For Shizuku, Kyoto is a good tourist attraction and a very suitable place to live.

Various ancient buildings and large courtyards do not have the modern prosperity of Tokyo, but they exude a unique sense of tranquility and freedom. Walking on the streets, you will feel a sense of isolation from the world.

If you find a yard here, sit on the tatami, sip tea while listening to the drizzle outside, it would be a unique experience.

It’s a pity that my family is too small, and if I buy a big yard it will become a haunted house.

Thinking of this, Shizuku retracted her gaze and looked at Hara Shin Sunako who was walking beside her. At this moment, she was still dressed in a kimono, walking on the ancient streets of Kyoto, giving people the feeling that she was a person who had traveled through time from the Edo period.

As for Shizuku, she really likes the design of kimono.

Western dresses emphasize the figure, highlighting the chest, waist and hips, but kimonos are more restrained. If we use culture as a metaphor, then Western dresses are more extroverted, and their design is all to bring out the charm and beauty of the female body. The subtext is actually to attract men, telling them "look at me, conquer me, own me" - its essence is no different from a millionaire putting a box of gold in front of everyone for them to see.

However, the culture of kimono is introverted, and the subtext it expresses is "conservative" and "protective". Layers of clothes wrap around the girl's body, like a wall to defend her. Whether it is a heavy belt or a single piece of clothing, it is to show the viewer "I am not a casual woman, please don't make a move on me."

However, this only makes people more eager to find out the truth.

If we use a game as an analogy, then the dress strategy is like Wushuang. As long as you kill enough enemies, you can "The enemy is embarrassed, I will take off her clothes."

The kimono is more like stealth, you sneak past the layers of guards, peel off layer after layer of protection, and then get the treasures guarded in it...

Just like the Hara Mako walking beside him at the moment, looking at her fair and slender neck exposed from her collar, it is hard not to have some associations. For example, the sleeves of the girl sitting on the tatami fell off, and the wide kimono slid down her body, slowly revealing her round shoulders and snow-white skin, just like the curtain on the stage gradually lifted, revealing everything hidden inside...

"…Are you listening to me, Miss Kasugano?"

Shizuku immediately came back to her senses when she heard Hara Masako's voice.

"Of course, vampires... To be honest, I didn't expect something like this to happen in Kyoto."

"Yeah, to be honest I don't believe it either, but the situation is becoming more and more complicated now."

Hara Masako obviously didn't expect that Shizuku was staring at her neck and thinking about something that was enough to write a documentary novel of tens of thousands of words, so she raised her sleeves to cover her mouth and sighed.

"Elementary school students, middle school students, college students, office ladies... Several people have been killed so far, and some were killed in just a few minutes when the store owner was choosing fabrics and left."

At this point, Hara Mako frowned, looking bitter. She was a medium, and she was helpless in the face of monsters. Especially vampires, foreign monsters, were no different from aliens to Hara Mako.

The reason why Hara Masago entrusted Shizuku to take charge this time was because Kyoto was their territory, and they were naturally responsible for the demons and monsters that happened in Kyoto. It was like a ruler in secret. If they could not solve these troubles, then the status and reputation of the Hara family in Kyoto would inevitably decline.

In fact, this is also the problem that Yuan Zhensha is worried about.

Relying on the traditional Japanese class, the Hara family is not short of money, and has certain connections in the political and financial circles. However, in terms of psychic abilities, the Hara family has begun to decline. For example, Hara Masago is the strongest psychic in the Hara family, but all she can do is talk to spirits and be possessed by spirits. Even so, her spiritual power is gradually weakening, which makes Hara Masago very uneasy.

So she was eager to build a good relationship with Shizuku and establish a friendship with her - just like a martial arts sect, she herself could not do it, but if she could get to know a few prestigious martial arts seniors, she would be able to use their influence as a banner in times of crisis.

"So, all the blood in the body was sucked dry?"

"Yes, and several of the victims had teeth marks on their necks, so they were believed to be the work of vampires. But...are there also vampires that come out during the day?"

"Well...it depends on the situation."

Thinking of this, Shizuku couldn't help but think of the vampires she knew. Whether it was Akkad, the policewoman, Sophie, or Leticia, they all seemed to be unable to do anything during the day.

Especially the latter, who would leave a suicide note before going out during the day, probably because they didn't have the energy to suck blood.

Elquito and Eltluci, the two True Ancestors of the Type-Moon world, don't seem to care about this. They go out and wander around regardless of day or night, but the other Dead Apostles are very afraid of the sun.

It seems that Clulu is not afraid of the sun?

Forget it, the situation in each world is different and we can’t generalize.

"Can I go see the body?"

Shizuku thought about it and decided to go and see the body first. When Fang Zheng was Aili, she had done this kind of work a lot on Genshin Island, so she was familiar with it.

"Of course."

As a local boss, if you can't even handle this, then you should just stop being a real sand boy.

There were no mobile phones in that era, but a local girl like Hara Masako didn't want a mobile phone. She just made a gesture, and immediately an old man who looked like a butler came over. Then Hara Masako whispered a few words to him, and the latter nodded and said goodbye. Then Hara Masako looked at Shizuku.

"Ms. Kasugano, please follow me."

Look, simple and direct, convenient and fast.

Soon, under the guidance of Hara Masako, Shizuku saw the corpse in the morgue, but... the condition of the corpse was beyond Shizuku's imagination.

"There's something wrong with this corpse."

Looking at the body lying in front of her and the autopsy report beside her, Shizuku couldn't help but frown. It wasn't that the body was in a bad condition, on the contrary, it was in too good a condition.

Fang Zheng had seen the miserable states of vampire victims in many worlds after being sucked blood by vampires. Some were sucked dry like mummies, while others were like wild beasts, simply biting the victims together with the blood and flesh.

However, the corpse at the moment gave people a very strange feeling. Strictly speaking, it didn't look like a corpse at all, but more like a sleeping person - of course, apart from her iron-blue skin color that was the same as that of a corpse.

"The wound isn't big... Well, this vampire shouldn't be a male."

Shizuku turned the corpse's neck, carefully observed the wound on the neck, and then made a judgment.

On the contrary, Hara Mako seemed a little stunned by Shizuku's professional, forensic-like approach - after all, when she invited her partner twice before, Shizuku gave Hara Mako the feeling that she was a fast and powerful person, sweeping through everything and crushing anyone who dared to block her way.

Although it may not be nice to say this, in Hara Masako's opinion, Shizuku doesn't seem like a technical type.

Of course, she didn't know that in another world, on the String God Island, Fang Zheng's other clone, Ai Li, specialized in doing this.

"Is it a woman?"

"Well, the wound is not big. Judging from the tooth marks, it should be a young woman, no more than 18 years old..."

At this point, Shizuku subconsciously wanted to ask Hara Masako for surveillance, but then she realized that it was the late 1980s and laptops might not have been invented yet. Where could she find surveillance...

"Show me a map of the victims."

"OK."

Hara Masako handed over the map, Shizuku took a look around, and soon found that the locations of these victims were relatively close. It seems that... even rabbits eat grass near their burrows.

"Are there any facilities nearby? Like a school or something?"

“There are schools, from elementary school to high school.”

"Is it a girls' school?"

"Yes."

"knew."

Hearing Hara Masako's answer, Shizuku nodded.

It seems that if she wants to find clues, she should start from here... So soon, Shizuku said goodbye to Hara Masako and started strolling around the nearby school.

The teeth marks were very obvious, probably the marks of a young girl's teeth biting through the skin. Although it was impossible to determine the exact age, at this point, Shizuku could almost guess that the other party was no more than 16 or 17 years old. And it was very likely that she was hunting here disguised as a student, so the next step would be much easier. Just look around and see if you can smell blood... Hmm?

At this moment, a faint smell of blood came. Shizuku turned her head and saw a girl walking past her not far away and heading towards the intersection.

It was a beautiful girl with long silver hair. She was wearing a school uniform and had a pair of ponytails. She looked quite noble and beautiful. However, for some reason, the people around her seemed to ignore her, and the girl didn't seem to care about them at all, just walking towards the end of the street.

Is it her?

Looking at the silver-haired girl, Shizuku raised her eyebrows, then followed her silently.

In order to lure out the vampire, Shizuku did not use the dragon's might, but instead restrained her own aura. After all, vampires are very sensitive to the auras of the dead and monsters. This time, she was commissioned by Hara Shinsagako to destroy the monsters, and it would not be a good thing if she let the other party get away.

The girl was completely unaware of Shizuku following behind her. She just walked across the street and disappeared into a path in the nearby forest.

“Oh…”

Seeing this, Shizuku narrowed her eyes.

A beautiful girl, the smell of blood, an empty forest... Well, she felt that she had found her target this time.

While thinking, Shizuku smiled and followed closely.

As expected, Shizuku lost the girl's trail soon after following her into the forest. It was already dark at night, and the forest was so dark that one couldn't tell east, west, south, or north. But Shizuku certainly couldn't be fooled by such a trick, so she raised her right hand and lightly snapped her fingers.

“Pah.”

The next moment, the surrounding scene suddenly began to change. The towering trees twisted like a fantasy, then disappeared, and then a Western castle slowly emerged in the forest.

Seeing this scene, Shizuku nodded with satisfaction.

It seems that he has found his prey.