After choosing to leave, they regretted it.

The woman's lips trembled.

Because of the blood loss and pain from the severed hand, her face turned pale and her fear was evident in her words.

Soon, he began to speak hesitantly:

"I am... no, I'm not... I'm not..."

"Hmm? Louder!"

Swah——

"careful!"

In the darkness, several flying knives suddenly appeared and attacked Aize's vital points.

Alicia, who was concentrating, noticed the belt almost immediately and took action.

The waving tentacles easily knocked away the hidden weapons, and then even wrapped around Aize's body, protecting his vital parts such as his heart and neck.

Impeccable.

But that's not the problem.

While attacking Aize, a flying knife thrown from other directions hit the vampire woman's heart.

Kill with one knife.

After screaming, she lowered her head and lost her breath.

At the same time, two blurry black shadows swept across the corridor at a speed so fast that it was almost invisible and fled outside.

Stealth Technique, and it’s top-level at that.

After realizing what happened, Aize quickly shouted at Alicia:

"Leave me alone and go after them!"

"But……"

"No buts, go!"

The pink-haired girl nodded, put Aize down, and quickly chased after the black shadow.

But he came back soon, shaking his head in annoyance:

"I'm sorry I didn't catch up and let them get away."

"There's nothing we can do about it. This is how top-tier Shadow users behave. You've done a great job."

Aize sighed helplessly and reached out to touch the other person's head.

So that she wouldn't blame herself for it.

The pink-haired girl's mood quickly improved with this action, and she even tilted her head to actively respond to Aize's hand.

Like a puppy being patted on the head.

As for Aize, he fell into deep thought while smiling at Alicia.

Shadowplay means hiding in the shadows.

Advanced users of the Shadow Technique can completely hide their physical form within a short period of time, completely transforming themselves into a shadow.

To Villian, this was a piece of cake and could be easily cracked.

But Alicia, who is purely physical, has no way to deal with it and is completely defeated.

The problem is that there are very few users of advanced stealth techniques, and the other party even sent out two of them at once.

An organization with a large number of high-level Shadow Technique users... well, it really exists.

"...Black Hound?"

A high-level assassin organization nurtured by the Duke of Auchinleck, everyone in this organization is a top user of stealth.

It was they who had participated in the hunt for Heidi before.

Although an entire team of black hounds was lost in Tafia, considering how obsessed Auchinleck was with the throne, it seemed normal to send a team of black hounds to operate secretly in the royal capital.

However, is this really the case?

Aize looked at the body of the dead vampire female and shook his head slightly.

“…No, this isn’t right.”

Chapter 64 Unintentional

On the surface, the matter seems quite simple.

In order to get rid of this troublesome variable, the Duke of Auchinleck, who was the mastermind behind the scenes, sent assassins to kill him, but failed and was captured.

In order to prevent the leakage of information, the Black Hound was sent to silence the witnesses.

If this is the case, then Auchinleck has a very high level of collusion with the vampires, and may even be a traitor like Brian.

But what is the reality?

It's all bullshit.

If Auchinleck really wanted to kill him, he could just send the Black Hound to do it.

Why launch such a lame assassin and then have Black Hound clean up the mess when things go wrong?

It's totally like taking off your pants and farting.

Besides, even if Auchinleck was really in collusion with the vampires and really wanted to kill him, he wouldn't be stupid enough to send a vampire to do such a thing.

Isn't that telling others that you are a traitor?

So, it couldn't possibly be him.

So, is someone trying to frame him?

Thinking of this, Aize looked at the vampire woman nailed to the wall.

After thinking for a moment, he shook his head again.

This method is too crude to frame a duke.

Since he has an assassin who can use stealth, if he wants to frame someone, he can just disguise himself as a Black Hound, pretend to attack him, and then run away.

No need to go to such trouble.

So, what is going on now?

His thoughts were stuck in a dead end for a moment. Aize was speechless and scratched his hair in frustration.

A serious assassination + silencing, not right

The added assassination + frame-up is also wrong.

There are problems either way.

This is what is called, when the other person is just stupid enough, it is hard to tell whether he is really stupid or just pretending to be stupid.

"What the hell is this, I... huh?"

On the verge of going crazy, when his eyes fell on the corpse again, Aize suddenly thought of another possibility.

Is there a possibility that this vampire and the two shadows who killed her are not the same group?

The group of people belonging to the blood clan really wanted to assassinate him, but they were not very strong.

The group that the black shadow belonged to was just monitoring.

He also took action in order to prevent himself from obtaining any useful information from the female vampires.

If you think about it this way, it seems reasonable.

But if this inference is true, it also means that the situation in the royal capital has become even more complicated.

The royal family represented by Heidi, Aize who intervened later, the Duke who was eyeing the city covetously, the vampires who came to follow clues, and at least two unidentified forces.

What a big mix-up.

Get together and put here to open impart.

Just thinking about it gives me a headache.

Aize shook his head, walked to the wall, drew his sword, and let the body fall to the ground.

Since this guy is worth silencing, even if he is a corpse, we should be able to find something.

With this thought in mind, Aize undressed the other person.

"……Um?"

The moment the clothes were lifted, an extremely horrifying scar was revealed. It was located on the other person's side and extended directly to the abdomen, almost occupying half of the body.

It doesn't look like it was left by a weapon, but rather like it was gnawed by something.

But the problem is, this guy is a vampire.

The vampires have a strong self-healing ability. As long as they don't die on the spot, even if they lose limbs, they can grow them back quickly. How could they be left with scars just because of a bite?

It's impossible that this guy was actually a human before and was transformed later?

But there were no bite marks from the vampires on the neck.

And for vampires who transform later in life, won't the scars left behind disappear?

do not know.

This kind of cold, obscure and useless knowledge is really beyond Aize's cognition.

It should be easy to figure out what Charlotte said, but now I don't know where it went.

I miscalculated. I should have kept her with me last night... Although it seems unlikely that she would do that.

Never mind. There's no point in dwelling on this.

Aize shook his head and stopped thinking about these worthless assumptions.

He stood up, turned to Alicia and said:

"Can you take this guy's body back? I think it needs to be examined thoroughly."

"Yes, leave it to me."

Alicia nodded, stepped forward, and easily wrapped the other person up with her tentacles.

It's just death, but it's still a shame to be tossed around over and over again. It's really pitiful to think about it.

But there was no way, the guy who came here to give himself up became the only flaw at the moment.

I can only borrow her body for use.

After rolling up her body, Alicia glanced at the horrifying scar, and seemed to remember something, her lifeless eyes trembling slightly.

Aize hurriedly asked:

"What? Did you find anything?"

The pink-haired girl pulled the body in front of her, pointed at the scar and said:

"Yes, I recognize this wound. It should have been left by a red-clawed wolf."

"Red Claw Wolf...Are you sure?"

Alicia nodded vigorously:

"Yes, I've encountered quite a few of them when I was traveling before. The shape of these teeth is unique to the Red Claw Wolf."

The Red Claw Wolf, as its name suggests, is a wolf-like monster that lives in groups.

They are not big in size and not very strong, but they are not difficult to deal with except that there are more of them.

The problem is that these guys are distributed in remote areas far away from human settlements.

It is difficult for ordinary humans to have the opportunity to come into contact with it.

The ones who deal with them most often are——

"Adventurers? Tsk—let's go, let's go back."