“W-w-what is this…?” Romari muttered before running up to Eugene and stroking his back. She forgot her embarrassment in the heat of the moment. She continued. “Why are there ancient scripts written on Sir Eugene’s body? Oh, they are tattoos? You shouldn’t engrave these things on a person’s body.”

“How would I know? Anyway, if you engrave ancient scripts on a person’s body, does it activate magic or curses?” Eugene asked.

Romari hesitated for a moment before answering, “Well… normally, it would kill the person. Or you would engrave it on someone who is already dead. Ah! But Sir Eugene is a vampire.”

“…”

“Well, to expand on that, the undead are technically already dead, so it wouldn’t be life-threatening. Even so, it must have placed a huge burden on your body to have had so many of them etched,” Romari said.

Eugene responded after putting on his clothes, “Wizard. I’ll tell you something if you swear not to go around blabbering.”

“Y-yes.” Romari licked her lips while nodding. She had never seen such a serious expression on Eugene’s face before.

“I have no memories past a certain point. And ever since I came to see and recognize the world, these tattoos were already on my body,” Eugene explained his secrets, except for the fact that he had died and resurrected.

Romari’s eyes continued to quiver as Eugene continued with his story. Once he finished, she asked with a shaky...