As soon as he spoke, I could feel the room tense up and the S-rank hunters got in a defensive stance. I could notice even them feeling just how strong this vampire before them was. As much as I have confidence in their abilities, taking on Dominic head first won’t be the brightest idea.
GROWL
"Now, now, children, you have to learn how to be patient," he said, and from the shadows emerged hundreds of critters and novices. Wait, but I sensed nothing before. How then? "I’m sorry but kids these days really aren’t very patient when they are near food. Especially when they walk right in like this."
"Food? You must be a bit deluded if you think we will be food to filth like you," Meme said proudly and pulled out a giant great sword. The sword was almost as tall as him if not taller and he just pulled it out with just one hand so easily.
"Now, weapons shouldn’t be drawn in the house of god. That is quite rude and unpunishable you know," Dominic replied calmly.
"House of god? If this really was a house of god it wouldn’t be overrun by filth like you," Akito said.
"Then don’t tell me I didn’t warn you," he said and the vampires around us started growling louder. "And Kazuki-kun, it’s good that you came along, Ai-chan has been dying to see you. In the most literal sense possible."
Huh? What did he mean by that?
Hearing those words made my body go numb and for a moment everything quieted out. Ai…what did he mean by that? Dying to see me? In the most literal sense possible? No…
"Kazuki-sama, look out!!" Akira shouted and I turned around only to see a pair of red eyes leaping at me. Mouth agape ready to take a bite out of my neck. Its claws were only a centimeter away from my eyes. I messed up.
BANG
The novice fell down with a big hole in it’s chest. I felt a hard smack on the back of my head only to see one of the twins standing next to me shooting at the vampires with his revolver with immaculate accuracy, taking down every single one he decides to aim at in a single shot.
"This is not time to space out Kazuki!" he shouted at me and the other one stood on my other side coordinating his shots with his brother. It wasn’t like these shots were shot from two different guns, the timing, the synchronization and even the very moment vampires fell down were perfectly in sync.
"Look I know you are worried about that person called Ai but if you space out here, you are better off dead than anything else," the other one said. I looked around and everyone was already engaged in combat. Right, I am in the den of my enemy. I can’t space out here.
I unsheathed my katana and sliced down a vampire right before me as Akito shot him in the chest. At least, I think it is him. Kicking the ground, I launched myself forward through the hoard of vampires and swiftly stabbed each and every one of them with the katana and scabbard. I had nothing else to think about right now. Combat is my greatest worry at the current moment. Thanks to Ama’s training, my body started feeling lighter and so did my weapon. I could more easily use it.
"Coming through!" Meme screamed and jumped into the vampires before me. In the blink of an eye, all of them were cut into pieces as Meme stood before me. "Well even though you are a rookie, you seem to be doing a good number, consider me impressed."
"All thanks to everyone who helped me train," I said jumping in the air and sticking my scabbard in the head of a critter. Using it as a support, I pulled it out and threw him at the other approaching me. The moment they made contact with the group, all of them were cut up into pieces.
I looked at the person who was the culprit of this slaughter only to see Hotori-san holding a silver whip. Don’t know why but that whip does look like it belonged to someone like her.
"Sword tip," Meme said as he jumped right next to me and stuck his sword in a novice who jumped behind us. "When fighting with a sword, make sure you make as least movement while attacking your enemy. That way you will preserve more stamina and your arms will get tired less."
"I see, so no unnecessary movement?" I asked and as a demonstration dashed at the vampire before me and stabbed it right in the heart in one swift motion.
"Exactly, nothing flashy is needed. Swordsmanship done right is beautiful enough," Meme explained and I nodded my head. "Though the weapon I use is made for grandiose movement."
He jumped back as three vampires launched themselves at him and his blade somehow just stabbed them all the heart. He flipped forward and using his body weight, pulled the sword out and cut another vampire in two equal halves. It fell right before him and he just rested his sword down and the tip stabbed the vampire’s heart.
This single moment goes against his own saying yet I can understand how and why he has to do this. Using his body weight to sometimes move his sword will make his arms less tired. However, he would need great cardio to keep doing this.
"That’s medically enhanced for you," I said and jumped to the side as the vampire tried to grab me. I ducked and Akira blew the thing up into pieces. Okay, that was so cool. "Didn’t know you had even those moves in your arsenal."
"You flatter me Kazuki-sama," Akira said as she blew up three more vampires right before me. "I merely started training more ever since our first battle here. I can’t put my master in danger like that again."
"You give me too much credit for who I am," I said and cut down a vampire right next to me before stabbing it in the heart with the scabbard. I looked in front of me and all four of the S-rank hunters had already reduced the number of vampires from a hundred to a few. "Well, they are S-rank hunters for a reason."
Yuna appeared beside me, blood on her mouth and her fingers. I could see the serious look on her face which made me happy that my sister was strong enough to defend herself but this form also saddened me. I shook those thoughts away as Yuna smiled at me innocently.
"I didn’t expect you to do any killing," I said to her.
"Well Nii-chan, I won’t say that I am against Father but I won’t stand down if someone attacks me with the intent to kill. It’s rude to not reciprocate," she said.
"Who taught you this?" I asked her.
"Father."
Hearing her call Dominic "Father" still hurts to hear but I can’t do much about this. Sadly speaking, he was always there with Yuna when her family wasn’t there with her so I have no right to say anything against it. However, I still hoped that things wouldn’t have to come to this.
CLAP
CLAP
CLAP
As if suddenly making himself appear before us. Dominic stood before the remaining of the vampires. They all took refuge behind him. We decided to be wise and didn’t charge at him right away. Dominic on the other hand completely unfazed by the slaughter we just did on the vampires looked at us with a nonchalant smile.
"Impressive I must say, nothing less expected from S rank hunters," he said in a calm tone. "But the one who had made me the most surprised was none other than you, Kazuki-kun. You seem to have gotten better since the last time we saw each other."
"Keep your flattery to yourself," I growled at him.
"My, such vile expression you are making, very befitting I would say," he said and I grit my teeth. He is trying to provoke me but I won’t let this happen again. Be calm, now is not the time to let your emotions take over. "So you decided to side with them at the end, Yuna. It saddens me to see that."
"Fath- "
"Oh spare the formalities, nothing is stronger than a blood bond between family so I can understand that. And a bond between family such as Kazuki-kun, it was only a matter of time you would side him," he said and his smile distorted into a creepy one.
SNAP
He snapped his finger and, in a glimpse, all the vampires behind him became nothing but a slosh of blood and meat. We all stood there looking at him in awe. As we saw, his sword flew and was levitating right beside him.
"Now that the useless ones are taken care of," he said. "It’s time for the real show to begin."
SNAP
We looked as his body disappeared in the dark and all remain of his existence in that very moment was vanished. All that was left was an entrance that went further downstairs into we don’t know where. I looked at everyone and while I, Akira and Yuna were worried and a bit scared, all the S rank hunters had a feeling of excitement on their face.
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"Now this is what I’m talking about!" cheered Meme.
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