Vampire's Night (2)
How had things come to this?
Esid sat in the chair, swinging her legs back and forth as if she were in a foul mood.
A few hours earlier, she had been swept up by a sudden impulse and done something reckless.
First, she had mistreated the pet dog she had been treating well.
Second, she had been thoroughly rejected by Lucia Earl Grey, who was roughly the same age as her mother’s friend.
Still, even though she was a somewhat useful pet, if the owner wanted to kick her, she would get kicked.
That was why humans were no good.
“Haa…”
Esid sighed, her mind filled with hatred for humans.
“Lucia, you damn cat mom.”
If they were the same kind of vampire, her arm would have bent inward or something.
She was struggling to figure out how to resolve this awkward situation.
“Balor, do you have any good ideas?”
The shadow beneath her feet wriggled, and a pitch-black helmet popped out.
Balor had taken on a more cautious appearance, his red eyes flashing.
“Grruk! Grruk grruk!”
“Would it be good to apologize to her first?”
“Grruk!”
“Are you crazy? Your brain must be completely fried.”
“…”
Then what the hell was she supposed to do?
Balor, the familiar of the Blemish family, was utterly dumbfounded.
No matter who looked at it, the situation was clearly hopeless!
The status of the shadow knight that had once symbolized the family sword had long since plummeted into the abyss.
“Haa…”
Apologize?
Apologize, good.
Even a kindergarten child would know Balor’s words were correct.
Yeah, I know, but!
No matter what, there was still pride!
“Hmph! I couldn’t hold back either! Hah!”
Esid stamped her foot on the floor in a fit of rage.
The more she thought about it, the more ashamed and irritated she felt.
Even if she generously gave in and acted like a cat that had gone mad for catnip, it would be fine.
Why?
Because she was a member of the Five Families, it was her privilege.
Still, it was unacceptable that her lips had been stolen.
The warmth she had felt in that moment.
His scent that had tickled the tip of her nose.
The first time was always intense for anyone.
The more she tried to forget, the clearer it became.
“Even so, the kiss itself is… Ah, what am I thinking.”
Esid grabbed her shirt, fluttering her heated body.
Vampires who lived for eternity had no adolescence.
Or rather, the concept of adolescence hadn’t been necessary.
If human reproduction was only pregnancy and childbirth, vampire reproduction would have childbirth as secondary.
The common method was to create vassals through procreative vampirism.
It was fast and simple, and most importantly, one could personally select the human material.
No need to carry a fetus for ten months.
No worry that the child’s abilities wouldn’t meet expectations.
It was truly the ideal method?
For these reasons, vampires matured much more slowly than humans.
Today, Esid, who had just realized the opposite sex for the first time, had the mindset of an adolescent girl.
Her inner self was pure chaos mixed with disgust and fluttering.
“By the way, looking closely, her face seems half and half…?”
“W-what?!”
Balor looked up at her with a dumbfounded expression at the unbelievable nonsense.
To have such a prim face in the world.
He couldn’t help but be shocked, thinking it was his owner who had tormented him with all kinds of hysterics and anger.
Esid had met Seowoo three years ago this year.
Even Balor, who shared her vision, didn’t know their relationship.
Yoon Seowoo’s scent she oddly liked, and the human who couldn’t hide her troubled expression…
They were completely different from master and servant.
Wait a minute.
Master and servant?
“!!”
Ever since the old days, Balor had wanted to escape her grasp as soon as possible.
A flash went through his mind.
“Miss.”
Balor stepped out from under Esid’s feet and fully revealed his true form.
An eight-foot-tall figure clad in pitch-black armor, and a long sword at his waist that added to the intimidation.
“W-what! Suddenly!”
Esid was startled to see Balor suddenly fully manifested.
“I have something to report about Yoon Seowoo.”
Clang.
With the sound of armor clashing, he sat on the sofa and began his long explanation.
“You want me to make him my vassal?”
“Yes, Miss.”
“Why?”
“After all, you are interested in Seowoo, right? You want to retaliate against Lucia too. You know about the agreement between the Five Families, don’t you?”
“That’s true, but…”
The agreement of the Five Families.
Vassals are recognized as the property of the first person to take them, regardless of origin, gender, or ownership.
Because of the five-family balance of power system where everyone had been checking each other since the past, power was the most important.
So naturally, the act of forcibly taking humans brought by other families had occurred, and due to that, fights had become frequent.
The five heads of families couldn’t just watch it and naturally made an agreement.
“Miss, think simply. The one who acts first wins.”
“Hmm.”
Even though three years had passed, it bothered her that she hadn’t been chosen as vassal, but conversely, perhaps it was because the weight of ‘family’ was heavy, so she was being cautious.
Yoon Seowoo was a human who had survived three years in Nectar.
Very few people had survived longer than that.
In some ways, he was already an excellent talent.
How could she not covet him?
“Even Lucia must have no choice but to step back after becoming a vassal.”
“Good. Your words make sense. Well done.”
“You flatter me.”
“Then prepare to go to the assistant’s quarters right away.”
“Understood.”
Esid let out a displeased smile.
***
Kung kung kung.
Seowoo, who couldn’t get out of the rebound, rolled his eyeballs only toward the door.
He thought about Suyeon, but no matter how drunk and in a bad mood she was, she wouldn’t come without thinking.
“…”
Who was it?
While his muscles twitched with pain and his head spun, an explosive sound rang out.
Bang!
The door that had made a cute sound like kung kung ta was horribly dented.
And between the opened gap, red eyes and hair like golden threads.
Without needing to see more, it was Esid.
“…”
Crazy.
The rude intrusion like an uninvited guest made a curse slip out.
A noble person coming at dawn or something…
A strange discomfort crept in.
“Could it be…”
The person who was the cause of the fight between the families.
Her sudden warning.
An unannounced visit.
All of this connected in his head.
What it meant was ‘death’.
“Esid…?”
She carefully said her name.
Because no echo came back, her mouth felt parched.
The enclosed space.
Her body as hard as stone.
All worst.
Esid approached slowly like a grim reaper, looking down at Seowoo who was panting like a dead man.
“What are you doing lying on the floor? What is this blood smell?”
She had come uninvited.
But when she saw him with a suspicious appearance, she wondered.
First, she grabbed his arm to lift him up.
“Kyaaak!”
“W-what!”
Esid was startled by Seowoo’s scream.
He didn’t care about his dignity, as he let out the scream with his muscles.
In the corridor where the loud noise and shout echoed, people who wondered what was happening peeked out the door.
“Pay no attention to the other assistants.”
Of course, after hearing Balor’s quiet threat, they closed the door like mice.
“Ugh… I’ll explain everything.”
“No? You look clearly abnormal. I’ll figure it out myself.”
Ignoring his words, she pulled up his clothes.
Blue bruises and stiff muscles everywhere.
No separate torture marks, including where she poked with her fingers.
“Hmm…”
Since there was no scar left, it was clear she had used vampire blood.
But why?
“…Is it a side effect of the receptors? There were no records of bruises or muscle stiffness all over the body until now.”
She remembered all cases of gene mutation experiments.
Her eyes became serious, reflecting her appearance as a professor.
“I’ll allow you to speak. Explain how this happened.”
Esid tore at Seowoo’s body and asked casually.
“As I thought, I did use blood. The blood was given by Lucia. The blood scent in the dorm is entirely my fault. I was trying to extract serum to use in a few days and spilled a blood pack. I have no face to show for that part. Sorry.”
Seowoo spat out the words as if he had been waiting.
This was the situation he had always prepared for.
It seemed sufficient to cover this.
“So? Why are you lying on the floor like this?”
“Ah, that… While cleaning up the spilled blood pack on the floor, my body suddenly stiffened and I couldn’t help it…”
Esid looked at Seowoo’s face suspiciously and swept the room once.
She saw a rag hardened to dark red in the trash can.
“Hueng~ Really?”
There was no reason to suspect, but her instincts were telling her something was being hidden.
The words flowed without blockage, as if she had scripted them, and her actions were calm.
It was too perfect.
And that was the problem.
“Then, if I check, is it okay?”
“Eh?”
Esid grabbed Seowoo’s arm with a dumb expression and bit it.
“…”
No time to ask anything.
Her mind couldn’t keep up with the situation happening in front of her eyes.
Because the confusion was greater than the pain, she looked up at Esid with wide eyes.
“Haa…”
Her body trembled as if in ecstasy.
“It tastes good… It’s too delicious.”
Suddenly, Esid’s atmosphere changed.
“It doesn’t taste like the filthy vampire blood?”
It was clearly a dead end.