Sword Empress's POV
Using my lightness arts, I surged onto the deck in a blur, only to find utter pandemonium—a scene straight out of a nightmare battlefield.
"Raaaargh!!!!"
Crunch! "Arghhh!!"
"S-Save me!!"
A man with blood-red eyes, utterly devoid of reason, lunged at the passengers like a feral beast, sinking his teeth into their necks with savage hunger. No—upon closer inspection, they weren't mere bites; jagged fangs pierced flesh, drawing forth crimson streams.
"H-He's crazy! He's biting people's necks and sucking their blood!"
A quivering passenger, spotting the glint of my drawn sword, stammered out the horror in frantic detail.
"…Blood?"
"Y-Yes! It's like those rumored vampires!"
"…A blood-sucking ghost."
Hiss…
A chill slithered up my spine, dredging up foul memories from the shadows of the past.
Flash!
Thud! Thud!
With a whisper of sword light, the fiend's hands severed clean from his wrists, tumbling to the blood-slicked planks.
"Raaaargh!!! "
