Vampire Summoner's Rebirth: Summoning The Vampire Queen At The Start-Chapter 1042: Rosenheim And Elfriedden

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After a seemingly calm and silent day, the next day arrived quite quickly, the morning sun rose above the skies like always, the people of the Port City seemed more depressed than ever before, knowing that their nation had fallen so much, and even more, as the news about the victims of the Rosenheim Dukedom spread, despair was perhaps the only thing in their hearts now.

The King was dead, the Queen, his concubines, and his children were all in a coma, and there were hundreds of thousands of other people in a similar situation right now. An Archdemon had been posing as their King perhaps for several years, and the people had completely lost their trust with the royal family now.

The prideful elves that had never considered abandoning their continent had now begun to consider escaping this falling continent, now riddled with beasts and demons, and go to the human continent or perhaps the other two continents, which seemed to be in a much better state.

It was saddening, that the elven kind had became a dying race after they used to be a great and powerful nation, in only ten years, their entire continent fell…

Although the Summoner was here, nobody knew if they could ever and truly free a whole continent, it was something that nobody could ever do.

The Archdemon possessing the King was defeated, but so what? To the people, who had not seen any of such things, it didn't feel like such a huge feat.

Perhaps they were being hypocrite, but after facing the slow extinction of their kind and the destruction of their beloved continent, what else could the elves ever think now?

They were full of despair, sorrow, and bitterness…

Yet there was someone that was trying to look up to the future, Elfriedden, who had just woken up, opening his eyes to find Rosenheim sleeping at his side, cuddling with him.

He smiled gently, she was still a bit sick and weak, but had recovered her appetite and was able to walk around, mostly to go to the bathroom. He had helped her take a bath too, so she seemed much more recovered.

"Rosenheim…"

He sighed, hugging her tightly from behind, feeling her warmth.

Just two days ago he had thought everything was over, yet she was here now, recovering.

He tried to resist crying again, as he looked into the sky of the window.

"The people must be restless right now… I wouldn't blame them if they wanted to leave the continent…"

"Do you think so?"

Suddenly, Rosenheim answered.

"Eh? You were awake?"

"Yeah, I woke up a bit ago, but I was pretending to sleep so you could cuddle with me~"

She quickly moved towards him, smiling, she still had a sleepy face, and her hair was a mess, but to Elfriedden she was the most beautiful girl in the world.

"I see, how do you feel? Anything that hurts or something?"

"Hm, not really? I feel okay for now… But there's this feeling of emptiness inside of my Spirit Orb, it is a bit… A bit sad, I guess."

"I wish we could change the past, if only all of this would have been prevented…"

"But how do you think it could have been prevented anyways? Mammon was very powerful, something like this, in any situation, would have eventually happened anyways…"

"Yes, but perhaps…"

"Perhaps what? Don't tell me you're blaming your friend now for starting the whole fight? Just because he wanted to get rid of Mammon?"

"That's… Well, if Blake hadn't begun attacking right away, we could have had time to plan, right? He was reckless…"

"Yes, maybe he was reckless, but I had no idea you were a coward, Elfriedden… I think Blake did the right thing; you should have supported him instead of whining about what he did!"

Rosenheim gently hit Elfriedden's forehead, reprimanding her boyfriend and future husband.

"B-But…!"

"No buts! Blake was brave and did what had to be done. He tried to finish off Mammon right away, but the demon ended being just stronger, that's all…"

"Hah… I suppose… maybe you're not wrong."

"Of course I am not wrong, Elfriedden! Maybe you need a scolding from your mom now. Is she doing alright?"

Elfriedden smiled a bit, he was used to Rosenheim's attitude, this was the attitude that made him change from his former self, a pitiful, timid child that was bullied by everyone and that always cried in a corner of the castle, into the prideful and strong prince he had become.

"Yes, mother is still sleeping I believe, but let's hope she wakes up soon enough," he sighed. "Do you want breakfast?"

"Hmm, I would rather sleep another hour…" Rosenheim yawned.

"You can, I'll bring breakfast and wake you up by then," the elf prince stood up.

"But I would rather also sleep with you at my side!" she complained, dragging him back to the bed, and hugging him, without letting him go.

"Hahah, well, if you insist…" Elfriedden laughed, kissing her. "Let's laze around another hour…"

"Hmm…"

Rosenheim cuddled over Elfriedden's chest, groaning a bit.

"I miss my spirits…"

"…"

Elfriedden didn't knew exactly what to say here, elves saw spirits as their family, to suddenly lose them was like losing a precious sibling, sometimes even like losing a child.

To Rosenheim it was the latter, her spirits were raised by her tenderly and with much love and attention, to lose them suddenly, it was very painful.

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That she would never get to interact with him again, her friend, her guardian, her child…

"I know you do," he sighed. "I know it's painful… I'm sorry."

"Hmm…" Rosenheim only tightened her hug, as she resisted the impulse to cry, closing her eyes, and just wanting to sleep more.

Sometimes people slept to forget things, to relax, to no longer have their finds troubled by many terrible things.

Knock, knock.

Yet the door knocked, and Elfriedden opened his eyes again, right before he almost fell asleep.

"Y-Yes?"

"Elfriedden, are you awake? Your mother… She woke up just now!"

It was Cattalina's voice.

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