So let’s go and have an extracurricular lesson! The place we arrived at after the flash faded is—a spacious area we haven’t seen before. “Hey, you guys are here.”
When I look at the direction of the familiar voice, there is Azazel-sensei standing there. Sensei says while walking towards us. “Sorry to say this since you guys just arrived but we are moving away from here. I’ll explain it in detail inside the vehicle. Elmenhilde, I’ll ask you to guide us.”
“Very well. Everyone, glad you could come. —Though the only one we needed was Gasper Vladi……”
She looks at us as if we are a nuisance. Her sharp attitude and tongue never changes. She continues bluntly without any concern about what’s going through our minds. “I’m very sorry for asking you to do this even though you just came, but let me take you to the vehicle.”
After saying that, we leave the room we teleported into and walk up the stairs. Apparently, that room is located in the basement. I have felt the coldness ever since we arrived. That’s how I feel even while wearing warm clothing, so the temperature here must be quite low. We walk through a building constructed of rocks and arrive outside. —It’s late at night when we come out. And the scenery is simply filled with snow. So it’s already snowing here huh. Even though Romania follows the same season as Japan, this place is still much colder. And the territory of the Vampires is located in the depths of this mountain which is away from the human’s village. It’s only natural for this place to have a really low temperature. Elmenhilde doesn’t even breathe out any white breath. Maybe she doesn’t feel cold since she’s a pure Vampire. While our Vampire-kun on the other hand is……
“I-It’s cold~……”
He’s shivering so much. ……Maybe the difference between pureblood and half-blood is displayed at times like these. “Oh my……”
Asia releases a voice of amazement. I turn towards where she’s looking—and the scenery that spreads out in front of my eyes is the view of a castle town. The buildings are built in a way where they surround the splendid looking castle positioned in the centre. Amazing, I never imagined such a splendid castle town would exist in the depths of the mountains. And I can even see modern looking buildings as well. Vampires may also be influenced by the current civilisation of the humans. Xenovia mutters while looking at the white castle town. “So that’s the base of the Vampires that the Church has been looking for all these years. I didn’t even find a clue for this place back when I was a warrior of the Church, so I never even imagined coming to this place after turning into a Devil. It’s quite ironic.”
Well, that shows how much the relationship between each force has changed since back then. It seems like the building we exited out of is a tower meant for surveillance which is located within the corner of this territory. A tower meant for noticing the intrusion of enemies from the outside. And they activated the magic-circle in the basement of that tower. We left the tower and got into the two station wagon vehicles. The ones driving them are Sensei and Rossweisse-san. By the way, Rossweisse-san has a driving licence. “…………I can’t come to understand the taste Devils have.”
Not just Elmenhilde, but the reaction the Vampires showed when they saw Rugal-san is that of shock. That’s because all of them are showing signs of hatred and fear. What on earth is Rugal-san exactly……? Despite things like that happening, we parted ways with the Vampires from the Carmilla faction and left. Sensei then explains to us the situation inside the car. “—! The new leader of Tepes is……Valerie! ?”
I scream out due to the shock inside the car. Of course. Even if there was a coup d’état, I never expected for the leader to be Gasper’s saviour! “……V-Valerie……”
Gya-suke panics hard. Of course. Since the half-Vampire girl he’s been trying to save is the Head of Tepes. He probably never predicted it. “For the leader of the Tepes faction that puts men above women to be a half-blood and furthermore a woman…… It’s clear that something quite dramatic is going on over there.”
Akeno-san says. Yeah, I have the same opinion. There’s no way that the Vampires who serve the pureblood ancestor would choose a half-blood girl as their King. I know so much ever since I met Elmenhilde in Japan. —That’s because they believe that in this world there are only pureblood Vampires and other beings. Sensei says. “The Khaos Brigade must have guided them from the shadows and created this situation. And the ones that allied with the Khaos Brigade is the anti-Tepes government group. They were blinded with their dissatisfaction towards the current government and the desire to lose their weakness by the use of the Holy Grail. That’s probably why they fell to the terrorists’ sweet words. The ones that sent the powered up Vampires towards the Carmilla faction were them as well.”
……If such a thing happened, won’t it be quite messy within the Tepes castle? Sensei then says, while my concern over Rias and Kiba increases. “Looks like even the Tepes’s government side also couldn’t handle the anti-government group that teamed up with the terrorists which led them to seek help from the Carmilla faction. It must be a situation where Carmilla can’t ask for more since she can make the Tepes’s King indebted to her.”
Sensei continues with a sigh. “And like I told you before through the communication, I decided to go to the Tepes’s side since I’m concerned over there as well. And it’ll be too much for me to handle alone. So I summoned all of you right away as well as bringing back Rias.”
Sensei says while scratching his head. “I’m sorry, all of you. Looks like it’ll get quite messy. I’m planning to talk to them but keep in your mind that we may have to battle. After all, even the Carmilla’s side are planning to settle down this coup d’état as well. Carmilla’s side are also willing to do this since they now know who they must give their retribution towards. The agents from the Carmilla’s side are being deployed so they can surround the Tepes’s town. So we are basically going inside such a place. We’ll grasp hold of the information from the inside and must break through to the centre of their base if the situation arises. ……If that guy is actually involved in this, then there’s a high possibility that this won’t end pretty.”
……Well, I kind of predicted that this will happen. Though the “guy” Sensei mentioned with disgust is really making me feel nervous……
I laugh while sighing. “I kind of predicted that this will happen by the point when you summoned us here. We have a hundred percent encounter rate for getting involved in such situations. —Everyone came here prepared.”
The other members also strongly nod their head to my words. Sensei smiles fearlessly when he sees that. “Geez, I don’t know whether to feel reliable or feel sorry for you guys for getting used to such situations.