Cid - Mooned

“A storm is coming… A storm of blood…”

“A storm of what…?”

“Look at the moon, Beta.”

“Huh…?”

I point at the vaguely red moon hanging in the air outside the window.

“Huh, is it a little redder than usual…?”

“Took you long enough to notice… That’s the Red Moon…”

“—?! Wait! Is that really the legendary Red Moon…?!”

“…And if it is?”

I cast a sidelong glance at Beta, who’s staring dumbfoundedly at the sky, then hold my bloodred glass of wine up to the lamp as I take a sip.

The “legendary Red Moon,” huh?

Anything sounds cool if you stick the word legendary in front of it.

“Th-that can’t be…! If that’s the case, then the Lawless City—no, everything around it will be wiped out…!”

“Worry not.”

“B-but people are in danger! We need to dispatch the Shadow Garden at once—!”

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“The moon is just a little redder than usual… Against you, Master Shadow, even the legendary Red Moon amounts to little more than that. I’ll be praying for your success.”

Damn. All it took was the moon looking kinda red, and now it’s the “legendary Red Moon.” Beta’s always been good at this stuff.

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At that moment, Claudia connects the dots between everything that’s going on in the Lawless City and an old legend she heard as a child.

“You’re saying that that’s the Red Moon…?!”

If it was, they were all in danger. When the Red Moon last appeared a thousand years ago, vampires decimated an entire country overnight. If things kept on like this, that tragedy was about to be repeated.

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Volume 3, Prologue-Chapter 1