(Extra chapter for Brother "Blue Eyes," 2/5)
After seeing Meow Brother off, Brother Bang sat alone in the tent, feeling a little melancholy.
Alas, their relationship had grown distant after all.
He let out this ridiculous sigh, then suddenly exclaimed that something was wrong.
A quick turn of his clever mind made him realize a rather "terrifying" possibility. With Meow Brother's shrewdness, there was no way he hadn't realized that the Big Bird Squad and the Hammer-and-Sickle Squad working together was the optimal choice. Yet now he'd given up on cooperating with Brother Bang.
There was probably a bit of "personal grudge" mixed in there.
Could it be that the thing he'd asked Brother Fa to do—have Meow Brother join him in "jail" for seven days—had been exposed?
No way, right?
Brother Fa probably wouldn't deliberately reveal something like that. After all, from the way he'd acted on the forums, he didn't seem like the kind of person who enjoyed watching others suffer. And as an administrator, he ought to have some professional ethics and keep that sort of thing confidential, right?
Oh dear, if only he'd known this would happen, why hadn't he acted differently back then?
Carrying that faint melancholy, Brother Bang poured himself a glass of fruit wine, then took out a small bottle and dripped a few drops of blood into it.
This was the "prescription" Lady Triss had given him. After each time he let Merya drink his blood, he could use this method to lessen that terrifying attribute reduction.
Although the vampire players only looked like vampires and had no actual instinct to drink blood, their shapeshifting gave them the ability to draw strength from blood. Still, people who'd grown up in the civilized world weren't about to get so uncivilized as to taste