Chapter 51: At the reunion with Yuki
After Liza left, his dependents disposed of the body.
“Next, that hunter.”
He sniffed to confirm the smell. Liza seemed to be familiar with the smell of hunters. And so in this way, he devoured the hunters one by one. In the dark, stealthily. Kamil watched this from a distance and said,
"When’s my turn? Liza is a big eater after all. He’s going to eat all the hunters tonight!"
Later that night, Yuki came out of the shower and hugged me from behind.
“Yuki, you’ll hurt my neck if you hug me so tight.”
“mmm-but! I'm so happy!”
“I’m happy too.”
I took Yuki's arm, who was hugging me from behind,
“I’m really glad I came here. I’ve seen things that I’ve never seen before. I am having a precious new experience.
I’m glad that I could have the same experience as you, and I’m very impressed with your skillful treatment. You know...everyone in the medical team praises you. They say you're a wonderful doctor. It makes me very happy to hear that. And the locals say they have nothing but gratitude for Dr. Marcus.”
She said, her voice bubbling over.
“I guess. We’ve known each other a long time.”
“Speaking of which, how long have you really been here?”
"About 20 years, I guess. We don’t change, so we can’t stay in the same place for too long.”
"Why not?”
"Think about it. It's unnatural to stay young for so long. Twenty years is the time when a child is born and grows up to be an adult. And yet, it's normal for people to think it's funny that we stay the same."
“I see. So that’s why you’ve been to so many war zones. No one seems to think it’s strange that you haven’t changed your name?”
“That’s because I’ve come here after a certain time. No one from that time is alive anymore. We also have our people in the office of Doctors Without Borders, who are registered to come here. So it doesn’t matter. I like it here. I don’t have to think about anything, I can just focus on treating people. My wounded heart has been healed in that way for a long time.”
“…….Hey. Marc, can I ask you something? Your mother died, right? Even though she’s immortal and a founder?"
“I have told you before, we also have our weaknesses. My mother is a Founder, of course but she was killed by a hunter, the same people that attacked you today. I went on a rampage in the church that sent the hunter. I don’t know if the targeting had anything to do with that, but I have no doubt that they are trying to use the hunters to destroy us vampires. Some of my friends have suffered casualties. Kazuya too. At that time, silver bullets were used. Only church officials would play such tricks.”
….Yuki was silently listening to my story and then said,
“It's funny. When I was targeted, Kazuya saved me... but the gun he was using at the time was an ordinary bullet.”
*No way… decoy….*
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