I adopted a child demon from the Gap, and I'm a special agent for the Bureau of Supernatural Ab

That monster, she disappeared?

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Section 157, Chapter Seventeen: Vampires and Bathtubs

"This is really... inexplicable!"

Using the Rewind Technique Gem developed by Rin to restore the damage caused by the previous battle, Li Cheng sighed slightly, looking at the messy street in front of him with a distressed expression.

Not long ago, the giant monster that had suddenly appeared and attacked them vanished without a trace. After searching the area around the apartment for a long time, Li Cheng, Emiya Kiritsugu, and Ryougi Shiki, who had come to help, finally confirmed that the monster had left the place.

He suddenly appeared, fought everyone until they were bloodied and battered, and then vanished without a trace. This made Li Cheng feel extremely uncomfortable, like punching cotton.

"In the end, was I the only one who got stabbed?"

After completing all the repairs, Li Cheng returned home, took off his tattered clothes, and sat down on the sofa with his bare chest, sighing as he did so.

"You clearly obtained such precious and terrifying power, yet you couldn't even detect that level of concealment, resulting in injury. It's clear that you, human, are utterly useless."

Beside Li Cheng, Remilia sat on the other sofa, gently swinging her delicate white feet that couldn't reach the ground, and said with a disdainful expression.

"Cheng, are you alright?"

Xi grabbed Li Cheng's trouser leg and climbed onto him, sitting on his lap. Her deep purple eyes stared intently at him as she asked with some concern.

"Oh, it's okay, I'm fine."

Under Shio's gaze, Li Cheng could only answer quickly, while ignoring Remilia's malicious mockery beside him.

"Speaking of which, we fought so fiercely earlier that our bodies were covered in dust even though we had just taken a shower."

Noticing his own dirty appearance, Li Cheng sighed, placed tide, who had been sitting on him, on the sofa next to him, and stood up.

It was just past 5 a.m., and the sky was already faintly about to brighten. Li Cheng wondered if this was one of the reasons the enemy was retreating, and at the same time, he made a decision.

"Take a shower."

The feeling of being all dirty is so uncomfortable. Anyway, it's almost dawn, so I won't be able to get a good night's sleep tonight.

Exhausted, Xi quickly lay down on the sofa and fell asleep. Li Cheng picked her up and placed her on her small bed. Remilia was reluctant to sleep, claiming that noble vampires wouldn't sleep at this hour, but her eyelids were clearly drooping. However, since she was just a temporary guest and not as close as Xi, Li Cheng didn't bother with her.

Entering the bathroom, Li Cheng filled the bathtub with hot water. Once the water temperature felt comfortable, he prepared to undress and soak. Just then, a strange sound came from outside the bathroom door, like someone lightly stepping on the floor. Intrigued, Li Cheng got up and went to the door, using his demonic power to adjust his vision to X-ray vision. He then saw the scene outside.

Remilia, the rare ancient vampire from an unknown, secluded place, was standing outside the bathroom door, hopping on tiptoe, trying to reach the doorknob.

Her height was simply insufficient compared to the doorknob. Furthermore, after entering the outside world, suppressed by the overwhelming will of the world now controlled by humanity, her strength was compressed, making it difficult for her to jump high enough to reach the doorknob.

But come to think of it, this girl clearly has wings, doesn't she? Why doesn't she use her wings to fly? No, that's not the key point. What's her reason for wanting to open this door? Doesn't she know this is the bathroom and Li Cheng is planning to take a shower?

After thinking for a moment, Li Cheng walked to the door and prepared to open it. However, Remilia, who was on the other side of the door, jumped several times without success. Then, she looked around, moved a small stool over, stood on it, stood on tiptoe, grabbed the doorknob, and opened the door in one go.

Then, with a smug smile on her face, Remilia, being pulled inward by the door, lost her balance and fell into Li Cheng's arms from inside the door, her head hitting Li Cheng's body directly.

"Waaah!"

The little girl instinctively let out a mournful cry.

"Miss Remilia, what are you doing?"

Holding Remilia's shoulder, watching her act like a child, Li Cheng twitched his lips and asked helplessly.

"Ouch, that hurts so much! Human, were you trying to ambush me on purpose?"

Remilia, clutching her head and helped to her feet by Li Cheng, raised her head with a resentful look. Then, Li Cheng's condescending expression only fueled her displeasure.

“If I hadn’t been standing here to block you, you would have fallen to the ground, and that would have hurt even more, Miss Remilia.”

Li Cheng said calmly.

What's with that look on your face, as if you've actually done something good? If you hadn't been blocking my way, I would have landed safely on the ground. Losing your balance is something you can easily do with wings.

Remilia was filled with resentment, completely forgetting that she hadn't even realized she needed to use her wings to maintain her balance when she fell.

No, as the current head of the Scarlett family, I cannot lose my dignity or my manners. I cannot get angry over such a trivial matter.

Gritting her teeth, Remilia took a deep breath, stood on the stool, looked up at Li Cheng, and asked seriously, "Human, is this the bathroom in this room?"

...As a result, Li Cheng's planned bath turned into a process of introducing a modern bathroom to a native vampire who had never seen modern technology.

"A bathtub with automatic temperature control and all these weird buttons, it's like the technology of a kappa."

As Li Cheng introduced the various facilities in the bathroom to her, especially the intelligent bathtub that he had specially bought to make Xi more comfortable while taking a bath, Remilia commented with great seriousness.

"Kappa? Technology?"

Completely baffled by the connection between the two words Remilia mentioned, Li Cheng wore an expression of utter confusion. But then, a strange memory suddenly surfaced in his mind: the kappa monster's fondness for studying modern technology.

It feels like a really strange setup...

"Well, that doesn't matter. I want to take a bath. Human, tell me how to use this thing called a 'smart bathtub'?"

With a look of great interest, Remilia spoke impatiently. Li Cheng, however, was completely taken aback by her reaction and immediately exclaimed, "Huh?"

“Is there anything strange about it? I usually take a bath every day, but I haven’t been able to because I’ve accidentally ended up in the outside world,” Remilia said earnestly. “But since you humans can provide a place to take a bath here, I naturally don’t need to endure it anymore.”

Although the bathtub here is so small that you can't even swim in it, it's far inferior to the large public bath in the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Remilia didn't voice this deep-seated regret and sense of superiority. After all, she was using someone else's things.

I wanted to take a bath and soak, so why did this girl suddenly jump up here? Li Cheng was full of questions and didn't understand what was going on.

Speaking of which, aren't vampires supposed to be afraid of water? So why can they take baths?

"It's just that flowing water makes me feel a little uncomfortable; still water doesn't affect me at all."

As if she could read Li Cheng's mind, Remilia retorted with an air of haughtiness. However, this posture, combined with the way she stood on the small stool, only made her appear more childish and adorable.

"Is...is that so..."

“That’s right,” Remilia said loudly, her mouth agape, revealing her sharp fangs, “So, I’m going to take a bath, now, right now!”

"Uh, okay, I get it."

With a sigh, Li Cheng abandoned his plan to take a bath and began teaching Remilia the uses of the buttons and wrenches in the bathtub, patiently explaining which ones she could and couldn't touch. After spending some time explaining, he left the bathroom and returned to the living room.

Remilia did intend to ask Li Cheng to stay, seemingly hoping for his help. However, out of basic considerations of avoiding any impropriety between men and women, and to prevent the book from encountering any potential censorship forces, Li Cheng firmly rejected her idea, insisting that she make herself at home in the bathtub.

That girl wants me to stay, probably so she can wash and massage her. Could it be that she usually has someone to serve her when she takes a bath? Haha, it seems she really is a little aristocrat.

Lying on the sofa, with a cushion under his head, Li Cheng yawned and couldn't help but recall Remilia's displeased expression after he refused to stay in the bathroom.

I just hope she won't end up like tide, bursting the water pipe the first time she uses the bathtub.

Probably not. Remilia is clearly more mature than Shio is now. Although she occasionally shows a childish side in some minor ways, she seems reasonably reliable most of the time, though she does have a bit of a temper.

Besides, she doesn't seem to have much strength. Even if she just presses randomly, it shouldn't cause any major problems, right? Probably...

"Oh!"

The thought had barely crossed my mind when the sound of a bursting water pipe echoed in the bathroom. At the same time, a small girl let out a cry of pain as a torrent of water sprayed directly onto her face.

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Section 158, Chapter 18: The Vanished Shrine

Early in the morning, when the sky was just beginning to lighten.

Amidst the chirping of insects, Li Cheng stepped onto the moss-covered stone steps and reached the summit of the small hill, a seemingly unremarkable open space.

Is this the place?

A childish yet arrogant voice rang out beside Li Cheng.

Remilia Scarlet, an ancient vampire species that can no longer be seen by the outside world, is standing beside Li Cheng, looking at the overgrown clearing with a hint of curiosity.

“Yes,” Li Cheng nodded, walking into the open space, his expression becoming somewhat puzzled. “But, generally speaking, once we’ve come this far, the shrine should be here, but now…”

Li Cheng frowned and paced back and forth in the open space twice before finally having to confirm one fact: the dilapidated shrine was gone.

Oh no, what happened?

"As expected, it has been hidden."

Remilia stepped into the clearing, her crimson pupils sweeping across the wasteland, and spoke calmly in a tone as if she had expected it.

"Do you know what's going on, Miss Remilia?"

Li Cheng noticed Remilia's completely unsurprised reaction and asked her with some curiosity.

"It's very simple. After all, it's a barrier that can be seen at a glance. It's a waste of your powerful strength that you can't even notice such a small thing."

Remilia raised her head and said arrogantly. Though she spoke simply, her expression clearly conveyed a sense of pride, and she also took the opportunity to subtly criticize Li Cheng regarding his demonic power.

Speaking of which, Remilia seems to have mentioned several times how he wasted that peculiar realm of demonic power. She seems to know quite a bit about this peculiar power.

Should we find some time to ask her about tide's power and race?

Li Cheng pondered silently in his heart.

"It seems that the old woman is really in trouble this time."

After walking around the open space twice, Remilia suddenly revealed a rather wicked expression, as if she were imagining someone who was tired and busy, having lost all their elegance.