"Yuna, can you take me to Dominic?" I asked her and the look on her face just froze. "I understand that both of us are very important to you and you don’t want to lose either one of us but just like that I also don’t want to lose someone who is very important to me."
"What is so special about that girl?" she spoke in a low tone. "What is so special about that you are ready to give away your life to save hers? You do understand that she is kidnapped by Father, right? There is no way you could be able to get her out of there. Father is to put it lightly a monster; I have seen what he can do. I’ve seen it with my own two eyes. I don’t know how strong you are Nii-chan but there is no way you will be able to defeat him."
"Yuna, when you decided to try and stop me from meeting Dominic, were you a hundred percent sure I will listen to you and stop?" I asked her placing my hand on her shoulder. She looked away for a moment and that was all the answer I needed. "Just like that, I am not a hundred percent sure that I will survive this encounter with Dominic but I will still have to try my best."
"But Fath- "
"Yuna, Ai is very important to me. Comes at the top of my priority list amongst people. If I was ever asked to choose Ai and some other person, I will choose her in a heartbeat. She is just as important to me as you are," I said with a sad smile on my face. "Moreover, it isn’t like I am going there alone, right Akira?"
We both looked behind me as the noble appeared right behind me. "How long did you know I was there?" she asked.
"Since you were standing behind me so about five minutes, did you notify the rest about our situation?" I asked her and she nodded. "Good, now Yuna, please take me to Dominic."
We both looked at the vampire and she looked at us meekly. Her hand’s entire body was trembling and seeing that I placed my hand on her head. She looked up at me and I could see tears welling up in her eyes. She hugged me again and I wrapped my arms around her knowing what was about to happen next.
She started crying again.
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I gently caress her hair and rub her back. Akira stood on standby and also completely on guard if she did anything to hurt me. Well, she doesn’t trust Yuna completely and that is understandable. Honestly speaking, even I don’t completely but if this is how things are playing out, I have to play along.
Is this logical?
No.
But then again, all logic was thrown out of the window when I wanted to go against Dominic right away before waiting. I am really running on a thin line and I can fall down and have myself killed at any point.
Do I care about that though?
Nope.
The only thing on my mind right now is to rescue Ai from Dominic and it doesn’t matter what it takes, I will do it no matter what.
"Why do you not listen to me?!" she shouted while crying and I kept comforting her. "You will get killed there, why do you not understand that? Is that girl really worth it?"
The last question from Yuna rang in my ears, playing it repeatedly. Is it really worth it? Is Ai worth all these risks that I am taking? Well, my answer is…
"Without a shadow of a doubt," I said with a big smile on my face thinking of Ai. The fact that I wake up with her face right before me gives me so much joy that I can’t even express it in words. Her voice ringing in my ears and scent gently tickling my nose is the best feeling in the world.
We stood like that for some longer before she let go. I wiped her tears and pat her head.
"Thank you, Yuna, for worrying about me. But this is something I need to do. There won’t be any other way. I am saved Ai and I cannot have her taken away from me. I have already lost mom and dad and…" I clenched my katana with a sore expression on my face. "I cannot have another person close to me die."
She stayed silent for some time and let out a sigh. "Okay, I will take you to him…" she said in a weak voice still not happy with the outcome. "But promise me you will survive this."
"You know I can’t really p- "
"Promise meeeeee!" she whined holding out her pinkie. I chuckled a little seeing her cute demeanor and pat her head. I stuck out my pinkie and interlocked it with hers. "Pinkie promise…okay? Now that you gave this, you cannot die…you just…"
"I won’t," I said in a gentle tone. "Moreover, my goal is to rescue Ai. Not to kill Dominic. So if there is a way to sneak around without him knowing, we can try that. Right, Akira?"
I looked at the noble behind me and she nodded. "Nii-chan even made a noble his slave…"
"Slave is not the word Yuna. Sigh, she prefers being called her servant but I don’t even see her that way honestly. She is just a friend who helps me with my ordeals," I corrected her.
"As much as I am honored to be seen as a friend by Kazuki-sama, I would prefer being his servant," Akira said.
"There is that too…"
Seeing this, Yuna let out a little laugh and in all this time, this was the first time I saw her smile and laugh which warmed my heart. Even though this all looks like I am wasting time, I knew this was supposed to happen. Dominic isn’t going to rush to kill Ai. He needs both me and Ai but there is also the issue of how he is treating her.
I swear if he put as much as a scratch on her, he will die by my hands.
"So, where is Dominic?" I asked her and she turned around and jumped down on the train tracks. I looked back at Akira and we both nodded before following Yuna.
She started walking faster and we did the same keeping the same pace with her. I sheath my katana making it easier for me to run after her. Honestly speaking, for a 14-year-old vampire, she is running very fast. As they get older, their speeds and strength start increasing naturally and I can understand what Akira meant when she said that she will easily many any noble around four hundred years old give a run for their money.
No trains were going to be running on these tracks for some time now. Yuna picked up her speed and we got out of the tunnel with the night sky shining brightly on top of our heads. It was a new moon so its beauty was hidden today as I looked up but that made the rest of the stars more visible.
Yuna jumped down from the train tracks onto a small shop and we followed her. We had gotten not too far but she already started slowing down. Wait, where are we? I looked around me and found myself in a very isolated street with all the buildings with no light on them. No vehicles running on the road or no one remotely close.
Was it a mistake to trust her?
"Are we there yet?" I asked Yuna and she stared looking around nostalgically. "Yuna?"
"No, we are not but I slowed down to look around the place. It brings back memories, not good ones but memories nonetheless," she said with a sad expression on her face.
"You are trying to stall us, aren’t you?" I asked her and she clenched her fist.
"Of course I am. No matter what you say, I still don’t want you to go there Nii-chan, why do you not listen to me?" she said turning towards me. "I will take you to Father but we both don’t know what he plans on doing. Also, I’ve seen how terrifying he can be. You are not ready for that Nii-chan…"
"Yuna, please take me to Dominic," I said holding her hand. "I promise nothing will happen to me. I will leave that place in one piece. Don’t you worry, okay?"
"Okay…" she said reluctantly and started picking up her speed again.
This time, she was being for real because she dashed into the distance so quickly that a normal eye could not even try to capture her movements. I and Akira made a quick chase of her following her footsteps running as fast as we could but not going faster than her. We leaped over buildings, landed on top of vehicles, and jumped across an entire bridge instead of using it. Slowly but steadily, we were going to the less populated areas of Tokyo. Wait, this is not even that.
"Wait, aren’t we outside of Tokyo already?" I asked Yuna and she nodded. "Wow, I wasn’t expecting this."
Finally, she stopped and looked right ahead of us. Our eyes followed hers and we noticed another abandoned church there in the vicinity. Wait, I think I’ve been to this place before but…there was no church there. Heck, wasn’t this place pretty populated?
It’s not like the place had only that church there, there were other buildings too, some even going up to five stories but they all seemed…empty and abandoned.
"This is his doing…" Yuna said meekly and I understood straight away what she meant.
This entire place…was slaughtered.
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