Combined with the faint aura of life about the girl, she looked like a fairy who had never once stepped beyond her garden.
"Scorching Hoof, kill that brat!"
The vampire then ordered the familiar behind him.
A horse—a familiar formed from pitch-black flames that flickered like a mirage, its entire body wreathed in black fire!
The blazing familiar, burning with flames of a thousand degrees Celsius, raised its hooves and charged at the blue-haired fairy girl ahead.
The sparks drifting from its body even set the surrounding earth ablaze. If not for the wide stretch of wasteland deep within the grove, the entire park would have gone up in flames the moment the familiar was summoned.
Facing the blazing familiar rushing toward her, the fairy girl showed no expression whatsoever, as though she possessed no self-awareness at all...
At that moment, Rudolf Ostach spoke from the side.
"Make them disappear, Astal."
As if she had received an order, the blue-haired fairy girl named Astaluty instantly threw open her cloak. In a cold, emotionless artificial voice, mechanical in its delivery, she said,
"Command accepted (Accept)-- Execute (Execute)-- 'Fingertips of Rose (Rododaktylos)'--!"
In the next instant, some sort of power suddenly surged from the girl's body.
A clear arm radiating a pale white glow abruptly appeared behind Astaluty like a wing. Facing the incoming blazing familiar, the crystalline arm—larger than the girl's entire body—clenched into a fist and grabbed at its abdomen.
The result was even more unexpected. The blazing familiar had no power to resist and was seized directly.
The black flames burning over its body seemed to be swallowed up as they gradually faded away...
"How could this be?!"
The vampire stared at the scene before him in shock.
At that moment, Rudolf Ostach spoke in a gentle yet deeply