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agitation. He was being treated on the same level as a war or a terrorist strike; or rather, his very existence was being treated as a national crisis. Even though he was suffering through his vampiric condition, now he wasn’t even being treated as a life-form, let alone a human being.
    “So you really didn’t know,
Senpai
…”
    Yukina made an exasperated sigh. The pitying look that came over her face rubbed Kojou’s nerves the wrong way somehow. To calm himself down, Kojou thrust some hard-fried potato into his own mouth.
    “I dunno about the other Primogenitors, but I don’t remember bein’ treated like
that
. I haven’t done anything, and I don’t rule any kind of empire, anyway.”
    “That’s true.”
    Yukina quietly nodded. She shot Kojou a cold, antagonistic look.
    “I was already planning to ask about that. Senpai, what do you intend to do in this place?”
    “To do… Er, what?”
    “Yesterday, I asked your little sister about you.”
    “Yeah… I heard.”
    Kojou unintentionally scowled at Yukina’s words. He remembered the fact that Nagisa had already spilled to her all the secrets of his past.
    However, Yukina’s expression remained completely serious.
    “You’re hiding the fact you’re a vampire from your little sister, aren’t you?”
    “Well, I am, but…”
    “Don’t you have some kind of objective, infiltrating the Demon Sanctuary, hiding your true nature from even your family? For instance, ruling Itogami Island from the shadows, adding the registered Demons to your own army and the like? Or perhaps you’ve come to commit slaughter for your own pleasure…you monster!” Yukina muttered in a tone that could be taken either as brooding or fantasizing.
    Kojou groaned in a low voice, “Why does it have to be like this?”
    “Now, just hold on a minute, here. Himeragi, aren’t you misunderstanding something?”
    “Misunderstanding?”
    “I’m not
infiltrating
anything; I lived in this city since before I became a vampire.”
    “…Before you became a…vampire, you say?”
    “Yeah. Check the records or anything you like. I’ve had this condition only since spring of this year.
    “I moved to this island when I was in this junior high school so, that’s almost four years ago,” Kojou explained in an unpleasant tone.
    That’s right. Kojou Akatsuki had not been born a vampire. Until a mere three months prior, he’d lived as a normal human being with no relation to demons whatsoever. However, during spring of that year, an incident Kojou had become wrapped up in changed his destiny. Kojou had encountered the one called the Fourth Primogenitor and had taken her powers as well as her life.
    However, Yukina shook her head, as if to say,
I can’t believe that.
    “The Fourth Primogenitor was a human being? That cannot be so.”
    “Huh? Uh, say that all you want, but it’s the truth.”
    “Normal humans cannot change into vampires midway. Even if one is infected from drinking vampire blood, the person would be a mere ‘Blood Servant’—an imitation vampire.”
    “Yeah. Seems that way.”
    “So why make up an easily exposed lie like this?”
    “It’s not like I’m lying to you, geez.”
    Kojou made a tired sigh. He was bad at explaining things to overserious types like this.
    Yukina adopted the tone of a private tutor addressing a slacker of a student.
    “Now listen, Senpai. Primogenitors are the oldest and first vampires who received the curse of immortality from now-dead gods.”
    “I am kind of aware of that, but…”
    “The only way for a normal human to become a Primogenitor would be to become undead by using a secret curse from the lost gods on oneself. Are you saying you are capable of that, Senpai?”
    “Uh, no. I don’t have any gods for BFFs, sorry.”
    “So how did you become a vampire, then? There’s only one other way to become a Primogenitor, and that’s…”
    Having said that much, Yukina suddenly cut off her words as if she’d realized