Then one day, Dracula and Rin visited the club room together.

The moment they stepped inside, Rin casually said with a relaxed tone, "Hello, what’s happening here today?"

The occult club room was filled with the usual low hum of activity — scattered books on occult topics, old maps pinned to the walls, and several club members quietly discussing something at a large central table. Aside from Rin and his companions, no one else knew that Dracula was really the dreadful Dracula everyone had heard terrifying stories about.

To the students and club members, he was simply a tall, elegant man with long dark hair streaked with silver who happened to bear the same name as the legendary vampire.

They had no idea the polite, aristocratic-looking visitor was the actual feared vampire lord.

Then Hanako looked up from the documents she was reviewing and said that there was a particular monster they were looking into.

She leaned forward slightly, her eyes bright with interest as she asked Rin directly, "Do you believe in monsters?"

Then Rin was like "Monsters? No?.. Are monsters even real?" He gazed upward at the ceiling with a deliberately casual and slightly confused expression, his deep blue eyes drifting as if the idea was completely foreign to him.

Then Hanako smiled confidently and said, "Well, monsters are real, but you don’t need to worry.

I will protect you." Her voice carried a playful yet serious protective tone as she puffed out her chest a little.

Akane immediately reacted, her eyes widening in protest as she cut in sharply, "What?? No, I will be the one to protect you!"

The two girls then burst into a very short argument on the matter, their voices overlapping quickly with growing intensity.

Hanako insisted she would be the one to keep Rin safe while Akane argued back just as fiercely, both of them glaring at each other with competitive fire before the exchange ended almost as quickly as it had started.

Then Rin said calmly, trying to steer the conversation back on track, "Okay, so what’s up about the monster..."

Then Hanako replied, her expression turning serious again as she pointed at a map spread out on the table, "We suspect a spider-like monster known as ’Jorogumo’ moving freely around this particular area — near Seishin Academy, the prestigious private high school where Chiyo attends school."

The thing here is that Jorogumo was a spider monster queen.

From her waist upwards she possessed the beautiful form of a seductive human woman with long flowing black hair and pale, flawless skin.

From her waist downward, however, she carried the horrifying form of a massive spider, with multiple long, powerful legs covered in sleek black chitin that could move with terrifying speed and precision.

Jorogumo was one of the top-ranked monsters in the monster realm — exceptionally strong and too powerful.

Rin had fought her some years ago, and even for him, Jorogumo had been too strong to handle comfortably back then.

The reason Rin hated fighting her was because he found it so unfair.

Jorogumo possessed a wide variety of dangerous abilities, and worst of all, she could create a special dimension where she would release her children — numerous spider-like monsters of varying sizes and strengths.

These offspring were powerful enough on their own to overwhelm most opponents, making it extremely difficult for Rin to concentrate fully on fighting the queen herself while constantly having to deal with waves of her deadly children attacking from all directions at once.

As Hanako explained the situation, the club room fell into a focused silence.

Some members leaned in closer to examine the map and notes, while Dracula stood elegantly beside Rin, listening with a faint, knowing smile on his aristocratic face.

Rin kept his expression carefully neutral, though inside he felt a flicker of old frustration at the mention of Jorogumo’s name.

The memory of their previous encounter — the chaotic dimension filled with skittering spider monsters, the queen’s seductive yet deadly human upper body moving with unnatural grace, and the overwhelming difficulty of the battle — still lingered clearly in his mind.

The club members continued discussing theories and possible sighting locations around Seishin Academy, completely unaware that one of the strongest beings in the room had already faced this particular monster queen in the past and knew exactly how dangerous she truly was.