Amid the sound of shattering glass, a pale, hideous head poked through first.
Its crimson eyes were full of hunger, and its exposed fangs trembled along with its lips.
The creature was shriveled, as though all the air had been sucked out of it, yet its vein-bulging limbs gripped the wall firmly. Its eyes searched for the wonderful scent of blood driving it mad.
Inside the church, doors opened one after another as people who had no idea what was happening stepped out of their rooms.
Perhaps it was the smell in the air, or perhaps it was the awareness he had honed over years of training, but Miles was the first to sense something wrong overhead.
"A... monster!?"
"They really came!"
After living in Balvey Town for years, he knew how powerful these bloodsucking monsters were.
He immediately stood guard at the doorway, shielding his sister Celia while surveying the situation.
"One... two... three...
...six..."
To his despair, he could see six of them crawling in along the walls surrounding the courtyard.
Bang! Though they were undead, these vampires were nothing like sluggish zombies. They were tremendously strong and as agile as wild beasts. Miles would struggle against even one.
Let alone six.
And that was not all. Dull crashes of breaking windows came one after another from the front hall.
That meant there might be even more vampires somewhere he could not see.
He knew the Holy Relic had gone missing, but because he wanted to protect his sister Celia, he had not gone with Father Press and He Xi to check the basement.
The basement entrance was some distance from the rear courtyard, and he had no idea when He Xi and the others would notice anything was wrong back here.
"Get back inside! Everyone, get into