Esper Harem in the Apocalypse

Chapter 168 Vampire

"I don\'t think anyone can see from that far… but well, I will go check."

Rudy flew to the mountain and landed on top of it, but as he had expected, there was no one. He then looked at the spot from the mountain and nodded.

"I can see fine, but I still need to squint my eyes to get a clear view. So whoever was watching me was obviously not human, but what could it be?" Rudy wondered with an amused look on his face.

\'People are forgetting about Rias, so something supernatural is definitely involved. Doesn\'t that mean Rias is not a human?\'

"That could explain why there are no pictures of her. But why… does no one remember her?"

\'And just how our relationship was? Did we truly love each other?\'

Rudy\'s mind was overflowing with too many questions, and he wasn\'t getting answers to any of them.

\'So what happened between us? Why is she no longer with me, and why does no one remember her in the first place? Did we break up or something? That answers some of my questions…\'

"Wait…" Rudy placed his hand on his chin and wondered, "If we actually broke up, then is there any meaning in looking for her?"

Rudy pondered for a while and uttered, "From what I understood from all the clues I got so far; Her name is Rias. She has red hair. She is not a human. She never came to school, so I visited her and that\'s when something happened, and we apparently started dating. So… we dated for around three months and broke up. She erased everyone\'s memories and went back to where she came from."

Rudy came to the conclusion that the reason no one remembered Rias was because she did something to them to make them forget about her. And the logical reason why she would do that was that she wanted to get away from everyone.

However, there was still one thing Rudy wasn\'t certain of.

"It\'s obvious that she erased everyone\'s memories, but did she erase mine too?" Rudy wondered.

\'I entered this body after that event, so I am not sure that. I haven\'t regained the memories of the Rudy of this world since I didn\'t know about the apocalypse and the pandemic either. So there are chances that Rias didn\'t wipe my memories, and maybe we never broke up?\'

Now, Rudy had a reason to search for Rias. Or, at least, he wanted to.

"Even if we truly broke up, I want to meet her…" Rudy was curious about Rias in more than one way.

\'I don\'t want to sound melancholic, but I am… I mean, I was kind of dense in my past life. And since I always focused on my studies and my future, I neglected everyone\'s feelings. Even in the university, I was the same. But one day…\'

Rudy smiled wryly and uttered, "One day when I laid my eyes on her, I felt as though the chain binding my heart suddenly broke loose. I don\'t want to call it \'love at first sight\', but it actually was."

\'To this day, I still don\'t know what was the reason I fell for Elise, but I am glad I did. That\'s why… I want to know how Rias managed to make me fall in love with her.\'

"She has to be someone exceptional if she managed to capture my heart."

Rudy\'s wish to meet Rias was growing more and more, and there was nothing to stop him from meeting her.

He slowly opened his mouth and uttered, "I… wish to meet Rias…"

Rudy wasn\'t sure if wishing to meet Rias would actually make it real since that wasn\'t his power, but he still did that and had hope in his heart.

Suddenly, the clouds that were covering the moon slowly faded away and illuminated the forest with the moonlight.

His ears twitched as he heard a faint noise coming from somewhere around him, but he couldn\'t pinpoint it since it was echoing from all around.

He activated his see-through ability and gazed around to where he thought the sound was coming from, but his ability couldn\'t catch it.

\'Could it be that it\'s bypassing my see-through ability?\' Rudy wondered as he jumped and hovered in the air, so he could inspect more easily.

He still couldn\'t see anyone, but he could hear the echoing noise. After listening to it for a while, Rudy finally realized that the sound was coming from the sky.

He looked up and followed the sound of the noise even though he couldn\'t see anyone, and that\'s when he saw it.

When the noise passed through the moonlight, Rudy saw a fog of mist flying in the sky.

"No wonder my see-through ability wasn\'t working…"

Rudy flew towards the mist, but as soon as he got near it, he was slammed to the ground by an invisible force.

Rudy landed on his feet and once again launched himself into the mist, but this time, he used telekinesis to control the mist. At first, he struggled, but eventually got a hold of it.

"I don\'t know who or what you are! Reveal yourself now, and I will consider forgiving you!"

The mist finally stopped struggling and slowly gathered to form the shape of a bat.

"..." Rudy\'s eyes widened in shock as he uttered, "A… vampire…?"

Rudy felt the same sting in his heart, but he felt as though something was finally broken inside him.

The bat slowly changed its shape to a beautiful silver-haired girl with red eyes. She had a pale body and the moonlight was making her body shine. She was naked when she transformed, but her chest was covered by her long silver hair.

She looked Rudy in the eyes and said, "Rudy… you shouldn\'t be here…"

Rudy furrowed his brows and asked, "Who are you? And Why do I feel my blood boiling after seeing you?"

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Question- Do you guys prefer two chapters at once, or one chapter with a gap? Sometimes, I have one chapter ready, but I get busy and write the second chapter after a few hours. And then I post them together.

Thanks, @Exoloty, for the gift!