I didn't know you were such a vampire

In summer, in the dark alleys in the back of Florence, you can still hear the faint voices of people laughing and chattering on the main road and the rattling of chariots and horses. When you look up, under the clear blue sky without a cloud, there are layers of red roofs that still cannot be seen. Covering the huge and striking dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore.

Traveling back to the Renaissance period, it took Joya two months to accept such a magical thing.

But she didn't know how long it would take her to fully digest the scene at this moment.

After the monster's head was twisted off, there was no blood splattered, and no flesh and blood connected, as if it was a mass of dead flesh that had been snapped into two sections, and the head, which was still full of ferocity a minute ago, was being crushed by that monster. Holding it in one pale and beautiful hand, the headless body slowly fell backwards after losing the support of consciousness, and Ma Ke, who was lying on his shoulder and still in a coma, was captured by another man in black. He lifted his collar with one hand.

Qiao Ya quickly reached out and grabbed Ma Ke's shoes, then swallowed, trying to suppress her heart that was about to jump out of her throat: "Sir, please, don't worry, I won't talk to anyone Talk about what happened today."

Because of the tension and the excitement brought about by the scene just now, Qiao Ya was almost incoherent. Afraid that the man in black would repent, she immediately added: "I know, you, you definitely don't want humans to know your existence, so I won't tell anyone. Ma Ke passed out and didn't know what happened, but I, I will use my life as a proof, and I will definitely fulfill my promise today and not confide a word to outsiders. So, Please let Marco go, and... let me go."

After she finished speaking, she immediately held her breath, waiting for the other party to reply.

The sun hanging high in the sky seems to have shifted an inch to the west, leaving another inch of golden light on the west wall, and the dots of plaster and dirt on the ocher-yellow walls are invisible under the sunlight.

The man in black squatted down slowly, and the sunlight behind him rushed in front of Qiao Ya's eyes. She squinted her eyes slightly, and then saw a pair of dark brown eyes with faint ruby ​​rays under the black cloak of the man in black. .

The owner of these eyes has a perfectly perfect face, with slender and long eyebrows, a straight and straight nose bridge, and thin lips. Every detail of the facial features is like a painter who exhausted all his imagination to carefully depict .His cheeks were morbidly pale, without a trace of blood, but this did not affect the tremor brought by the combination of his outline and facial features.He looked about eighteen or nineteen years old, and there was still some hostility in his eyes that a teenager of this age group should have.

"You..." he began, "Why do you think I don't want humans to know about our existence?"

This is a clear voice between a teenager and a young man, but his articulation and sentences are a bit old-fashioned, even with some meaning of condescending and looking down on all beings. If Qiaoya hadn't been in the Vatican for fourteen or five years, He is very familiar with the members of the Holy See, and he would think that he is some old-fashioned young priest.

But his question was a bit aggressive, which made Qiao Ya feel that if she didn't answer to his liking, she would end up like the monster whose head was twisted off by him.

"I...I know..." Qiao Ya shrank back from his stare, "I know you must be a vampire hunter."

The boy frowned: "Vampire hunter?"

"Isn't it..." Qiao Ya looked down at the headless body, "It has fangs, is physically strong, and has a strong body, and there is no blood flow after the head is twisted off. This should be a vampire. And This gentleman, you..." She specially used the honorific title, "You seem to have been chasing him for a long time, and you can find the right opportunity to kill him with one blow. You should be those vampire hunters who hunt vampires for a living. The peace in this world has been silently maintained for thousands of years as we know it."

The creature vampire originally originated from Romanian folklore in the [-]th century, but as early as thousands of years ago, there were blood-sucking creatures in the myths and legends of Mesopotamia civilization and ancient Roman civilization.Therefore, in the Renaissance period, although there was no such thing as a "vampire", monsters with fangs that suck blood have become a member of mythology.

Qiao Ya used to be a staunch atheist, but the sudden time travel broke her world view. After spending fourteen or five years peacefully, vampires appeared again. She has accepted such a situation quite calmly. Fantastic fact too.

However, no matter how serious she looked when she said these words, the expression of the boy opposite was so weird.

She felt that she had guessed all the key points of the story and had seen through the truth hidden in this superficial world, so she silently gave herself a thumbs up in her heart.

Not long after, when the shadow on the wall on the west side of the alley retreated one more space, Qiao Ya heard a few messy footsteps behind her. She was thinking that a passerby was coming, and she saw the man in black Throwing Ma Ke in her hand to her without tenderness, she reached out to catch Ma Ke in a hurry, and then heard the boy's voice sounding above her head:

"Remember your promise, if you reveal half a word to others, then I will kill you and the person you revealed without hesitation."

Qiao Ya looked up at the place where the sound came from, but saw that there was no one in front of her, not even the body of the vampire whose head had been twisted off.

And at this time, the sound of the messy footsteps behind her was getting closer, until Syrio's rough voice sounded behind her head: "Miss Joya, are you okay? We saw you coming from the market room. Just jump off the beam and..."

"I didn't jump off the crossbeam in the central market." Joya hugged Ma Ke, stood up slowly from the slightly cold stone road in the alleyway backed by the sun, and cut off the rest of Syrio's words, "We After arriving at the central market, we went shopping separately, and Ma Ke was tired from shopping, so we decided to go home now."

"As for my body..." She glanced down at her dusty and wrinkled skirt, and the dirty shoes under the skirt, "I was squeezed by people from the central market."

"But……"

"You also know that a woman who climbed over the wall appeared in the central market today, which caused commotion, so there were many stampedes." Qiao Ya said without changing her expression, "I am one of the victims."

After Qiaoya returned to Totti's house, she first threw away the dirty and wrinkled skirt she wore during the day, and then spent several hours gathering a bucket of hot water to take a comfortable bath.

After she packed everything up, it was already evening.

Lisa had already prepared dinner for the family. Fortunately, there was no pasta on the dinner table this time, which relieved Qiao Ya who had been frightened that day.

Marko had also finished cleaning up and sat at the dining table early. He was relatively small, not as tall as his peers. He sat on a stool, with his feet dangling back and forth between the legs of the stool before they touched the ground.When he saw Qiao Ya walk into the restaurant, his eyes lit up, and he only said a crisp "sister" before closing his mouth and following Qiao Ya's gaze.

Qiao Ya simply sat beside him, looked around, and asked, "Where is Mr. Ricardo?"

Lisa, who was standing beside her, said, "Master made cheesecake with his own hands, and took it to the third floor for Madam to eat."

... Today is another day blinded by sweet love.

After a while, Ricardo's figure appeared on the stairs. He walked down the stairs slowly and came straight to the dining table. After seeing Qiao Ya and Marco looking at him eagerly, he smiled and opened the chair and sat down. Next, smiled and said: "Everyone, let's start."

Dinner time is usually a time for family members to communicate, but the Totti family is a bit special.

Marco is sick, even if he wants to be close to his family, he can't express what he wants in his heart; Martina is sick in bed, usually in her room, served by Grandma Elisa, and the rest Yes, there are only three young servants, but no matter how open the family style of the Totti family is, it has not yet reached the point where the servants can eat at the same table with the master and talk.

So, the dinner time at Totti's house was unusually... boring.

Qiao Ya didn't feel uncomfortable, she never liked to talk too much, and her brothers and sisters were much more eloquent than her, at the Orsini Palace or when Rodrigo was on vacation with Rodrigo, at the dinner table, It always starts with Rodrigo, ends with Juan and Lucrecia arguing, and ends with Rodrigo summarizing some of the key points on the topic of their debate.

From beginning to end, she can concentrate on enjoying the delicious food in front of her without saying a word.

It's just that Ricardo always felt that the dull atmosphere at the dinner table would make her a little uncomfortable when she first arrived, so he always chatted with her about some interesting anecdotes, such as Marco raised a puppy when he was a child, but he didn't hold it yet. When he got home, the puppy bit him and turned around and slipped away; for example, Arturo secretly fell in love with a maid beside Madame Medici a few years ago, and when he finally got up the courage to confess his love, the maid said she In this life, Botticelli would not marry, so he learned to paint angrily, and finally gave up because the paint was too expensive. He refused to admit that he had no talent in this way.

After a few days, Qiao Ya knew all the embarrassing things about the Totti family.

She was thinking about who Ricardo would tell embarrassing things this time, but Ricardo, who was sitting opposite her, took a bite of beef, thought for a while, and said, "I heard that a strange woman appeared in the Central Market today. , Qiao Ya, did you see it?"

Joya: "..."

Florence is small, but it is not small. After all, it is one of the wealthiest cities in Italy and the financial center of Europe; After one afternoon, the whole city knew about it, even Ricardo, who stayed at home to take care of his wife for a whole day, heard about it.

Qiao Ya coughed a few times and said with a dry smile: "Of course I saw it, and I was stepped on by the crowd."

"That's right. Florence hasn't seen such a person for many years. It's understandable for everyone to be a little excited." Ricardo sighed.

"Such a person?" Qiao Ya blinked, "What kind of person?"

"A person who can fly over walls." As Ricardo said, he lowered his head and took another bite of beef. While chewing, he seemed to be remembering something, "Walking on smooth walls and uneven roofs is like walking on the ground." people."