent snowfield, constantly feeling each other's presence.

"Okay, go back to bed."

After a long time, Eve was the first to let go of the girl in her arms.

"Ah."

After nodding obediently, Ilvia carefully slipped into the tent as if escaping, completely losing her usual composure.

"Hoohoo."

Eve gently touched her lips and chuckled as if she was savoring the taste of the Holy Sword Girl just now. It took her a long time to recover.

§110 Arcana's Sneak Attack

After coaxing Ilvia for a while, it was almost dawn. The sky was very calm tonight and there was no gorgeous aurora.

Eve was not too surprised by this. According to her plan, she planned to stay here for about a week at most. If they still couldn't wait, it was probably because the place they came from was not right, or there was no aurora in this world at all.

At this moment, she heard the subtle sound of the tent curtain being lifted again from behind her...

"Ugh…"

Eve held her forehead with one hand and shook her head helplessly, then put down the pen and paper in her hand again.

Did these people have an agreement tonight? Why are they taking turns to look for her? This seems to be the third time?

"Arkana, what's wrong? Did you wake up suddenly?"

Compared to Lucia and Ilvia, Arcana was much more casual. He walked over and sat next to Eve without waiting for her to turn around.

"Well... not really. I just woke up because of the noise when Weiya came back."

Pulling out a piece of unburned wood from the campfire in front of him, Akana casually began to draw on the snow in front of him.

"It's okay that Wei Ya woke you up when she came back, so why did you come out just now?"

It has been several hours since Ilvia and Eve's night talk ended. Could it be that Arcana has been lying in there pretending to be asleep?

"Well, after Viya went back, it took her a long time to fall asleep. As a result, I couldn't fall asleep afterwards, so I came to find the master."

"Okay, okay, then what are we going to do? Don't ask me about life goals or anything like that."

Stretching and relaxing her body which was a little stiff from sitting for a long time, Eve looked at the girl's profile beside her illuminated by the bonfire and joked.

"No way!"

Throwing the extinguished stick in his hand back into the campfire, Akana looked at Eve beside him, pouted and said with some dissatisfaction.

"Master, it's been a long time since you fought as a dragon."

"Well, that's true..."

Faced with Arcana's dissatisfaction, Eve scratched her head in embarrassment. Since she met Melchis and accidentally discovered that the other party would have a stress reaction to her dragon mode, she has never called upon her dragon blood in front of others again. She has always been a little loli with silver hair and red eyes.

As for when she left Melchis and went alone to destroy the Abyss, she had been using the Vampire Mode to reduce the activity of the destructive magic. Except for the time when she dealt with Zero, she had never used the Dragon Mode to release Death Nova again.

The main reason was that the commotion that time was really too big, and dealing with these small abysses was like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

"Well... I'll contact Mother during the day and see if we can go to a large abyss next time or the next time. I'll use Dragon Mode then, is that okay?"

"Yeah! The master is the best."

As she spoke, Akana pulled Eve over, and before she could react, she switched to her original queen form and pressed Eve in front of her.

Well, as expected of being the most aggressive person around Eve, Arcana made good use of his subjective initiative and launched a sneak attack again when Eve was not paying attention.

"?!"

Eve was also stunned by the sudden softness that hit her face.

Eh? What's going on? Where does such a soft heart come from?

Oh, Arcana can also transform into a queen, so that’s fine.