Draluc

**Draluc** (ドラルク, *Doraruku*) is one of the protagonists of The Vampire Dies in No Time and its anime adaptation. He is an immortal higher vampire from the prestigious Dragon Clan who keeps dying and turning to dust from all kinds of small things. As his castle was destroyed, he moved in with Ronaldo, much to the other's dismay.

## Appearance

Draluc is a typical-looking adult vampire with pale and bone-y complexion, pointy ears and nose. He has round lazy eyes, short black hair that is combed backwards that is a hairstyle similar to "Sally's Father" according to Ronald; however, it is a genetically inherited hairstyle given how Draus, his father, and his grandfather also share a similar hairstyle as him.

He wears a classic vampire black suit, black shoes, a pair of white gloves, white cravat, and as well as a large similar styled cape that is also worn by his family & relatives.

## Personality

As a vampire from a prestigious clan, Draluc is high and prideful. He has a habit of speaking down at humans out of his upbringing with his mentor, and like any old traditional vampires of his time. He also has a bad habit of being opportunistic, ditching his allies often to save his own skin.

However, he also has a kind nature. He doesn't attack out of malice nor suck blood from humans without their consent. Whenever the mischief he causes is too much or going over a line, Draluc actively recognizes his wrongs and apologizes to an extent. He will also save his allies from pinches, even when he has dumped them prior.

Draluc has been regarded as a "hedonist" by a lot of people due to his willingness to get involved in anything that is remotely interesting even if it involved him getting hurt in the end. Not to mention, hedonism is a common trait among higher vampires. A contributing factor to him being a lazy hedonist is his father Draus, who spoilt him rotten because of his frail body and his status of the only son, which has resulted in him believing that he could be forgiven and beloved so easily and thus becoming the slob he is today.

Despite having a weak physique, he is actually smart, clever enough to deduce that Hiyoshi was bitten by a sexy vampire as a reason to quitting the vampire hunter career.

## Plot

Ronaldo bursts into Draluc's castle to rescue a child that had been supposedly kidnapped by the vampire, accidentally killing him while opening the door. Ronald is shocked to see how weak Draluc is considering the rumors of his might. Draluc comments he didn't disprove them as tourist gather to see his castle and that helps the economy in the town. Ronald requests Draluc to return the child he kidnapped, but Draluc has no idea what he is talking about. They end up seeing a child going and starting to play with Draluc's video game collection and the kid explains that since Draluc sleeps during the day, he sneaks in and play on his video game consoles, but he is close into beating one game and decided to stay for longer. Ronald realizes that made the crowd think Draluc took the child and they attempt to capture the kid, but he keeps getting away. Combining their efforts, Draluc and Ronald finally manage to capture it, but as they have activated various traps in the castle, it creates an explosion and the castle ends up being destroyed.

Having no home, Draluc was taken by the kid, but his mother threw Draluc out. He then found Ronaldo's office and decided to live there. Ronald doesn't agree, but a client comes and sees Ronald with a vampire and having no choice, he explains he defeated him and now makes the vampire work for him. The client takes them to his shop and explains that his son was bitten by an vampire animal and is not a pseudo vampire. The son, Bubuo, wants to turn into a vampire, but Ronaldo explains that since he is pseudo vampire, he will turn to normal soon. Draluc decides to help and bites Bubuo, but as his blood is too rich, Draluc dies again. Bubuo explains that he wanted to become a vampire for Ellie who works at the store and they to live together for a long time, but Ellie explains she already loves someone else and intends to marry to a rich guy, crushing Bubuo's dreams. As the situation is solved, the media sees them and makes news of Ronald the Vampire Hunter working with a vampire.

With Ronaldo forced to keep Draluc around for the sake of writing *The Ronaldo Chronicles* due to being pressured by Fukuma, Draluc has been living with Ronaldo as both a freeloader and caretaker since then.

## Abilities

* **Regeneration:** Draluc's most prominent ability. No matter how many times he gets destroyed, he can always quickly regenerate himself from his own ashes. This is incredibly convenient for him considering that he is so weak that almost anything, including petty insults, can easily destroy him. He can even remain conscious as well as speak while still a pile of ashes. However, it is implied that if his ashes are left out in the sun for too long, or if his ashes get interfered by external forces, it could kill him for good.
* **Transformation:** Like any vampire, Draluc can transform himself into a bat. However, his transformations always turns out wrong, and the only way he can change back is to turn to dust and regenerate back into his original form. But, sometimes his transformation does turn out good although still a bit bad. **One of those times is when he transformed into a bat and then a "crab" apparently.**
* **Gaming:** He is an all-around gamer, who can play anything and guarantee victory at the games he touches. Draluc boasts that his skills are on a professional-level. He's recognized to an extent that Fukuma from Autumn Shoten asked him to review a shitty game that he became fond of over time. Since then, Draluc became an enthusiast in playing trash games and giving his reviews.
* **Cooking:** Draluc cooks for Ronaldo and makes whatever the other requests, due to vampires normally luring their victims into their homes with a good meal. He's also a skilled baker and Hinaichi is deeply fond of his sweets.
* **Housework:** Due to his long isolation in his castle with John, Draluc has gotten used to doing house chores on his own, continuing to do so even when he moved in with Ronald, becoming the office/apartment's caretaker. It is more of a hobby for him than anything.
* **Resistance to hypnosis:** Aside from Northdin, his mentor, and a skilled play of a tambourine, Draluc is mostly resistant to any hypnosis as shown when Bosatsu was surprised that he cannot control Draluc with hypnosis even after biting him.

## Trivia

* He is 208 years old.
* **Likes:** milk, tomato juice, blood orange ice cream
* **Favorite blood type:** B
* In contrast from Ronaldo, Draluc only wears black underwear.
* He is a horrible singer. He is also bad at anything artistic in general.
* He along with his own father and grandfather are the only pure blooded members of his clan; the rest of his clan, such as Gorgona, are human-turned-vampires who have accepted offered blood from Grandfather.
	+ His mother Mira is an Old Blood vampire but she is moreso married into the clan and her origins aren't explained.
* He hates garlic.
* He is right-handed.
* His middle name is "W."
* He claimed that his IQ is 250.
* He resents Northdin and is very impudent towards Northdin as a result, as Northdin is one of the very few who can see through his tricks to slack off.
* He once matchmade with his cousin Sedema, however, nothing came out of it. This was mainly caused by Draluc being petrified by her during a personality disagreement they had, even though they have always been a close quarrelsome pair.
* Draluc wakes up at 6:00 p.m. every day.
* Draluc often dies in the sink.
* The oven from the agency is mini-sized and therefore unsatisfactory for Draluc.
* Draluc basically doesn't eat food.
* Draluc and John often play hide-and-seek, bowling, TRPG, spiritism, giant constructor, treasure hunt, creative cooking, and so on.
* Draluc has many suits that are custom-made.
* Nowadays, familiars are usually contracted to be equal, and a master can unilaterally terminate their relationship with a familiar, but Draluc and John have a contract that doesn't allow this.
* Draluc likes to sew.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Vampire Dies in No Time Fanbook
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/bonnoki/status/1646119632351408131