Chapter 80: The Hero Smiled as the Vampire Became a Statue
La Llorona trembled, her noble demeanor had cracked just as much as the gargoyles’ dust Yasen swept away, as she glanced up at the unknown human with extradonarily more mana than even the Dragon Queen in her true form.
"Hm...it seems too boring to just kill you, since...well, you look like you’re really the last vampire alive, huh?" A furrow marred the cute hero who planned to finish her ’completed’ genocidal record for the vampire, as she tilted her head. "Hm...ah! That’s it! How about we introduce ourselves first?! My name is Alice, and as you probably already know, I’m the one who killed your families, lovers, friends, brothers, sisters, you name it. And yours?"
"La-La Llorona..."
"Wow, so long. I would just call you La La! Is that alright, La....La?"
The last syllable trailing off was more terrifying than any howls of the actual Divine Beasts from the <Divine Realm>, as La Llorona, whose name will now be reduced to ’La La’, nodded. "I...understand."
"Understand? Hmmmmmmmmm?" Alice hummed, the word ’I understand’ gritting her dignity coming from this lowly vampire.
"...excuse me for my rudeness...I-I graciously accept the title, Mistress Alice." The noble’s manner asleep in the sovereign’s gene taught her well to listen beyond subtext, as she performed the most graceful bowing with knees on the ground, as a subject would to a Queen. Not even when she begged for the humanity to be spared, that she had now this immediate sincerety that contained zero hesitation to scar her pride.
"...Yasen, don’t you think this would now make a prettier statue now?" Alice the hero turned to the ashen-eyed Dragon with a closed, smiling eyes, like an artist would to a regular citizen in a street.
"May...be? I don’t know, d-don’t ask me..."
Translation: Don’t pull me into your sadistic nonsense; just kill the vampire already.
The smart Hero merely nodded even when understanding the nodding, glancing-away Dragon, before turning to La La. "Hey Miss La La. Do you perhaps have any question for me? Ah, if you want to ask for my hand in marriage, mine belongs to the Queen already, so no, alright?"