Chapter 89: Searching
When I use ‘Silhouette’, it becomes exceedingly hard to find me at night. This ability, that makes my presence, odor and even the sound disappear, provides an extremely high level of concealment. If anybody sees me running, they will only think of me as a fragment of their imagination. It makes sense why ‘True Vampires’―― those who possessed power before becoming vampires by continuously evolving from lower ranks, would be considered more terrifying than people who were turned into vampires after being bitten by them. I avoid the main street and the street lights, running through the city at night. Meanwhile, nobody paid attention to me. Nobody is chasing after me either. My five senses are keen at night. I’ve realized that I’ve become able to use the abilities that were too overwhelming at first to some extent.
When I reach a desolate inn, I strongly kick off the ground and lightly land inside the open window. There’s a single lamp lit in the room, leaving it mostly dim. The light won’t really hurt me unless it’s sunlight, but she must be keeping my extremely keen eyesight in mind.
“It was no good, as expected.”
“I see… any injuries?”
The one waiting for me inside the room was Senri. Her somewhat cold beauty hasn’t changed ever since we first met. Looks like she has taken off her fake glasses. I get up and turn around.
“It’s as you can see. Look, no holes anywhere, right? I wasn’t discovered.”
“… I’m glad.”
Senri’s expression doesn’t change, but I can feel from her heartbeat that she’s relieved. I’m unharmed. They didn’t have silver weapons, so even if they pierced my body, I would still be completely unscathed, but in reality, there aren’t even holes on my clothes. Bullets were fired at me but I evaded everything, I’ve become used to it.
My body regenerates, but my clothes don’t. It was simply a big problem for me. Each time I’m burnt, cut or when I transform, I end up naked. Humans would end up dead if they got burnt or torn to shreds, so they don’t have the luxury to think about their clothes, but I’m different―― and those things unexpectedly happen quite often to me. I can make my body black if I use ‘Silhouette’ but that can’t replace clothes.