Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint

Sleep is a passage. Humans spend their days seeing, hearing, and feeling countless pieces of information, making the best decisions they can moment by moment. And at some point, the body, having endured this constant strain, reaches a state where it must collapse into sleep as if dead. To block out all senses, relinquish consciousness, and bring one exhausting day to a close—only to be reborn anew the next.

“Hu. Wake up. The moon is bright.”

“….”

“This is serious. You’re not even whining for ten more minutes… You really don’t intend to wake up, do you?”

If you don’t give the body the rest it needs, it will begin to break down. At first, you can push through, moving with some fatigue, but soon, the body will deteriorate until it finally malfunctions. Right now, I was at that breaking point.

“Is this what becomes of a human who goes just a few days without sleep? In my time, we waged war without rest for nights on end.”

“…That’s… why you survived… because you endured…”

“To think my companion would be this frail.”

“That’s not fair… coming from a vampire who doesn’t even need to sleep…! Ugh.”

I admitted it—I was weak. But in this environment, what could I do? I had already been recovering from exhaustion, only to run around the Mist Duchy, get drained of blood, then follow up with a court session. If I hadn’t collapsed after all that, I might as well be the next step in human evolution after vampires.

And besides—

“Who even holds a trial in the middle of the night? This is bedtime for good children.”

“The night is the rightful domain of vampires.”

“So I guess vampires are just a bunch of misbehaving children….”

“Look who’s talking. You’re hardly a good child yourself.”@@novelbin@@

Regardless, seeing the state I was in, Tyrkanzyaka didn’t scold or pester me. Instead, she leisurely sat up from her seat.

“Then, what shall we do about Lir’s trial? Would postponing it for a few days be acceptable?”

“Huh? We were supposed to do it today. Can we even delay it?”

“What’s the harm in a few days? They will pass in the blink of an eye.”

“Even if a bug flies into your eye, you’d be able to open it again in a few days.”