“I want to save them.”
While letting out a sound that could be a sneer or a sigh, the Great Witch put the pipe in her mouth.
“If you can, that is.”
Yes, that’s what I intend to do.
At the moment I was about to utter such a response, I felt a force tugging insistently at my collar. There, Elsie-senpai was already standing with a sullen face.
The girl tiptoed and whispered softly into my ear.
“…It’s pointless, so don’t do it.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Because it’s impossible, you idiot.”
Elsie-senpai simply crushed my valid question like that.
Even so, when I made a face showing I wasn’t convinced, the girl had to let out a long sigh between her small lips.
“That Celine and Seria? Your juniors or whatever—they’ll try to save them as much as possible. But the vampire’s thralls can’t be saved.”
It was a conversation we had had before.
Elsie-senpai had said the same thing back then. That there was no way to turn back those who had become the vampire’s thralls.
I wanted to ask the reason.
Hadn’t…