The iron castle is silent after nightfall. This suffocating silence makes people unable to restrain themselves from imagining what exists in the darkness where there is no light outside the candlelight. What is there in the night watch?

The copper bell on the knight's horse's neck was the only sound coming from the street at night. This sound told people hiding at home that there was power on the street that could protect them, and it also warned those who were curious not to act casually.

Step into the darkness.

In the room in the tavern, Cheese silently looked at the dim street through the window. After the sun set, the city began to be filled with an unpleasant smell that made the mage feel uncomfortable. It was not a breath from a living person.

It was a decaying smell that seemed to come from the soil in the cemetery, and every particle of it floating in the wind carried the smell of death. Cheese's eyes unconsciously began to emit a very faint light, and the mage was trying to

Looking at the city under the night from another perspective. Judging from the results of his observations, Cheese believes that the curfew issued by the city lord is very reasonable.

"I don't remember inviting you in." Cheese looked out the window and said suddenly. But the language he spoke was not the common language used in the Cangshi Kingdom, but a language with a more obscure and ancient sound. As for what he said

The target was actually a black cat that walked into the mage's house at some unknown time.

"I paid half of the wages for building this hotel, so this is not someone else's house." Surprisingly, the black cat answered in the same language, but maybe

Probably because it sounds like a cat, its voice makes it difficult to distinguish its gender.

"Okay, let's forget it. Then can you tell me the reason why a shapeshifter like you comes to this room at night like this?" The mage slowly turned around and looked at the animal.

The black cat said. Only then did he notice that the black cat had a pair of scarlet red eyes like gems.

The black cat sat down, licked his front paws, and said in a calm tone.

"If you enter other people's territory rashly, you should first say hello to the owner of this place, right? Or do you mean you don't even understand this basic etiquette? You are a wizard who smells of plague."

"I have to say that as a vampire, your sense of smell is really keen. But I am curious whether such a keen sense of smell comes from your nose that has stopped functioning long ago, or from the domestic dogs you raise.

What?" Faced with the other party's rhetorical question, Cheese was not frightened, but said with an interested smile.

"This is not a question you need to know, wizard. Now you just need to tell me who you are and why you are here at this time." The black cat said, although it is almost impossible to read the expression on the cat's face.

But the mage still read a hint of anxiety from its voice and language. It's interesting. Generally speaking, as vampires with almost endless lives, these existences in the night have long been patient enough, and they will talk to each other because of these few words.

He felt impatient. Either the black cat had been transformed into a vampire for too short a time, or it was already troubled by some things. In this case, Cheese believed that he could get more information from the other party.

"Don't be so sure yet. What I need to know and what I don't need to know is not something you should consider. Moreover, as far as I know, Iron Castle is not the territory of any dark night noble. In other words, the entire Cangshi Kingdom is not the territory of any dark night noble.

There is no family that can occupy a stable hunting area. So, before explaining my identity, your identity is full of doubts, isn't it?" Indeed, before the start of this mission, Cheese had already obtained the Cangshi.

Information about the kingdom and nearby countries, and those reports without exception did not mention any vampire families nearby. This means that this place will not belong to the hunting range of any vampire, unlike Alina

After getting along with each other for many years, Cheese has a very detailed understanding of these guys who can turn into bats or black cats.

Feeling that Cheese would not reveal his true identity so easily, the black cat began to make plans to retreat. The mage was right, although it was already wandering around the Iron Castle when this hotel was established, but

This place really cannot be regarded as its hunting ground. Obviously, this passing wizard knows the rules of the vampire family very well, and may even know a few serious vampire nobles. So no matter how much contact he has, he will not get his information, but only

It will expose itself more. Thinking of this, the black cat's body tensed up, and it was already ready to leave the room.

However, Cheese did not want this little guy with red eyes to leave so easily. Being visited unexpectedly at night made the mage not in a very happy mood. His fingers hidden in the robe had already begun to prepare to cast this spell.

Guys are stuck here.

But just when one person and one cat were in a stalemate, there was a knock on the door of Cheese's room, and then the voice of the landlady came from outside the house.

"Cheese, it's me, Elsa. Did you sleep? I seemed to have bought a lot of snacks during the day, so I thought you were hungry?"

Now the mage knew something more about the black cat. Apparently it did enter through the door, because although it closed the door, it did not put the door bolt back in place. This led Elsa to try

When he pushed the door open, the wooden door did not have any blocking effect, and opened with a gentle push. When the black cat saw this opportunity, it was still willing to stay in the house, and it suddenly jumped from the ground.

He jumped up and ran straight towards the gap in the door, obviously wanting to escape. At this time, it was too late to cast a spell. Besides, since the door was opened, the room was no longer a closed space, which made Qi Qi

Si couldn't trap the black cat quickly enough. In desperation, the mage only had time to shout for the landlady's attention.

"Get the cat!"

In fact, the black cat swooping over was faster for Elsa to notice than cheese. When she was still surprised that the mage's door was unlocked, a black shadow rushed out of the house.

Come out. As a person with military training, although the boss lady did not see clearly what the black shadow was, the instinctive reaction caused by the training still made her subconsciously drop the snacks in her hands and stretched out her hands to block the black shadow.

, and when the black shadow and the hand touched, Elsa clenched her fingers tightly based on the feeling. This caused the boss lady's hands to firmly grasp the black cat's forelimbs when she heard Cheese's words.

"Good job! Don't let it run away!" Cheese said excitedly when he saw Elsa catching the black cat.

Although the black cat struggled in every possible way when its forelimbs were caught, its size made it difficult for it to exert enough strength to escape from the clutches of the boss lady. After several attempts to no avail, it raised its head and used its red pair of

He looked at Elsa's face with his eyes and said in a magical voice.
Chapter completed!