I’m Playing as a Nun.

“I don’t know if I should call you brave or reckless…”

“……”

An awkward silence fills the room.

Suddenly, I came to my senses and found myself lying straight on my bed in my room in the convent building, not outside.

“What were you thinking, coming out of the shade?”

“……”

It seems I fainted for a moment.

I don’t remember the details clearly.

After being swept by a strange feeling and stepping out of the shade, everything feels hazy and dreamy, as if I were in a trance.

“Don’t forget that you are a vampire.”

Bel Ros’s voice comes from right next to me.

After staring blankly at the ceiling with a dazed mind, I soon take a deep breath and slowly look around.

“…What? Are you still out of it?”

Bel Ros sits on a chair right next to the bed.

And children’s cheerful voices can be faintly heard from beyond the closed door.

It doesn’t feel like much time has passed since I fainted.

Nevertheless, my mind feels as hazy as if I had been unconscious for at least half a day.

“What exactly happened…?”

I asked carefully as I slowly got up from the spot.

Then Bel Ros, sitting beside me, suddenly started scratching his head loudly.

“Don’t tell me you don’t remember?”

“…No. I just feel a bit dazed.”

“You suddenly came out of the shade, causing a huge commotion. I already knew your identity, so I didn’t mind much.”

Unlike Bel Ros, who answered quite flusteredly, I blinked with a dazed expression.

“What did the kids say?”

“For now, I told the kids it was heatstroke. So don’t worry too much.”

“Did they believe it?”

“Of course. I explained it well so they would understand.”

I immediately breathed a sigh of relief at Bel Ros’s confident answer.

Even though it was impulsive, it could have caused a situation that would have been hard to handle if something had gone wrong.

Thanks to Bel Ros’s excellent quick thinking, a big mistake was narrowly averted.

“By the way, I was really surprised. Not only did a vampire boldly come out in broad daylight, but you didn’t even burn.”

“… I’m different from ordinary vampires.”

“Still, the fact that you fainted means it affects you to some extent, right?”

“Yes. As you can see.”

“The more I know, the stranger it gets.”

The strange pain that has been constantly pricking my chest to the point of distraction ever since I regained consciousness.

It’s not a severe pain, but it’s quite annoying nonetheless.

“So, why did you come out of the shade?”

I slowly rolled my eyes to the side at Bel Ros’s question.

“I don’t know. I guess it was jealousy.”

“Jealousy?”

“I think I felt quite hurt seeing the kids who only knew me getting close to you.”

“Haha, aren’t you too old to be jealous of something like that?”

“I know, right? It’s really strange.”

In addition to the strange sense of incongruity around me, I began to feel suspicious for a reason I didn’t understand.

To think that I would get so dazed with jealousy that I would thoughtlessly act on a momentary instinct.

No matter how I think about it, it’s so absurd that I can’t help but let out foolish hollow laughter.

“I fully understand your deep care for the children, but still, don’t pay too much attention to every little thing like this. Children are simple by nature.”

“I know. I’m usually insensitive to such things.”

“Yeah, they’ll all figure it out eventually anyway.”

“Besides, I have never seen those kids whine to me even once.”

“Huh?”

As Bel Ros increasingly tilted his head in puzzlement, I gave him a faint smile.

“Come to think of it, where is Priscilla now?”

“Ah, she’s outside playing with the kids right now. I asked her to do that so you could feel reassured.”

“Is that so?”

“Yeah, she’s probably panting from exhaustion by now.”

“Everyone is going through a lot of trouble because of me. I’m sorry.”

“It’s okay. Don’t worry about it.”

With that conversation, a rather awkward silence lingered between Bel Ros and me for a while.

I sat on the bed, slowly brushing the blanket covering me with my fingertips, lost in my own thoughts.

Bel Ros was also sitting on the chair, silently looking out the window.

Although the curtains completely blocked the outside, it still felt like he was intently staring at something.

“…Well, you seem to be okay now, so I’ll get going.”

“Bel Ros.”

“Huh? What is it?”

“Could you stay still for a moment?”

Bel Ros, who momentarily stopped moving at my sudden words, soon began to look increasingly puzzled, tilting his head again.

“Why all of a sudden? And with such a serious expression-.”

“……”

My mind still feels hazy and dreamy, as if covered in a thick fog.

The strange pain in my chest also continues incessantly.

Even taking several small breaths, this unidentified pain does not easily subside.

“Levinia?”

Bel Ros’s voice comes in a low tone from next to me.

However, despite that, at this very moment-.

Only one thought filled my mind.

“… That’s right. How many people would approach with simple goodwill without any purpose?”

As I softly muttered that sentence, Bel Ros, standing still in front of me, momentarily flinched and reacted.

“It was suspicious from the beginning.”

As soon as I finished speaking, all the furniture in the room moved grotesquely with a subtle tremor.

The walls, bed, chair, bookshelf.

Everything blurred, gradually volatilized into a misty smoke, and soon disappeared.

As if they had never existed in the first place, everything in the room gradually distorted and turned into an intangible existence.

Even while standing blankly in the space, gradually twisting and turning after getting out of bed.

While feeling exasperated by this absurd change, I slightly frowned at the suddenly rising unpleasant doubt in a corner of my heart.

“Since when have you been deceiving me?”

The more the space gradually disappeared hazily, the more certain I became that this was not reality.

Even the air touching my fingertips now feels heavy and surreal.

“……”

Bel Ros, who has already fallen silent with a strange atmosphere.

Even though I knew well that there was nothing beyond his helmet, I felt an unpleasant gaze that made me increasingly uncomfortable for some reason.

“…How did you find out?”

“I asked first.”

At first, I simply thought it was just due to my mood.

The discomfort and occasional sense of incongruity I had felt since this morning.

I thought all those feelings were just my trivial jealousy.

But after losing consciousness and waking up again, those feelings started to strangely accelerate.

Things I thought were natural became covered in strange suspicions in hindsight, making me wonder why they flowed so naturally.

“Could it be because of the sunlight?”

“……”

Especially in that short moment when the conversation with Bel Ros was briefly interrupted.

When I felt suspicious of Bel Ros not reacting to my commands at all for some reason.

The status window I tried to call with a feeling of doubt did not appear.

After dealing with the demon that day, I did not immediately check the status window.

It wasn’t that important whether I had absorbed the demon’s skill at that time.

Checking the children’s conditions first was more important.

Since then, quite a few things have overlapped, and I haven’t had a chance to check.

But even though it was quite an important matter, it was something I could have thought of and checked at least once.

My usual behavior of not relying much on the status window unintentionally caught me by the ankle.

– Boom-!!!

Then, with a loud explosion like a bomb bursting mercilessly.

The misty smoke that had been rippling all around was lifted and cleanly disappeared in an instant.

“……”

My eyes were closed.

Slowly lifting my closed eyelids to check what was in front, I saw that what unfolded before my eyes was not the daytime scenery of the church but the familiar nighttime scenery of a forest somewhere.

“…Even after going this far, is this all you can trap me with?”

Now, all my senses are starting to return to their original places.

The air touching my body and the wind gently blowing from the surroundings feel relatively vivid.

The discomfort and sense of incongruity I had been feeling until just now have also disappeared at some point.

Only then do I truly realize that everything has returned to normal.

“Is the reason I suddenly fell into an illusion because of this greatsword?”

Bel Ros’s greatsword has cleanly penetrated the center of my chest, emitting a strange energy.

It seems the cause of the unpleasant pain I had been feeling since earlier is precisely because of this.

“Yeah. The name of that greatsword is Severance. When it inflicts a fatal wound on the opponent, it has the effect of imprisoning them in a space like earlier.”

“…It wouldn’t be easy to inflict a fatal wound on my body, right?”

“That’s why I’m here. To enter the same space as you and keep it from breaking as much as possible.”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Normally, just the greatsword touching the body would be enough to produce the effect. But even though I stuck it in your body, you quickly regenerated, which made it troublesome in many ways.”

Stabbed from behind.

Bel Ros approached me with this huge greatsword that is not easy to pull out, so stealthily that I did not even notice.

However, although the surprise attack succeeded, he was quite flustered because my body was unexpectedly sturdy and had fast regeneration, which could be clearly felt through the clumsily stuck greatsword.

“I had no choice but to forcibly intervene and amplify the effect, using that short moment when the effect was working.”

The moment Bel Ros’s words continued, the greatsword penetrating my body gradually lost its form and melted away.

“You’re definitely not an ordinary vampire.”

“It seems the owner of this greatsword can freely traverse spaces.”

“Yeah. Moreover, that space makes the opponent’s nerves sensitive as time passes.”

“…Then, how many days has it been since I was influenced by this greatsword?”

“As you can see, it hasn’t even been a day yet.”

My furrowed brows at Bel Ros’s indifferent answer.

I spent several days there, but the fact that not even a day had passed seemed suspicious.

But there was no room to nitpick such things one by one now.

Because-.

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【Levinia Fallen Grace】

[Race] Vampire

[Level] 87

[Active Skill] Blood Transfusion

[Passive Skill] Rapid Regeneration

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The command skill does not appear in the status window I checked unconsciously.

I wondered if I was still seeing illusions because of Bel Ros, but,

Seeing the status window appear this time when it didn’t earlier, it is certain that it is not an illusion.

Considering these points.

There is only one possibility that I can think of right now.

“Could it be that I couldn’t finish it off then…?”

The only thing I can think of in this situation is that I was ambushed right before I finished dealing with that demon.

If it naturally continued from there, the current situation of not even a day passing is even more incomprehensible.

“Where the heck is that demon now?!”

“…If you’re talking about the intermediate-tier one, they’re probably done recovering by now and heading to the church.”

“Ch-Church…?”

All sorts of ominous thoughts rapidly come to mind.

The cold sweat flowing tepidly down my left cheek makes my current mood even more unpleasant.

“Don’t glare at me like that. I clearly told you back then.”

Bel Ros suddenly starts speaking strange words, making me even more anxious and distorting my expression.

However, unlike me, Bel Ros maintained a calm appearance until the end and spoke calmly.

“When orders come from above, my personal thoughts become completely unimportant.”

These were the words that definitely came out of Bel Ros’s mouth that dawn.

I thought it was nothing at the time, but.

I roughly realized what those words meant only after belatedly understanding the situation.

But it’s meaningless to regret it now.

What’s already passed can never be turned back, no matter what.

“To think they would do such an absurd thing just to reclaim a mere forest.”

Moreover, no matter how good a demon’s regeneration ability is, it would be difficult to recover from that level of injury in just a few hours.

Therefore, the worst-case scenario I’m thinking of most likely hasn’t happened yet.

“This is the first time I’ve ever felt so furious.”