The vampire heiress is two-faced

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"It's just a nightmare. A brave vampire maid wouldn't be scared like this by a nightmare."

...

If Coco nodded, she gradually regained her confidence when the topic of maid etiquette came up.

She had sworn to protect the young lady, but here she was, crying. She couldn't tolerate herself like this.

"Miss... thank you. I'm all sweaty and feel a bit uncomfortable. I'll go take a shower first..."

Just as Ruo Keke was about to get up after wiping away her tears, Ludwig suddenly had another bad idea.

Ludwig stared intently at Ruo Keke's face—

After I comforted her, she quickly adjusted her mindset, and her pitiful appearance gradually returned to normal in the blink of an eye.

"Ugh... I finally got to see her crying face, it makes me want to bully her."

"I was thinking of teasing her a bit and then making her happy, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it."

"No, no, I have to make her cry again."

Thump—

"Alas?!"

Ludwig pushed Ruoke back onto the bed.

"Coco, Coco☆"

"I'm hungry. And there aren't any blood plasma shops or vampire restaurants nearby..."

The silver-haired girl once again revealed her harmless smile.

"Let me have a good meal!"

Snapped--

If Coco's hand, which was trying to resist, was held tightly by her, then she felt the soft touch of her lips on her neck.

"...So fast!"

"Young Miss! Waaaaah—"

Ruo Keke, who was already in a bad mood, started sobbing again because she was powerless to resist the young lady's enjoyable meal.

"Ugh... That's so mean... Miss... Ah!"

...

Although this satisfied Ludwig's perverse sense of humor, it took her three whole days to calm Coco down.

Health tip: Bullying pretty girls is bad civility.

Chapter 27 Enemies meet on a narrow road

As soon as Ludwig landed at the airport in Florence, she couldn't help but complain about the inhumane rules.

"What?! Why do we have to go to some underground dark area and register on foot the first time before we can use it freely?"

"Because customs officials in various countries care about their reputation, and vampires don't want to have a falling out with humans either. Young lady."

If it is possible to say.

"The vampires at least need to go through some symbolic procedures and pay some money on their side, so that it doesn't seem like they don't take them seriously after this teleportation project is implemented. In addition, there are all sorts of entry and exit management regulations... The council is still struggling to negotiate with various human forces. However, as a mere maid, I only know a little about these things."

"Oh, Coco knows so much."

Coco snorted.

"I don't know as much as you, Miss, you know so many 'techniques' that leave me helpless."

Ludwig smiled without a trace of regret: "It's all because Coco is so cute."

"Hmph. You should know when to stop taking advantage of this servant for your own amusement."

“Hey, but I didn’t treat Coco as a servant.”

Ludwig, with her hands behind her back, mischievously circled around to the front of her.

"I've said it so many times, your class consciousness is outdated in modern times. I really don't know what kind of rigid knowledge the parliament has taught you."

The silver-haired girl suddenly narrowed her eyes:

"Could it be that Coco wants to stay by my side because she wants to be my servant?"

"No, it's because...because..."

If Coco avoids her gaze, she responds incoherently.

Ludwig tilted her head: "So—Coco doesn't actually want to be my maid? But that doesn't seem like it at all."

She got very close to Ruo Keke, and her light, soft silver hair fluttered gently, brushing against the tip of Ruo Keke's nose.

"Coco, tell me the truth. What do you think of me?"

Coco's cheeks flushed red, and she couldn't utter a single word.

So she simply bypassed the clingy young lady and walked quickly forward.

"Miss, please don't keep saying things that I can't answer. I... I'll go take care of the formalities first."

"Hey, wait a minute, Coco, you're my best..."

Just as Ludwig was about to chase after her, she saw someone walking towards Ruokeke with their head down, looking at their phone. Ruokeke, who was also walking away with her head down, obviously didn't see the person.

"Whoa, Coco, watch where you're going!"

—Thump!

...

The two bumped into each other, but fortunately, the other person quickly helped Ruo Keke up.

"Miss, are you alright...? Huh?!"

Upon closer inspection, the two vampire girls quickly recognized the passerby, and he recognized them as well.

"That stupid church knight!"

Ludwig warily pulled her maid over, grabbed her arm, and glared fiercely at the young man in front of her.

Perhaps because he had just caught Ruo Keke who was almost knocked over, Ludwig felt inexplicably uncomfortable seeing her physical contact with a man.

The young man took off his hood and said with an annoyed look, "Call me Yin Shang."

He felt a headache coming on whenever he saw those two guys, especially the girl in the crimson dress.

"What's going on? Is this Earth really that small? How could we bump into you two on the other side of the Earth?"

Ludwig held onto Ruoke tightly, barking and shuffling behind her without any politeness.

"I'd like to ask you the same thing: what are you doing in Italy? Are you trying to cause us trouble? Don't think we're afraid of you!"

“This is none of your business, you noisy lady,” Yin Shang said to Ludwig.

Coco snorted, "Oh? Is that so? A church knight who always talks about 'having a grudge against the group' just happened to appear here. Is there any other explanation besides him coming to pick a fight with us? You completely ignored all explanations and insisted that we were in cahoots with the group."

"Say what you will, I have no interest in causing you trouble right now. I don't have any substantial evidence, so it's not worth wasting my time on you."

Ludwig put her hands on her hips: "You unilaterally claimed that we almost lost a business deal, and even 'ambushed' us in the alley, and now you're unilaterally giving up on causing trouble? I don't believe you even if you tell me that!"

Without saying a word, Yin Shang turned and left, completely ignoring the two shouting vampires.

Ludwig puffed out her cheeks: "Hey! If we're going to fight, let's go over there! Do you think I'm afraid of you?"

If Coco covered her mouth while pulling her back:

"Alright, alright! Miss, please say no more, let's go—"

Before they parted ways, Ruo Keke seemed to remember something and suddenly called out to Yin Shang.

"stop."

"What's up?"

"It's nothing, I still owe you a favor. If you need to repay it, just give me a call. But after I repay this favor, we'll be even and never have anything to do with each other again."

Yin Shang did not reply.

If Coco suddenly started using the polite language a maid uses when addressing guests:

“I don’t like someone like you who is completely unwilling to listen to any advice or explanation and insists on doing things your own way, sir.”

She took Ludwig's hand and led her toward the exit.

Ludwig turned around, stuck her tongue out at Yin Shang, and made a face.

...

...

Yin Shang sighed, "Alas, I hope they're not after the Lance of Longinus."

Subconsciously, Yin Shang did not want to be enemies with the silver-haired girl in the red dress, because she gave Yin Shang a sense of familiarity, like a friend he had known for many years.

“That’s really strange,” Yin Shang said.

At that moment, a fluffy cat's head peeked out from Yin Shang's pocket.

"Master, are you sure you don't want to get to the bottom of things with those two?"

Reinhardt looked at his master with curiosity.

It seems to be able to change its size at will; at this moment, Reinhardt is only as small as a cell phone charm.

"Not for the time being."

Yin Shang replied.

"They are high-ranking vampires with blood energy. Fighting them won't end quickly and will also attract the attention of the vampire council."

"Master, is your purpose in coming here merely to see the Holy Lance?" Reinhardt asked.

Yin Shang laughed, "Ah—visiting the Holy Lance is indeed the main reason, no doubt about it. A weapon that can pierce through everything during teleportation, it pierced through the Vampire Queen and the Fallen Pope, and finally retired in glory, dying a worthy death, turning into three broken spears. What church knight wouldn't want to see it with his own eyes?"

For any church knight, even just gazing at these renowned and legendary artifacts from afar, they can imagine countless majestic images of themselves wielding them.

What kind of people were the church knights?

In modern times, knighthood, a concept originating from the Middle Ages, is inherently out of touch with the times. And the church knight, who slays demons and monsters, is a profession that possesses an inherently romantic aura in a modern context.

Although they uphold world peace, their seclusion prevents them from making their presence known to the public. The church knights walk in darkness, yet serve the light—this is the primary reason why many young people with heroic dreams join them.

The requirements for becoming a church knight are extremely stringent—the biggest reason being that its existence cannot be made public, resulting in very low visibility and a scarcity of new talent.

Therefore, the church made reforms decades ago when it entered modern society.

Even those who do not believe in the Church, or even the Holy Light, can, upon the Church's secret invitation, undergo baptism and training to become one of the thousands of Church Knights, fighting against vampires, werewolves, and countless other monsters in the shadows.

Let them forever remain fantastical creatures existing only in imagination, maintaining peace and tranquility in the scientific age.

But all of this vanished when the corrupt pope's conspiracy was exposed. The secret could no longer be hidden, and vampires and supernatural powers were brought into the public eye.

Many church knights wavered because of the corruption and depravity of the church. Although they were not punished or purged for upholding justice, they no longer needed to hide in the shadows to punish evil.

Because troops and police from all over the country have joined the fight against the monsters, the monsters' rampage is no longer a secret.

The meager number of over a thousand church knights was utterly insignificant in the face of humanity's simple, brutal, yet extremely effective firearms and long-range tactical strikes.

No matter how skilled a group of ancient knights wielding swords and slashing each other are, can they be as simple and effective as a saturation bombardment?

Moreover, the Church's greatest enemy has always been the vampires, and the vampires, as the leaders of all demons, have already reached a fragile but effective peace with humans.

Therefore, the only employment opportunity for church knights was to enter cities where the army could not exert its power, to act as witch hunters and eliminate the bloodthirsty monsters that had survived the Great Plague and were lurking in the shadows of the city.

But for knights who could take on ten men each, this was completely overkill.

For these church knights who no longer needed to fight bloody battles—

Visiting the holy site to pay homage to these sacred artifacts that once haunted their dreams is one of the few sources of solace for these "veterans."

Yin Shang thus came to Florence. But his purpose was not merely that.

He pulled up his hood and gazed at the Florence Cathedral (Santa Maria del Fiore) not far away.

"Many demonic creatures, including vampires, will not let this sacred artifact, of extraordinary significance, go unpunished. Hopefully, those two young ladies are not among those eyeing it."

"Heh. If it really is them... I'll catch them red-handed when they slip up, and then we'll see how they try to deny it."