Luciliano didn’t want to see them being eaten alive, so he hoped that they would be killed quickly first.

「?!」

As he was thinking this, he was suddenly startled. He just noticed a child in his vision that was staring at him.

The odd-colored crimson and bluish-purple eyes gazed at him intently. The child was very young, not more than three years old. What was it doing in a place like this?

『Is this thing a Dhampir? What is a Dhampir child doing here? Where are its parents? There were no Vampires among the Noble Orc’s subordinates; could it be on the Ghouls’ side?』

These questions ran through Luciliano’s mind, but the Dhampir child’s words blew all of them away.

「Why are you inside there? That’s someone else’s body, isn’t it?」

『He can see that this is a Live-Dead?! That’s impossible; my technique isn’t something that can be seen through so easily!』

The Dhampir drew closer to the astonished Luciliano.

「The spirit of that woman is right beside you. She’s telling you to give back her body and stop defiling her.」

『He can see spirits; he’s a Spiritualist!』

Luciliano was an outstanding life-attribute mage, but as he didn’t possess the Job of Spiritualist, he couldn’t see spirits. That was why he had never noticed the spirit of the corpse that he had used to create this Live-Dead floating beside him.

Luciliano gave up on trying to keep himself hidden. But he still had some room to work with. He was using magic to borrow this Live-Dead’s senses; he wasn’t in this place himself.

By bringing his consciousness back, Luciliano could escape from this Devil’s Nest. It was no concern to him at all what this Dhampir did with the Live-Dead after that.

「Please don’t run away.」

However, the Dhampir’s hand plunged into the Live-Dead’s body. That cold hand grabbed hold of Luciliano’s consciousness.

「Gah?! W-what did you do?!」

TLN: Some of his speech is written in katakana where it should be hiragana; I think it’s supposed to express that Luciliano’s speech is abnormal/impaired when speaking through the Live-Dead.
Luciliano tried to return his consciousness back to his real body, but for some reason, he couldn’t. He let out a scream at this feeling of pressure and discomfort.

「Could I ask you to answer my questions?」

Luciliano tried to resist without responding, but since his consciousness was transferred to this Live-Dead right now instead of his original body, he couldn’t use magic properly.

「I-I am an adventurer. I used this Live-Dead to investigate this Orc village.」

With the dangerous sense of not knowing what would happen to him, Luciliano decided to confess.

「… Please tell me all the details.」

Vandalieu learned a lot from Luciliano. The lord of this region, Viscount Balchesse, and Earl Palpapek who was a marshal of the Mirg nation had already discovered the existence of Bugogan’s large village and his ambition of attacking the town. There were already movements to organize a large-scale extermination force under Earl Palpapek’s leadership. Hearing this, Vandalieu felt a headache coming on.