Perfect Memento: Encyclopedia: Vampire

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カリスマの具現	The Embodiments of Charisma
吸血鬼	Vampires
主な危険度：　極高	Main danger level: Very high
遭遇頻度：　低	Frequency of encounter: Low
多様性：　極高	Variety: Very high
主な遭遇場所：　どこでも	Main place of activity: Anywhere
主な遭遇時間：　夜間	Main time of activity: Night
特徴	Features
初めて現われてから数百年程度と比較的歴史は浅い妖怪の中で、最も強大な力を持ち、今や幻想郷のパワーバランス（＊１）の一つを担っている種族が、この吸血鬼である。	Of the newer youkai that have emerged only within the last few centuries, vampires are among the strongest of them, strong enough to take part in the power-balance of Gensokyo (*1) by now.
昼間は屋敷の中で大人しく暮らし、日が沈むと暴れ出す、夜の帝王だ。	During the day they spend their time in their mansion, and once night comes they become active; they are the Lords of the Night.
主な食事は人間の血液であり、吸血鬼を吸い尽くされた人間は、死ぬ事も幽霊になる事も適わず、ゾンビとなって暫く動いた後に日光で消滅する。	Their main diet is human's blood. Those who are sucked to death will neither die nor become a ghost; they will move around as a zombie for a while, then evaporate under sunlight.
初めて幻想郷に現われた当時は、縦横無尽に暴れまくったが、強大な力を持った妖怪達と一悶着起した後に敗北、最終的に契約（＊２）を結んで和解した。	They went on a rampage when they first appeared in Gensokyo, lost against powerful youkai, and a settlement was reached as they finally made a contract (*2).
その契約とは、妖怪が食料となる人間を提供する（＊３）代わりに、生きた幻想郷の人間を襲わらない、という内容である。	The details of this contract are that the youkai will offer them humans from which to feed (*3); in return, the vampires will not attack humans living in Gensokyo.
勿論、その契約は今でも有効である。	Of course, even now, the contract remains in effect.
樹齢千年を超える大木を片手で掴んで持ち上げ、一声掛けるだけで大量の悪魔を召還し、自らを大量の蝙蝠に分解し、さらには霧状にまで細かくし何処にでも入り込み、頭以外が吹き飛ぶ怪我を負っても一晩で元通りになるという。	Able to lift up a thousand-year-old tree singlehandedly, summon many demons merely by calling them, dissolve themselves into bats or even paler mist to intrude into anywhere and they can recover even when their body is blown away in a night, as long as their head is undamaged.
個々の能力なら他の妖怪でも同等のレベルを持つ者は居るが、それら全てを兼ね備えた妖怪は、この吸血鬼しか居ないだろう。	Some youkai have abilities similar to each of these, but only vampires are known to possess all of them.
故に最大級の魅力を持つ。	Thus, they are one of most attractive.
ただ、その驚異的な能力故か弱点は多い。	However, perhaps due to their extraordinary abilities, they have many weaknesses.
まず、日光に弱い為昼間は大人しい。	First, they are weak against sunlight, so they are docile during the day.
流れ水を渡れないので雨の日も大人しいし、河も渡れない。	Neither can they go across flowing water, so they are docile on a rainy day. Also they can't cross a river.
鰯の頭や折った柊の枝に近づけない。	They can't approach a sardine head or a shattered holly branch.
炒った豆を投げられると皮膚が焼ける（＊４）。	Their skin will be burnt if someone throws roasted soybeans upon them (*4).
異変	Disaster
吸血鬼クラスになると、直截人間を襲う事を禁止させられている事が多い。	For someone as powerful as a vampire, they are usually forbidden to directly assault humans.
その為、直截出会ったとしてもそんなに危険ではない。	So, they aren't so dangerous even if you happen to face one.
その代わり、幻想郷に異変を起こす事が多い。	Instead, they usually choose to cause a disaster to the whole of Gensokyo.
自分の都合で、自然現象から何からを巻き込んだ変化をもたらし、それにより有無を言わさず、人間は平穏な生活を脅かされる。	They make a change in everything, including natural phenomenon, for selfish reasons, which will always lead to endangering human life no matter what is changed.
異変の動機の殆どが好奇心であり、飽きると止める。	Most of these reasons are outright curiosity, and once they're bored, it will cease.
対処法	Way of Dealing With
異変が起こった場合は、もう異変解決の能力を持つ専門家にお願いするしか他ない。	Once a disaster has occured, there's no way but to seek for professional exterminator's attention.
能力を持たない人間は、何とか生き延びる道を見つけるのみである。	Only thing an average human can do through disaster is simply survive through it.
それ以外の時の吸血鬼は、比較的紳士である。	Otherwise, vampires are relatively gentle and polite.
危険は少ないだろう。	They pose little threat in such case.
間違っても弱点を突いたりしない方がよい。	Remember that you must not play with their weaknesses.
半端な攻撃は恐りを買うだけである。	A premature attack will only result in enraging them.
その為にも、相手の弱点を熟知しておく必要があるだろう。	In order not to unintentionally offend them, it's advised to know their weaknesses.
＊１　他は、単独の妖怪、山の妖怪（天狗や河童等）、人間や動物辺りでバランスが取れている。	Others consist of individual youkai, youkai living in the mountains (Tengu, Kappa and such), humans and animals.
＊２　悪魔の契約は絶対で、破る行動を取る事が出来ない。	A devil's contract is absolute, thus one can never betray it.
＊３　外の人間で、死ぬ価値のない人間（例えば自殺者など）と言われている。	It's said they are outside humans whose deaths are of no consequence (suicides, etc.)
＊４　でも納豆は好きらしい。	However, it is said that they like natto.