They don't know the golden rule(s) of moving in groups but also doing the least amount of travel in as to diminish the amount of surprises that can happen at any given time.
R.I.P to the characters that I haven't bothered to remember their names because it's clear most of them are going to be...
That's a lot of big mosquitos, way too many in fact. So little human remain, other mammals should also be in the same boat. Mosquito overpopulation is so grave that they're going to start dying of starvation pretty soon I'd reckon. Earth obviously can't handle this number of apex predators.
So if I'm getting this right... Her lover was from a foreign country, but he wanted to ruler his own turf and/or have a harem and didn't want to play second fiddle to an Empress.
@Puckling8 Worse is you totally know that when they get to the Human exorcist bunch to open that Urn, there's going to be hundred year(s) old politics galore. We all know that shit is coming.
Well, at least the humans of the village didn't do it for shits and giggles. It's understandable how they felt like this is the only way.
A village of this size has no wealth or influence to give to be able to get top of the line adventurers or the regular armed forces to give a shit about a...
The junior of the detective in this chapter has that "snitch" sort of character design and I'm pretty sure it's not by accident.
He's going to fuck shit up in his zeal. He's probably going to be mad disgusted when he finds out detective has a pet vampire.