Vampire Hunter D: Raiser of Gales by Hideyuki Kikuchi

Author:Hideyuki Kikuchi [Kikuchi, Hideyuki]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction
Published: 2012-08-20T04:00:00+00:00

When Lina’s classes had finished and she was getting into her wagon, Callis was waiting near the gate to the schoolyard. This was a rare occurrence, perhaps even a first.

When she rode past oblivious to him, he ran after her in a state.

“Please, wait up, Lina. I thought maybe we could go home together.”

“What’s gotten into you? You suddenly feel all friendly toward me? Tina and Miria and all the rest of your little friends will be none too happy with you.”

“Spare me. They just have this one-sided thing for me!”

Presumptuous as it was, he got his foot up on the step of the wagon, and, after quickly taking a seat, this optimistic Romeo even went so far as to try to take the reins. Lina slapped his hand and made a disapproving face. “Don’t try anything funny. Why don’t you just climb back down.”

“Oh, you’re a cold one. I was waiting because I wanted to talk to you. Say, wanna go into the woods?”

“And what, pray tell, would we do in the woods? Earlier, you grabbed my hand in front of everybody. I can’t imagine what you’d try if you were alone with me. If you so much as lay a finger on me, I’ll knock you flat.”

Facing him squarely to lay down the law, Lina swallowed her words. Something resting in Callis’ breast pocket glittered in her eye.

A single white blossom.

The one at my window this morning . . . It couldn’t be.

“Oh, this? I picked it just for you. Here.” The sharp-eyed playboy had read Lina’s reaction like a book and made his opening move.

She didn’t say a word.

This courageous girl was too kind to call him a liar. The flower passed into her pale hand.

“We’ll do the woods some other time,” Callis said, nearly in a whisper.

A dozen minutes later, as the boy watched the wagon disappear through the gate to the mayor’s home there arose in his eyes a look of cunning and self-confidence not at all appropriate for his age.

-

The wrath of the mayor awaited Lina at home.

As soon as she’d closed the door to her room, it was thrown open again. Lina’s cheek rang with a slap as she whirled around, and the girl fell to the floor.

“What do you think you’re doing? That hurts, you know.” Knowing what she’d expected had come, she still put up some spirited resistance.

The mayor was furious. “You . . . you stupid little girl. Embarrassing me like that in front of everybody. Standing up for a Noble . . . a damn vampire. You little . . . ”

Lina stuck her red tongue out at the old man as his ugly face congested with rage.

“Nobility or not, what’s wrong with trying to stop someone alone in a cage from being killed like a wild beast? Did you have some kind of proof he was even a Noble? He was probably just a plain old victim. If so, he wasn’t that way because he wanted to be. If the Nobility made me one of their kind, I sure as hell wouldn’t want to go out that way.

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