Professor Medea hesitated. "Perhaps... have you recently read any Vampire-related novels, or anything else that left a deep impression? I mean, what you think about during the day, you dream about at night."
Robert opened his mouth, but his gaze involuntarily turned toward Dark, as if seeking his opinion. Dark gave a slight nod.
Only then did Robert say, "Recently... when I played Magic Chess with Dark, I got utterly crushed by the Vampire Vlad piece he used."
Professor Medea immediately frowned and asked, "I've been meaning to ask—who exactly is Vampire Vlad? You all seem to know him. Haven't Vampires already gone extinct?"
Eudora silently shook her head, but no one noticed.
Robert immediately wanted to explain, but Victor tugged at his sleeve.
Dark smiled and said, "Professor, that's a little secret between us."
"A secret?" Medea said with understanding. "Then there's nothing to be done. Robert, could you describe the female Vampire you saw in greater detail? Preferably any distinct features that could distinguish her. For example, the pattern of her blood markings."
Robert said, "Let me think."
He took out some paper and a pen, rubbed his head as he tried hard to recall, and finally drew a strange symbol on the paper: 0.
Then he said, "Most of the blood markings were concentrated on her left cheek. The center had a pattern like this, and the color was very dark."
Professor Medea studied the rune carefully. Only after a while did she shake her head. "It doesn't ring a bell. Perhaps you can go search the library yourselves. All right, this isn't actually a big deal. Maybe your impression of Vampires was simply very deep, and this was a divination about love. That's why you combined women and Vampires and saw a female Vampire."
Then she