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“Princess, you… are you able to understand our books?”

“Of course. I’m capable of understanding any language.”

“…”

Lucy had a doubtful expression. However, Mirabelle pointed at a paragraph and said, “For instance, this paragraph is about the vampires’ history. You vampires were born several thousand years ago in the Blood Pool, where you received the blessing of the night…”

Still, the content of these books was really boring. She already knew everything that was in these books. In fact, she couldn’t help but wonder if the people who programmed these books into the game had directly copied her plans for the game’s setting.

“Then, you understand human languages as well?”

“Of course, the human languages were something that I personally… er… there’s no need for you to know how I learned them!”

“In that case, can you help Milady Heather with translation?”

“Translation? I don’t think that you should be asking me this, as it’s not your job or mine? Don’t you have professional translators of your own?”

“Ever since a long time ago, since Milady Heather doesn’t understand human languages, it’s been impossible for us to understand the content of any human books that we obtain. There are very few of us who understand human language. In fact, almost none of us understand human languages…”

Mirabelle didn’t know how to respond to Lucy who suddenly asked for her help.

Translation? To be honest, it would be quite simple for Mirabelle to translate a human language into the vampire language.

However, why would she help the vampires? Would they really be interested in human history? Wasn’t this simply because they wanted to conquer all the human territory?

“No… I can’t… I won’t help you… I know that you vampires want to do something bad, so I won’t help you…”

Mirabelle jumped down from her chair after saying this and slowly went over to the exit.

“Princess, don’t you want your people to be freed from the life of slavery?”

“!”

Mirabelle immediately stopped when she heard this. She also silently removed her hand from the door handle.

“Your master is the queen of all vampires. She’s someone who’s capable of leading the entire vampire species forward…”

“What does that have to do with anything?”

Mirabelle put these words that she was tired of hearing in the back of her mind.

“So, you’re the only elven princess. If you can cooperate with Milady Heather in conquering the human world, then we will classify humans as the lowest-class species. Doesn’t that mean that your species will be freed?”

“…”

Mirabelle silently closed her eyes after hearing Lucy’s words.

‘-Indeed, this is a good idea, or perhaps a compromise, the only method by which my people can be freed from slavery.’

Classifying humans as the lowest-class species would raise Mirabelle and her species’ status to the middle.

“If you don’t want to be enslaved, then go enslave others-”

Mirabelle didn’t know who had said this comment that she heard before, but she was now beginning to believe these words.

“…”

However, Mirabelle still silently turned the door handle and exited the room.

Even if she was beginning to believe such words, she couldn’t possibly harm others for the sake of trying to help her own species. Not to mention, she also counted herself as a human. How could she possibly harm other humans?

However, she also recalled that she had personally created the setting for the humans in this world. Any human who discovered an elf would immediately enslave the elf to sell at an auction. In fact, the humans abused elves even worse than vampires did.

At the time, Mirabelle hadn’t felt anything when she was creating such a setting in her original world. But now that she was an elf, she finally understood just how terrible such a thing was for the elves.

Mirabelle began to hesitate once she thought of this.

Even if she escaped from the vampires, there were countless humans outside who viewed elves as slaves. Shouldn’t she instead give Heather all the information that she knew about humans? Mirabelle was someone all-knowing about this world. She indeed knew how to counter the humans’ methods for dealing with vampires.

However, things weren’t at such an unsalvageable state yet, were they?

Mirabelle sat down on her bed and supported her own head. She felt trapped between a rock and a hard place.