One hundred kilometers from the Holy City - Alagard Mountain Range
This is the spot where the Scarlet Count once resided, ultimately defeated here by Han Dong, who kept him as a dog... no, actually as a Second Consciousness.
Currently, multiple factions occupy this mountain range,
In one of the villages located mid-mountain, a group of short-statured, hairless, and ugly-faced Hill People live, who today receive an "unexpected guest".
The Village Chief's family is hosting this foreign guest,
The Village Chief himself, trembling all the while, carries the uppermost Blood Velvet Tea (made by fermenting dried brain threads in a blood vat) to the living room.
Due to excessive trembling, quite a bit of tea spills onto the table.
And in front of the Village Chief,
Sits a woman as pure as ice and as clean as jade, faceless, exuding an aura of nobility and purity that seems wholly out of place with them.
The woman does not appear upset by the spilled tea,
