There were sixteen people in the car, excluding Hatres, who was clearly the enemy, his servant Iskandar's Shadow Dancer, and Elquet, who stayed behind to fight Fuhailin.
They are Lorelaia, Shinji, Weber, Gray, Melvin, Luvia, Colles, Fiore, Kanono Hisiri, Yvette, Olga Marie, Jean Mario, Carappa, and the three staff members on the train.
Among them, Shinji, Lorelaia, and Gray have relatively strong strength and mobility. They can take six people with them. If the remaining four can be taken away by the train, it will be a perfect solution.
However, the acting manager did not answer Shinji's question, but asked:
"What will happen to the train if we leave?"
"Well, it will probably be destroyed by the aftermath of the battle."
Shinji touched his nose in embarrassment. Although the train was not hit by him, it was still destroyed because of him. Were he and Orange really mobile disasters, destroying everything wherever they went
Hearing this answer, the acting manager and the other two looked at each other, and all three of them shook their heads.
"I'm sorry, sir, but we can't agree to that."
"It is a shame for Rocheanne and for us managers to let this train continue to be damaged."
"We are entrusted by our master to take charge of the train, and we swear to live and die with it!"
This will is so firm, and this yearning is so resolute. Shinji can feel this strong emotion without using magic to restrain his yearning. In front of this emotion, he can't speak at all.
Of course, he couldn't speak, but there was someone who could, and that was Loreleija.
"Don't be stupid. The train is dead, but people are alive. Only if you survive can you have hope."
"My Lord's entrustment is above all else."
Lorelaia frowned at the acting manager's indifferent attitude.
"you-"
"Stop talking. It would be an insult to them."
Shinji sighed and shook his head at Her Majesty the Queen.
The acting manager gave him a grateful glance and said, "Rodan, Rey Andros, go to the cab and activate the 'Magic Eye Projection'! Please leave immediately. We will risk everything and fight to the last moment. We will never let the name of Rojian be disgraced."
"Understood. I will follow the instructions of the acting manager."
"We will never let Rogeanne's name be dishonored!"
The two of them bowed and saluted, some of them were skinny, some were beautiful, and they were filled with the courage to face death, which was very moving.
At this moment, a completely new voice sounded.
"Material gains and losses will not bring shame to Rojian's name, but the loss of excellent subordinates like you will."
Upon hearing this voice, the acting manager, driver Rodin, and Lei Andros all trembled at the same time, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.
"Master? Master Rojian?"
"Haha, you guys did a great job. I'm very happy to have subordinates like you."
The new voice was lazy and seemed listless, but if you listened carefully, you could hear a different kind of approval. Unconsciously, an image of a woman lying on the bed, smiling and yawning, emerged in everyone's mind.
However, that was just a thought. No one in the train knew the truth except those three people, because the sound was not made by a real person, but something that looked very strange.
A light-colored, cold, human-like object made from the skin of a lizard or snake—just a piece of skin, empty inside.
Although it was just a piece of skin, the acting manager and the other three still bent their knees reflexively and instinctively wanted to perform the ritual of kneeling down, but were stopped by the humanoids.
"Stop, no need to salute. This is a familiar made from that guy's shed skin. It feels weird to salute it."
"You said you were in urgent need of materials to make a familiar, so I gave you my shed skin. Now you're saying this. If I had known, I wouldn't have given it to you."
Another voice came from the corresponding position of the human figure's mouth, with a different tone and a similar laziness.
"You drunkard, stop interrupting and go drink over there. Once I've arranged everything here, you can either fight or drink."
"But the wine you brought has been finished."
"So fast? Did you absorb it directly with your body, you water monster? If it's gone, just be patient for a while. If not, let's go to another place and drink to your heart's content in my castle. I'm really fed up with your castle that only has shed skin."
"Oh, I was waiting for you to say that. After you finish drinking, let's have another good fight. This time, I must dig out those magic eyes you treasured."
"Well, before that, I'll cut off your tail first!"
The voices in the humanoids kept switching, and the conversations full of complaints and teasing revealed information that made many people, especially Loreleija, frown.
The voice that created the doll and sent the message was undoubtedly the real owner of the train, Rita Rojian, one of the twenty-seven ancestors, and a being of the same level as Fuhailin who was fighting with Arquette.
The other voice, the one bickering with Rojian, should be her good friend, the "Water Demon" Smeale, who is also one of the twenty-seven ancestors. According to the intelligence, this strange mutant Dead Apostle is the only one who can shed her skin. She loves drinking and is drunk most of the time, which is also her standard characteristic.
Smily's peculiarity lies not only in the fact that she possesses the same kind of "fantasy materialization" as Elquet, but also in one other thing - she is an aquatic dead disciple living in water.
According to legend, vampires cannot cross flowing water, so rivers, seas and oceans are boundaries that they cannot cross. Smitheleigh overcame this, but the price she paid for this was that she could not move on land. She gradually developed into an aquatic species and could shed her skin like a snake. From a magic point of view, these skins are all top-notch materials, and any one of them would cause a wave of enthusiasm, but Smitheleigh just piled the skins in her castle and never let them out.
Now, because Luo Jian said that she was short of materials, she took the initiative to contribute them. Normally, this is a symbol of a very close relationship, but these two people are still talking about cutting something off each other. It is hard to tell whether their relationship is good or bad. It turns out that these ancient dead apostles are all weird, and each one is a twisted existence.
Just as the two female Dead Apostles were bickering, a loud noise suddenly came from the front of the car, and the wall standing in front of the car collapsed - this was the line of defense that Elquet had built to buy time for Shinji and others to retreat. After all, defense was not Her Royal Highness the Princess' strong point, and she had tried very hard to come up with such a method.
The pure white vampire curled her lips in dissatisfaction, and created a vacuum fault near the collapsed wall, crushing all the vegetation layers that stretched forward. At the same time, she did not forget to remind.
"If you don't want to die, leave now. I can't stop you any more."
It's just that I can't "stop" it, not that I can't defeat it.
Since she was born, she has never considered the issue of defense. She is always good at attacking, attacking, and attacking. The True Ancestor's super strong recovery ability makes her not afraid to exchange injuries with anyone. Instead of wasting time on defense, it is more efficient to use all her time on attacking, because she will recover quickly anyway.
If she had not been influenced by Shinji and concerned about the existence of humans, she would have sent a meteorite down to flatten the entire forest, and then searched for the "True Red Fruit" in the ruins - this time, she would never give it a chance to revive.
PS: The more I write, the more I want to curse Mushroom. Where is my remake of "Tsukihime"? Where is my "Tsukihime 2"? I still want to see Dante's trumpet take action, I still want to see "White Winged Man" get scolded, I still want to see Lorelei get humiliated.