"You... you are..."
Looking at the girl across from her, whose face was exactly the same as Aurora's—even her build was identical, as if they had been carved from the same mold, like a pair of twins—and whose expression was calm and utterly unmoved, Nagisa could not stop trembling.
And if even Nagisa reacted that way, Aurora was even more shaken. Her lovely face went deathly pale in an instant.
Whether Aurora or Nagisa, both of them knew exactly what kind of identity the girl with that face possessed.
She was just like Aurora: both a part of the Fourth True Ancestor and a vessel for one of the twelve Calamity-class Beast Vassals, one of the twelve bodies known as the Blazing Night Lord.
"I am Number Six, the existence who commands the Fourth True Ancestor's sixth Beast Vassal and serves as its vessel."
Number Six finally appeared before Aurora. She first glanced at Nagisa, then turned her gaze toward Aurora.
"Urgh..."
Aurora involuntarily retreated, her face filled with terror as if she had seen some nightmare.
That was only natural.
If Nagisa were in Aurora's position, she would surely have reacted the same way.
The twelve bodies known as the Blazing Night Lord had been scattered throughout the world and had never encountered one another. Only during the Feast of Blazing Light six months ago, in order to awaken the world's strongest vampire, had people deliberately gathered the bodies together. Each was placed under the management of an Emperor Candidate, and when the time was ripe, they would return to the origin, returning to the body of the Fourth True Ancestor.
That was the destiny of bodies created as vessels for the Fourth True Ancestor—a destiny that had existed since their birth.
However, six months ago, Aurora had fought