The student council leader noticed Edith’s strange expression and frowned in confusion.

Fortunately, Edith quickly recovered and continued to maintain her composure.

But in reality, she was blaming herself inwardly.

It was all because she was too useless, she still hadn’t snatched the power to award task points from the student council.

That’s why her “mother,” or rather, “Adele,” had to join the enemy camp, selling her labor just to earn those measly points.

Edith secretly vowed in her heart that after she seized this power, she would definitely use it to indulge Adele a little.

For example, she would specifically design tasks that only Adele was qualified for and give them a lot of task points.

 

So that Adele could easily complete them, easily obtain task points, and have a smooth academic career.

However, the girl’s thoughts were unknown to anyone, especially Adele.

The student council members didn’t have anything to talk about with Edith, so they passed her by.

Adele also quickly came to Edith’s side. Because she was at the end of the line, she could stop for a while.

But the Black Feather Society members next to Edith looked at her with strange and hostile expressions.

Helplessly, Adele could only greet her briefly,

“You look great today.”

 

“Enjoy the concert tonight.”

Simple greetings, but they caused ripples in Edith’s heart.

Her eyes were slightly moist, and she nodded.

Then the two parted ways, neither paying attention to the other.

Of course, Adele probably didn’t intend to pay attention to Edith anyway.

The group took the academy’s school bus, which was much less comfortable and exciting than Hermione’s sports car, making Adele drowsy.

It took about half an hour to reach their destination.

 

The venue for famous idol Cha Keke’s concert was a grand hall that hosted various performances and speeches. Outside the hall was a bustling commercial square and shopping mall, and since it was Sunday night, it was crowded with people.

Perhaps Adele didn’t notice, but among the student council members, someone slowly closed her eyes, and an astonishing scene appeared on her retina.

Countless black and white silhouettes gradually took on a blood-red color.

A little bit here, a patch there.

The area in front of the grand hall was the hardest hit.

Vampires were everywhere.

To be conservative… there were probably hundreds of them!

 

Perhaps most of them were well-behaved vampire students, but as long as the rest of them decided to act recklessly, it would have a huge impact on social order.

Plainclothes officers from the Dongdu Ability Enforcement Bureau were also mixed in with the crowd, in case of any unforeseen circumstances.

This woman, Cha Keke, really caused a lot of trouble by holding a concert.

Her life-size standee was placed outside the grand hall, and Adele saw many people taking pictures with it.

Her phone rang at this moment, it was Celeste.

Celeste: Master, have you arrived at the concert venue?

Adele: Yeah, just arrived, what about you?

 

Celeste: I’m outside too, I’ll be able to enter soon.

Adele: Then I’ll take the staff passage, it should be faster~

The girl’s voice was light and cheerful, with a hint of bragging.

Celeste couldn’t help but smile, she liked her master’s cuteness.

She also hoped that all the good things in the world would come to her master, that Adele deserved to have priority over everything.

Celeste: Then I’ll look forward to seeing you at the concert, Master.

Celeste: By the way, Master, there’s something I don’t know if I should tell you…

 

Adele: Hmm? Does my little puppy want to keep secrets from her master?

Celeste: N-no… it’s just that what I saw was a bit strange, it’s related to someone you know.

The golden-haired girl looked towards a spot not far away, swallowed nervously, and decided to confess to her master.

Celeste: I saw your classmate, the one named… Tang Linlang, right? She was with Hermione, they were very close.

Adele: Ah, that.

Celeste: Does Master know about this?

Adele: Ahem, n-no, maybe they just happened to run into each other.

 

Celeste: Maybe.

Celeste looked at the two of them thoughtfully.

But secretly, she hoped that these two people, who were worlds apart, could get along because of their common interests.

Because that way, there would be fewer love rivals around her master.

Celeste didn’t have the right to stop or object to her master flirting with other girls or even developing romantic relationships with them.

But everyone was selfish, and Celeste was no exception.

Adele quickly hung up on Celeste, using the excuse of entering the concert backstage.

 

Not long after, the concert ticket check began, and Celeste joined the queue in the crowd.

The girl’s blonde hair and blue eyes attracted attention, her tall figure and extraordinary temperament were stunning in every way.

She came to see the idol Cha Keke, but she was attracted by another girl, how depraved.

Probably the people around Hermione had the same troubles and struggles.

If Celeste was like a flame, rising and burning into one’s eyes, inextinguishable, then Hermione was like a thousand-year-old ice, her coldness seeping into one’s heart and lungs, equally impossible to melt.

Tang Linlang’s beauty wasn’t as stunning as the other two, but she was the type that became more and more beautiful the more you looked at her.

More importantly, she didn’t give off the same sense of distance as the other two.

 

Most people didn’t have the courage to approach Celeste or Hermione, but Tang Linlang made people want to get close to her, it was easy to develop a good impression of her.

Everyone lined up and entered the concert venue, waiting for the show to begin.

At the same time, inside the hall, Adele had entered the backstage in advance. After a period of allocation, she was assigned to be in charge of areas C and D, which happened to be where Hermione and Tang Linlang were located.

It seemed that the student council had also investigated the relationship between Adele and Hermione, which was why they made such an arrangement.

But this didn’t mean that Adele had to stay in this area all the time.

She had to be fair, she would also go to Celeste’s side to check on her.

Also, there was still some time before the concert started, and Adele, who couldn’t stay idle, started wandering around backstage.

 

She also wanted to try her luck, to see if she could catch a glimpse of the idol’s private side.

The legendary cool and gentle older sister, a mature woman, might be completely different in private, giving people an interesting sense of contrast.

Just like Adele, who seemed to be a pure and sweet girl in the eyes of ordinary people, but in reality, she was a selfish little green tea who manipulated girls.

Not many people had seen her true colors, but without exception, they all chose to accept it, even becoming obsessed with her.

Adele was a little proud of this, she was the type who wasn’t ashamed of it, but rather took pride in it.

The girl walked around backstage. Because of her innocent and cute appearance, she didn’t arouse any suspicion from the busy staff.

It seemed that even if you wanted to be a sasaeng fan, you had to look cute and innocent to get close to the idol behind the scenes.

 

Maybe you could even get the idol’s attention.

It was also at this moment that a faint “squeak, squeak” sound came from the ventilation duct behind the stage.

But because the atmosphere backstage was lively, and everyone was focused on their own tasks, preparing for idol Cha Keke’s concert, no one noticed it.

But if anyone had noticed, they would have felt that it was like the eerie muttering of a familiar rodent, unable to resist its hunger and desire, facing food.

As if saying, “I, the rat, love lost little girls the most~”

Inside the ventilation duct, a pair of scarlet, ferocious eyes stared fixedly at Adele’s delicate and easily pushable body, watching her walk alone towards the empty area.

Soon, she would reach the perfect spot for killing.

 

The monster, with its newly awakened intelligence, had a strange glint of cunning in its scarlet eyes.

Obviously, Adele was the best and most unguarded prey it had set its sights on recently.

And the monster could instinctively sense that the blood in Adele’s body was different from that of ordinary people.

If it could kill her, if it could devour her… squeak!

The monster didn’t know how powerful it would become.

For a monster that had just escaped a group of terrifying humans through the intricate sewers, this was an unprecedentedly good start. Cheer for it, cheer for it!

After devouring Adele, it would definitely take revenge on those humans who had been chasing it, and devour them too, evolving, evolving…

 

One day, it would rule Dongdu under its shadow!

The monster’s shadow flashed under the light. Terrifyingly, it seemed to have several heads with sharp teeth, a bloated body, and many long tails intertwined.

Disgusting, monstrous, those were its synonyms.

Adele felt the strange atmosphere around her and looked up at the ventilation duct on the ceiling, but she could only see a scarlet color.

Is it paint? The girl thought to herself, it must have been applied very carelessly.

However, the moment she turned her head back, the so-called “paint” slowly gathered into drops and fell to the floor with a “plop,” leaving a bloodstain that looked like exploding fireworks.

Adele’s sense of direction had never been good, but that wasn’t the reason why she came to this unfamiliar area.

 

It was because she was worried about being discovered by the densely packed staff. After all, everyone was busy preparing for the concert, and only she was leisurely wandering around, as if looking for someone. It would be easy for her to be mistaken for a sasaeng fan and kicked out.

So she took a different path and gradually got lost in the huge backstage area of the hall.

Now she regretted her previous timidity, because it was obvious that there was no one in this area, let alone the idol she wanted to see.

The cool and gentle older sister, Cha Keke, must be in a makeup room somewhere, surrounded by people, getting ready for the upcoming stage with the most exquisite makeup and expensive clothes.

Thinking of this, Adele already had the intention of returning the way she came.

Moreover, the space ahead seemed to become more and more eerie and terrifying the further she went, even with the bright lights on, it made her feel inexplicably cold.

Adele wasn’t very brave, which could be seen from her complete aversion to horror movies.

 

So she rationally turned around in time, intending to leave.

But at this moment, a sound like a child crying came from the corner ahead, and she could faintly hear the words “Mommy, Mommy, where are you?”.

Adele frowned slightly, but she wasn’t too suspicious, she just thought it was some staff member’s child who had gotten lost in this place.

However, she didn’t expect that monsters in urban legends were best at imitating children’s cries to lure compassionate humans.

Ahead was an area not covered by surveillance cameras. There, in the darkness, the bloodthirsty monster rat could do whatever it wanted to Adele.

It had only been a few days, and the monster with its powerful evolution ability had already become familiar with the rules of the human world.

Unlike foreign races, they were born from the mist, they were monsters that needed to be eliminated, evil beings.

 

One step, two steps… the monster rat’s rows of scarlet eyes, like dirty pomegranate seeds, began to emit a chilling light, revealing its dark desire.

Because soon, when Adele reached the corner, she would be met with the monster rat’s sudden attack and slaughter.

It would bite Adele with its countless mouths, entangle her with its tails, and drag her body and soul into the abyss of darkness, never to be resurrected!

However, at this moment, a door that shouldn’t have been there suddenly opened behind the monster rat.

The reason why it shouldn’t have been there was because it was originally just a smooth wall painted with white paint.

The bloodthirsty monster rat couldn’t have missed this, the spot it chose was a perfect corner.

But the reality was that in an instant, unobservable to anyone, a door moved from somewhere far away to this location.

 

And then, a long-legged woman with exquisite makeup walked out of the door, her straight brown hair shiny and smooth, her deep blue eyes as captivating as the deepest ocean.

Her lipstick was only half applied, it seemed that the urgent situation had interrupted her final makeup process.

But this also became a part of her unique beauty.

She stood still, her eyebrows like a painting, her gaze never falling on the monstrous creature that rose from the darkness, a grotesque combination formed by devouring its own kind, foreign races, and humans in a terrifying way.

It was what the Ability Enforcement Bureau called the “bloodthirsty monster rat.”

But its body instantly burst into pure black flames. The monster rat didn’t even have time to let out a scream of unwillingness before it turned into black ashes, floating and disappearing into the void.

A black feather slowly fell from the air, and surprisingly, its shaft was as white and clean as porcelain.

The woman just stood quietly outside the door, looking towards where the sound of Adele’s footsteps came from.

Adele walked around the corner and looked up.

But she didn’t see the crying child she had imagined.

Instead, her eyes met the woman’s.

Seeing her luscious lips with half-applied lipstick, a smile slowly formed on her face.

Forgive Adele’s limited vocabulary.

The only word she could think of to describe that smile was “mysterious.”

It surpassed the Mona Lisa’s smile, making people see a distorted yet brilliant starry sky like in Van Gogh’s paintings.