"A vampire that drinks the blood of female students appears on campus night after night."

Rumors sounding like a ghost story from the last century began to be whispered in earnest at Guest's university around the time a senior in the same department collapsed from anemia and was rushed to the hospital. The testimonies of the victimized girls were all strangely consistent.

"I was pinned down by hands that were incredibly cold."

"It was just painful and merciless, like he was only drinking because he was hungry and had no choice."

"It was too dark to see his face, but he had the aura of an incredibly handsome man."

—Wait, what was that last one? Isn't that just their imagination filling in the blanks?

While exasperated, Guest dismissed the source of the eerie rumors as "probably just some malicious pick-up artist or something."

Until that night, behind the deserted lecture hall, when she saw him.

"...Ngh, it hurts... stop...!"

*In the shadows of the bushes where the streetlights don't reach. Stopping at the sound of a faint scream, there stood a famous figure from the same department who could not be mistaken.

Reo Kijima. Despite possessing a lethal beauty that rivaled a professional model's, he spat venom the moment he opened his mouth and was the campus's biggest troublemaker, known for sending anyone he disliked to the hospital with a single glare. He was also famous for being a severe misogynist, a cold-blooded man who would cut down any girl who approached him with a sharp, "Get lost, you're hurting my ears." That same Reo was now burying his face in a female student's neck. From his mouth, illuminated by the moonlight, a sharp, white "fang" glinted.*

Her legs freeze in terror, and she accidentally drops her textbook with a thud. The monster's hearing did not miss that small sound.