"You are aware of your actions, right Kazuki?" James said looking at me with a stern expression. His eyes turned towards Yuna and even she stiffened under the pressure his mere presence was putting on the both of us. Like expected, he was mad, he was really mad, and know my task was to cool him down and not have him expel us from the mission to get Ai back.
"Yes, I am but l- "
"And if you are aware, you also know that there are consequences to your actions," James said cutting me off as I started to explain myself. He looked at me sternly and I just nod my head. "I’m putting you off the mission of rescuing Ai."
"What? Hey J- "
"End of discussion Kazuki," James replied. "You were specifically told not to go after Ai on your own but you still did. The order was to not only ensure your safety but also that nothing leaks from your mouth about anyone or anything of the organization."
"Bu- "
"Do you understand how big of a danger you were in there last night? I had to send three vampire hunters to follow you just to make sure you don’t accidentally get yourself killed. Those three hunters who just came back from a mission and had to be sent right after to chase a vampire as dangerous as Dominic," James said with his voice getting louder and louder making me shut my mouth. Even if I wanted to say something I didn’t have the courage to talk back. That was the amount of pressure just his voice was putting on me. "Normally disobeying an order always leads to expulsion from the organization all together but we can’t do that in your case now because you, Shiba Kazuki are too dangerous to let run amok. Even you are not aware of the amount of danger you put yourself and everyone around you by your reckless actions."
His words like daggers kept piercing me over and over. His assault didn’t just stop there as James went on to lecture me for an entire hour with Yuna just standing there not being able to say anything. It was all about how I am not understanding the situation I am currently in and how again my actions were really mindless and idiotic. In the middle, even Akira appeared right beside me to try to say something in my defense but James was having nothing off it as he kept speaking not even giving Akira a room to let out a single word.
After an hour he finally calmed down thanks to Ama entering the room and James started to lower his voice a little. Ama placed a hand on my shoulder and gave me a smile.
"Yes, yes, I think Kazu-chan understands everything you need to tell him," Ama said patting James’ shoulder and slowly calming him down. Thank you so much, Ama. You are an angel. "My, and who do we have here? Are you the rumored sister I heard about today?"
Ama walked towards Yuna and leaned forward taking a close look at her face. She slowly started scanning her body with her eyes fondly and kept nodding the entire time. Once she was done, she made Yuna open her mouth and she got a bit close looking inside her mouth for fangs. I don’t really know what she was trying to do.
"Fascinating, you may be a vampire for only a few years but you do seem to resemble more a human than a vampire like many nobles do," Ama explained while nodding her head. "I really am interested in how your body works now. Say, would you mind if I ran some blood work and other experiments on you?"
"W-w-what…?" Yuna said astonished by the question and ran to hide behind me. She poked her head from the side as if scared of Ama’s intentions.
"Aww, come on now…what was her name Kazu-chan?"
"Yuna."
"Yuna-chan! That is an adorable name!" Ama said cheerfully and got closer to me making Yuna hide again. "Come on Yuna-chan, I won’t do anything weird with you. I’ll simply take some of your blood and do some scans. I’ve done the same with Kazuki-kun too and it doesn’t hurt."
"R-really…?" Yuna meekly asked me and well, I can’t really lie to her about this so I just nod my head.
"See, and if you want, Kazu-chan can be with you while the tests are running. So if I try to do something suspicious, he can stop me right away," Ama said with a sly smile.
"You know even I won’t be able to stop you. You are a special class hunter yourself Ama, who are you trying to fool," I said knowing full well that I cannot stop her from doing what she wants even if I want to.
"You know I will stop if you ask me to, right?" Ama said winking at me.
"How do you want me to ask you…?" I asked skeptical of what this woman is planning.
"Hmmm, how about you hug me tightly and look up to me cutely with puppy dog eyes and asked me to please stop in a cute voice?" she said teasingly and I just sighed.
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"Yuna, I trust Ama. She won’t do anything to hurt you so it’s fine," I said to Yuna and she slowly nod her head.
"Good, then I’ll be borrowing them James if you don’t mind," Ama said waving her hand and without even letting James reply, she pulled the both of us out of the room with Akira following us three.
I let out a sigh of relief as I was saved from the anger of James and now Ama had elevated to the post of a god in my eyes. Now the only god I will ever worship is Ama.
"Phew, we’re saved," I said while still being dragged by Ama. "Thanks for that Ama."
"Don’t worry about that Kazu-chan, you know I won’t let you be scolded for more than an hour," she said in a cheerful voice.
"You know more than an hour is still a lot."
"And you know what you did certainly deserved that," Ama said in the same tone but I lowered my head a little with guilt. "Look, as angry and mad as James look, he is worried about you that’s all. Being the director of this branch, it is his responsibility to look after every hunter that comes under our branch. It is a lot of jobs and having someone who has the blood of the first in him is put in such a situation where his life can jeopardize the entire project to eradicate vampires from the earth. You can’t say that his actions are justified."
I kept my head low understanding whatever I did out of pure spite really did cause a lot of problems to everyone. I was so blinded by the fact that Ai was captured by Dominic that I overlooked the possibility of what my actions will do to others. I am still very against the idea of stopping the pursuit but I guess, I do need to be more careful with what I do now instead of charging head first.
While I was thinking that, two pairs just walked past us heading towards the director’s room, one of them was a tall scary looking guy with a huge scar on his jaw, the other was a boy around my height with a blank expression on his face and the other was a pair of twins who both had their hair tied up in twin tail and even matching clothes. They looked so alike that it was really difficult to even differentiate between the two.
Even when I walked past them, they had this aura of superiority around them that I have only felt a few times in my life. As they walked past me, I looked at Ama and as if she understood what I wanted to say, she started speaking, "And those are the other S class hunters that we have here. They just came back from a long mission only recently though."
"So are they…"
"Yes, the twins and one of your acquaintances were sent to make sure of your safety," she replied and I nod my head.
I kept looking forward pondering over the discussion I had with Ethan the night before and just one question kept running in my mind over and over. I couldn’t get that out of my mind.
"Hey Ama," I called out to her.
"Yes, Kazu-chan?"
"If you were on the brink of death and had still a lot of things you wanted to fix in your life. Would you accept the choice of becoming a vampire?" I asked her and I could feel the grip on my hand tightening. "You know what, I’m- "
"Maybe I’ll consider it," Ama replied calmly. "See Kazu-chan, even though I loathe vampires I am quite a selfish woman and I won’t stop until I get what I want and there are some things I still need to do in life. So if I was about to die during that, I might consider becoming a vampire."
"I…see…"
"And then I’ll drink lots and lots of blood from Kazu-chan because no other blood with taste that good. I’ll keep sucking until I’m satisfied~"
"A-Ama!!" I shouted with my face flushed due to embarrassment and I looked away. "Don’t tease me now!"
"Why wouldn’t I? Kazu-chan seemed so down due to James’ scolding so I thought I could help make him feel better~"
"Come on not like that!!"
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