"After that being said, it's confirmed that Leticia was really taken away?" Asuka looked at Shiliuye and asked.

"Well. I'm also sure this game is a gift game hosted by Letticia - 'Demon King Dracula'." Sixteen Night took out the invitation letter from the inner pocket of the student uniform - "sun          vampire                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

"...It's such a mess." After listening to the entire article, Feiniao shook her head with an indescribable complex expression.

"It's not exactly that. At least it has the integration that a game should have. After that, just find Black Rabbit to confirm a few questions..." Shiliu Ye suddenly stopped when he talked about this. It turned out that Black Rabbit and Ren who were searching for came back.

"Mr. Sixteen Nights! Miss Feinn! We know Miss Yao's whereabouts!"

"Really!"

"yes...but, the situation seems to be quite tricky." A depressed expression appeared on Black Rabbit's face.

She held the unconscious and injured Sanmao in her arms. Although Shiliuye and Feiniao did not understand what happened, they immediately realized the seriousness of the matter when they saw the black rabbit's expression and Sanmao's condition.

The two who turned their eyes back to Kurora raised a straightforward question: "…What happened to Kasugabe?"

The black rabbit showed a more serious expression and replied with his rabbit ears hanging down, "According to the words of witnesses... Miss Yao wanted to help the child attacked by the monster..."

"So I flew into the sky with the kids recovered with the monsters," Ren added.

The report of Black Rabbit and Ren made Shiliu Ye and Ashoka gasp as if they were hit. Everyone looked up at the sky together, and their eyes were focused on the ancient city that appeared with the dragon in the distant sky.

"Is Kasugabe classmate alone... breaking into that ancient city?" Asuka couldn't help asking.

"……Yes."

Feiniao looked pale, and the Sixteen Night next to him did not hide his anxiety and smacked his tongue. No matter how powerful he had, it was impossible to do with "Flying".

"...Black Rabbit, if this information is correct, there should be more than Kasugabe who is implicated and has unknown whereabouts? What are the other communities planning to act?" asked Shiliu Ye.

"About this, it is currently scheduled to hold a meeting centered on the 'Dragon Horned Grey Lion' Alliance at a later date. According to the news that the pair of rabbit ears heard, important people in the 'Dragon Horned Grey Lion' Alliance seem to be missing. If it goes well, people speculate that a rescue team may be set up tomorrow." Black Rabbit replied.

"...Oh? The important figure of the organization... In this way, the other party's movements will be very fast..." Shiliuye murmured, not further delving into it.

After Kasugabe Yoko and Leticia lost the two comrades who had the ability to fly, "no   name" and his group could only stare at the ancient castle in the sky with annoyance.

...

Over the "underood", the ancient city of vampires and the affiliated towns.

"It's already at a loss."

Kasugabe Yakura leaned his shoulder against the castle's exterior wall, which was old due to weathering, and breathed heavily to adjust his breath. However, just as soon as he took a breath, the ruins in the affiliated town sounded as if there was a sound of crawling and approaching.

"Woo... it's that monster again..." Yao sensed the enemy's aura and immediately left his original position. A shadow behind him was making a disgusting sound with a wet and sticky feeling and gradually approaching. In this destructive affiliated town, there was a red and black monster that seemed to be a gathering of blood clots and moss was wandering around.

The monster had a similar outline to humans, and its movements were quite agile, but its body was fragile, and it was not so threatening when it appeared alone. However, if there were hundreds of that kind of thing gathering, it would be a different matter. Not to mention that the protected person hiding behind Yau was not the only one Kirino. But the total number was nearly ten, the injured and children who had been caught by the monsters.

"Is there any place to hide..." Yao asked everyone.

"This... is here!" The group rushed in the direction she pointed out under Kirino's urging and hid in a ruin next to the exterior wall. Yao pushed away the scattered rubble, letting the children hide in the gaps in the large cracks, and blocked everyone and sat down.

"...Is everyone okay?" The ray, who was able to adjust his breathing well, looked at the "underood" residents behind him.

“Ah… well.”

"For your blessing, everyone is fine."

Kirino expressed his gratitude to another older orc.

Like Kirino, they were caught by the monster and were directly recycled by the dragon, and then threw them into the affiliated town of the ancient city. Although it was nothing strange even if they lost their lives, since the review resolution was accepted and the organizers were prohibited from interfering with the participants, they could be released without any injury.

In addition to Yao, there were seven people who successfully met, six of whom were younger than her, and the group was forced to a dead end a few days ago by enemies wandering in affiliated towns.

"...Bad trouble. If Kirino was the only one, I could fly out and escape, but the number of people was a bit heavy. No matter how hard I tried, the three of them would be the limit." Yao did not expect that other people who were captured might appear. It was unexpected that they were attacked by enemies in the affiliated towns.

"Even if it is the time of deliberation, those red and black enemies still attack us without any mind. In other words, those enemies do not belong to the power of the organizer... Then, are they just happening to live in this city and have nothing to do with the game itself...?" Yao sorted out the situation very quickly, and sweat dripped from his forehead with light.

First, we must confirm the current situation. Yao peeked at the appearance of the attached town from the gaps in the building where he and others were hiding.

"………No, that's strange. First, the premise is that the castle and the affiliated town were originally vampire bases, and it is impossible for a monster like moss and plants to gather into blocks of lingering in the town."

Not to mention that this is a place thousands of meters away from the ground. If it was originally something that grew here, it would be another matter. The assumption that it only grew after becoming an abandoned capital is quite unreasonable.

Yao targeted the enemy and thought about various possibilities.

At this time, the elderly orc behind her, the old man with messy cat hair on his ears, whispered: "That plant...is probably a parasitic species."

"... Grandpa Mao's ear, do you know what that is?"

"Well, it should be true. The part that looks like moss is spores, which are the mycelium used to reproduce seedling beds by using organisms or corpses." Grandpa Cat Ear nodded.

“…? Something similar to Cordyceps sinensis?”

"Oh, that's the one. Because of its similar nature, this is a creature called "Winter Beast and Summer Grass". It is a strange plant that I had seen in "underood" before."

"Is that true..." Yao responded briefly.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!