Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut Vol. 3 by Keisuke Makino

Author:Keisuke Makino [Makino, Keisuke]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2022-11-08T08:00:00+00:00

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Bart and Kaye stood at the starting line surrounded by large, muscle-bound dhampir men. Bart’s blood melon was dramatically bigger than everyone else’s—at least double the size of Kaye’s. But when you played on another team’s home turf, that was how things went. He’d been hoping to swap out his melon, but he hadn’t had a chance. Bart had always been the worst in his class at sports, but at the very least, he didn’t want to lose to Kaye.

“On your mark… Get set!” The announcer waved his flag. “Go!”

Due to Bart’s poor reflexes, he quickly lagged to last place. Kaye, on the other hand, had a flying start. Unfortunately, she was in such a hurry that she tripped over her own feet after three steps.

“Eek!” Her blood melon slipped from her hands right into Bart’s path.

“Huh?!”

Bart tried to go around it, but instead stepped right on the melon and slipped. In the next instant, his face collided with the ground below.

“Ow! Ugh…”

The crowd roared with chuckles, applause, and whistles. Everyone seemed unusually excited by the debacle.

“Ouch…”

Bart lifted his head, feeling something warm drip from his nose to his lip. He hurriedly wiped his face with a fist, and it came away covered in blood. The dhampirs gaped at him immediately, and Bart withdrew from the race, scampering away like an armadillo fleeing an alligator.

Shortly after, Bart cooled his nose with shaved ice in the corner of the festival grounds closest to the cemetery. Kaye, meanwhile, had escaped with little more than a grazed knee.

She apologized profusely, on the verge of tears. “I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry!”

“I’m okay. And, hey, at least my glasses are unscathed.”

Jennifer sipped a cola, watching them in disbelief. “First that raft at the beach, and now this blood melon race. Well, I guess when we asked for billboards for Nerd Heaven, we certainly got them.”

After Kaye spent a bit more time on the bench with Bart, some kids visiting from another city pulled her away, dragging her into another round of signing autographs. As for Bart, nobody bothered him for his signature, although nearby dhampirs chuckled at his nose plug.

Jennifer looked around at everything, crunching an ice cube in her mouth. “This whole Arnack One project…” she mused. “Promoting the UK’s science and technology is one thing, but the ‘reconciliation’ part will be no small feat.”

“What do you mean?”

“My boss told me, ‘It’s important to show we can compromise.’ But it’s not as if he knows anything about what it’s actually like here on the ground.”

“It sounds like you aren’t fully on board with this idea.”

“I guess not. I just can’t help thinking there’s a better way to do it.”

“Like what?”

“Like pitting you against the Solar Flare Club, for example.”

Bart was speechless.

“It’s a joke. No need to look like you’re about to march off to your death.”

“N-no, ma’am.” When Jennifer said it, it hadn’t sounded like a joke at all. Bart broke out in a cold sweat.

“How do I put this…? The government ordered us to hold these official events.

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