Shota is surrounded by monsters!

"Splash splash splash—"

With a flick of his wrist, Tsuchimiya Yagaku sent Byakuei hurtling towards Shota on the ground.

"Shota-chan?"

Just as Shota was about to dodge, a weak but somewhat familiar voice reached his ears.

"Bam—"

Shocked, Shota forgot to dodge and was sent flying by Byakuei's headbutt. His bones felt like they were about to fall apart, but his gaze remained fixed on Rea, who was slowly standing up.

It's unbelievable, but she really did stand up...

Leaning against a tree, she watched with worried eyes as Shota was thrown into the air...

"Vampire? Zombie?"

Tsuchimiya Yagaku also noticed the girl who had stood up. He had initially thought it was just a corpse, but in that instant, it began to emanate a dark aura. Moreover, even as an excellent exorcist, he couldn't discern its nature.

But whether it's vampires or zombies, they are both objects that should be expelled.

Before he could attack the non-human girl, the monster that had been knocked away started running again at an even faster speed, then used its tail to bind the non-human girl and sped away.

Tsuchimiya Yaraku immediately gave chase with Byakuei, but before long, he found that he had completely lost his opponent's demonic aura—as if he had been swallowed up by something, leaving no trace.

"What...what's going on?"

Shota, who had taken refuge in an abandoned building, looked at Rea, who was holding her stomach in her hands, incredulously and asked, "Rea, are you... alright?"

"Hmm? I don't know either."

Rei looked down at the wound on her stomach. As she closed it, she felt granulation tissue regrowing, connecting the wound. She only needed to press on her stomach, and it would heal itself in no time. However, she felt no pain at all.

"But... this feeling is quite interesting." Rea squinted his now crimson pupils and smiled, saying, "I've become like this all because of you, Shota-chan. You'd better take responsibility from now on!"

Shota didn't listen to Rea's words; his attention was entirely focused on Rea's canine teeth, which had inadvertently been exposed—sharper than before.

vampire……

Rei has become... a vampire?!

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Chapter 30. Zombies? Vampires?

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What kind of species is it?

Shota carefully examined Rea's teeth. Although many animals have very obvious canines, Rea's fangs seemed to have a small hole on the inside, and the inside of the teeth also looked somewhat hollow. This was clearly a tooth specifically designed for sucking blood. Apart from vampires, no other creature would have such teeth.

Even Shota's own canine teeth were only used for tearing.

But Rea's situation is somewhat different from that of a vampire. Vampires are essentially abandoned beings that are neither human, demon, nor god. There's no heartbeat, no breathing, no body temperature—Shota didn't sense any of these in Rea either, and even her body temperature was slowly dropping. These are no different from a vampire's. However, a vampire's internal organs still function, and they can eat as elegantly as nobles. But Rea's situation is different. Shota pressed his shrunken, furry head against Rea's abdomen, listening to the movements within her body; it seemed only her stomach was still moving…

He looked like a dead person. No, Rea's heart did indeed stop beating at one point...

Zombies?

Regarding zombies, some hidden knowledge in Shota's memories might offer some answers. A recently deceased corpse, absorbing abundant life force, could potentially mutate into a zombie—but that's only a possibility. The process of truly creating a zombie is extremely complicated; not only must the date of death and rebirth have strict requirements, but the burial site must also be a corpse-raising ground. The so-called zombie transformation is merely a miracle. Even if the blood of the Gluttonous Beast is rich in life force, it's not a panacea for bringing the dead back to life.

Rea's features do resemble those of a zombie. After prying open Rea's mouth to examine it for a while, Shota discovered that she seemed to have lost the ability to produce saliva. However, a zombie could not possibly heal its wounds at the same speed, nor would it have those teeth—zombies feed on yang energy, not blood.

Shota recalled Rea's previous condition: she was injured and bleeding heavily, and then he poured all his blood into her...

Similar to the initial state of vampires, after extracting most of the human's blood, the vampires re-infuse the humans with their own blood to restore them. Only when most of the blood in the human body is replaced with vampire blood do humans transform from living beings into the living dead, like vampires.

But her blood is pure Taotie blood. Even if she had the same way of developing kinship as vampires, she should have just turned Rea into a Taotie girl.

Wait a minute, I'm not a purebred Taotie either.

Shota recalled a very strange question: he was a hybrid of two monsters. He retained most of the Taotie characteristics and appearance simply because the power of the Taotie bloodline directly overshadowed the other powers in his blood.

Are they really vampires?!

My ancestors were vampires?!

That's impossible. Besides his own father, no one would go to Europe to capture a vampire to raise as a child, right? Unless his mother, whom he's never met and whose fate is unknown, is a vampire. But his gluttonous father has never mentioned anything about this, and even when Shota pressed him for an answer, he pretended to be dead and refused to answer.

But thinking about it this way, there seem to be many doubts. Although I've known about vampires since I was a child, I don't think I've ever seen one in all these years. It feels like Taotie Old Man is intentionally or unintentionally avoiding those vampires.

Could it be that back then, the Gluttonous Father really just randomly picked a vampire girl, kidnapped her, and had sex with her to have his offspring?

That seems quite possible. If one's mother really is a vampire, then it makes sense.

The bloodline of the gluttonous beast has no distinction between yin and yang; having consumed so much, its blood has long since become as all-encompassing as chaos. But the bloodline of a vampire is yin.

Suppose that Rea initially absorbed the life force from his own blood, becoming a zombie-like being. However, due to a complete blood transfusion and the absorption of the gluttonous power within his blood, the vampire bloodline hidden within his blood took over, completing the entire Embrace process and transforming the half-zombie Rea back into a vampire.

Based on this deduction… Rea's current race is quite strange. It's roughly equivalent to a hybrid race of zombie and vampire. Or rather, it's like a vampire giving their Embrace to a zombie. But judging from their appearance, the vampire should still be dominant.

All of the above are Shota's unscrupulous deductions. If we want to truly understand the whole story, we would probably have to send him to the Institute of Extrahuman Biological Sciences for a physical examination to accurately determine the cause.

"Um... Shota-chan? Have you finished watching? Something feels really weird..."

Rea, lying on the ground, looked at Shota, who was sitting on her exposed stomach, deep in thought, and said somewhat awkwardly, "It's so itchy."

"Ah. Sorry, sorry meow."

Shota jumped off Rea's stomach, walked to the side, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Sorry, meow."

Without the other party's consent, he forcibly turned a person who should have died into a non-human. Shota himself didn't know if what he did was right or wrong.

Why apologize?

Rea stood up from the ground, patted the dust off her skirt, and squatted down to look at Shota with some confusion, saying, "Shota-chan didn't do anything wrong, did he?"

"Meow means turning you into this inhuman thing..."

"Eh? Non-human? Oh! I'm a monster now too."

Rea seemed to have just realized this fact. Looking at the faint flesh-colored scar on her stomach, she said in surprise, "That's amazing. And I can't feel any pain at all."

"But you're already dead, meow..."

Shota's words were like a bucket of cold water, but Rea only paused for a moment before laughing even more happily and saying, "Yeah. But you came back to life. What a strange experience. Speaking of which, where should yokai live? Just find any place to live?"

Rei looked around at the building slated for demolition; it was dilapidated, with junk piled up everywhere. She seemed to be searching for a place where she could sleep.

"But, Rea-nyan..."

Shota decided to make things clear with Rea, saying, "You're a youkai cat now. You can't even stand in the sun normally..."

"Just use a parasol."

Rea interrupted Shota with a smile, replying, "Ah, but if it's a yokai, wouldn't it be hunted down by those exorcists?"

"It's okay as long as you don't expose yourself."

"So am I a very powerful monster now? Can I beat them?"

Rea noticed a metal bar protruding from the broken window next to him, and as he walked over, he said, "Don't let my appearance fool you, I've studied fencing..."

"Bam—"

Rei accidentally dismantled the entire window. She stared blankly at the large piece in her hand; it looked quite heavy, but she didn't feel it much when she held it.

"Oh~ SUPER-WOMAN..."

Rea waved the object in her hand excitedly and said, "I'm so powerful now..."

This kind of superhuman strength... is it really befitting a zombie or vampire?

"Um, Rea, let's put it down, meow..."

"Oh, so doing this is really too dangerous?"

After seeing Rea put her things down, seemingly preparing to do something else strange and unusual, Shota paused for a moment before asking one last question: "Do you regret becoming like this, meow?"

"regret?"

Rea smiled and squatted down, patting Shota's head, saying, "You won't regret it at all. Because Shota-chan will take good care of me."

"Responsible for?"

"Oh yeah. From now on, you'll have to take me on a journey of hiding and dodging to experience what it's like to escape a great war, and you'll also take me to big cities to experience what it's like to be an ordinary person~ When that happens, Shota-chan will pretend to be my pet, and I'll take you shopping, and um... I wonder if pets are allowed in movie theaters?"

"If I'm a yokai, I can live a long time, right? That way, I can do all the things I wanted to do but never got around to! Even though I've thought about dying before, this state is pretty good. I can finally say goodbye to my past self~"

Rea reached up and tucked her hair behind her ear on the left side, a hint of a smile in her red eyes, and said, "From now on... I'll have to take care of you a lot, Shota-chan."

She really is...an extremely optimistic girl. No, or perhaps too naive?

Hearing Rea say that, Shota looked up at her and said, "Rea-nyan, can you straighten your clothes first?"

"Huh?"

Rea looked at her school uniform top, the lower half of which had been completely torn to shreds due to her injury. From Shota's angle, it was perfectly visible...

"Shota-chan is so erotic~"

"Bam—"

Rea accidentally slammed Shota into the floor.

"sorry Sorry."

After digging Shota out again, Rea solemnly knelt down in front of Shota and apologized, "I... I made a mistake."

"Forget it."

Shota licked his paws, indicating that he wouldn't take it to heart.

"But...would Shota-chan also be interested in human girls' bodies?"

Rea found it a bit strange. Shota's reaction when he saw her body seemed odd, but she felt no discomfort looking at Shota's naked body. Normally, different species wouldn't care about such things, right? It's like a human seeing a cow; you wouldn't have any strange feelings because it's not wearing clothes, would you?

"This is a bit complicated. I'll explain it when I have time."

To be honest, Shota prefers women who are human... no, at least women in human form.

"We can't stay here anymore, meow. I'll take you back, meow."

Although it's a bit troublesome, for now, he can only hide Rea in his own home. As for escaping? Shota doesn't have that plan for the time being. Anyway, the other party doesn't know what he looks like in his human form.

"Wait, Shota-chan... my father... how is he?"

Rea suddenly thought of this. She had no memory of Shota's battle, but there were some things she really needed to know.