099 Bunny Girl
“Hello…” Ms. Bai’s voice on the receiver was a little weak.
“Miss Bai? Are you okay?”
Qin Ren let out a slight sigh of relief. If the worst had really happened, then even a passerby like her, with whom he had no quarrel, would have made Qin Ren feel a sense of detachment and unease about his current daily life.
“I… I’m fine.”
Bai Jie seemed a little puzzled by Qin Ren’s question.
“Is this… Mr. Qin? How do you know my number?”
“?”
“Eh? My phone, how…”
“Miss Bai.”
Hearing this, Qin Ren had a faint guess as to what had happened.
“Where are you now? Do you remember what happened last night?”
“Yesterday…”
Bai Jie even yawned.
“…I’ve been at the hotel the whole time. No, wait. Huh? Call history… did I call you, Mr. Qin?”
?
Is this… amnesia?
At this point, Qin Ren could roughly figure out that Bai Jie’s commotion last night was probably her being chased back to the hotel by that vampire-like Demonic Scion. Then, after some encounter, Bai Jie had lost her memory of that time. The silver lining was that her life was still intact.
“Miss Bai, listen to me. You were the one who called me last night…”
Considering it was a matter of safety, Qin Ren told Bai Jie the whole story. After being shocked, Bai Jie checked her body and finally found two strange marks on her shoulder.
They were shaped like teeth marks, but the depth was about the same as a hard pinch from a fingernail.
Bai Jie reported this discovery to Qin Ren, took off half of her clothes, and sent a photo of her shoulder to Qin Ren.
“Mr. Qin, you’re an old exorcist. What do you think?”
Such white teeth marks. Qin Ren’s eyes were a little dazzled. After a moment of recollection, he said.
“You said last night that the Demonic Scion chasing you was a vampire, and then you said it wasn’t. And from what she said to you, she can talk.”
An ordinary vampire definitely can’t talk. Qin Ren had dealt with Goudan for a full four years. He knew this better than anyone.
“But some high-level, old vampires can indeed speak human language. They use their unique mouthparts to hoarsely imitate humans like a parrot learning to speak. But there shouldn’t be any in Rongcheng.”
This wasn’t the main point. The main point was the teeth marks on Bai Jie’s body. Qin Ren could make a very clear judgment.
“First, the vampires here don’t attack humans. Also, if it were an ordinary vampire, it wouldn’t leave such small teeth marks.”
“What if it’s a small vampire?” Bai Jie proposed her own view, clearly having never been on the front lines.
“It’s the same for a small vampire,” Qin Ren explained. “Miss Bai, when a vampire sucks blood, it’s all about going big. Sucking with their teeth is too slow. They all twist their heads and suck on the neck. And for a small bite mark like the one on your shoulder, their thick teeth can’t do it. After all, the vampires these days are not the Kindred from the Middle Ages…”
Kindred?
“Mr. Qin.”
Bai Jie’s spirits were lifted upon hearing this.
“There aren’t still Kindred now, are there?”
“Impossible.”
Qin Ren decisively denied it.
…
As the last batch of Demon Progenitors on Earth, the Kindred had been wiped out by Western exorcists led by Van Helsing more than one or two hundred years ago. The remnants had also completely disappeared due to the changing environment on Earth and the difficulty of replenishing their nutrition.
Throughout history, both at home and abroad, there were many who had met a similar fate as the Kindred. Famous exorcists like Van Helsing, such as Perseus, Jiang Ziya, Zhong Kui, and so on, were all remembered by the world in various ways, such as folklore or myths.
From the perspective of that era, it was because of them that the Earth could have a relatively peaceful living environment, and otherworldly creatures like the Kindred did not threaten the continuation of humanity.
…
But speaking of the Kindred, Qin Ren also gradually discovered that although Bai Jie still remembered that she had come to Rongcheng to investigate the planar barrier, she seemed to have also forgotten the matter of concluding that “the breach does exist.”
“Mr. Qin, did I say anything else to you last night? I found today that my encrypted phone and some strange files are all…”
“You did.”
Qin Ren still didn’t want Bai Jie, or the Bureau, to know too much about the planar breach, so he told her a half-truth.
“Those things were probably destroyed when you were fighting with the mysterious Demonic Scion. Those files should be for your investigation this time. You didn’t find out anything, but if you want to continue, you might have to start from scratch.”
“I see…”
Having been attacked by a mysterious Demonic Scion, Bai Jie decided to suspend the investigation for the time being and apply to the Bureau to send some security personnel to be by her side, and then come back after making more adequate preparations.
And that afternoon, Qin Ren also went to “Yaomei Noodle House,” found the chicken-headed woman named A-Cui again, and asked her to find out if any out-of-town Demonic Scions had come to Rongcheng recently, the kind that were suspected to have Kindred blood.
“Demonic Scions…”
A-Cui clicked her shiny beak.
“There really are some. But they don’t seem to be descendants of the Kindred. If they were, the local vampires would have gone to visit long ago. But there are quite a few new cuties. After being discovered by us, they’ve all been very well-behaved and have greeted everyone they should…”
“Tch, cuties…”
Qin Ren didn’t think Demonic Scions could be that cute. Even a Crystal Slime like Mizhi was a minority.
“Xiao Bai, come out.”
Seeing that Qin Ren didn’t believe her, A-Cui clapped her hands and called out a girl who was holding some small booklets and seemed to be organizing them from behind the screen.
“Coming, coming, shopkeeper. What’s the matter~” A light body bounced over, full of a dynamic feeling.
“You’re new here. It’s good for you to get to know more people. This gentleman is the previous exorcist of our Rongcheng. He’s very prestigious and a very nice person. Come, call him Brother Qin and say hello.”
“Mhm, mhm. Hello, Brother Qin~”
“…”
Qin Ren was not a person who was afraid of the stage, at least not in the social scene with Demonic Scions. But at this moment, facing this girl who had suddenly appeared, he was truly shocked. Because the girl in front of him, or rather, the female Demonic Scion, was a type of demi-human he had never seen before, a rabbit-person.
“Rabbit-person” might sound awkward, but if you changed it to “bunny girl,” it would be easy to imagine the general appearance of this “Xiao Bai.”
The general outline looked like a very pretty human girl, but on top of her head were two lively, upright, long white ears. And behind her perky bottom was a fist-sized, white, fluffy ball. In addition, her one-piece tube top, stockings, and high heels were no different from a human cosplaying a bunny girl. Her figure, under this outfit, was as voluptuous as Yu Yourong’s.
“Are you a real rabbit?”
Qin Ren looked at Xiao Bai’s chest with some doubt. It was swaying and trembling, as if she were carrying two Tuantuans. She was not the little cutie A-Cui had mentioned, but a genuine big cutie.
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Translator’s Notes
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Jiang Ziya (姜子牙), Zhong Kui (钟馗): Jiang Ziya is a historical and mythological figure from the Shang dynasty, a key figure in the events of Investiture of the Gods. Zhong Kui is a mythological figure in Chinese folklore, a vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings.
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Xiao Bai (小白): Literally meaning “Little White.”
