by Okina Baba
Aw, how nice.
Aside from the guards, the lady watching nervously from inside the carriage looks pretty surprised, too.
Considering that a monster just rescued her from thieves and is now using Healing Magic on one of her entourage, I guess that’s a reasonable reaction.
Whew. All right, I’m done here.
I guess I’ll just make a super-cool exit, since it’d be awkward to gather up the robbers’ bodies in front of everyone.
Wait, the lady is bustling out of the carriage now.
Her guards all protest, holding her back.
But I don’t care about that anymore.
My eyes are fixed on what the lady is holding in her arms.
Status: HP: 11/11 (green) (details)
SP: 12/12 (yellow) (details)
Average Offensive Ability: 9 (details)
Average Magical Ability: 32 (details)
Average Speed Ability: 8 (details)
MP: 35/35 (blue) (details)
: 12/12 (red) (details)
Average Defensive Ability: 8 (details)
Average Resistance Ability: 33 (details)
Skills:
[Vampire LV 1] [Immortality LV 1] [HP Auto-Recovery LV 1] [Magic Power Perception LV 3]
[Magic Power Operation LV 3] [Night Vision LV 1] [Five Senses Enhancement LV 1] [n% I = W]
Skill Points: 75,000
Titles:
[Vampire] [Progenitor]
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The lady is cradling a baby.
And its Appraisal results are something else.
I mean…could I be wrong?
There’s so much going on here that I don’t know where to start, y’know?
I mean, she’s a vampire, she’s got a ton of skill points, and she’s got a second name kinda displayed under the first one…
Ahh, I get it.
Is this baby what I think it is?
I mean, come on. I knew the moment a super-Japanese name like Shouko Negishi popped up in her Appraisal results.
This child is a reincarnation, just like me.
That was the day I first met a fellow reincarnation in this world.
TIMELINE KINGDOM HISTORY
Year 798 Ronandt becomes the youngest head court mage of the Renxandt Empire in history.
Year 801 Meicis the hero is killed in battle at Fort Kusorion.
Darresmeig is appointed as the new hero.
Year 803 Darresmeig the hero defeats Demon Lord Atomos.
Year 804 Darresmeig the hero disappears.
Year 807 Sword-King Leigar abdicates the throne of the Renxandt Empire and disappears.
Largis becomes the new sword-king. Ronandt becomes his adviser.
Year 829 Sirius becomes king of Analeit Kingdom.
Year 832 The first prince of Analeit Kingdom, Cylis, is born to the true queen.
Year 833 The first princess of Analeit Kingdom, Leiresia, is born to the king’s first concubine.
Year 834 The second prince of Analeit Kingdom, Julius, is born to the king’s third concubine.
Year 837 The third prince of Analeit Kingdom, Leston, is born to the king’s second concubine.
Year 840 The second prince, Julius, becomes the hero.
The previous hero, Darresmeig, is thus assumed dead.
An unusual young taratect individual is sighted in the Great Elroe Labyrinth. A wyrm egg and spider thread are collected from its nest and presented to the royal family.
Increase in demon activity.
Year 841 The fourth prince of Analeit Kingdom, Schlain, is born to the king’s third concubine.
The second princess of Analeit Kingdom, Suresia, is born to the true queen.
The first child of Duke Anabald, Karnatia, is born.
The first prince of the Renxandt Empire, Hugo, is born.
The king’s third concubine passes away.
The empire army, led by Ronandt, encounters the “Nightmare of the Labyrinth” in the Great Elroe Labyrinth.
The Nightmare of the Labyrinth and a queen taratect emerge from the Great Elroe Labyrinth.
Ronandt temporarily disappears.
Year 842 The Nightmare of the Labyrinth appears in Sariella.
The Sariella and Ohts regions go to war. The empire and the Followers of the Word of God support Ohts.
Julius the hero battles the Nightmare of the Labyrinth and escapes with his life thanks to Ronandt’s rescue.
Julius the hero temporarily becomes Ronandt’s pupil.
Kidnapping and slave trading occur successively in various locations.
Year 843 The Nightmare’s Vestiges are identified in the Great Elroe Labyrinth.
Year 844 The first princess, Leiresia, marries the first prince of the Teresent Kingdom and studies abroad there.
Year 845 The Sword Demon appears in the empire.
Ronandt successfully drives the Sword Demon away.
Year 846 The Word of God religion exposes a large-scale human trafficking organization.
As a result of this incident, Julius the hero adds Jeskan and Hawkin to his party.
Year 847 Schlain, Suresia, and Karnatia undergo the Appraisal ceremony.
Year 848 Feirune hatches from the earth wyrm egg.
Year 850 Potimas, the chief of the elves, visits the kingdom as a friendship ambassador.
Potimas’s daughter Filimøs studies abroad in the kingdom.
Julius the hero is caught in a demon trap and attacked but manages to escape.
Year 851 Schlain, Suresia, Karnatia, and Filimøs enter the royal academy.
The empire prince Hugo and the future saint Yurin make contact with them.
Julius the hero defeats one Nightmare’s Vestige in the Great Elroe Labyrinth.
Prince Hugo attempts to assassinate Schlain.
An earth wyrm attacks the royal academy.
Year 856 The great human-demon war begins.
Julius the hero is killed in battle.
A coup d’état occurs in the Analeit Kingdom.
King Sirius passes away.
The fourth prince, Schlain, flees with fellow collaborator the third prince, Leston.
The Word of God announces Prince Hugo of the Renxandt Empire as the new hero.
At the same time, the second princess, Suresia, is announced as Hugo’s fiancée.
The empire declares war on the elves for participating in the kingdom’s coup d’état and begins raising an army.
The empire army and the Demon Lord’s army invade the elf village.
AFTERWORD
To readers old and new, hello! I’m Okina Baba.
Although I doubt there are any newcomers picking up the fourth volume.
That’d be like starting with the hardest member of the Elite Four, y’know?
Stop that! Put this down and start with the weakest member, aka Volume 1!
This is an ongoing series, so you’re not going to understand if you start with Volume 4!
The main topic of this volume is Mother, whose presence has been lurking since all the way back in Volume 1.
Are there any other novels where the first illustration is not the protagonist but the protagonist’s giant mother?
No, probably not!
Normally, the first illustration would be either the hero or a cute heroine, but instead, boom! Giant spider!
And when she reappeared in Volume 3, she once again stole the spotlight in the very first illustration.
Yes, Mother is the prima donna who took over not one but two major illustrations in the past.
Don’t give up, protagonist!
You’re still winning in terms of total number of illustrations, protagonist!
There’s a high percentage of illustrations that don’t feature humans, but I guess that’s inevitable given the nature of the story.
I mean, every one of the first three volumes featured nonhuman characters across the board.
Well, the protagonist’s n
ot human, so that’s how the cookie crumbles!
I’m so impressed with Tsukasa Kiryu for dealing with all that. Don’t worry—there are plenty of humans in Volume 4!
This time around, the book features a story that wasn’t in the web version.
The amount of new material I write for each volume has only gone up since Volume 1, and now I’ve finally reached the point where 90 percent of the book is brand new.
If I keep this up, Volume 5 and onward will all be 100 percent new material!
Unforgivable! That will never pass muster!
Speaking of new material, I also wrote a new short story.
Kadokawa Books is conducting a survey to commemorate its first anniversary, and it’s set up that if you fill out the survey (http://kadokawabooks.jp), you can read the short story.
Please participate if you’d like to read it.
Now on to the thank-yous.
To Tsukasa Kiryu, who always draws the most incredible illustrations for this humble nonhuman-character-filled series.
To Asahiro Kakashi, who also does an amazing job of drawing all those nonhuman characters in the manga adaptation.
To my editor K and everyone else who was involved in bringing this book into the world.
And to everyone who has picked up this book.
Thank you all very much.
Thank you for buying this ebook, published by Yen On.
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