Undead Seeks Warmth 045

 

A small city that was built on the northern part of Shardia kingdom, Elbart.

Inside the mass of humans, I walked.

 

Several days after I have left the [black lake], I got the information from profess that the fifth magic item resided in this city.

After flying towards Volthaizen, I went back again to Shardia, flying to the northern part took only 2 days.

The increase of my mana capacity seems to make my flying speed faster compared to the past.

Compared to the first time I flew ... In other words, the time when I first became an undead ice angel, I was travelling around on foot a lot, it's only my body sensation but I felt like my velocity is several times faster than that time.

I'm grateful that my moving speed become much faster. The time I could stay up in the air also increased.

 

I, who was able to safely arrive at Elbart , decided that since went into the city through the gates as expected was impossible, so I went directly inside from the sky during the night.

And so, I was able to infiltrate the town without any problem, and now I mixed myself with the hustle and bustle of the people here, but.

 

The people's gaze that shoot towards me.

Honestly, it can't be helped that I was attracting lots of attention.

I was well aware of the fact that my appearance was beyond that of normal people, and even in this world, a person with silver hair is rather rare.

On the top of that, in my case, my appearance, and most of my skin were totally different from that of a living person.

That's why for the sake of fooling people as much as I could, I wore a mantel with a hood to cover myself from my head to toe.

But this was not in a manga. No matter how low my hood was, people can still see my hair, and they can still somehow look at my face. 

In other words, it's become no more than for my peace of mind.

Even though, I didn't want to attract attention, I ended up attracting attention anyways. 

 

If I had to say more, the information gathering also didn't work out as I intended. 

That was of course. Even if quite some time had already passed since I came to this world from another world, I've never had any proper conversation with any humans even once. 

in the first place, this is the first time that I have come inside a city where humans lived. I am having myself on alert so that they didn't found out that I was a monster, there's no way I could have proper conversation with them.

... if there's a person who could happily convers with a suspicious man wearing a hood, I wished for that person to come here right now. 

 

 

 

 

 

Even so, I somehow was able to start to get some clues regarding the place where that magic item was kept.

From the story that I heard, the Elbart town mayor is a maniac collector, and thus he bought many rare works of art from many places.

It was a story that mingled with complain that I get from some drunk old guys in the bar at night, but since the same stories also reached my ears from other customers, possibly it is true.

 

 

A magic item can have many variations of shapes. Among them there's one that shaped as a picture, or an equipment that's evolved into a magic item. 

If there's such kind of magic item existed in this city, then it should be at that place.

Even so, it's only been five days since I've arrived at this city.

The information that I've gathered until now didn't really meant that much, taking action with only some prediction is too risky.

 

If it's like this, having them being inside a cave like usual is easier.

Anti-human trap doesn’t have any effects to me, furthermore the problem that had been troubled me all this time, will also be resolved because of the experience in the black lake. 

Yep. Though I was sucked dry, but unknow to me at that time, what I got back in return was bigger.

Because of the magic that I've received when I had sex with Stella, finally I am able --- 

 

 

-thud-

 

 

---- Ah shit.

Because I got to immersed in my thought, I bumped into someone.

It was not mistake though. I am aware of how bad the space and how hard it's to walk in this place, but I am not that dull to not able to evade a walking human inside this traffic.

 

My opponent also seems to be preoccupied with something, after we bumped into each other, that person fell onto that person’s butt after that person balance crumbled.

The backlight was just right to hinder me seeing their face ... but from that person’s movement I could judge that this person was a girl. 

Just like usual my body that become really strong at night, and become quite weaker in the noon. if it's not at night, my physical power reduced.

Me, who didn't want to raise any troubled, just mumble 'sorry', and extended my hand toward the fallen girl.

The girl stretched her hand towards me --- and the moment she touched my hand, with a startle she drew back her hand.

 

 

- It's, cold ...!? 

 

 

The moment I heard those word, I cursed at my own carelessness. 

My body which was concealed by the cold air, always have the body temperature stayed below freezing point.

It was clearly not a human's temperature. The reason that I wore this mantle with hood was so that the cold air wouldn’t leak out to the surrounding.

 

But then, in a moment of happening, I by mistake touched someone's hand.

No good, no good, no good.

Will the fact that I wasn't a human, be exposed? 

No. In either case, it's true that she will suspect me.

I turned my back.

Weave my way through the sea of humans, I ran away. 

 

 

- .... ! Wa, wait! WAIT ! ! - 

 

 

 

Echoed sound could be heard from my back. 

... She chased after me.

I clicked my tongue, then entered the alley.

For a moment, I looked out at my surroundings, after confirming that there's no other people in the vicinity.

 

I used my [shadow gate], then I plunged myself into the shadow.

 

Chapter end