“Waaah, no, that hurts!” At the threat of getting smacked, Ruo Xiaoxi covered her head and curled up, trying to look cute.

She was afraid one little punch would finish her off.

“I might understand humans better than you think,” Chris continued.

“As for what you said earlier, I once had a young friend who was a girl around your age. Back then, she daydreamed every day about falling in love with the person she had a crush on.”

“She’d carry around a bouquet of flowers and go on about some brave, fearless knight or some handsome, elegant prince. But in the end, her very first kiss went to me~”

“Whoa, you turned her gay! You’re so wicked—and then what? What happened?” Ruo Xiaoxi teased her, but couldn’t help wanting to hear the juicy details.

“Mmm... So much happened. I couldn’t tell you all of it in three days and three nights.”

Chris gently rested her cheek against Ruo Xiaoxi’s back and closed her eyes. For a vampire, too, this was already a distant past.

“If I had to sum it up in one word, we were like best friends. We went shopping together at the town market, rode bumpy carriages together along dusty roads, and picked flowers together in green meadows.”

“I still remember her teaching me how to weave a flower basket. I watched that child grow up, from her early teens into a young woman, and then from a young woman into a mature one.”

“Later, I remember standing high above in a distant place, watching the conflicts among humans. That era was so complicated it might as well have been a record in a history book. I watched her, grown up now, stride through the crowd in armor, holding a great banner as she stood against the religious powers and the Church of her time.”

“Then, after who knows how long, I went back to see my friend... When she said to me once again, ‘Haha, you really haven’t changed at all. You’re so cute,’ I finally realized she had grown old. The last time I saw her, I picked the same flowers we used to gather together and laid them in front of her gravestone.”

“Waaah, the lifespan gap! Don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me!” Ruo Xiaoxi’s heart tightened. As she listened to Chris talk about her past, she couldn’t help feeling a little sad.

This was a little different from what she’d imagined, okay?! The mood had gotten heavy all of a sudden!

So... Chris had been a vampire since that era, all the way into the modern day? She’d thought some clueless vampire brat from who-knows-where had bitten her and turned her into a girl, too.

“So, I was thinking that if you were too lonely on your own, you could date me. But it seems like you’re having a great time already, huh? Got a pretty big sister you like?”

“Hmph, yeah. I’ve got lots of pretty big sisters. You’re not even in the running, Chris.” Ruo Xiaoxi teased her on purpose.

“You little flirt, leaving broken hearts everywhere. Once they find out, those girls will all come after you in a jealous rage and teach you a lesson. They’ll pose you in front of a mirror with your legs spread in an M and ask who you like best.”

“The M-legs thing is way too lewd,” Ruo Xiaoxi murmured. “I just... don’t want to go hungry. I have to secretly get close to girls and find a chance to fill my belly...”

Xia Zhibai had been one of her little slip-ups. She’d thought Xia Zhibai looked pretty and smelled nice, figured her blood must taste great, then went after her, calling her “big sister” and asking for her contact info.

Besides, Xia Zhibai was more or less a rich young lady. The beautiful, wealthy girl was always so cool and distant that it was hard to get closer to her.

After wearing her down with persistence and sweet talk, Ruo Xiaoxi had finally gotten her to trust her a little and open up. In the process, she’d said “I like you” more than fifty times and turned into a total fangirl.

A happy ending, more or less: just before she nearly starved to death, she managed to secretly drink Xia Zhibai’s blood.

“You little green tea~ Being a heartbreaker isn’t nice. Careful, or all those big sisters will gang up on you.” Chris teased her.

“How can eating count as being a green tea? And who’s a heartbreaker?! I just want to give every girl a warm little home!” Ruo Xiaoxi declared righteously.

Men didn’t understand girls, so they could get lost. She understood. She was the only one who’d care about her big sisters~

—Then she’d eat her fill, put on a skirt, give them the “you’re a good person” speech, and run!

So love can disappear, right? No, love just moves on to someone else.

Time to find her next little snack... No, her next big sister.

She really meant it when she told them they were good people. Anyone who fed her was a good person; she wasn’t teasing them at all. She was grateful, and did her best to give something back in return.

Ruo Xiaoxi didn’t know much about love and romance. But when she got hungry, she’d stop at nothing—even sweet-talk a big sister into agreeing that their future kids would take her surname.

She was a real sweetheart, every girl’s favorite little softie.

She wondered how Chris managed her daily meals as a Vampiress. Maybe they could talk it over, dress up, and go fishing for big sisters together—two little girls out on the prowl?

But then she remembered that Chris was far more powerful than she’d imagined, and fell silent.

A Vampiress from the Middle Ages, huh... Was she lucky or unlucky to have caught Chris’s eye?

Chris noticed Ruo Xiaoxi had suddenly gone quiet. It was as if she could read her thoughts at a glance.

“Hehe, did me talking about something serious just now throw you off? It actually has nothing to do with you, so don’t take it to heart.”

“But if you want to know, I can tell you more little by little later. You cutie, let me squish you, squish you...”

Before they left, Chris wanted to “get a little closer” first.

Ruo Xiaoxi’s cheeks instantly flushed as she felt Chris’s hands wandering.

“Eek! Stop it, Chris!”

“You’re calling me by my name? How rude. Call me Big Sister.”

“Let go first! You’re pinching me!”

“Say Big Sister.”

“Ugh... B-Big Sister.”

“That’s more like it. Remember to be polite.”

“Then why are you still squishing me?!”

“Because I can’t accept that you’re bigger than me. Why is that? I’m the big sister!”

“???! You should be asking yourself that!”

“You brat, talking back to me? Next time, I’ll make you eat my feet~”