Chapter 4: Tour

Rose had stopped drinking as soon as the last drop of blood filled her mouth, slightly disappointed there was no more after looking at the boar she just drained dry. She craved more but had no idea how other than ordering a whole one again.

She looked over at Koujou who had only now started eating after watching the hungry Rose dig into her meal. She took this opportunity to look for the hunter that had just delivered this boar to her, she couldn't let them leave without a thanks at least, could she?

Thankfully, she found him instantly after looking around and saw the huge man talking with some friends at a table, she went over to the table and as she got close, he looked over seemingly hearing her footsteps as she got closer.

To Rose, that was scary. Her footsteps were practically silent as she walked, but he had heard her instantly and even knew which direction she was coming from, granted the inn was empty at this hour and what customers they did have were not in the mood for talking.

"May I help you, young miss?" the hunter stated, looking at the small girl in front of him. He reached out to pat her head obviously forgetting the boar he had just delivered to the young girl, most likely thinking she was some lost child looking for help.

Rose let the man pat her head, not thinking any of it, most likely secretly enjoying it too. Taking this time to glance over the man. He was huge, there's no other way to describe it, he was 8 feet tall (243 cm roughly) at least and was made of pure muscle, and apparently kindness as well, tanned skin and wore huge armour that looked like it was made from a leather and small plates of metal were added over it.

"U-uhm, I would like to thank you for the food you delivered to me" the girl shyly said, getting her head pat made her extremely embarrassed as she tried to speak seriously to the man.

"Oh! Right! It was no problem; I was coming back from a mission occupied with a lot of monsters and animals so it was pretty easy to find one when I got the message that a quest was put out to hunt a boar." he had told her, forgetting his hand was on her head as it was comfortable there before she spoke up.

"Really? What kind of missions do you go on! I'll be taking my first mission soon probably and I want to know before I get assigned my mission." Rose had done a complete 180 from the shy girl he saw before, shocking him a bit that the little girl in front of him was a hunter as well.

"You're so excited to hear, huh? Haha! I'll tell you about my last mission, the story of how the great Natlus took on an orc chieftain with his bare fists!" the man, whose name was Natlus had exclaimed, his friends around the table rolling their eyes before talking to each other again.

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An hour later

"And that was how I killed it without even using a weapon!" Rose looked amazed, even if she knew half of the story had to be fabricated to make him look stronger and braver than he was. Rose decided to humour him and go along with it not saying anything, the story sounding cool enough to her.

"Can we be friends Nat!?" she had asked him suddenly. Surrounding herself with colourful characters sounded like a great distraction for when she wasn't on a mission. Nat was surprised. The little girl had just met him and wanted to be friends with him already after an hour.

He couldn't deny her seeing the cute girl smile innocently as she looked up at him, his hand being magnetized to her head again. Rose pouted, but didn't say a word. This seemingly though only earned her pats on the head. Was this becoming a thing now? I can't wait for them to be shocked if we go on a mission together.

Rose was correct, she had been feeling the intense blood thirst curling in her stomach after all. For some reason, she had felt herself getting more violent as time passed, most likely the appetizing animal blood she had. She no longer had any restraints about drinking blood if it tasted that good. Hell, according to all those manga and novels, animal blood never even compared to the taste of human blood.

Natlus had long pulled his hand away from the girl, the girl seemingly in her own thoughts, before he had felt a very malicious aura from the girl. He was afraid before snapping out of it, and tried talking to the girl.

"Uhm, girl?"

"Hm?" she answered back innocently, no idea her inner thoughts were making her leak such a horrible aura into her surroundings.

"Also, my name is Rose" she corrected Nat, Nat nodding slightly.

"Maybe it was all my imagination?" Was what Nat had thought "there's no way that little girl is so terrifying."

Rose was thinking to herself, she forgotten all about the tour she was supposed to take with Koujou.. She needed to get back to him fast before he left. She had left the table without saying anything, certain she'd find the tall man again after smelling him. She was like a bloodhound after all.

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A few hours later

She had found Koujou and they toured the city. The city was massive with bright glowing lights, market stalls everywhere, big brick buildings and wood buildings alike. That was until she got to the hunter guild hall.

It was massive, had white huge columns holding the building up, with a huge entrance into a place with reception desks everywhere, most likely to trade monster parts in if you get monster parts from a mission.

She looked around with a bright smile on her face, able to see everything her wildest fantasies could ever wish to see, that is, until she saw a woman with cat ears and a tail. She was shocked to say the least. She was always an admirer of neko girls and couldn't help herself when she saw the tail.

She walked up and grabbed the long tail, causing the woman to scream from being startled basically jumping as she looked back who was touching her tail. Rose got startled seeing the woman jump and hearing her scream, the screaming disorienting her as her hearing was better than most of the people in the room.

The person next to the neko girl just sighed after witnessing the little vampire girl come up behind her friend, grab her tail, and her friend getting freaked out.

"W-w-what are you doing!?!?" the scared cat managed to stutter out, causing Rose to look innocently up at the cat, obviously acting.

"I-I couldn't help myself miss I-I'm sorry" she looked at the cat innocently with tears, albeit the tears were made of blood, the cat's friend laughing to herself, noticed by Rose.

The cat felt bad, she was making such a young girl cry, she got nervous and reached out patting the girl on the head, Rose grinning at the cat's friend behind her, the friend grinning back as the shared a moment of innocent deviousness.

Koujou walked up behind Rose, noticing the trouble she was causing.

"I'm sorry, has she done anything to bother the two of you?" he asked them, causing them to shake their head.

"No, it's okay your daughter was just curious about my friend's tail and grabbed a hold of it startling her that's all." the cat's friend, a tall woman with glasses explained, Rose looking appalled, how the hell was she this oaf's daughter?!?

The woman looked at Rose with a smirk knowing full well what she did, Rose getting angry seeing the woman smirking.

"Well anyway, sorry for my daughter. Shes quite the handful haha" Koujou chuckled, knowing he was going to get chewed out by Rose later. Koujou took Rose by the hand to the receptionists, to get her registered into the guild officially so that she could get to take on missions quickly.

Rose freed her hand quickly, slapping Koujou's away practically hissing.

"Grab my hand like that again, and I will kill you" she openly threatened, in which he didn't take seriously but still acted scared. They finally got up to the receptionist as they were talking.