“Cough! Cough!” A lower-ranked vampire started coughing.

Another vampire beside him started to tease him, asking, “Did you suck the blood of a sick goat or something? Why the hell is a vampire coughing?”

“Shut up,” the coughing vampire shot back, glaring at his friend.

However, after a day passed, nobody could laugh at the coughing vampire anymore, as more than one hundred and fifty vampires had begun coughing.

“What’s going on?” a few vampires asked, perplexed by the fact that they were coughing.

Vampires were usually immune to most diseases, and almost never got sick. In fact, not once in the entire history of the vampires had they ever had an outbreak of colds, or any other disease for that matter. However, most of the vampires did not pay any attention to the outbreak.

“What a bunch of morons. How can vampires get sick with colds?” the average-ranked vampires said, clicking their tongues.

The next day, however, all of the lower-ranked vampires had begun coughing, and a few average-ranked vampires had started to cough as well.

“Cough! Cough! Couuuugh!”

“Hey! Wake up!”

A lower-ranked vampire, who had been struggling with fever, suddenly succumbed to his illness and died. Additionally, the number of vampires who became lethargic for no reason had increased as well. It was only then that the vampires realized something was wrong.

“An infectious disease has broken out among us!”

It was a pandemic! A disaster that the entire vampire race had never faced in their history had fallen upon them.

***

Kang Yoon-Soo stood atop a cliff that gave...